Clifford

0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clifford. The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Clifford in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 7 May 2026Application withdrawn

  Permission to construct a 2 storey dwelling house with attached domestic garage, new access to serve proposed dwelling house, a proprietary secondary wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter and all associated site works at Clifford, Castletownroche, Mallow, Co. Cork.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1203

• 16 Jun 2022Conditional

  1) Retention of dwelling as constructed (change of location on site and changes to elements of the design from that granted under 03/5547) 2) Retention of the existing site boundaries (change of location on site from that granted under 03/5547) 3) Permission for decommissioning of existing septic tank and replacement with a new treatment unit and percolation area.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5404

• 4 Mar 2003Conditional

  Alterations & renovations of existing gate lodge & installation of septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/901

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Blackwater Valley (Ballincurrig Wood) 001793

Recorded monuments

• CO034-014 Enclosure
  Description

  Indicated as irregular area (max. dims. 80m N-S; 60m E-W) planted with trees on 1842 and 1905 OS 6-inch maps; as irregular area of scrub on 1935 OS 6-inch map. According to local information, area of approximately half an acre of bushes, known as a 'fort' although 'not circular', site cleared by landowner c. 1987. Access to site denied. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Architectural heritage

• Clifford House, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Quadrant entrance gates to Clifford House, erected c. 1790, comprising square-profile ashlar limestone piers with moulded cornices and flat caps, moulded string courses and mouldes plinths, having flanking curved rubble walls terminating in coursed squared rubble outer square-profile piers. Curved rubble stone wall on opposite side of road mirrors gateway. Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge set within gates, now derelict, and roofless, with pitched roof, rendered walls and square-headed window openings.

• Clifford House, country house, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey country house, possibly originally H-plan, built c. 1790, having projecting end bays and central porch to front elevation, central stairs return to rear, canted-bay window added c. 1860 to west gable, two-storey single-bay addition to north-east corner and three-bay two-storey addition to north-west corner end, and recent single-storey addition to rear between main block and north-west block. Hipped slate roof to main block, with projecting eaves, rendered chimneystacks, render eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat roof to porch, hipped roof to north-east addition, saltbox roof to north-west addition and lean-to roof to recent addition. Roughcast rendered walls with rendered plinth. Rendered walls to porch, having corner pilasters with moulded capitals and plinths, moulded cornice, and moulded sill courses and surrounds to openings, and panelled risers below windows. Square-headed window openings, having timber sliding sash windows, nine-over-nine pane to front and east and most of west elevations, diminishing windows to front elevation, some in west elevation being double, eight-over-eight pane to east side of north-east addition, mainly one-over-one pane to rear except for nine-over-six pane stairs window, one six-over-six pane window and one camber-headed one-over-one pane to west gable of main block, this elevation also having canted-bay window with segmental-headed four one-over-one bay lights having moulded render imposts and plinths to mullions, render keystones, and moulded render eaves and sill courses. Round-headed one-over-one pane window openings to porch. Square-headed door opening to porch having moulded render surround, timber panelled door and limestone step. Farmyard to rear with two-storey, seven-bay outbuilding on north-east side of yard, and gable-fronted outbuilding to north corner, with rendered walls and pitched slate roofs, larger building having some four-pane windows and timber battened doors. Walled garden to south-west. Quadrant entrance gates to road entrance at north-east with cut-stone piers. Disused gateway to south-west having square-profile cut limestone piers with moulded plinths, imposts and cornices, with flat caps having carved pineapple finials and supporting decorative double-leaf wrought-iron gates.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1095 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Clifford with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Clifford · Áth na hAille

Area

511,340 m² (51.13 ha, 126.35 acres)

Civil parish

Bridgetown, and its townlands

Barony

Fermoy

Electoral division

Kilcummer, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilcummer electoral division: 283 people in 103 households; 82% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballincurrig, Bridgetown Lower, Bridgetown Upper, Carrigacunna, Monanimy Lower

Placenames

Clifford on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.