# Clifford, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Bridgetown, barony of Fermoy, Co. Cork; in Irish Áth na hAille. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 511,340 m² (51.13 ha, 126.35 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Bridgetown, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/bridgetown.md - Barony: Fermoy - Electoral division: Kilcummer, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/10249 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 41521 - Centre: latitude 52.149612, longitude -8.482852 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clifford; 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 7 May 2026, Cork County Council 26/1203: Application withdrawn. Permission. 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.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=26/1203 - 16 Jun 2022, Cork County Council 22/5404: Conditional. Permission. 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.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=22/5404 - 4 Mar 2003, Cork County Council 03/901: Conditional. Permission. Alterations & renovations of existing gate lodge & installation of septic tank. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=03/901 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC, site code 002170, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002170 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Blackwater Valley (Ballincurrig Wood), site code 001793 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CO034-014: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO034-014----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Clifford House, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1810–1830, Regional interest, registry number 20903406, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CO®no=20903406. 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, registry number 20903407, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CO®no=20903407. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1095.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cork/clifford.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/clifford.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/clifford.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Clifford with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork: https://everytownland.com/cork.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballincurrig: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballincurrig-40236.md - Bridgetown Lower: https://everytownland.com/cork/bridgetown-lower.md - Bridgetown Upper: https://everytownland.com/cork/bridgetown-upper.md - Carrigacunna: https://everytownland.com/cork/carrigacunna.md - Monanimy Lower: https://everytownland.com/cork/monanimy-lower.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cork/clifford - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/clifford