Cloghduff
Cloghduff is a townland in the civil parish of Kilbonane, barony of Muskerry East, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Chloch Dhubh.
- Area
- 90.5 ha
- 224 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 4,477 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 17
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghduff, from 256 m² to 192,277 m² (19.23 ha, 47.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cloghduff 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
22 Apr 2026Grant with conditions
Planning Permission is sought for alterations to the previously granted planning application number 22/5716. The development will consist: A) the construction of an extension to the existing dwelling house. B) The decommissioning of the existing septic tank and installation of secondary wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, C) The construction of a domestic shed. The proposed work will also include all the necessary ancillary site works at Rathcullen, Templemartin, Bandon, Co Cork P72DV27.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1026
30 Jun 2025Conditional permission
Permission for dwelling house, domestic garage, sewerage system, site entrance and all associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5262
4 Jun 2025Application invalid
Permission for dwelling house, domestic garage, sewerage system, site entrance and all associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5051
21 Jul 2022Conditional permission
permission is sought for the following A) the construction of a new dwelling house and the decommissioning of the existing septic tank and installation of secondary wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, B) the construction of a new vehicular entrance and removal of the existing entrance, C) the patrial demolition of the existing derelict dwelling on site with the remaining area retained as a domestic shed & all the necessary ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5716
5 Apr 2022Refused
To construct a dwelling house, a garage for domestic purpose, to install a domestic waste water treatment system and to carry out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4719
8 Aug 2019Conditional
Retention of a detached garage and the installation of 4 roof lights to the rear elevation of existing dwelling
Retention · Cork County Council, 19/5985
24 Jun 2019Incompleted application
Retention of a detached garage and retention for the installation of 4 no. roof lights to the rear elevation of existing dwelling
Retention · Cork County Council, 19/5629
1 Nov 2016Conditional
The construction of a dwellinghouse, domestic garage and a new entrance together with other ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6735
19 May 2014Conditional
Extension to rear of existing dwellinghouse
Retention · Cork County Council, 14/5033
21 Dec 2011Conditional
Construction of a dwellinghouse and associated siteworks
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/6662
21 Apr 2008Conditional
Dwellinghouse, garage, septic tank and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6209
21 Dec 2007Refused
Dwellinghouse, garage, septic tank, percolation area and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/13313
18 Jun 2007Conditional
Construction of slatted tanks, easy feed area, dairy washings tank, calf house, change of use from loose house to cubicle shed and demolition of existing store and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8739
4 Dec 2006Conditional
One and half storey dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12950
28 Jun 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8446
27 May 2005Conditional
Milking parlour
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3663
24 Jan 2003Withdrawn
Bungalow and garage
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 03/228
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cloghduff.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cloghduff.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloghduff.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Cloghduff, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cloghduff.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cloghduff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Cloghduff · An Chloch Dhubh
- Area
- 905,204 m² (90.52 ha, 223.68 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbonane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry East
- Electoral division
- Moviddy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,592 people lived in 517 households in the Moviddy electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinguilly, Coolmucky, Kilbonane, Knockawaddra, Parkmore, Rathculleen, Rathfelane
- Placenames
- Cloghduff 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.