Clontaff

61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clontaff, from 10 m² to 155,333 m² (15.53 ha, 38.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Clontaff 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.

• 19 May 2023Conditional

  Permission for the construction of 8 no. dwelling houses and all associated site works. The development consists of 3 no. 4 bedroom semi-detached dwelling houses, 3 no. 3 bed semi-detached dwelling houses and 2 no. 3 bedroom terraced dwelling houses

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/267

• 30 Jun 2022Conditional

  Permission for conversion of town house into 4 no. apartments

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/433

• 11 Jan 2022Refused

  Construct 2 no. semi detached dwelling houses, and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/9

• 27 Jun 2018Conditional

  Construction of an alternative entrance and access road to dwelling as permitted under Planning Ref. No. 17/775 to include revised site boundaries

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/378

• 7 Dec 2017Conditional

  To construct a dwellinghouse including installation of treatment plant and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/775

• 21 Apr 2017Conditional

  Change of use of existing structure from domestic outbuilding to granny flat and for alterations to elevations to said structure to accommodate same

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/231

• 21 Dec 2016Conditional

  Permission for installation of septic tank and percolation area, also for the permission for revised site boundaries

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/797

• 14 Mar 2014Conditional

  Construct a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, install treatment plant and all associated site works including relocating existing entrance to facilitate new entrance to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/193

• 11 Apr 2011Conditional

  Construct alterations and an extension to an existing dwellinghouse comprising a domestic studio with a connecting link to the said existing dwellinghouse and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/213

• 25 Mar 2011Conditional

  Domestic garage and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/177

• 18 Mar 2011Incompleted application

  Construct a domestic studio with connecting link to an existing dwellinghouse and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/160

• 31 Jul 2009Conditional

  (1) Retain part of rear of extension to supermarket as constructed (previous ref: 04/6741) and (2) Use part of retail area as off licence in existing supermarket

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/864

• 17 Jul 2009Incompleted application

  (1) Retain part of rear of extension to supermarket as constructed (previous ref 04/6741) and (2) Permission to use part of retail area as off licence in existing supermarket

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/808

• 27 Feb 2009Conditional

  Dwellinghouse with sewage treatment unit, convert existing cottage to domestic garage/store and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/204

• 30 May 2008Conditional

  Retain revised site boundaries to dwelling granted under planning reg: 02/3818

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1015

• 27 May 2008Conditional

  Extension to existing dwelling and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/984

• 1 Apr 2008Incompleted application

  Extension to existing dwelling and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/573

• 18 Apr 2007Conditional

  Construct dwelling domestioc garage and install waste water treatment system and open new entrance

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1037

• 29 Sept 2006Withdrawn

  Dwellinghouse, septic tank, new entrance, landscaping and ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1975

• 31 Mar 2006Conditional

  Dwellinghouse, garage and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/554

• 6 Sept 2004Conditional

  Demolition of existing lean-to scullery and sheds and construction of extension to rear of existing supermarket and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/6741

• 14 Jul 2004Refused

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/5390

• 5 Jul 2004Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/5101

• 7 Feb 2003Refused

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/455

• 28 Aug 2002Conditional

  Dwelling, garage & waste water treatment system

  Approval · Cork County Council, 02/3818

The 25 most recent of 36 applications.

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Clontaff.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Clontaff.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced four-bay two-storey house, built c.1800. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and UPVC rainwater goods. Rendered walls with block-and-start rendered quoins and plinth. Square-headed openings with one-over-one timber sliding sash windows having concrete sills. Square-headed door openings with timber glazed door having sidelight and timber battened door.

• Nolan, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, now also in use as public house. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and uPVC and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls with rusticated render quoins. Square-headed window openings having replacement uPVC windows and concrete sills. Moulded raised render surround to ground floor opening. Shopfront comprising panelled pilasters flanking openings supporting architrave, plain frieze and moulded cornice. Square-headed window opening to shopfront with timber framed fixed pane window and three overlights. Square-headed door opening having timber panelled double-leaf door and overlight.

• House, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced double-pile four-bay two-storey house, built c.1870. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods and bracketed eaves course. Painted rendered walls with rusticated render quoins and bracketed render sill course to first floor. Square-headed window openings having camber-headed render surrounds, two-over-two timber sliding sash windows to first floor and bipartite windows with one-over-one timber sliding sash windows to ground floor. Rendered sills with brackets to ground floor. Square-headed openings to entrances within camber-headed recessed surrounds and moulded render surrounds. Double-leaf timber panelled door with overlight to north-east end of front and timber panelled door with single-pane overlight and timber glazed side panels to south-west.

• House, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced double-pile three-bay two-storey house, built c.1870, now also in use as shop. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods and bracketed eaves course. Painted rendered walls with rusticated render quoins. Square-headed window openings with camber-headed moulded surrounds and two-over-two sliding sash windows. Shopfront comprising paired pilasters supporting entablature with bracketed cornice. Square-headed window openings having fixed single-pane timber framed display windows over rendered stall risers. Central square-headed door opening to shopfront with timber glazed door and tripartite overlight.

• Clontaff Cottage, house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1880, with lean-to addition and recent pitched roof extension to rear (south-east). Hipped slate roof to original house, artificial slate elsewhere, with rendered chimneystacks and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with render sills, two-over-two sliding sash windows to front (north-west) and replacement uPVC windows to side return (north-east) and rear. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber glazed door and single-pane overlight.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay two-storey house, built c.1820. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and uPVC rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with render sills and one-over one timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening having replacement uPVC door.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace two-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, with lean-to extension to rear (south-west). Pitched artificial slate roof with uPVC rainwater goods and rendered chimneystacks. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with render sills and two-over two sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening having replacement timber glazed door.

• Saint Bridget's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1800–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Roman Catholic church, built 1832, single-bay gable front with flat roofed porch addition, four-bay nave, single-bay chancel (east) with sacristy attached (south), side porch (north), and recent lean-to toilet extension to north-east corner. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack to chancel and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered stone bellcote to nave gable (west), and copper roofed octagonal bellcote with metal cross finial to chancel. Roughcast rendered walls with plinth. Pointed arch openings to nave windows having render sills, hood mouldings and three-pane lead lined stained glass tooled stone tracery. Triple lancets to chancel (east) having ashlar block-and-start surrounds, hood mouldings and lead-lined stained glass windows. Pointed arch window openings to sacristy and front porch having stone block-and-start surrounds and hood moulding with lead-lined stained glass windows. Square-headed door openings to porches, having battened timber double-leaf doors with cast-iron strap hinges. Pointed arch door opening to sacristy with chamfered surround and timber battened door with cast-iron strap hinges. Scissor braced timber roof to interior with stone supporting corbels. Tiled floor, timber pews and embellished chancel with marble reredos. Rendered boundary walls with wrought-iron railings, rendered gate piers and wrought-iron gates. Three-bay two-storey parochial house with hipped slate roof, rendered walls, hood mouldings to ground floor openings and replacement fittings to openings to rear. Related rubble stone outbuilding to site, with hipped slate roof.

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

At the centre of the townland of Clontaff, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Clontaff.

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.

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

Name

Clontaff · Cluain Cathail

Area

486,735 m² (48.67 ha, 120.27 acres)

Civil parish

Myross, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery West (East Division)

Electoral division

Myross, the unit of the census

Census 2022

818 people lived in 321 households in the Myross electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 28% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballincolla, Cahergal, Listarkin

Placenames

Clontaff 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.