Coorannel
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcaskan, barony of Bear, Co. Cork; in Irish Cúil Raithneach
- Area
- 220.6 ha
- 545 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 27,919 m² (2.79 ha, 6.9 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coorannel, from 5,990 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres) to 703,631 m² (70.36 ha, 173.87 acres). 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Coorannel 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
28 Nov 2025Grant with conditions
Demolition of existing 2 no. farm structures, construction of dwelling house, installation of wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6628
7 Nov 2023Application withdrawn
Permission to construct a new single storey dwelling, wastewater treatment system, new access road along with all associated site work
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/625
10 Oct 2023Incompleted application
Permission to construct a new singe storey dwelling, wastewater treatment system, along with all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/566
28 Jun 2023Incompleted application
Construction of a new two storey extension to the west elevation and all associated site work to an existing dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/349
22 Mar 2021Conditional
Permission for retention of alterations to development of dwelling permitted under PL Reg. No; 07/451 namely; a) Basement studio constructed under permitted extension to dwelling (in lieu of permitted detached studio), b) An extra 1.3m meters in length to the permitted extension, alterations to elevations and a balcony from the kitchen area, c) Change in location to the approved wastewater treatment system and revised site boundaries
Retention · Cork County Council, 21/196
9 Aug 2007Conditional
Demolish 2no. existing steel footbridges, construct 2no. 1.3m wide galvanised steel footbridges with concrete walkway; construct disabled access ramp and steps; extend existing stone guard walls to 0.875m high over Glengarriff river
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/2126
19 Jun 2007Incompleted application
Demolish 2no. existing steel footbridges, construct 2no. 1.3m wide galvanised steel footbridges with concrete walkway; construct disabled access ramp and steps; extend existing stone guard walls to 0.875m high over Glengarriff river
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1616
19 Feb 2007Conditional
Renovations and extensions to existing dwellinghouse, new ancillary studio, new entrance and septic tank system
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/451
14 Sept 2005Refused
Dwellinghouse, studio, domestic store and septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6674
31 Jan 2005Refused
Dwellinghouse, private studio and domestic store
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/432
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Caha Mountains SAC 000093
- Special Area of Conservation: Glengarriff Harbour and Woodland SAC 000090
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Glengarriff Harbour And Woodland 000090
Recorded monuments
- CO104-003 Bridge
Description
Remains of disused hump-backed road bridge (Wth 5m) over mountain stream to SW of Shrone Hill. Semicircular arch (Wth 2.45; H 2.6m) with coarsely cut voussoirs. Originally carried the old road from Adrigole to Glengarriff, known locally as "Cromwell's road". The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coorannel.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coorannel.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Coorannel with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Coorannel · Cúil Raithneach
- Area
- 2,206,063 m² (220.61 ha, 545.13 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcaskan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bear
- Electoral division
- Kilcaskan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilcaskan electoral division: 895 people in 373 households; 80% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 27% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cappyaughna, Derryconnery, Derrynafulla, Dromdour, Drumaclarig, Esknamucky, Glengarriff, Inchintaggart, Shrone
- Placenames
- Coorannel 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.