Cottstown
Cottstown is a townland in the civil parish of Dungourney, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Baile an Chótaigh.
- Area
- 80.2 ha
- 198 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 58,679 m² (5.87 ha, 14.5 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cottstown, from 1,152 m² to 156,396 m² (15.64 ha, 38.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Cottstown 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
2 Jul 2014Conditional
Dwelling house, garage, septic tank & percolation area (change of house type and layout from that permitted under Planning Ref. No. 10/8711)
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5414
18 Jun 2014Incompleted application
Change of plans for dwelling house and garage from that granted under Planning Ref. No. 10/8711
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5294
21 May 2013Conditional
Demolition of existing dwellinghouse and construction of a single storey replacement dwellinghouse and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4941
7 May 2013Incompleted application
Demolition of existing dwelling house and construction of a single storey replacement dwelling house and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4835
14 Dec 2010Conditional
Construction of a one and a half storey dwelling, domestic garage, installation of septic tank and ancillary site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/8711
17 May 2007Conditional
Construction of dungstead and animal house incorporating slatted tank, feed rails, feed passage, straw bedded area, crush and ancillary concrete works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7895
1 Mar 2007Incompleted application
Construction of dungstead and animal house incorporating slatted tank, feed rails, feed passage, straw bedded area, crush and ancillary concrete works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5545
1 Oct 2004Conditional
Retention of alterations to elevations of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/7412
14 Sept 2004Incompleted application
Retention of change of plan and elevations to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/6976
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 Cottstown.
Recorded monuments
- CO065-039 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on NE-facing slope. Circular, slightly raised area (29.8m N-S; 26.6m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 0.7m). Gap in bank to ESE. Interior level; low undulations noted, forming no definite pattern. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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 Cottstown.
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 Cottstown, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cottstown.
- 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 Cottstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Cottstown · Baile an Chótaigh
- Area
- 801,897 m² (80.19 ha, 198.15 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dungourney, and its townlands
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Electoral division
- Ballyspillane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 355 people lived in 122 households in the Ballyspillane electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynagaul, Ballynona North, Sandyhill, Sheepwalk
- Placenames
- Cottstown 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.