Courtleigh
Courtleigh is a townland in the civil parish of Murragh, barony of Kinalmeaky, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Cuar Liath.
- Area
- 91.4 ha
- 226 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 25,196 m² (2.52 ha, 6.23 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Courtleigh, from 369 m² to 199,787 m² (19.98 ha, 49.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Courtleigh 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
30 Dec 2021Conditional
Permission to A) demolish existing rear extension and to construct a new two storey extension to the rear of existing dwelling B) carry out alterations to the front elevation of existing dwelling C) To replace existing septic tank system with a treatment plant and percolation area.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/7525
14 Dec 2021Conditional
To construct dwelling, detached garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/7345
16 Feb 2009Refused
Ten year permission to erect 14no. wind turbines on four separate sites. 4no. wind turbines are 120.5m high from ground level to blade tip, with ancillary hardstand & assembly areas, inland access tracks, underground fibre optic & electrical cables, wheelwash & ancillary works will be installed & 1no. borrow pit will be excavated in the townland of Belrose Upper, Enniskeane. 3no. wind turbines of 120.5m high from ground level to blade tip with ancillary hardstand & assembly areas, inland access tracks, underground fibre optic & electrical cables, wheelwash & ancillary works to be installed, & 1no. borrow pit will be excavated in the townland of Kilnacranagh East, Enniskeane. 1no. wind turbine of 120.5m high from ground level to blade tip with ancillary hardstand & assembly areas, internal access tracks, underground fibre optic & electrical cables, & 1no. eletrical substation & ancilllary works to be installed in the townland of Laravoolta, Enniskeane. 6no. wind turbines (of which 3no. are 120.5m high from ground level to blade tip and 3no. are 77m high from ground level to blade tip), with ancillary hardstand & assembly areas, internal access tracks, underground fibre optic & electrical cables & ancillary works will be installed in the townlands of Courtleigh & Farranthomas, Newcestown, and 1no. borrow pit will be excavated & a wheelwash will be installed in the townland of Courtleigh, Newcestown
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4457
22 Jun 2007Conditional
Construction of straw bedded house and cubicle spaces, underground soiled water and slurry tanks and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8922
3 Jun 2003Conditional
Dormer dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/2672
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 Courtleigh.
Recorded monuments
- CO095-085 Standing stone
Description
In pasture on S-facing slope. No visible surface trace. 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
- CO095-086 Standing stone
Description
In pasture on hilltop. Stone now prostrate and extending from base of fieldf ence (L c. 2m-3m; 1m x 0.4m). 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
- CO095-104 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture on S-facing slope. Bank levelled; scarp (H 0.9m) defines arc of circular area (diam. c. 38m) ESE->W. According to Ó Ríordáin (1933, 60) field known as "Pairc an leasa". 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
- House, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1830, with attached two-bay two-storey former outbuilding to north gable, now in use as separate house. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls having render quoins to front (south-west) elevation. Square-headed window openings with render surrounds and painted stone sills, having two-over-two and margined two-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Timber casement windows to northern block. Square-headed door openings with glazed timber and uPVC doors. Square-profile rendered piers and boundary wall to front of site.
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 Courtleigh, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Courtleigh.
- 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 Courtleigh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Courtleigh · An Cuar Liath
- Area
- 914,140 m² (91.41 ha, 225.89 acres)
- Civil parish
- Murragh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kinalmeaky
- Electoral division
- Murragh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 541 people lived in 164 households in the Murragh electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Farranthomas, Killaneer, Sranaviddoge
- Placenames
- Courtleigh 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.