Cullig
Cullig is a townland in the civil parish of Churchtown, barony of Orrery and Kilmore, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Choilligh.
- Area
- 112.3 ha
- 277 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 2,902 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cullig, from 521 m² to 381,611 m² (38.16 ha, 94.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Cullig 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 Jan 2007Refused
Dwelling and domestic garage/store
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4317
19 Oct 2006Incompleted application
Dormer style dwellinghouse and shed
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11570
6 Oct 2004Refused
Construction of a one and a half storey dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/7535
9 Sept 2004Withdrawn
Construction of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/6864
10 Oct 2003Conditional
Extensions to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/5071
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: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
Recorded monuments
- CO007-114 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on N-facing slope of Windmill Hill, overlooking bog land. Circular area (36.5m NNW-SSE; 36.5m WSW-ENE) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.6m); external fosse (D 1.2m) NE->S. Bank incorporated into field fence system in SW quadrant; numerous gaps worn through bank in NNW quadrant; breaks in bank to N (Wth 3.8m) and to NNE (Wth 5m). Fosse filled with rubble to S. Interior slopes gently down to NNW; loose branches dumped in NE quadrant; small depression noted in SW quadrant. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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 Cullig.
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 Cullig, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cullig.
- 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 Cullig with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Cullig · An Choilligh
- Area
- 1,122,809 m² (112.28 ha, 277.45 acres)
- Civil parish
- Churchtown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Orrery and Kilmore
- Electoral division
- Churchtown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,286 people lived in 427 households in the Churchtown electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annagh Bogs, Annagh North, Annagh South, Carrigeen, Kilgrogan, Rath
- Placenames
- Cullig 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.