Cusduff
Cusduff is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmichael, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Cos Ó nDuibh.
- Area
- 106.8 ha
- 264 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 13,555 m² (1.36 ha, 3.35 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cusduff, from 132 m² to 317,285 m² (31.73 ha, 78.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 7 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 Cusduff 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
12 Aug 2025Conditional permission
Permission for dwellinghouse, domestic garage, sewerage system, site entrance and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5620
17 Oct 2008Conditional
Retention of (1) extension to bungalow including sunroom, (2) alterations to front and rear windows, (3) entrance, (4) alterations to site boundaries
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1869
25 Sept 2008Incompleted application
Retention of (1) extension to bungalow including sunroom, (2) alterations to front and rear windows, (3) entrance and (4) alterations to site boundaries
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1743
10 Sept 2008Conditional
Retain relocation of existing septic tank and percolation area to existing cottage
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1648
27 Aug 2008Incompleted application
Retention permission to retain (1) extension to existing bungalow, (2) sunroom, (3) alterations to front and rear windows, (4) new entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1594
21 Aug 2008Incompleted application
Retention to retain the relocation of the existing septic tank and percolation area to the existing cottage to comply with SR6 1991
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1561
29 Mar 2007Conditional
Construct livestock housing with 2 slatted tanks, concrete apron and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/872
1 Mar 2007Conditional
Demolish existing dwellinghouse and construct new dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/555
17 Jan 2007Incompleted application
Livestock housing with 2 slatted tanks, concrete apron and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/166
6 Apr 2004Conditional
Bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/2285
14 Jul 2003Conditional
Construction of sheep house and unroofed silo
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/3480
10 Aug 2001Conditional
Retention of extension to dwelling & septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/4579
1 May 2001New application
Retention of septic tank serving existing dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/2423
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 Cusduff.
Recorded monuments
- CO082-042 Ringfort - rath
Description
In rough grazing land, broken by rock outcrop, on break in NNE-facing slope. Circular raised area (44m E-W; 43m N-S) defined by earthen bank (H 3.4m); external fosse (D 1.2m); counterscarp bank (H 0.5m). Bank stone-faced internally in parts. Causewayed entrance (Wth 5m) to E. Bank and fosse overgrown with furze bushes and briars. Interior covered in ferns and briars; recumbent stone (1.1m x 0.5m x 0.3m) noted few metres from entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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 Cusduff.
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 Cusduff, 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 Cusduff.
- 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 Cusduff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Cusduff · Cos Ó nDuibh
- Area
- 1,068,066 m² (106.81 ha, 263.92 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmichael, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Electoral division
- Carrigboy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 536 people lived in 174 households in the Carrigboy electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clonmoyle, Coolaclevane, Dromleigh, Gorteenadrolane, Haremount, Teeranassig
- Placenames
- Cusduff 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.