Cuskinny
Townland in the civil parish of Templerobin, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork; in Irish Cois Coinne
- Area
- 37.9 ha
- 94 acres
- Land parcels
- 5
- registered freehold, median 67,634 m² (6.76 ha, 16.71 acres)
- Zoning
- R3
- Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cuskinny, from 2,178 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres) to 106,425 m² (10.64 ha, 26.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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
- R3Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
7 Feb 2020Conditional
Velux rooflights and front and rear dormer window extensions to dwelling together with infill of first floor recessed balcony area, first floor balcony replacement, ground floor decking area and associated elevational alterations and site development works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4207
30 Nov 2018Conditional
(1) Retention of attic conversion and velux rooflights to permitted dwelling, and (2) Erection of side, rear and dormer window extensions to permitted dwelling together with first floor balcony, ground floor decking area and associated elevational alterations and site development works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/7145
5 Nov 2018Incompleted application
Retention of attic conversion and velux rooflights to permitted dwelling, and (2) Erection of side, rear and dormer window extensions to dwelling together with associated elevational alterations and site development works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6927
28 Oct 2004Conditional
Alterations and extensions to dwellinghouse and installation of treatment plant and bored well
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8014
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cuskinny Marsh 001987
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cuskinny.
Architectural heritage
- Carrigrhu, house, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Detached double-pile four-bay two-storey house, built c. 1880, with single-storey canted block, gablets, and gabled canopy to front (west) elevation. Canted bay window and gablet to south elevation. Gabled block to north-east. Single-bay two-storey gabled projection to north elevation. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, overhanging eaves, decorative timber bargeboards to gables and cast-iron rainwater goods. Render cornices to canted bay window and block. Rendered walls with render plat bands. Square-headed openings with render surrounds and one-over-one pane and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed openings to rear with six-over-six pane and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed opening with timber panelled half-glazed door. Gabled canopy supported by circular-profile columns. Square-headed opening to rear with glazed double-doors. Square-headed opening to south elevation with timber panelled half-glazed door and sidelights. Square-profile rendered piers to entrance with recent timber gates.
- Cuskinny, country house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey country house, built c.1820, with gabled projecting central bay and flanking full-height canted bay windows to front (south) elevation. Five-bay west elevation with gabled projecting bay to north bay and recent conservatory to south bay. Seven-bay east elevation with lower three-bay block to north. Central gabled block with single-bay two-storey hipped roof return to rear (north). Hipped and pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, overhanging bracketed eaves and cast-iron rainwater goods. Square-headed openings throughout. Replacement windows to front elevation. Tripartite four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor of west elevation. Tripartite and bipartite one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and replacement uPVC windows to ground floor of west elevation. Replacement uPVC windows to rear. Bipartite one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and two-over-two timber sliding sash windows to east elevation. Square-headed openings with timber panelled half glazed doors to west elevation of front projecting bay, to rear and to west elevation. Courtyard to rear comprising five-bay two-storey block with external staircase and gablet. Pitched slate roof, painted rubble stone walls, square-headed openings with timber battened doors. Five-bay two-storey east block comprising pitched artificial slate roof, rendered walls and square-headed openings with replacement windows. Rubble stone courtyard boundary wall to north with square-profile piers and cast-iron double-leaf gates. Outbuildings to north-west comprising three-bay two-storey block and four-bay single-storey block with hipped and pitched roof, painted rubble stone walls, square-headed openings with timber fittings and elliptical-arched carriage arch with cut stone voussoirs. Gabled boathouse to east with pitched corrugated-iron roof, rubble stone walls and square-headed opening. Kitchen garden to north of house with rubble limestone walls and segmental-arched opening having cut stone voussoirs and timber battened gate.
- Cuskinny, gate lodge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey former gate lodge, built c. 1820, now in use as house. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack and overhanging eaves with timber bargeboards to gables. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings with replacement windows and render label mouldings. Square-headed opening with replacement door. Rubble stone sweep walls to entrance with render copings and rendered square-profile piers with decorative caps and ball finials.
- Cuskinny Bridge, bridge, 1770–1810 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch humpback road bridge, built c. 1790. Rubble stone walls with rendered copings to parapets. Segmental arches with dressed and rusticated limestone voussoirs.
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; parts are made ground and water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cuskinny.
- 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 Cuskinny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Cuskinny · Cois Coinne
- Area
- 378,790 m² (37.88 ha, 93.6 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templerobin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Electoral division
- Cobh Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cobh Rural electoral division: 9,050 people in 2,954 households; 73% of households own their home; 51% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballydaniel More, Ballydulea, Ballymore, Ballywilliam, Carrignafoy
- Placenames
- Cuskinny 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.