Cusloura
Cusloura is a townland in the civil parish of Macroom, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Cois Labhra.
- Area
- 581.5 ha
- 1,437 acres
- Land parcels
- 73
- registered freehold, median 17,764 m² (1.78 ha, 4.39 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
73 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cusloura, from 227 m² to 963,388 m² (96.34 ha, 238.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Cusloura 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
3 Jul 2015Conditional
Retention of A) dwelling and domestic store as constructed (previous Planning Ref S/01/2672) and B) detached chalet for use ancillary to main dwelling.
Retention · Cork County Council, 15/5461
1 Feb 2012Conditional
Retention of domestic garage as constructed
Retention · Cork County Council, 12/4131
30 Dec 2011Incompleted application
Retention of domestic garage as constructed
Retention · Cork County Council, 11/6725
17 Sept 2008Conditional
Construction of slatted house with 2 no. underground effluent tanks, loose house, 1 no. underground effluent tank and walled silage apron
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/8923
8 Nov 2006Conditional
Retention of renovations and extension to dwellinghouse and installation of proprietary treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12102
13 Oct 2006Incompleted application
Retention of renovations and extension to dwelling, proprietary treatment system and percolation area
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11436
17 Jul 2003Conditional
Dwellinghouse (change of plan)
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/3550
17 Apr 2003Refused
Demolition of derelict dwelling and construction of dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 03/1787
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 Protection Area: Mullaghanish to Musheramore Mountains SPA 004162
Recorded monuments
- CO059-033 Standing stone - pair
Description
In pasture, on valley floor 80m N of Cusloura River. Stones, aligned ENE-WSW, stand 1.4m apart. NE stone is 1.2m L, 0.8m T and 1.7m H. SW stone leans to S; it is 1.1m L, 0.5m T and 1.7m H. (O Nualláin 1988, 243, no. 88) 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
- CO059-034 House - vernacular house
Description
Roadside. Ruined overgrown remains of house (long axis N-S); front inaccessible. Half-hipped roof collapsed; single off-centre chimney; traces of thatch visible. Central window in S side wall. 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
- CO059-035 Standing stone
Description
In pasture, on ESE-facing slope. Stone (H 1.9m; 1.08m x 0.23m) is subrectangular in plan, long axis NE-SW. 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
- CO059-036 Fulacht fia
Description
In rough grazing. Grass-covered, kidney-shaped mound of burnt material (L 10m; Wth 13m; H 0.6m); opening (Wth 1.8m) faces NNE. 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 Cusloura.
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 Cusloura, 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 high, 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 Cusloura.
- 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 Cusloura with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Cusloura · Cois Labhra
- Area
- 5,815,182 m² (581.52 ha, 1,436.96 acres)
- Civil parish
- Macroom, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Electoral division
- Rahalisk, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 615 people lived in 214 households in the Rahalisk electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carriganimmy, Cloghboola Beg, Knocknakilla, Knockraheen, Lackaduv, Maulnahorna, Moanflugh
- Placenames
- Cusloura 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.