Desert

214 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Desert, from 16 m² to 104,675 m² (10.47 ha, 25.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 109 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Existing residential)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 102 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Green Infrastructure (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.2Industry (General industry)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 2 Jan 2026Grant with conditions

  (1) Alterations and extension to the existing dwelling, including a new extension to the eastern elevation (2) a new wastewater treatment system, along with all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0001

• 11 Sept 2025Refused

  Construction of 4 detached dwellings with associated domestic garages, new roadway, entrance to highway, drainage and landscaping works

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 25/5874

• 25 Jul 2025Incompleted application

  Outline Planning permission to construct 4 detached dwellings with associated domestic garages, new roadway, entrance to highway, drainage and landscpaing works

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 25/415

• 24 Feb 2025Conditional permission

  Planning Permission for the demolition of existing dwelling and permission to construct a new dwelling. Permission also for the installation of a septic tank and percolation upgrade and for the relocation of vehicle entrance

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/75

• 14 Nov 2024Conditional

  Change of use from existing commercial unit to residential house, along with all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/624

• 22 Nov 2023Conditional

  (i) ground floor extension to north-east (rear) elevation, (ii) ground floor extension to north-west (side) elevation, (iii) minor elevational changes to a number of existing window and external door openings to include the construction of two new window openings at first floor level on the north-east elevation together with all associated alterations and site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/660

• 26 Jun 2023Conditional permission

  Construction of single storey style dwelling house waste water treatment system, percolation area and ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/336

• 2 Jun 2023Incompleted application

  Construction of single storey dwelling house and ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/295

• 15 Mar 2023Conditional

  Extensions and alterations to dwelling house and carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/135

• 10 Feb 2023Withdrawn

  Extensions and alterations to dwelling house and carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/52

• 30 Jan 2023Conditional

  Construction of single storey extension to dwellling house for use as an ancillary Granny Flat

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/31

• 14 Sept 2022Conditional

  'Granny Flat', alterations to existing link to dwelling and 2 no. windows to rear of dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/579

• 24 May 2021Conditional

  Demolition of existing single-storey extension and construction of single-storey and two storey extensions to rear and side of dwelling, alterations and upgrade works to the existing dwelling, construction of new entrance, modifications to roadside boundary walls, installation of new pumped septic tank system and constructed percolation area and all associated site works. It is proposed to let the dwelling for short term/holiday use.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/334

• 16 Sept 2020Conditional

  The construction of a dwelling house and domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/495

• 9 Jul 2020Conditional

  Construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, carport and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/365

• 14 May 2020Conditional

  Construct a slatted cattle shed with tanks and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/250

• 22 Apr 2020Incompleted application

  Construct a slatted cattle shed with tanks and associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/221

• 6 Mar 2020Conditional

  Permission for (1) Construct a single storey pitched roof extension to side of existing dwelling, (2) to construct a single storey flat roof extension to rear of existing dwelling, (3) minor elevational changes, (4) all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/119

• 15 Jan 2020Conditional

  Alterations and extensions to the existing domestic garage, including the conversion of the ground floor area to a granny flat, along with all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/9

• 22 Jul 2019Conditional

  New two storey dwelling house and single storey garage with associated entrance, landscaping and drainage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/489

• 14 Jun 2019Incompleted application

  New two storey dwelling house and single storey garage with associated entrance landscaping and drainage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/405

• 27 Mar 2019Conditional

  Construction of a single storey extension to dwelling for use as an ancillary granny glat

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/202

• 21 Feb 2019Incompleted application

  Construction of single storey extension to dwelling house (granny flat)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/121

• 16 Jul 2018Conditional

  To construct a single storey extension and attached garage to existing dwelling including all ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/417

• 22 May 2017Conditional

  The Demolition of an existing dwelling house, demolition of an existing shed and the construction of a dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/307

The 25 most recent of 86 applications.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Clonakilty Bay SAC 000091
• Special Protection Area: Clonakilty Bay SPA 004081
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clonakilty Bay 000091

Recorded monuments

• CO135-053001 Graveyard
  Description

  On top of a low cliff on N shore of Clonakilty estuary. The site appears to have been completely removed by Cork County Council during road widening. The graveyard contained a ruined church (CO135-053002-). Probably an early ecclesiastical site. (Hurley 1980, 60). 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

• CO135-053002 Church
  Description

  In graveyard (CO135-053001-), the church has been completely removed by Cork County Council during road widening. Photographs taken 1981 show N and W walls standing c. 1m high (pers. comm. John Davies). Webster (1932, 273-4) illustrates unusual recess in W gable, which he interpreted as "unusual arrangement... for ringing the sacred bell"; he gives dimensions of building as '23ft 4in x 15ft 4in'. 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

• CO135-054 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on NW-facing slope, just below hilltop. Circular enclosure on OS 6-inch map (1842). 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

• CO135-055 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on W-facing slope. Roughly circular area (40.5m N-S; 43.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.8m), with shallow external fosse. Gaps in bank to S (Wth 6m) and WSW (Wth 2m). 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

• CO135-132 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture on outskirts of Clonakilty and on E side of harbour. Circular area (C 58m NE-SW) defined by shallow fosse (H 0.4m) NE->W. Visible in aerial photograph as large levelled circular enclosure. 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

• Cross House, house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1880, having single-bay single-storey pitched roof addition to rear. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with rusticated render quoins and moulded sill course to first floor. Square-headed window openings with render sills to front (east ) elevation, having rusticated render block-and-start surrounds with three-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to ground floor. Square-headed door opening with render surround and glazed timber door with overlights to front elevation, having single tiled step with cast-iron boot scraper and tiled path. Raised lettering to side (south) elevation, reads; ‘Timoleague Road.’ Bounded by ashlar limestone wall surmounted by cast-iron railings.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Desert.

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.

No address of the register names Desert with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Desert · An Díseart

Area

1,377,193 m² (137.72 ha, 340.31 acres)

Civil parish

Desert, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery East (East Division)

Electoral division

Clonakilty Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonakilty Rural electoral division: 2,213 people in 709 households; 78% of households own their home; 51% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ashgrove, Curraghgrane More, Gallanes, Scartagh

Placenames

Desert 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.