Doneraile

331 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doneraile, from 11 m² to 67,504 m² (6.75 ha, 16.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• G3Green Infrastructure (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Green Infrastructure (Active open space)
  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.

• 12 Jan 2026Grant with conditions

  Planning permission for the change of use of existing retail areas to allow for ancillary off licence sales, at Centra Doneraile, Main Street, Doneraile, Co. Cork

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0036

• 17 Dec 2025Grant with conditions

  Permission for construction of 4 No. terraced dwellings comprising 3 No. dormer 2 bedroom units and 1 No. single storey 2 bedroom unit in place of an existing derelict commercial building including all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6828

• 25 Nov 2025Grant with conditions

  Permission for change of use of existing store/garage to cafe/restaurant to include toilet pod and storage area ancillary to cafe/restaurant, takeaway service, outdoor seating area and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6586

• 15 Oct 2025Awaiting f.i. response

  Permission to demolish the existing extension to rear of existing dwelling and to construct new 2 storey extension to rear of existing dwelling, front elevation alterations and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6181

• 8 Oct 2025Invalid - prepare letters

  Permission for change of use of existing store/garage to cafe/restaurant to include takeaway service and outdoor seating and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6130

• 4 Jun 2025Conditional permission

  a) demolish existing single storey projection to the rear of the existing dwelling, b) construct a new single storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling and c) all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5008

• 3 Jun 2025Conditional

  Permission to construct extension and alterations to existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5062

• 30 Apr 2025Conditional permission

  Permission for retention of a rear extension consisting of a kitchen, storage and toilet facilities ancillary to bar and restaurant, a change of use of the first floor from residential to dining area ancillary to bar and restaurant, a change from flat roof to pitched roof and a balcony over the flat roof over the ground floor, with all associated site work

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/4804

• 2 Apr 2025Incompleted application

  Rear extension and change of use of the first floor from residential to commercial with all associated site works.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 25/4576

• 8 Nov 2024Incompleted application

  Permission for Retention for the change of use, alterations and conversion of a shop, stores and residential property to 5 No. apartments as constructed on site and Permission for Retention for domestic shed as constructed to the rear of the property and all associated site works.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 24/6113

• 25 Jul 2024Conditional permission

  Permission for change of use of science block of former secondary school to dwelling house

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5415

• 12 Apr 2023Conditional

  Permission for retention of existing unit for use as a paediatric occupational therapy clinic and all associated site works and services

  Retention · Cork County Council, 23/4698

• 19 Oct 2022Conditional

  Construction of a proposed granny flat and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6360

• 14 Sept 2022Withdrawn

  Construction of a proposed granny flat and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6071

• 7 Sept 2022Incompleted application

  Construction of a proposed granny flat and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6019

• 20 Jul 2022Incompleted application

  Construction of a granny flat and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5706

• 29 Jun 2022Conditional

  Planning Permission to: 1. For change of use of the existing retail unit to residential dwelling use, 2. To demolish the existing extension to the rear of the existing dwelling, 3. To construct a new two storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling, 4. To construct a new detached two storey dwelling house, with car parking spaces and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5523

• 25 May 2022Incompleted application

  1) To demolish the existing extension to the rear of the existing dwelling, 2) to construct a new two storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling, 3) to construct a new detached two storey dwelling house, with car parking spaces and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5207

• 12 Aug 2021Conditional

  The construction of 4 no. semi-detached single storey two-bedroom dwellings with all associated works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6237

• 14 Jun 2021Conditional

  To construct 4no dwellinghouses and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5647

• 1 Jun 2021Conditional

  To construct 2 no. two storey extensions to the side and rear of existing dwelling and to widen existing site entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5538

• 16 Mar 2021Conditional

  To demolish the existing uncovered front and side walls of the existing single storey derelict dwelling house and to construct a new semi-detached two storey dwelling house and all associated site and ancillary works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4682

• 29 Sept 2020Conditional

  Alterations and extension to existing dwelling consisting of the following: (1) the construction of a new pitched roof over existing rear extension to dwelling, (2) the construction of a new single storey extension to the rear of existing dwelling and all associated site works and services.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6124

• 24 Jun 2020Withdrawn

  The construction of an extension to the rear and at first floor level to an existing derelict dwelling house, alterations to elevations and renovations of same and all associated site and ancillary works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5296

• 15 Jun 2020Refused

  Alterations and extension to existing dwelling consisting of the following: (1) to demolish existing rear extension and to construct a new two storey extension to the rear of existing dwelling and all associated site works (2) the installation of 2 no. rooflights to the front of existing dwelling.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5212

The 25 most recent of over 100 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: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170

Recorded monuments

• CO017-085 Graveyard
  Description

  On gentle N-facing slope, River Awbeg to N, former Doneraile Convent immediately to S. Level square grass-covered graveyard (c. 22m E-W; c. 20m N-S), enclosed by high stone wall to W, N and E, unenclosed to S. Formerly burial ground of Convent; on closure of convent c. 1991, burials removed to Old Court graveyard (14613). Large 19th-century mausoleum in centre. 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

• CO025-162 Church
  Description

  In Doneraile, set back off street line. Rectangular church (long axis ESE-WNW), 7 bay with round headed windows. Ornate ashlar limestone entrance front (ESE) with pedimented gable dated 1827, carved pinapples atop corner butresses. Rectangular doors on either side of central wide rectangular door, in between are small niches for stoups; central round headed first floor window with niches in side bays. Wooden gallery at ESE end, decorative plaster cornice and ceiling rose. Replaced near by thatched chapel (Shine, 1989, 57). 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

• Presentation Convent, church/chapel, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached convent chapel, built c. 1880, comprising four-bay nave, having four-bay single-storey block to south, linking to convent proper, and having single-bay sacristy to north-east with lean-to extension. Quarant projections to south-east and south-west corners of nave. Now disused. Pitched slate roofs, with ashlar limestone bellcote to east end having pointed arch bell opening and limestone cross finial, and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Decorative limestone brackets to gables, with decorative bracket course to sacristy. Hipped slate roof to sacristy. Coursed limestone walls, snecked and dressed to east elevation of all blocks, coursed rubble limestone to north elevation, with tooled limestone impost and sill banding, and render and painted render to south and west elevations. String course at sill level to east gable. Nave has pointed arch window openings to long walls and to west gable, with tooled chamfered limestone block-and-start surrounds and inset with trefoil-headed stained-glass windows. Pointed arch traceried triple-light east window with stained glass, and limestone hood-moulding and sill. Pair of lancet openings with stained glass. Lancet windows opening to quadrant projections. Cinquefoil window to upper west gable. Paired shouldered window openings to sacristy with tooled chamfered surround and mullion, tooled sills, and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Link block has Tudor-arch windows to east elevation, with chamfered peck-dressed surrounds and tooled sills, and west elevation has triangular-headed windows, all having carved timber panelled internal shutters, and replacement uPVC windows. Pointed arch door opening to west gable with chamfered tooled limestone surround, double-leaf timber battened door, hood-moulding, and approached by limestone steps. Scissors truss timber roof to interior. Ornate tiered marble reredos to altar area, with ornate carved cresting to each tier, repeated pointed arch niche detail to top tier and repeated trefoil niche detail to lower, latter having marble colonettes. Flanking trefoil-headed door openings, having gabled tops, marble engaged columns and ornate wrought-iron gates. Tudor arch doorway leads to vestry. Timber gallery to west end. Timber panelled seating to adjoining room leading to chapel. Tudor arch between chapel and link block, with moulded render soffit with hood-moulding above, and supported on render Doric-style columns on plinths with timber panelling.

• Presentation Convent, convent/nunnery, 1815–1825 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached U-plan nine-bay three-storey former convent, built c. 1820, currently under redevelopment, with four-bay south elevation, and three-bay lean-to porch to entrance. Central five bays grouped more tightly than others, possibly implying earlier phase of building. Hipped slate roof having rendered chimneystacks with terracotta pots, and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed replacement uPVC windows to front elevation, and two-over-two pane and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and some replacement uPVC windows to other elevations, with timber panelled internal shutters. Some ground floor front elevation windows have decorative render brackets with foliate motif. Two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to rear, with one six-over-six pane timber sliding sash window to rear. Limestone sills throughout. Round-headed door opening having timber panelled door with cobweb fanlight, and moulded timber surround. Decorative cast-iron brackets to piers of porch. Round-headed door opening to end of hall interior with double-leaf timber panelled door, having spoked fanlight. Floating elliptical winder staircase to interior.

• Presentation Convent, school, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached, partly-demolished two-storey school, built c. 1880, originally eight-bay and now standing as three bays. Pitched slate roof, with rendered chimneystack. Painted rendered snecked limestone side walls with tooled limestone eaves course and having string course between floors. Snecked limestone ashlar to east gable provides symmetry to complex, with similar gable to chapel. Limestone cross finial to gable, string course at sill level and tooled limestone bands, including one at impost level. Pointed arch traceried triple-light window with alternating polychrome voussoirs, and having stained-glass window, and tooled limestone hood-moulding. Blind quatrefoil opening to upper gable, with tooled limestone surround. Square-headed window openings to side walls, with red brick heads under render, and replacement uPVC frames. Square-headed door opening to north side wall having timber battened door. Gateway to north-west has rendered piers in rendered rubble limestone boundary wall, with recent sheet metal gate.

• Surgery/clinic, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay single-storey with attic former dispensary, built c. 1810, now in use as house. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimneystacks having some exposed red brick, with terracotta chimneypots. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with painted tooled stone sills. Round-headed door opening to front elevation with decorative moulded render surround and spoked timber fanlight, having possibly recent pediment and Doric-style engaged column surround, approached by two limestone steps, with limestone threshold. Recent balustraded wall to front of building.

• Christian Brothers Monastery, monastery, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached former monastery, built c. 1890, comprising two-storey three-bay block with two and three-bay side elevations, having three-bay two-storey addition recessed to west end, and single-bay two-storey and single-bay single-storey extensions to rear, south, elevation. Currently not in use. Hipped slate roof, with pitched slate and artificial slate to extensions. Painted rendered chimneystacks with terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls with render quoins, plinth course with replacement louver vents. Painted render cross over entrance. Painted smooth rendered vertical bands to west addition. Tudor arch window openings with chamfered render surrounds, painted tooled stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Replacement square-headed timber windows to rear extensions. Pointed arch entrance opening having timber panelled door, iron door furniture, and overlight. Square-headed replacement timber door to rear. Roughcast rendered boundary walls with decorative cast-iron railings, with square-plan piers to replacement timber vehicular gates, with pointed and curved chamfered caps to piers. Pedestrian gate to east has decorative cast-iron gate and pier, with limestone steps. Walled orchard to west.

• Christian Brothers Monastery, school, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay single-storey former school, dated 1870, with gabled porch to front elevation, and with slightly projecting mid-section to gables. Now in use as commercial store. Pitched slate roof, with rendered chimneystack, and having tooled limestone verges and cross finial to porch. Roughcast rendered walls with render plinth course and eaves course, having tooled limestone brackets to verges of main block, porch and to gable projections. Render string course to east gable. Single-bay shallow projections having limestone brackets to gables. Painted render roundel over door with inscription 'Christian Schools erected by Very Rev. Dr Croke…1870'. Tudor arch window openings having chamfered render surrounds, tooled limestone sills and barred two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Sexfoil lights to upper gables set into painted chamfered surrounds, with render gable string course forming hood-moulding. Trefoil lights to side elevations of porch, having render surrounds. Pointed arch entrance opening having painted hood moulding and double-leaf timber battened door, approached by two limestone steps. Pointed arched archivolt to interior entrance lobby. Some timber panelling and tiled floor to lobby. Internal partition walls removed. Rendered rubble limestone boundary walls having tooled limestone copings and decorative wrought-iron railings, and cast-iron round-profile piers with wrought-iron pedestrian gate. Vehicular gates to east comprising tooled limestone piers with plinths and caps and having double-leaf metal gates.

• Bridge House, house, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay three-storey house, built c. 1810, having slightly lower two-bay two-storey return to rear. Formerly in use as parochial house. Slate roof, hipped to north, with pitched slate roof to rear projection, cast-iron rainwater goods, rendered chimneystacks with terracotta pots and tooled limestone eaves course, latter being moulded to north elevation of higher part. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth plinth course. Chamfered north-west corner to return. Rendered lined-and-ruled walls to return. Camber-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills and rendered surrounds, with timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to first and ground floors, and six-over-three pane to second floor. Rear elevation has timber sliding sash windows to upper floors, camber-headed two-over-two pane and six-over-six pane and round-headed three-over-nine pane, and ground floor has square-headed timber casement windows. Round-headed entrance door opening having render surround and timber panelled door with fanlight. Plaque to north side of door. Square-headed glazed double-leaf timber panelled door to rear of main block and timber door with overlight to north elevation of return. House is slightly recessed from the street and has decorative wrought-iron railings to front on cut limestone plinth walls.

• Creagh House, outbuilding, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former coach house, dated 1832, having three-bay two-storey extension to south end with single-bay projection to south, lower two-bay addition further to south, and single-bay two-storey curved addition to rear. Now in use as offices. Pitched slate roof with coursed limestone rubble chimneystacks having terracotta pots. Original block has tooled coursed limestone walls, with string course between floors, and triple segmental-headed arcade to ground floor with impost course, square-headed replacement eight-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows, and arches have raised limestone surrounds with keystones, centre arch having double-leaf timber battened door, other arches partly infilled to timber sliding sash and casement window openings. Rear elevation has square-headed first floor door opening, approached by dog-legged flight of tooled limestone steps having recent metal railings, and borne on round arch with dressed voussoirs. Extensions have coursed limestone rubble walls with square-headed openings having dressed limestone voussoirs and replacement timber fittings. Cobbled passage to rear yard. Four-bay two-storey outbuilding to rear having hipped slate roof, coursed rubble limestone walls, square-headed openings with dressed stone voussoirs, windows now boarded up.

• Creagh House, house, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached two-pile five-bay two-storey over half-basement house, built 1837, with central breakfront with Ionic portico, and having three-bay two-storey addition to rear elevation. Apparently built on site of mid-seventeenth-century Doneraile House. Pitched slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods, rendered brick chimneystacks with terracotta pots, and having moulded limestone cornice. Coursed lightly tooled limestone walls with peck-dressed limestone quoins, and having peck-dressed limestone to basement level. Painted roughcast render to south gable, painted rendered walls to rear projection, painted rendered side walls to porch, and coursed rubble limestone walls to rear. Square-headed window openings having timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to first floor, nine-over-six pane to ground floor, and six-over-three pane to basement, all with dressed limestone voussoirs and limestone sills. Replacement timber sash windows to ground floor of rear addition. Round-headed window openings with fixed timber windows to sides of porch. Segmental-headed door opening with tooled limestone surround to timber panelled door with paned sidelights over panelled plinths. Flat lead-covered roof to porch supported on square-profile pilasters and Ionic columns with entablature, approached by flight of tooled limestone steps over basement area. Decorative cast-iron railings on cut limestone plinths surrounding basement area. Limestone ashlar wall with elliptical-headed arch having enlarged keystone and entablature to south, leading to rear and former coach house.

• Riverside House, house, 1770–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay three-storey house, built c. 1780. Formerly in use as bank. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks having terracotta chimney pots. Painted lined-and-ruled rendered walls with render quoins. Square-headed diminishing window openings with render surrounds, painted limestone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed door opening having render surround, Doric-style columns on limestone plinths and timber panelled door with fanlight, and having limestone step to front. Coursed limestone rubble wall to north, with round-headed carriage arch, having double-leaf timber battened gates.

• House, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached four-bay three-storey house, built c. 1880, having fascia of former shopfront to ground floor. Single- and three-bay three-storey, and single-bay two-storey projections to rear. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks having red brick dog-tooth detailing, red brick chimneystacks to rear projection, and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls, with coursed limestone rubble exposed to front ground floor and having tooled limestone plinth. Decorative render bracket course to eaves, with moulded string course below, and render quoins to front elevation, latter panelled to ground floor. Limestone rubble walls having red brick to chimneystack to south elevation. Roughcast rendered walls to north side elevation. Some peck-dressed limestone quoins to rear and north, with some tooling marks. Square-headed window openings to front upper floors, having tooled limestone sills and replacement uPVC framed windows, first floor windows having cornices with consoles. One six-over-six pane timber sliding sash window to first floor rear projection, one one-over-one pane timber sliding sash window and one two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window to second floor rear. Painted timber fascia to ground floor front having dentillated moulded cornice. Round-headed replacement timber windows to ground floor. Square-headed door opening having replacement timber panelled door, camber detail to overlight, with brass door furniture, flanked by render engaged Doric columns, approached by limestone step.

• Ó Donnabháin, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820, having pubfront to ground floor. Pitched artificial slate roof having rendered chimneystacks and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted lined-and-ruled rendered walls having render quoins. Square-headed replacement uPVC windows. Timber shopfront to ground floor having fluted pilasters supporting console brackets to each end and to each side of central doorway, and having fascia and moulded cornice with decorative metal railing. Tripartite round-headed lights to timber display windows, having carved detail to mullions and moulded sills, flanking square-headed door opening and having painted rendered stall risers with panels. Replacement double-leaf timber panelled door with rectangular overlight.

• House, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached four-bay three-storey house, built c. 1880, with integral carriage arch to north end and having pubfront to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Stepped rendered parapet having decorative render bracket course with render floral motifs between brackets. Name painted to panel in parapet, with scroll decoration to each side. Painted rendered walls to front elevation with render sill courses, moulded to top floor. Rendered walls to rear having some exposed coursed rubble stone. Square-headed replacement uPVC windows, having painted render pediments to first floor supported by ornate moulded brackets. Render shopfront to ground floor comprises render cornice and fascia, console brackets with pointed caps, and render pilasters. Replacement timber display windows flanking replacement timber door with overlight. Carriage arch has segmental head, chamfered jambs, cast-iron gate and cobbled passage. Rubble limestone boundary wall to rear, with limestone buttresses.

• Munster House, house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached six-bay three-storey house, built c. 1850, possibly amalgamation of two three-bay buildings, having slightly projecting full-width shopfront to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystacks, external coursed rubble chimneystack and flue to north gable. Decorative render bracket course to eaves, and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls, having render sill courses. Slate-hanging to upper south gable. Square-headed one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, with painted render sills. Square-headed window opening to rear has triple ogee-headed timber window. Timber display windows to shopfront, divided by colonettes and having timber fascia supported on fluted pilasters to middle and each end, and having rendered stall risers. Recessed entrances having geometric and encaustic tiled floors, and square-headed doorways with overlights, one having replacement timber door and other having double-leaf glazed timber panelled door. Carved timber U-plan gallery to interior.

• House, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached two-bay three-storey house, built c. 1860, having shopfront to ground floor, now in use as clinic. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystacks, and having clay ridge tiles. Rendered front elevation having render panels with embedded glass and quartz and projecting render panels with diamond and shield-shaped projections. Moulded render sill course to second floor. Square-headed diminishing timber sliding sash windows, having six-over-three pane to second floor and six-over-six pane to first floor. Shopfront has timber Doric pilasters flanking openings, with cornice and panelled stall risers, and tripartite round-headed display windows flanking double-leaf timber panelled door with rectangular overlight having double round-headed timber lights.

• House, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached two-bay three-storey house, built c. 1810, probably amalgamation of two former single-bay buildings, having timber shopfronts of former shops to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, and rendered eaves course. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed diminishing window openings having replacement uPVC frames. Shopfronts under continuous moulded cornice, with fluted Doric-style pilasters flanking openings of south shopfront and panelled pilasters to north. Square-headed display windows, square with four panes to north end forming unit with north entrance, and pair of vertically-divided display windows to south end flanking south entrance. Square-headed door openings having timber panelled door to north with paned overlight and limestone step, and recent timber door to south with overlight and step. Decorative recessed panels and fluted Doric timber pilasters having stepped plinths. Rendered stall risers.

• House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay three-storey house, built c. 1830, having projecting timber shopfront of former shop to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed replacement uPVC windows with painted sills. Shopfront has round-headed display windows, triple to front and single to projecting sides, flanking square-headed door opening, and having moulded timber cornice and fascia, Doric panelled pilasters, and panelled stall risers. Double-leaf timber panelled door with rectangular overlight.

• House, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced four-bay three-storey house, built c. 1860, formerly pair of two-bay houses, now having projecting full-width canopy to ground floor and also in use as retail outlet. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed diminishing window openings having moulded render surrounds, painted sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Pediments and panelled pilaster details to first floor windows. Square-headed double canted window to south end of ground floor, having timber sliding sash one-over-one pane windows, and with fixed timber display windows to north end. Square-headed door openings having half-glazed timber panelled single- and double-leaf doors, in recessed entrances with geometric tiled floors. Cast-iron decorative bracket to canopy.

• House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-storey house, built c. 1830, having two-bay first floor and three-bay ground floor, integral carriage arch and enlarged shop display window. Currently not in use. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls having render quoins. Camber-headed window openings to first floor, having render sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Elliptical-headed carriage arch having timber battened door. Square-headed door opening inserted in former round-headed door opening, having timber panelled door. Timber surround to blocked square-headed former display window.

• House, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Former pair of single-bay two-storey houses, built c. 1860, now in use as single building with disused shopfront to south end of front elevation. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings to first floor having painted sills and double one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed window openings to north end of ground floor, having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with painted rendered surround, now partially blocked. Square-headed door opening to north building, having timber panelled door. Shopfront comprising timber cornice and fascia, panelled pilasters, flanking square-headed timber display windows and painted rendered stall risers, with square-headed shop door having painted render surround and double-leaf timber panelled door with rectangular overlight.

• Catholic Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, church/chapel, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted Catholic church, dated 1827, having four-bay nave and three-bay gable front. Altar to west end. Roughcast rendered walls to rear and side walls, with cut limestone plinth course. Limestone ashlar walls to gable front, having pilasters, and pediment with date plaque, tooled limestone surround with pine cone finials to each end and wrought-iron cross finial to apex, and limestone plinth course. Round-headed statue niches half-way up gable-front, with tooled limestone surrounds, fluted half-domes, and religious statues with limestone plaques beneath. Round-headed holy water stoup recesses to entrance level below having fluted half-domes, with stoups. Round-headed window to middle of gable-front, having recessed limestone surround, and stained glass window. Square-headed door openings to entrance level, having single- and double-leaf timber panelled doors. Timber panelled lobby inside, with double-leaf half-glazed timber panelled doors, and geometric tiled floor. Nave has white marble altar, decorative render cornice mouldings and ceiling roses, and timber panelled gallery with organ above, supported on timber fluted Doric pilasters, and memorial plaque of 1849 to Parish Priest Patrick Sheehan. Wrought-iron drain to gable front. Statue of novelist Canon P.A. Sheehan (1852-1913) by monumental sculptor Francis William Doyle Jones, unveiled 1925, to forecourt. Some priests' graves to site. Recent painted brick boundary walls to site terminating in square-profile piers, some brick and some limestone ashlar. Wrought-iron double and single-leaf gates. Limestone paving to east. Doorway to south side of church has square-headed moulded render surround with ornate render detail above.

• House, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1840, having integral carriage arch to south end of façade. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with render quoins. Square-headed window openings to first floor and tripartite-size camber-headed to ground floor, with tooled limestone sills and having replacement uPVC windows throughout. Segmental-headed door opening with timber panelled door having cobweb fanlight flanked by render Doric engaged columns, approached by two limestone steps. Elliptical-headed carriage arch having double-leaf timber battened door. Wrought-iron railings between doorway and carriage entrance, with tooled limestone plinths.

• Park View House, house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1830, with three-bay single-storey monopitch extension to north. Hipped slate roof, pitched to rear extension, with rendered chimneystack, and having gablets with carved bargeboards to first floor window openings. Painted ruled and lined rendered walls. Double pointed arch latticed windows with painted tooled stone sills, set in round-headed openings to first floor. Square-headed window openings to rear extension. Square-headed door opening to front elevation having label-moulding and half-glazed timber panelled door with overlight and latticed sidelights. Square-headed door opening to side (west) elevation having half-glazed timber panelled door. Coursed limestone rubble boundary wall terminating in square-profile piers with wrought-iron pedestrian gate to south and double-leaf wrought-iron vehicular gate with ball finials to north-west.

• Quirke, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay three-storey house, built c. 1800, having projecting timber shopfront of c. 1860 to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls, slate-hung to upper south gable. Replacement uPVC windows with raised render reveals. Shopfront having panelled timber pilasters flanking square-headed openings, latter consisting of three small-paned timber display windows flanking two double-leaf timber panelled doors having decorative overlights. Rendered stall risers to windows.

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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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Doneraile.

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 Doneraile with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Doneraile · Dún ar Aill

Area

421,152 m² (42.12 ha, 104.07 acres)

Civil parish

Doneraile, and its townlands

Barony

Fermoy

Electoral division

Doneraile, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Doneraile electoral division: 1,555 people in 599 households; 67% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Byblox, Demesne, Horseclose, Knockacur, Lisnagrough, Richardstown

Placenames

Doneraile 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.