Dunbarry
Dunbarry is a townland in the civil parish of Churchtown, barony of Orrery and Kilmore, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Dún an Bharraigh.
- Area
- 56.8 ha
- 140 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 2,127 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dunbarry, from 54 m² to 183,793 m² (18.38 ha, 45.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 6 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
22 Nov 2019Conditional
(a) Retention of existing extension to the rear of existing dwelling. (b) To construct 2 no. new extensions to the front and rear of existing dwelling. (c) To block up existing residential entrance and to construct a new residential entrance. (d) To remove existing septic tank and to install a new sewerage treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works. (e) Alterations to existing site boundaries in accordance with plans and documents submitted
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6792
16 Jan 2007Conditional
Extension to livestock housing with slatted tank, feed passage, covered dungstead and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4204
22 Nov 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/12540
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 Dunbarry.
Recorded monuments
- CO016-129 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on SE-facing slope overlooked by Carrigadoon (CO016-130---) to NE. Circular area (30m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.4m); external fosse (max. D 1.05m) WSW->N. Bank formerly planted with trees; stumps remain. Break in bank to ESE (Wth c. 3m) and SE (Wth c. 3m); gap worn through bank to S (Wth c. 1m) and WNW (Wth c. 1m). Interior slopes down steeply from NW bank to centre, with a more gentle slope from centre to SE bank. 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
- CO016-130 Castle - unclassified
Description
Near base of cliff overlooking level ground to S and SE, c. 5.4km SE of Liscarroll. Prominent rock outcrop (diam. c. 30m; H. c. 8m) with level plateau (30m N-S; 35m E-W) to immediate S, suggestive of motte-and-bailey. Ground level falls off sharply to SW, S and SE of plateau. Lower courses of NW corner of stone-built structure visible atop outcrop on W side; N wall (T 1.38m; H 0.45m) and W wall (T 1.36m; H 0.6m) survive for a length of 7.5m and 9.55m respectively. Top of outcrop overgrown with briars, ivy and some bushes. 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
- House, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey house with loft, built c. 1820, now disused. Pitched artificial slate roof with clay ridge tiles, limestone eaves course and limestone ashlar chimneystack. Coursed limestone rubble walls, with square-headed window openings having tooled limestone voussoirs with replacement timber fittings. Square-headed door openings to front and rear, with tooled 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
- At the centre of the townland of Dunbarry, 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 Dunbarry.
- 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 Dunbarry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Dunbarry · Dún an Bharraigh
- Area
- 567,641 m² (56.76 ha, 140.27 acres)
- Civil parish
- Churchtown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Orrery and Kilmore
- Electoral division
- Churchtown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,286 people lived in 427 households in the Churchtown electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballincurrig, Bregoge, Currymount, Mountbridget, Tullig
- Placenames
- Dunbarry 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.