Duntahane

1,146 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Duntahane, from 3 m² to 260,280 m² (26.03 ha, 64.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Existing residential)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 1,134 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 12 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Green Infrastructure (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M4Existing Mixed/General Business/Industrial Uses (Built up area)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Industry (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Green Infrastructure (Active open space)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 28 Sept 2026Awaiting validation sro

  Permission to construct a two-storey extension and alterations to the existing dwelling house and all associated site works to facilitate this development. Extension of Duration to Permission granted under Planning Ref. No. 21/5875

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 26/2512

• 29 Jun 2026Grant with conditions

  Permission for alterations to the previously granted planning application reference 24/4484. The proposed alterations include:- a) The 1 no. ancillary accommodation unit, permitted under application 24/4484 will not be constructed. b) The 3 no. domestic shed structures, permitted under application 24/4484 will not be constructed, c) Construction of a new detached garage building, comprising of garage area, garden shed and carport, all under one roof. The works proposed under item c) include all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1736

• 26 Jun 2026Awaiting f.i. response

  planning permission to demolish an existing ball-washing/storage shed to the side of an existing building and apply for planning permission to construct a new ball-washing/storage shed to the rear of an existing building, apply for planning permission to install 2no. Padel tennis courts with 6m high integrated LED lighting, install 4no. Car parking spaces, decommission existing septic tank and install new wastewater treatment unit with associated percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1716

• 25 Jun 2026Grant with conditions

  planning permission to construct a single storey porch extension to the front of an existing dwellinghouse and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1698

• 24 Nov 2025Split decision

  Permission for Retention for the existing flat roofed single storey home gym constructed in the rear garden and Permission to convert the existing domestic garage and construct an extension to same to provide a self-contained dwelling unit attached to their dwelling house with all associated site works at their property.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6551

• 28 Oct 2025Invalid - case closed

  Permission for Retrention for the existing flat roofed single storey home gym constructed in the rear garden and Permission to convert the existing domestic garage and construct an extension to same to provide a self-contained unit attached to their dwelling house with all assocaited site works at their property.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6299

• 16 Sept 2025Invalid - case closed

  Permission for retention for flat roofed single storey home gym constructed in their rear garden and permission to convert and extend their domestic garage to provide ancillary accommodation and to connect same to their dwelling with all associated site works at their property

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/5930

• 9 Sept 2025Grant with conditions

  Permission for a single two storey dwelling house, attached garage, boundary wall and associated site works, including new road access and connections to public mains water and wastewater services.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5845

• 29 Jul 2025Incompleted application

  Permission for a single dwelling house, attached garage, and associated siteworks, including new road access and connections to the public mains waste and wastewater services on amalgamated sites at the above address

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5520

• 23 Apr 2025Conditional permission

  Permission for proposed dwelling house and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4743

• 2 Apr 2025Conditional

  Permission for retention of attic conversion, 4 no. roof lights on rear elevation and Permission to install 2 no. additional roof lights on the rear elevation of existing dwelling.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4570

• 12 Feb 2025Incompleted application

  Permission for retention of attic conversion, 4 no. roof lights on rear elevation and Permission to install 2 no. additional roof lights on the rear elevation of existing dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4201

• 21 Jan 2025Conditional

  Permission to demolish an existing sunroom to the rear of existing dwellinghouse and planning permission to erect a single storey extension to the rear of existing dwellinghouse and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4056

• 17 Jan 2025Conditional

  Permission to demolish existing rear extension at ground floor and first floor, construct new single storey extension at rear and new first floor extension at rear, construct new pitched tiled roof to replace existing flat roof at existing rear two storey extension, alterations to elevations of dwelling house including new ground floor bay window at south western side, new first floor window at rear elevation, new windows at ground floor at south west and north east facing sides, new velux roof window at main roof at front elevation, construct new detached storey and half type domestic garage with games room at first floor level at rear garden and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4042

• 6 Dec 2024Incompleted application

  Permission for the following developments to dwelling house, namely; permission is sought to demolish existing rear extension at ground and first floor, construct new single storey extension at rear and new first floor extension at rear, construct new pitched tiled roof to replace existing flat roof at existing rear two storey extension, make elevational changes including new ground floor bay window at south western side, new first floor window at rear elevation, new windows at ground floor at south west and north east facing sides, construct new detached storey and half type garage at rear garden for domestic use and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6326

• 6 Nov 2024Conditional

  Permission for retention of dwelling house as constructed (changes to dwelling design from that previously granted under planning ref 19/6265)

  Retention · Cork County Council, 24/6093

• 27 May 2024Conditional

  Permission for single storey extension at ground floor to the front of existing dwelling, internal alterations to the existing dwelling, alterations to existing elevations including new/re-arranged window and door openings and external material alterations, the conversion of an attic space for habitable use including alterations to existing roof lights to rear roof, provision of a new gable window to side and new roof lights to the front, landscaping and all associated site development works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4958

• 10 May 2024Conditional

  Permission for alterations & extensions to an existing dwelling - change of plans from that granted previously under planning reference 16/4845. The proposed works include an upper floor rear extension over an existing single storey element, a single storey rear extension, alterations to a front elevation opening, the addition of 2 no. rear facing roof lights in the existing main roof & all other associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4838

• 21 Mar 2024Conditional permission

  Permission demolition of existing extension to dwelling house and 2 number out buildings, construction of new extension to dwelling house, alterations to dwelling house, construction of 1 number ancillary accommodation unit, construction of 3 number domestic shed structures and all external and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4484

• 23 Feb 2024Incompleted application

  Permission for demolition of existing extension to dwelling house and outbuildings, construction of new extension to dwelling house, alterations to dwelling house, construction of ancillary accommodation unit, construction of new shed structures and all external and associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4301

• 29 Jan 2024Conditional

  Permission to demolish an existing sunroom to rear of existing dwelling house and permission to erect a single storey extension to the rear of existing dwelling house, new window to north elevation of existing dwelling house and widen existing site entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4125

• 23 Jan 2024Refused

  Construction of a two-storey detached dwelling house, detached domestic garden shed, new vehicular entrance and driveway onto existing driveway, use of existing entrance onto Duntaheen Road and all ancillary site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4079

• 21 Nov 2023Conditional

  Permission to erect a two storey dwellinghouse, construct a new site entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6325

• 15 Nov 2023Conditional

  Permission to construct two-storey dormer dwelling house with all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6279

• 11 Oct 2023Incompleted application

  Permission to construct two-storey dormer dwelling house with all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6061

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
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Blackwater Valley (The Beech Wood) 001797

Recorded monuments

• CO035-023 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Named on 1842 OS 6-inch map; marked but not named on 1905 OS 6-inch map. In Fermoy, on S bank of River Blackwater; accessed by narrow alleyway S from Barnane Walk. Two adjacent open wells enclosed by stone wall, recently repaired. Northernmost well is oval and partially lined with concrete; access by two steps down on NE side. Southernmost well is rectangular, concrete-lined, water piped in from N well and out to river. No indication of current holy use. 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 Images provided by and copyright of Amanda Clarke 2016-2022 https://holywellscorkandkerry.com/

• CO035-074 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  'According to Brunicardi (1985, 1), 'the monastery ford', a crossing of the River Blackwater at the W side of Fermoy, 'was guarded by a strong point or dún, built on a mound or rath' and now occupies by Mountford House. On top of a ridge overlooking River Blackwater; no visible surface trace (Zajac et al. 1995, 40). 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

• Mountford, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey over basement house, built c. 1820, having slightly lower return to rear, giving visible half-basement to west elevation and two-storey elevation to south part of east elevation. Pitched slate roofs with decorative terracotta ridge crestings, rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods, and having carved timber bargeboards to east and west gables of main block. Painted brick walls to front elevation, with chanelled ashlar limestone quoins and rendered plinth course with dressed limestone coping, and having recessed surrounds to openings. Painted rendered walls to other elevations and to basement level of front. Square-headed window openings throughout, front windows having stepped detail to top of recessed surrounds, with cut limestone sills, and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Basement windows are eight-over-four pane. Timber casement and some replacement timber windows to rear elevation. Roundel to upper east gable. Round-headed doorway to front elevation with timber panelled door, moulded timber architrave, and spoked fanlight, approached by flight of limestone steps. Square-headed door opening to rear with timber overlight. Lean-to outbuilding to south with corrugated-iron roof, rubble stone walls and square-headed openings with timber fittings. Boundary walls to east with rendered square-profile piers and decorative wrought-iron double-leaf gate.

• House, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1860. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with render pilasters to corners. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Segmental-headed door opening with timber panelled door, overlight and moulded render surround with painted plinth blocks.

• Shot Hall, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820, with recent two-bay two-storey extension to rear. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, render copings to gables, and ridge capping. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth render plinth course. Square-headed window openings with render surrounds, two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and concrete sills. Round-headed door opening with render surround, timber panelled door and spoked fanlight, doorcase comprising fluted timber engaged columns with cut limestone plinths, decorative carved timber Ionic-style capitals and carved timber cornice and archivolt. Recent outbuilding to north-west of site incorporates dressed sandstone and limestone voussoirs, and boundary wall to east of same has pedestrian entrance incorporating carved limestone engaged Ionic-style columns, with cornice and moulded pediment. House set back from road and bounded by rendered walls surmounted by cast-iron railings and having carved limestone plaque with lettering 'SHOT HALL' and square-profile rendered piers.

• Fermoy Christian Brothers' Monastery, presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former presbytery, built c. 1890, having two-bay single-storey former oratory to north elevation, with single-bay two-storey extension to rear of latter, single-bay single-storey extension to rear, and having box-bay window to south elevation. Now in use as offices. Paired windows to end bays. Skirt artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, overhanging sheeted eaves with carved timber brackets, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Hipped artificial slate roof to oratory with timber eaves course, metal cross finial and replacement rooflight. Flat roof to extension to north elevation with rendered cornice. Rendered walls, front elevation of main block and front and north elevations of oratory having render plinth. Moulded render sill course to front of main block. Square-headed window openings with cut limestone sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Windows to ground floor front of main block have continuous moulded render label-mouldings with render label stops. Round-headed window openings to oratory, one being triple arrangement, with stained-glass windows and concrete sills. Segmental-headed door opening to front elevation with timber panelled door, stained-glass overlight and sidelights with timber surrounds, dressed limestone step and having moulded render hood-moulding above with render label stops. Square-headed door opening to rear with timber panelled half-glazed double-leaf doors. Sited back from street with remains of red brick wall attached to rear with square-headed pedestrian entrance having timber battened door and rendered coping. Rubble stone boundary walls to south and west with concrete copings surmounted by decorative cast-iron railings and having cast-iron gate. Rendered piers to entrance with plinths and carved moulded limestone caps and decorative cast-iron gate to pedestrian entrance.

• Clifton, house, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1880, facing north, front elevation having projecting west end bay and gablets to first floor windows, with recent porch to angle, single-bay return to east end of rear elevation, and recent flat-roof porch to west gable. Pitched slate roof with decoratively carved timber bargeboards and rendered chimneystacks. Slate roof to porch. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed double margined timber sliding sash windows, two-over-two pane to first floor and two-over-three pane to ground floor, with painted rendered sills. Double one-over-one pane window to ground floor of projecting bay. Some one-over-one pane windows elsewhere. Square-headed door opening having half-glazed timber panelled door. Rendered steps to porch. Square-profile coursed rubble limestone piers to road entrance, with ball finials and double-leaf cast-iron gates.

• Glenabo Bridge, bridge, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge over tributary of River Blackwater, built c. 1830, having coursed rubble sandstone and limestone walls and parapets, latter with rendered coping and having roughly dressed limestone voussoirs to round arch.

• Duntahane House, house, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1880, with slightly projecting gabled north end bay to front, two-bay two-storey addition to south end of rear elevation and recent lean-to conservatory to south elevation. Front elevation has bay windows to ground floor, canted to projecting bay and box to south end bay. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks. Painted rendered walls, with rendered quoins and plinth course to front elevation. Square-headed one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with cut limestone sills, first floor having double windows and render surrounds. Bay windows have tripartite windows, with moulded cornices and string courses, box-bay window having chamgered surround. Oculus to projecting bay, having quatrefoil window in round opening. Tudor arch opening with moulded render surround, with hood-moulding, having overlight with quatrefoil detail, carved timber panelled door, and limestone steps. Square-profile painted rendered piers and boundary walls with rendered coping.

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

At the centre of the townland of Duntahane, 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. Parts of the land are made ground and water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1285 (ZIP).

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.

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

Name

Duntahane · Dún Táithín

Area

1,878,322 m² (187.83 ha, 464.14 acres)

Civil parish

Fermoy, and its townlands

Barony

Condons and Clangibbon

Electoral division

Fermoy Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

4,971 people lived in 1,766 households in the Fermoy Rural electoral division. 60% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynoe, Castlehyde East, Coolcarron, Coolmucky, Cullenagh, Fermoy, Grange East, Grange West

Placenames

Duntahane 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.