Esk North

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Esk North, from 105 m² to 297,533 m² (29.75 ha, 73.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Esk North 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.

• 23 Jul 2014Conditional

  Permission for wind farm comprising the provision of a total of 14no. Wind turbines with a maximum overall blade tip height pf up to 136.5m, upgrading of existing and provision of new internal access roads, provision of a wind anemometry mast (height up to 90m), 4no. borrow pits, an electricity substation with control room and associated equipment, underground electricity connection cabling, 3no. temporary construction compounds, and all ancillary site works including the upgrading of site access junctions.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5602

• 13 Jun 2011Conditional

  Windfarm to consist of [a] the provision of a total of 12 no. wind turbines with a maximum ground to top blade tip height of up to 126 metres, [b] upgrading of existing and provision of new internal access roads, [c] provision of a wind anemometry mast (85 metres in height), [d] 2 no. borrow pits, [e] an electricity sub-station with control room (as previously approved under Planning Reg. No. 11/4242), and [f] associated equipment and all ancilary site and facilitating works to existing road junctions.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5276

• 22 May 2006Conditional

  Extensions to farm building for housing of cattle and construction of slurry tanks, dairy washing effluent tank and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7381

• 19 Apr 2006Incompleted application

  Construction of extensions to farm building, slurry tanks and dairy washing effluent tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6494

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Esk North.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Esk North.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Esk North.

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 Esk North, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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

Name

Esk North · An Eisc Thuaidh

Area

1,117,128 m² (111.71 ha, 276.05 acres)

Civil parish

Kilshannig, and its townlands

Barony

Duhallow

Electoral division

Kilshannig, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,140 people lived in 399 households in the Kilshannig electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derrygowna, Esk South, Glanminnane, Glannaharee East, Laharan, Monanveel

Placenames

Esk North 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.