Esknamucky
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcaskan, barony of Bear, Co. Cork; in Irish Eisc na Muicí
- Area
- 62.6 ha
- 155 acres
- Land parcels
- 3
- registered freehold, median 3,643 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Esknamucky, from 708 m² to 22,687 m² (2.27 ha, 5.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Esknamucky 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
22 Dec 2022Conditional
The proposed works relate to ac 2.9km long section of existing 20kv overhead electricity line including a) the replacement of 33 no. pole structures b) 4 no. new pole structures c) the removal of 1 no. pole structure d) the installation of 1 no. unit sub ( a ground mounted transformer) e) upgrade works including the restringing of conductor along the length of the line with 2 phase conductor replaced by 3 phase conductor, the installation of stays, replacement of existing equipment e.g. headgear etc and the installation of additional equipment as required and the development of a new c 0.8 km section of underground cable with associated works including the provision of joint bays. Replacement poles will be constructed at or immediately adjacent to the existing structures that they will replace with the exception of two poles which will be relocated at a distance of c.27m and 26m from their current locations. Replacement and new poles will have a maximum height of 12m above ground and be similar in appearance to existing poles. Permission is sought for all site clearance activity including timber cutting under the existing line for safety clearance and temporary works including the creation of access ways etc. Planning Permission is sought for a (10) year period.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/798
25 Mar 2022Withdrawn
The proposed works relate to a c. 2.8 km long section of existing 20kv overhead electricity line including: (a) the replacement of 33 no. pole structures; (b) 4 no. new pole structures; (c) the removal of 1 no. pole structure; (d) the installation of 1 no. unit sub (a ground mounted transformer); (e) upgrade works including the restringing of conductor along the length of the line with 2-phase conducter replaced by 3-phase conductor, the installation of stays, replacement of existing equipment e.g. headgear, etc. and the installation of additional equipment as required; and the development of a new c. 0.7km section of underground cable with associated works including the provision of joint bays. Replacement poles will be constructed at, or immediately adjacent to, the existing structures that they will replace. Replacement and new poles will have a maximum height of 12m above ground; and be similiar in appearance to existing poles. Permissions is sought for all site clearance activity including timber cutting under the existing line for safety clearance and temporary works including the creation of access ways etc. Permission is sought for a ten (10) year period
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/209
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Glengarriff Harbour and Woodland SAC 000090
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Glengarriff Harbour And Woodland 000090
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Esknamucky.
Architectural heritage
- Glengarriff Nature Reserve, bridge, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Double-arch road bridge spanning Canrooska River, built c.1800, with recent rounded concrete coping and parapet repairs. Rubble limestone construction with limestone voussoirs to semi-circular stilted arches and V-cutwater to north-east elevation.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, 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 Esknamucky.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Esknamucky with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Esknamucky · Eisc na Muicí
- Area
- 625,729 m² (62.57 ha, 154.62 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcaskan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bear
- Electoral division
- Kilcaskan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilcaskan electoral division: 895 people in 373 households; 80% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 27% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coorannel, Derreenagarig, Drumaclarig, Glengarriff, Skehil
- Placenames
- Esknamucky 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.