Firmount

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Firmount, from 56 m² to 356,241 m² (35.62 ha, 88.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Firmount 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.

• 4 Mar 2024Refused

  Permission to construct 1 no. single storey residential dwelling, site entrance, drinking well, septic tank with percolation area, demolish existing shed and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4362

• 30 Jan 2024Incompleted application

  Permission to construct 1 no. single storey residential dwelling, site entrance, drinking well, septic tank with percolation area, demolish existing shed and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4135

• 19 Dec 2023Incompleted application

  Permission to demolish existing shed & construct 1 No. single storey residential dwelling, site entrance, drinking well, septic tank with percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6535

• 27 Jan 2022Refused

  Permission to construct 1 no. single storey residential dwelling, site entrance, new front boundary, drinking well, septic tank with percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4147

• 10 Dec 2021Incompleted application

  To construct 1No. single storey residential dwelling, site entrance, new front boundary, drinking well, septic tank with percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/7315

• 25 Nov 2020Conditional

  To erect a new two storey dwelling, domestic garage, and waste water treatment unit and also for permission for retention of an existing ground floor slab.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6639

• 5 Nov 2020Refused

  To construct 1No. single storey residential dwelling, site entrance, new front boundary wall, drinking well, septic tank with percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6444

• 30 Sept 2020Incompleted application

  To erect a new two storey dwelling, domestic garage, and waste treatment unit and also for permission for retention of an existing ground floor slab.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6134

• 14 Feb 2020Conditional

  Retention is sought for 2 no. extensions to side and rear of dwellinghouse

  Retention · Cork County Council, 20/4274

• 7 Feb 2018Conditional

  Residential development - construction of 7 no. dwellinghouses (change of design from that permitted under Pl. Reg. No. 17/5429)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4306

• 22 Jan 2018Incompleted application

  Minor alterations to design of 7 dwellings previously permitted under Reg. Ref. 17/5429

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4144

• 7 Jun 2017Conditional

  A) Retention of existing site development works as constructed, B) Permission for the construction of 7 no. dwellinghouses, waste water treatment systems and associated works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5429

• 26 May 2016Unconditional

  Site Development works for 7 no. serviced sites for dwellings – Extension of Duration of Permission granted under Planning Reg. No. 11/4465

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 16/5271

• 27 Aug 2014Conditional

  Extensions to the East and West of existing single storey school consisting of a new entrance lobby to the West, 2 no. mainstream classrooms, library, general purpose room and associated rooms to the East along with elevational alterations to the façade of the existing school building, provision of designated parking space and associated site works along with the removal of existing temporary classroom and resource room cabins from the site

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5818

• 25 Jul 2013Refused

  Dwelling house, garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/5440

• 22 Mar 2013Conditional

  Construction of a dwellinghouse and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4495

• 13 Feb 2013Incompleted application

  Construction of dwellinghouse and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4241

• 31 Jan 2013Incompleted application

  Construction of dwellinghouse and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4169

• 19 Jul 2012Refused

  Site development works including site entrance and road boundary wall and associated works for 7 no. serviced sites for dwellinghouses

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5584

• 10 Jul 2012Refused

  Residential development of 14 no. dwellinghouses with associated site works and services, extension of duration of permission granted under Planning Reg. No. 06/13497

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 12/5493

• 5 Jul 2012Incompleted application

  Site development works, including site entrance and road boundary wall, and associated site works for 7 no. serviced sites for dwellinghouses

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5461

• 16 Jun 2011Conditional

  Construction of dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5304

• 9 Mar 2011Conditional

  Site Development works for 7 no. serviced sites for dwellings

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/4465

• 22 Dec 2010Conditional

  Construction of single storey dwellinghouse, widening of existing site entrance, new front boundary wall, septic tank with percolation area and all associated site development works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/8778

• 19 Mar 2009Conditional

  Domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4840

The 25 most recent of 33 applications.

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 Firmount.

Recorded monuments

• CO050-141 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Shown as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on 1842, 1904 and 1939 OS 6-inch maps. In pasture, on S-facing slope. According to local information, levelled c. 1979 during field fence clearance. Some undulations visible in area of site. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO050-142 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on S-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on 1842, 1904 and 1939 OS 6-inch maps; open to S on 1939 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; circular, slightly raised area (diam. 25m) survives with depression at centre. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO050-143 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Beside stream, in marshy ground undergoing reclamation. Overgrown, roughly circular mound of burnt material (L c. 4m; Wth c. 3m; H 0.4m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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

• Firmount Bridge, bridge, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-arch road bridge, built c.1840, spanning Skournagh River. Dressed sandstone walls with rock faced limestone voussoirs to segmental-headed arches. V-cutwaters to upstream elevation. Concrete capping to parapet.

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 Firmount, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Firmount · Ard na Giúise

Area

1,084,959 m² (108.5 ha, 268.1 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmore (Macroom Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Barretts

Electoral division

Firmount, the unit of the census

Census 2022

735 people lived in 236 households in the Firmount electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyvodane, Curragh, Fornaght, Garraun North, Garraun South, Pluckanes South

Placenames

Firmount 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.