# Firmount, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore (Macroom Ra), barony of Barretts, Co. Cork; in Irish Ard na Giúise.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,084,959 m² (108.5 ha, 268.1 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,270 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 33 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Donaghmore (Macroom Ra), https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/donaghmore-macroom-ra.md
- Barony: Barretts
- Electoral division: Firmount, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/9465
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 42619
- Centre: latitude 51.988806, longitude -8.692008 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Firmount, from 56 m² to 356,241 m² (35.62 ha, 88.03 acres); 26 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 2180436: 356,241 m² (35.62 ha, 88.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2180436.md
- Parcel 2180438: 312,554 m² (31.26 ha, 77.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2180438.md
- Parcel 2305521: 94,482 m² (9.45 ha, 23.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2305521.md
- Parcel 2180437: 83,063 m² (8.31 ha, 20.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2180437.md
- Parcel 3250186: 76,253 m² (7.63 ha, 18.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3250186.md
- Parcel 5393956: 15,483 m² (1.55 ha, 3.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5393956.md
- Parcel 2180626: 11,845 m² (1.18 ha, 2.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2180626.md
- Parcel 5393954: 11,742 m² (1.17 ha, 2.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5393954.md
- Parcel 2180625: 8,588 m² (0.86 ha, 2.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2180625.md
- Parcel 2305523: 7,205 m² (0.72 ha, 1.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2305523.md
- Parcel 2305530: 6,840 m² (0.68 ha, 1.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2305530.md
- Parcel 2305531: 5,770 m² (0.58 ha, 1.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2305531.md
- Parcel 2305533: 5,294 m² (0.53 ha, 1.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2305533.md
- Parcel 2180439: 5,181 m² (0.52 ha, 1.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2180439.md
- Parcel 5722170: 5,147 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5722170.md
- Parcel 2305525: 4,898 m² (0.49 ha, 1.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2305525.md
- Parcel 2305630: 3,860 m² (0.39 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2305630.md
- Parcel 2305532: 3,807 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2305532.md
- Parcel 2305529: 3,773 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2305529.md
- Parcel 3284845: 3,403 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3284845.md
- Parcel 3250135: 3,138 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3250135.md
- Parcel 2638808: 3,060 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2638808.md
- Parcel 2305524: 3,052 m² (0.31 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2305524.md
- Parcel 2180624: 2,891 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2180624.md
- Parcel 2305526: 2,578 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2305526.md
- Parcel 3317632: 2,326 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3317632.md
- Parcel 2305629: 2,134 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2305629.md
- Parcel 2305534: 1,879 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2305534.md
- Parcel 2305535: 1,682 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2305535.md
- Parcel 5853997: 1,653 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5853997.md
- Parcel 3284844: 1,560 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3284844.md
- Parcel 5986293: 1,461 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5986293.md
- Parcel 5621764: 1,287 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5621764.md
- Parcel 5622490: 1,270 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5622490.md
- Parcel 5618299: 1,230 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5618299.md
- Parcel 5618280: 1,220 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5618280.md
- Parcel 5994407: 1,192 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5994407.md
- Parcel 5393955: 929 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5393955.md
- Parcel 2305527: 899 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2305527.md
- Parcel 2305522: 56 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2305522.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

33 applications, newest first.

- 4 Mar 2024, Cork County Council 24/4362: Refused. Permission. 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. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=24/4362
- 30 Jan 2024, Cork County Council 24/4135: Incompleted application. Permission. 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. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=24/4135
- 19 Dec 2023, Cork County Council 23/6535: Incompleted application. Permission. 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.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=23/6535
- 27 Jan 2022, Cork County Council 22/4147: Refused. Permission. 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.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=22/4147
- 10 Dec 2021, Cork County Council 21/7315: Incompleted application. Permission. To construct 1No. single storey residential dwelling, site entrance, new front boundary, drinking well, septic tank with percolation area and all associated site works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=21/7315
- 25 Nov 2020, Cork County Council 20/6639: Conditional. Permission. 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.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=20/6639
- 5 Nov 2020, Cork County Council 20/6444: Refused. Permission. 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.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=20/6444
- 30 Sept 2020, Cork County Council 20/6134: Incompleted application. Permission. 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.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=20/6134
- 14 Feb 2020, Cork County Council 20/4274: Conditional. Retention. Retention is sought for 2 no. extensions to side and rear of dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=20/4274
- 7 Feb 2018, Cork County Council 18/4306: Conditional. Permission. Residential development - construction of 7 no. dwellinghouses (change of design from that permitted under Pl. Reg. No. 17/5429). File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=18/4306
- 22 Jan 2018, Cork County Council 18/4144: Incompleted application. Permission. Minor alterations to design of 7 dwellings previously permitted under Reg. Ref. 17/5429. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=18/4144
- 7 Jun 2017, Cork County Council 17/5429: Conditional. Permission. 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.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=17/5429
- 26 May 2016, Cork County Council 16/5271: Unconditional. Extension of duration. Site Development works for 7 no. serviced sites for dwellings – Extension of Duration of Permission granted under Planning Reg. No. 11/4465. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=16/5271
- 27 Aug 2014, Cork County Council 14/5818: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=14/5818
- 25 Jul 2013, Cork County Council 13/5440: Refused. Permission. Dwelling house, garage and all associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=13/5440
- 22 Mar 2013, Cork County Council 13/4495: Conditional. Permission. Construction of a dwellinghouse and associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=13/4495
- 13 Feb 2013, Cork County Council 13/4241: Incompleted application. Permission. Construction of dwellinghouse and associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=13/4241
- 31 Jan 2013, Cork County Council 13/4169: Incompleted application. Permission. Construction of dwellinghouse and all associated site works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=13/4169
- 19 Jul 2012, Cork County Council 12/5584: Refused. Permission. Site development works including site entrance and road boundary wall and associated works for 7 no. serviced sites for dwellinghouses. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=12/5584
- 10 Jul 2012, Cork County Council 12/5493: Refused. Extension of duration. Residential development of 14 no. dwellinghouses with associated site works and services, extension of duration of permission granted under Planning Reg. No. 06/13497. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=12/5493
- 5 Jul 2012, Cork County Council 12/5461: Incompleted application. Permission. Site development works, including site entrance and road boundary wall, and associated site works for 7 no. serviced sites for dwellinghouses. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=12/5461
- 16 Jun 2011, Cork County Council 11/5304: Conditional. Permission. Construction of dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=11/5304
- 9 Mar 2011, Cork County Council 11/4465: Conditional. Permission. Site Development works for 7 no. serviced sites for dwellings. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=11/4465
- 22 Dec 2010, Cork County Council 10/8778: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=10/8778
- 19 Mar 2009, Cork County Council 09/4840: Conditional. Permission. Domestic garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=09/4840
- 17 Feb 2009, Cork County Council 09/4460: Incompleted application. Permission. Domestic garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=09/4460
- 31 Oct 2008, Cork County Council 08/9508: Withdrawn. Outline permission. 3 no. dwellinghouses with wastewater treatment units and ancillary site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=08/9508
- 20 Mar 2007, Cork County Council 07/6195: Refused. Permission. Construction of stables, machinery/feed shed, farm dwellinghouse with granny flat, ancillary office, farmyard enclosures, paddocks, installation of sewage treatment unit and all associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/6195
- 19 Dec 2006, Cork County Council 06/13497: Conditional. Permission. Residential development of 14 no. dwellinghouses with associated site works and services. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/13497
- 28 Nov 2006, Cork County Council 06/12746: Conditional. Permission. Change of use of silage pit to cubicles and feeding passage, construction of extension to slatted unit, extension to silage slab, new silo wall and effluent tank. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/12746
- 5 Oct 2006, Cork County Council 06/11203: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/11203
- 15 Sept 2006, Cork County Council 06/10662: Conditional. Permission. Bungalow. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/10662
- 11 Feb 2004, Cork County Council 04/745: Conditional. Permission. Covered bus shelter. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=04/745

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

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

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- CO050-141: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO050-141----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO050-142----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO050-143----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Firmount Bridge, bridge, 1820–1860, Regional interest, registry number 20905015, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CO&regno=20905015. 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.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cork/firmount.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/firmount.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/firmount.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Firmount with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork: https://everytownland.com/cork.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballyvodane: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballyvodane.md
- Curragh: https://everytownland.com/cork/curragh-42037.md
- Fornaght: https://everytownland.com/cork/fornaght.md
- Garraun North: https://everytownland.com/cork/garraun-north.md
- Garraun South: https://everytownland.com/cork/garraun-south.md
- Pluckanes South: https://everytownland.com/cork/pluckanes-south.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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