Fornaght

111 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fornaght, from 27 m² to 253,582 m² (25.36 ha, 62.66 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 Fornaght 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.

• 14 Sept 2026Awaiting recommendation

  Permission for the Retention of the existing detached domestic garage structure constructed to the rear of our property and the sun room extension constructed to the side of our dwellinghouse together with permission for (a) new entrance porch extension to the north elevation (b) replacement of 3no. gable dormer windows to the north and south elevations with flat roof dormer windows (c) new flat roof dormer window to north elevation (d) replacement of the pitched roof to sun room extension with new flat roof structure and alterations to window and door openings of sun room (e) alterations to bay window structure and window opening to kitchen /dining room at ground floor level to south elevation (f) modifications to pitched roof at south-eastern end of dwelling to include increase in ridge height to match main ridge level of dwelling, together with all associated alterations and site works at at Fornaught Donoughmore, Co. Cork.

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/2393

• 13 Apr 2026Grant with conditions

  Permission to retain 1) single store extension at North side of dwelling, 2) site entrance with car parking

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/0925

• 25 Aug 2025Application withdrawn

  Permission for retention of the existing detached domestic garage structure constructed to the rear of property together with Permission for: a) new entrance porch extension to the north elevation of dwelling house, b) replacement of 3 no. gable dormer windows to the north and south elevations with flat roof dormer windows, c) new flat roof dormer window to north elevation, d) replacement of pitched roof to sun room structure with new flat roof structure incorporating alterations to window and door openings of sun room, e) alterations to bay window structure and window openings at ground floor level to the south elevation together with all associated alterations and site works.

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/5696

• 29 Apr 2025Conditional

  Permission for retention of domestic garage and all associated site works

  Retention · Cork County Council, 25/4795

• 15 Apr 2025Conditional permission

  Permission for installation of a cattle underpass, soiled water tank and associated works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4678

• 3 Apr 2025Conditional

  Permission to roof existing unused silage pit to form a multipurpose loose shed and to roof existing slatted tank, cubicles and feeding passage and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4581

• 24 Jul 2024Conditional

  Permission for extension and alterations to existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5407

• 4 Jul 2024Conditional

  Permission to demolish existing single storey detached storage building and construct new single storey detached building to provide classroom, sleep room, storage, offices, Wc & ancillary space to supplement existing family resource facilities on site along with all ancillary works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5257

• 5 Jun 2024Withdrawn

  Permission for the installation of a cattle underpass, soiled water tank and associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5038

• 17 Oct 2022Conditional

  Reinstatement of existing dwelling, construction of new extensions to north and south elevations of dwelling, new carport to east elevation of dwelling, partial conversion of attic space to additional storage and office, changes to existing dwelling elevations, construction of new pump house around existing private well, new treatment system and all ancillary site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6327

• 15 Jun 2020Conditional

  Construction of dwelling house, sewerage treatment system and associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5210

• 20 Dec 2019Conditional

  Retention of domestic garage to side of existing dwelling and all associated site works.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 19/7065

• 2 Sept 2019Refused

  Construction of dwellinghouse, sewerage treatment unit and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6165

• 22 Aug 2019Conditional

  Construction of dwellinghouse, domestic garage, new entrance together with all other ancillary site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6088

• 23 Jul 2019Incompleted application

  Construction of dwellinghouse, domestic garage, new entrance together with all other ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5851

• 26 Feb 2019Conditional

  To construct single-storey side extension on the south elevation and alterations to window layout on the west and south elevation of sunroom all to existing dwelling.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4458

• 28 Jan 2019Incompleted application

  Construct single storey side extension on the south elevation and alterations to window layout on the west and south elevations of sunroom all to existing dwelling.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4156

• 20 Sept 2018Conditional

  To retain a domestic garage with associated site works.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 18/6497

• 23 Aug 2018Incompleted application

  Retain a domestic garage with associated site works.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 18/6223

• 14 Jun 2018Conditional

  To construct new entrance and new road boundary wall with associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5547

• 17 May 2018Incompleted application

  Construct a road boundary fence

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5264

• 23 Feb 2018Conditional

  Construction of a dwellinghouse with attached garage, a new site entrance and all associated site works including a new sewage treatment system

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4472

• 15 Nov 2016Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse with attached garage, septic tank system & ancillary site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6856

• 3 May 2016Conditional

  Construction of dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/5021

• 18 Mar 2014Conditional

  Construction of single storey side extension to north elevation and alterations to window layout on the west and south elevation of sunroom, all to existing dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4550

The 25 most recent of 83 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 Fornaght.

Recorded monuments

• CO050-109 Standing stone
  Description

  Not shown on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps. In rough grazing, on N-facing slope. Removed; no visible surface trace. 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

• CO050-110 Standing stone
  Description

  In rough grazing. Hartnett (PJH) recorded stone here '41ins x 18ins x 6ins'. Removed; no visible surface trace. 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

• CO061-058 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture. Circular area (diam. 39m) defined by earthen bank (H 1m), stone-faced in parts. Disused laneway truncates enclosure on N side. 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

• CO061-059001 Standing stone
  Description

  Not shown on 1842 and 1903 OS 6-inch maps. In bogland c. 50m to NW of standing stone (CO061-059002-). Stone (H 1.2m; 0.84m x 0.1m) is subrectangular in plan, long axis E-W. 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

• CO061-059002 Standing stone
  Description

  Not shown on 1842 and 1903 OS 6-inch maps. In pasture, c. 50m to SE of standing stone (CO061-059001-). Stone (H 1.6m; 0.94m x 0.18m) is subrectangular in plan, long axis ENE-WSW. 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

• CO061-060 Standing stone
  Description

  Not shown on 1842 and 1903 OS 6-inch maps. Marked as single standing stone on 1938 OS 6-inch map. Removed; no visible surface trace. 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

• CO061-061 Standing stone
  Description

  Not shown on 1842 and 1903 OS 6-inch maps. Marked as single standing stone on 1938 OS 6-inch map. Removed; no visible surface trace. 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

• CO061-062 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough grazing land. Circular area (diam. 24m) enclosed by partially overgrown earthen bank (int. H 0.5m). Stream re-routed in channel dug on line of fosse along N half of enclosure; material from channel dumped on bank in parts. Entrance to SW (Hartnett 1939, 186). 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

• CO061-063 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture. Circular area (diam. 28.5m) defined by earthen bank (H 1m), with shallow external fosse. Break in bank to E. Interior used for grazing. 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

• CO061-064 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough grazing land. Circular area (diam. 36m) enclosed by earthen bank (H 2m). Interior in pasture; under tillage in 1937 (Hartnett 1939, 186). 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

• St Joesph's Roman Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cruciform-plan double-height Roman Catholic church, built c.1860, having three-stage entrance tower to front (west), three-bay nave, single-bay transepts to sides (north, south) and two-bay single-storey vestry to rear (east) with extensions to side (north) elevation. Pitched slate roofs with rendered eaves course, carved stone gable copings to transepts, cross finial to southern transept and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered parapet with carved stone corner spires to tower over tooled stone eaves course with corbels, cruciform finial to centre of tower. Dressed coursed sandstone walls to entrance tower having cut stone stringcourses to each stage, carved plaque to second stage over window opening. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls elsewhere with carved stone fonts to front elevation of nave. Pointed arch window openings with tooled chamfered stone sills and surrounds to tower with replacement uPVC windows and louvres to upper stage. Cruciform window opening with chamfered stone sill and surround to front (west) elevation of first-stage, having timber-framed stained glass window. Pointed arch window openings with rendered sills to nave and transepts having replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed window openings with rendered sills to rear (west) elevation of vestry having fixed timber framed windows with timber tracery. Pointed arch door openings to side (north, south) elevations of tower, within shallow recessed chamfered surrounds, having double-leaf timber battened doors surmounted by timber battened tympanum. Pointed arch door openings to transepts with timber battened doors. Carved timber reredos to interior, comprising Ionic columns surmounted by open bedded segmental pediment. Carved timber gallery on timber columns to rear (west). Timber battened roof. Rendered enclosing walls with square-profile gate piers having wrought-iron gates and railings. Set within its own grounds in the village of Fornaght.

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 Fornaght, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Fornaght · Fornocht

Area

2,674,388 m² (267.44 ha, 660.86 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmore (Macroom Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Muskerry East

Electoral division

Gowlane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,326 people lived in 436 households in the Gowlane electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygirriha, Ballyhennessy, Ballyvodane, Bunkilla, Curragh, Firmount, Lackabane

Placenames

Fornaght 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.