Foxhall
Foxhall is a townland in the civil parish of Castleventry, barony of Carbery East (West Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Clais an Ghuail.
- Area
- 157.9 ha
- 390 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 3,829 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 32
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Foxhall, from 396 m² to 221,897 m² (22.19 ha, 54.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Foxhall 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
24 Jun 2026Grant with conditions
a) New Single Storey Dwelling, Detached Garage and Sewage Treatement System b) Revision For Site Boundaries To Windfarm Permitted per Pl Reg 03/4740 & 08/2037
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1693
18 Jul 2024Incompleted application
Construct dwelling house, installation of septic tank and percolation area and carry out associated site works
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 24/383
5 Mar 2024Conditional permission
1) Construction of a single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site works and 2) Revision of site boundaries to windfarm permitted under Pl. Reg. No's 03/4740 & 08/2037
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/97
4 Nov 2022Conditional
Construction of dwelling house and garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/679
14 Oct 2020Conditional
Construct a dwelling house, installation of septic tank and percolation area and carry out associated site works
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 20/566
14 Jan 2020Incompleted application
Construct a dwelling house, installation of septic tank and percolation area and carry out associated site works
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 20/6
1 Jul 2019Conditional
Construct a milking parlour, dairy, plant room, roofed cattle holding yard with slatted slurry tank, two no. open cattle holding yards, roofed feeding passage, feed storage bin and carry out associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/434
29 Apr 2011Conditional
Construction of a dwelling and domestic garage (permission previously granted under Planning Reference 07/1833)
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/263
12 Nov 2008Unconditional
Construction of 5 wind turbines, electrical substation and control building, 50m high meteorological mast, site tracks and associated works
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 08/2037
10 Aug 2007Conditional
Extend existing dwellinghouse and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/2144
6 Jul 2007Conditional
Change of house plans granted under planning reg: 06/642
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1833
1 Jun 2007Incompleted application
Change of house plans for dwelling granted under planning reg: 06/642
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1458
30 Mar 2007Incompleted application
Change of house plan under Reg No: 06/642
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/928
23 Mar 2007Conditional
Construct farm building consisting of cattle house with slatted slurry tanks, milking parlour, dairy and plant room, construct silage slab, soiled water tank, concrete aprons and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/820
2 Feb 2007Conditional
Roof and change of use of existing silo to cattle feeding area, construct slatted cattle yard, construct slurry float channels and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/265
13 Apr 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse, domestic garage and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/642
20 Mar 2006Withdrawn
Reconstruct and extend dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/455
24 Oct 2005Conditional
Construction of double garage and fuel store and retention of dwelling house as constructed
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7750
29 Sept 2005Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7072
12 Sept 2005Incompleted application
Double garage and fuel storage and retention of alterations to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6568
18 Jul 2005Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/5139
16 May 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3301
23 Dec 2004Conditional
Construction of extension to dwelling and domestic garage and demolition of outbuildings
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/9663
30 Jul 2004Refused
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/5907
21 Jan 2004Conditional
Slatted cattle house and silage pit
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/240
The 25 most recent of 32 applications.
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Foxhall.
Recorded monuments
- CO134-022 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on SE-facing slope. Circular area (20m N-S; 21.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 0.96m). Bank incorporated into field fence to E; gaps in bank to NE and ESE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO134-023 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, atop hillock. Roughly circular area (diam. 28.4m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (H 2.8m). Break (Wth 4m) in bank to SW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO134-024 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, atop hillock. Circular, raised area (21.2m N-S; 21m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.25m) SW->N; scarp (H 2.6m) N->SW. Possible entrance to NE (Wth 9m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Foxhall.
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
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Foxhall.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Foxhall with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Foxhall · Clais an Ghuail
- Area
- 1,578,744 m² (157.87 ha, 390.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castleventry, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery East (West Division)
- Electoral division
- Castleventry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 278 people lived in 94 households in the Castleventry electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cahermore, Castleventry, Freahanes, Killeigh, Maulvirane, Maulyregan
- Placenames
- Foxhall 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.