Frankfort
Frankfort is a townland in the civil parish of Mogeely, barony of Kinatalloon, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Frankfort.
- Area
- 8.3 ha
- 21 acres
- Land parcels
- 1
- registered freehold, median 83,048 m² (8.3 ha, 20.52 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Frankfort, from 83,048 m² (8.3 ha, 20.52 acres) to 83,048 m² (8.3 ha, 20.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 4 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 Frankfort 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
18 Dec 2015Conditional
Construction of a cow shed with cubicles, feeding passage, underground slurry storage tank, an external dungstead and all associated site works, and construction of an additional bay to existing feed passage shed
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6881
4 Jun 2015Withdrawn
Removal of stone wall and lean-to roof, allowing to extend existing cow shed comprising of slurry storage tank, feeding bays and passage, loose calf shed and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5170
18 Aug 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/6316
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 Frankfort.
Recorded monuments
- CO046-010 Country house
Description
Remains of 18th century house in poor condition; 3-storey over basement; 2-bay bowed ends. Hipped roof with two off-centre chimneys. Entrance front (N) of 5 bays; sash windows with shallow reveals, some with original glazing; central vertical half door with fanlight. Additions to rear. Curved curtain wall connects house to gable of farmbuildings to rear. Currently under restoration. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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
- Frankfort House, country house, 1760–1780 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay three-storey country house with bowed gables, built c. 1770, now roofless and in ruins, with two-bay two-storey addition to rear. Rendered walls with slate-hanging to addition and one rear corner, and remains of slate-hanging to west elevation. Square-headed window openings, with one surviving three-over-three pane window to top floor. Round-headed window openings to west and rear elevations. Round-headed door opening to front with render surround. Square-headed door opening to rear elevation having flight of rendered steps. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding to south having pitched slate roof with rubble sandstone chimneystack, roughcast rendered rubble sandstone walls, and square-headed door and window openings, with timber battened doors, flight of steps to north elevation, and having entry holes for birds to upper front wall. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding to south-east having pitched corrugated-iron roof, roughcast rendered rubble sandstone walls, square-headed corrugated-iron doors, round-headed opening with sandstone voussoirs to centre bay, and entry holes for birds to upper front wall. Remains of rubble sandstone walled gardens to south-east.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Frankfort, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1502 (ZIP).
- 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 Frankfort with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Frankfort · Frankfort
- Area
- 83,048 m² (8.3 ha, 20.52 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mogeely, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kinatalloon
- Electoral division
- Curraglass, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 429 people lived in 144 households in the Curraglass electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Blackpool, Curraglass West, Lisnabrinlodge, Mogeely Lower, Poundfields
- Placenames
- Frankfort 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.