Fuhur
Fuhur is a townland in the civil parish of Killaconenagh, barony of Bear, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Fhoithir.
- Area
- 187.9 ha
- 464 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 8,638 m² (0.86 ha, 2.13 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fuhur, from 936 m² to 1,444,835 m² (144.48 ha, 357.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 33 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
4 Jan 2019Refused
The development consists of permission to (a) retain and complete the dwelling house, (b) retain the stable/feed store, (c) retain the log store, (d) retain the mobile home for a period of one year (e) retain existing site entrance (f) retain the house, stable/feed store, mobile home, log store, wastewater treatment system, well, site entrance and driveway within revised side boundaries and (g) permission to construct a workshop
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/2
24 Aug 2012Conditional
Construction of dwelling house, installation of waste water treatment system and for all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/545
29 Jan 2010Conditional
Construction of commercial workshop and an attached store
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/56
20 Nov 2009Incompleted application
Construction of Commercial Workshop and attached store
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/2121
11 Nov 2009Incompleted application
Planning Permission for construction of commercial workshop and an attached store
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/2077
22 Oct 2009Incompleted application
Construction of Commerical Workshop and attached store
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/2010
17 Sept 2009Incompleted application
Construction of Commercial Workshop and an attached store
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/1017
16 Jul 2009Conditional
Construction of extension to side of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/802
16 Jul 2009Incompleted application
Construction of a Commercial Workshop
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/801
7 Nov 2008Conditional
Dwelling, detached garage and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1994
29 Mar 2007Refused
Dwelling, detached garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/879
12 Feb 2007Conditional
Extensions to existing dwellinghouse comprising sunroom and separate dwelling unit and waste treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/384
12 Jan 2007Incompleted application
Extensions to existing dwellinghouse comprising of sunroom and seperate dwelling unit and biocycle waste treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/76
30 Jun 2005Conditional
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4608
7 May 1999Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 99/2343
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
- Special Protection Area: Beara Peninsula SPA 004155
- Natural Heritage Area: Pulleen Harbour Bog NHA 002416
Recorded monuments
- CO127-033 Bridge
Description
Disused road bridge (Wth 5.15m) over stream flowing S from Pulleen Lake to Pullen Harbour. Single segmental arch (Wth c. 3m; H 1.6m) with coarse voussoirs. According to local tradition road was used c. 1830s for transport of ore from Allihies mines (CO114-022002-). 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
- CO128-053 Standing stone
Description
In a pasture field, near the N edge of an E-W terrace on a N-facing slope with a view across the valley to Miskish Mountain. This standing stone (0.64m x 0.57m; H 1.05m) is almost square in plan and rectangular in section. The stone is orientated ENE-WSW and narrows slightly as it rises. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fuhur.
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 Fuhur, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Fuhur.
- 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 Fuhur with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Fuhur · An Fhoithir
- Area
- 1,878,614 m² (187.86 ha, 464.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killaconenagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bear
- Electoral division
- Killaconenagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,613 people lived in 685 households in the Killaconenagh electoral division. 62% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cahergarriff, Disert, Dunboy, Gour
- Placenames
- Fuhur 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.