Garinish
Garinish is a townland in the civil parish of Kilnamanagh, barony of Bear, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Garinis.
- Area
- 44.9 ha
- 111 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 1,845 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garinish, from 6 m² to 139,695 m² (13.97 ha, 34.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Garinish 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
27 Mar 2025Conditional
Permission for Retention for the following: - For elevational stone cladding and two number single storey extensions to north and south of dwelling house. For detached building for use as both domestic store and ancillary dwelling unit. Permission also sought for upgrade of existing wastewater treatment system which serves both the dwelling and ancillary dwelling and for all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/161
27 Mar 2024Conditional permission
Construction of dwelling house, alteration to existing entrance and site boundaries for improved entrance and access to proposed dwelling, installation of waste water treatment system and for all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/145
25 Nov 2022Incompleted application
Permission for retention of an extension to the North and an extension to the South of dwelling. Permission is also sought for the historical reconstruction of the Miner's cabin for use as an ancillary dwelling and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/718
9 Sept 2021Refused
Retention of an existing single-storey house and ancillary outbuilding, and the construction of a single-storey extension comprising an accessible bedroom and shower room, with works to the existing driveway
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/623
5 Feb 2019Conditional
Construction of car park and vehicular entrance, erection of safety barriers and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/73
6 Jul 2012Conditional
Construction of car park, erection of safety barriers, construction of vehicular entrance and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/439
26 Feb 2009Incompleted application
Construct car park with all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/198
19 Dec 2007Conditional
Extension to existing dwelling and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/3152
26 Oct 2007Incompleted application
Extension to existing dwelling and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/2741
20 May 2005Conditional
Boat House
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3463
23 May 2000Conditional
Renovations & extensions to disused dwelling for use as dwellinghouse, re-roofing of outbuilding, septic tank & new entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/3069
30 Mar 1999Refused
Demolition of dwelling & construction of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 99/1601
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 Area of Conservation: Kenmare River SAC 002158
- Special Protection Area: Beara Peninsula SPA 004155
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Firkeel Gap 001051
Recorded monuments
- CO126-016 Boulder-burial
Description
On flat pasture at foot of NW-facing slope in hinterland of Garinish Bay. Wedge-shaped covers stone (1.9m x 1.35m; T 0.7m) resting above three support stones. Destroyed in Spring 1977. Two boulders-burials in Ballynacarriga (CO126-015002-; CO126-014002-) stand 240m and 350m respectively 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Garinish.
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 Garinish, 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 Garinish.
- 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 Garinish with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Garinish · Garinis
- Area
- 449,122 m² (44.91 ha, 110.98 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilnamanagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bear
- Electoral division
- Kilnamanagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 380 people lived in 153 households in the Kilnamanagh electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 15% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 30% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballaghboy, Ballynacarriga, Billeragh, Canalmore, Glanarough
- Placenames
- Garinish 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.