Garranekinnefeake
Townland in the civil parish of Garranekinnefeake, barony of Imokilly, Co. Cork; in Irish Garrán an Chiniféicigh
- Area
- 263.1 ha
- 650 acres
- Land parcels
- 105
- registered freehold, median 3,439 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 71
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
105 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garranekinnefeake, from 13 m² to 430,874 m² (43.09 ha, 106.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Garranekinnefeake 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
8 Sept 2026Awaiting technical validation
Permission for the construction and operation of an outdoor commercial sauna and plunge-pool facility ancillary to the existing licensed premises known as The ferry, comprising 2 no. commercial saunas, 2 no. plunge pools, associated changing and shower facilities, plant room, associated services and all ancillary site development works within the elevated outdoor area adjoining The Ferry, East Ferry, Garranekinnefeake, co.Cork, P25 PX89.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/2342
17 Aug 2026Awaiting recommendation
Permission for :- 1) Construction of a new part single storey, part storey and a half, detached dwelling, 2) Installation of a new wastewater treatment unit, 3) New site entrance and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/2156
7 Aug 2026Invalid - prepare letters
Permission for the construction and operation of an outdoor commercial sauna and plunge-pool facility ancillary to the existing licensed premises known as The Ferry, comprising of 2 no. commercial saunas, 2 no. plunge pools, associated changing and shower facilities, associated services and all ancillary site development works within the elevated outdoor area adjoining The Ferry.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/2086
27 Jun 2025Conditional permission
Permission for the alteration and change of use of the 1st floor accommodation and restaurant area to 2 no. holiday units for short-term letting, construction of a first floor extension, alterations to the elevation, removal of a chimney and relocation of external masonry retaining wall for the installation of a prefabricated storage shed to provide ancillary storage for the bar and restaurant and all associated site works at licensed premises (public house).
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5256
29 Jan 2025Grant with conditions
Permission for:- 1) The change of use of the existing single storey detached dwelling on site to ancillary residential accommodation associated with the new replacement dwelling for use as a home office. 2) The construction of a new part single storey, part two storey, detached dwelling to replace the existing dwelling on site. 3) The installation of a new waste water treatment unit and percolation area. 4) The upgrade of the existing agricultural site entrance to a residential site entrance. 5) The demolition of the existing road side storage shed to increase site entrance sightlines. 6) All associated site works. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the Planning Authority as part of this application.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4090
17 Dec 2024Incompleted application
Permission for 1) the change of use of the existing single storey detached dwelling on site to ancillary residential accommodation associated with the new replacement dwelling for use as a home office, 2) the construction of a new part single storey, part two storey, detached dwelling to replace the existing dwelling on site, 3) the installation of a new wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, 4) the upgrade of the existing agricultural site entrance to a residential site entrance, 5) the demolition of the existing road side storage shed to increase site entrance sightlines, 6) all associated site works. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has also been submitted to the planning authority as part of this application.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6420
19 Sept 2024Refused
Permission for the alteration and change of use of the 1st floor accommodation and restaurant area to 2 no. holiday units for short-term letting, construction of a first floor extension, alterations to the elevation, removal of a chimney and relocation of external masonry retaining wall for the installation of a prefabricated storage shed to provide ancillary storage for the bar & restaurant and all associated site works at the licensed premises
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5772
19 Apr 2024Conditional
Permission for the erection of a 2 storey extension to the front of their existing single storey dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4668
22 Jun 2023Refused
10 year planning permission for a solar farm with a total area of circa 126 hectares comprising of solar panels on ground mounted frames with a surface area of circa 532,000m2, 21 no. single storey electrical inverter/transformer stations, 5 no. single storey energy storage modules, 3 no. single storey spare parts containers, 12 no. ring main units, 5 no. weather stations, underground electrical ducting and cabling within the development site, private lands and within the R630, L7657, L7658 and L7659 public roads to connect to solar farm field parcels, security fencing, CCTV, access tracks, 1 no. drain deck crossing, temporary construction compounds, landscaping and all associated ancillary development works. Construction and operational access will be via entrances from L7657, L7658 and L7659. The operational life span of the solar farm will be 40 years and planning permission is requested for its duration. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and submitted to the planning authority with the application.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5270
10 Mar 2023Conditional
Constructed of a slatted unit, grain store and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4434
3 Nov 2022Refused
The construction of a single storey detached dwelling including a new wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, a new access road to the proposed site, and all associated site works and landscaping
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 22/6475
8 Jun 2022Conditional
6 no. number dwellings, new vehicular entrance to serve the proposed dwellings and any future development and all associated site services.
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 22/5324
26 Apr 2022Incompleted application
Outline Permission for six number dwellings, new vehicular entrance to serve the proposed dwellings and any future development and all associated site services.
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 22/4954
17 Dec 2021Conditional
Retention of existing covered/ open-sided ancillary outdoor seating area for the consumption of food and drink as served by The Tavern, Public House. Completed works include existing open-sided structure with roof covering, hardstand surface, railings, raised planters, street furniture and all ancillary site works.
Retention · Cork County Council, 21/7404
16 Dec 2021Conditional
Change of use from a Convalescent home to residential apartments in the existing building known as East Ferry House. The proposed development is to include 9 no. apartments consisting of 6 no. 1 bed and 3 no. 2 bed units. External alteration to change an existing window on front elevation to a new entrance door to apartment no. 1, and all associated ancillary site works including the provision of a new wastewater treatment system.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/7366
22 Nov 2021Incompleted application
Permission for change of use from a Convalescent home to residential apartments in the existing building known as East Ferry House. The proposed development is to include 9 no. apartments consisting of 5 no. 1 bed and 2 no. 2 bed units. External alteration to change an existing window on the front elevation to a new entrance door to apartment No. 1, and all associated ancillary site works including the provision of a new wastewater treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/7155
5 Jul 2021Conditional
Construction of an entrance/driveway providing vehicular access to the existing property.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5858
24 May 2021Incompleted application
Construction of an entrance/driveway providing vehicular access to the existing dwelling.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5426
12 Apr 2021Conditional
The construction of a two-storey dwelling, a domestic garage, and all associated ancillary site development works including the provision of a new wastewater treatment system on lands. Access will be provided via an existing access road and entrance onto the L-3629-72 local road.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4924
24 Mar 2021Refused
4 no. dwellings and associated site services.
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 21/4740
11 Mar 2021Conditional
The renovation and change of use of an existing coach house into a residential dwelling to be used for private use and short term / holiday letting, new waste water treatment system, internal driveway and site entrance walls along with all associated site works and services.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4620
22 Feb 2021Incompleted application
Outline permission for four number dwellings and associated site services.
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 21/4423
20 May 2020Conditional
The construction of a dwelling (change of house design, layout and revised site boundaries from that permitted under Pl. Reg. No. 17/7269) and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5006
20 Apr 2020Conditional
Retention of (a) existing dwelling as constructed, (b) existing two storey extension constructed to side of existing dwelling house, (c) existing single storey boiler house extension constructed to rear of existing dwelling house (d) location of existing entrance driveway, septic tank and percolation area as constructed along with all associated site works.
Retention · Cork County Council, 20/4787
30 Mar 2020Incompleted application
To retain all of the following works from that previously granted under planning permission ref. S/1222/88: 1. location of existing dwelling, 2. alterations of windows and doors to south and east dwelling elevations, 3. two storey side extension and rear boiler house extension to the existing dwelling, 4. location of existing septic tank and percolation area as constructed along with all associated site works.
Retention · Cork County Council, 20/4652
The 25 most recent of 71 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
- Special Protection Area: Cork Harbour SPA 004030
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Rostellan Lough, Aghada Shore And Poulnabibe Inlet 001076
Recorded monuments
- CO088-095 Fulacht fia
Description
Mound (L 7m; H 1.5m) on W side of stream (pers. comm. R.M. Cleary). Five fulacht fiadh to S along stream (CO088-096---; CO088-097---; CO088-098---; CO088-099---; CO088-100---). 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
- CO088-096 Fulacht fia
Description
Spread of burnt material on W side of stream (pers. comm. R.M. Cleary). One of a group of five fulachta fiadh (CO088-097---; CO088-098---; CO088-099---; CO088-100---). 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
- CO088-097 Fulacht fia
Description
Spread of burnt material on W side of stream (pers. comm. R.M. Cleary). One of a group of five fulachta fiadh (CO088-096---; CO088-098---; CO088-099---; CO088-100---). 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
- CO088-098 Fulacht fia
Description
Spread of burnt material on W side of stream (pers. comm. R.M. Cleary). One of a group of five fulachta fiadh (CO088-096---; CO088-097---; CO088-099---; CO088-100---). 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
- CO088-099 Fulacht fia
Description
Spread of burnt material on W side of stream (pers. comm. R.M. Cleary). One of a group of five fulachta fiadh (CO088-096---; CO088-097---; CO088-098---; CO088-100---). 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
- CO088-100 Fulacht fia
Description
Spread of burnt material on W side of stream (pers. comm. R.M. Cleary). One of a group of five fulachta fiadh (CO088-096---; CO088-097---; CO088-098---; CO088-099---). 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
- House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1830, having recent two-bay entrance porch to front (west) elevation with hipped slate roof, and lean-to outbuilding to south gable. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings throughout, having timber sliding sash windows, two-over-two pane to front, rear (east) ground floor and north gable, and one-over-one pane to rear first floor, and having timber panelled door with plain overlight to north gable. Yard to front of house with three ranges of outbuildings. Five-bay single-storey outbuilding to south range, two-bay single-storey outbuilding with attic accommodation and external staircase to west range, both having pitched slate roofs, rubble stone walls, and square-headed and segmental-headed openings with timber battened fittings. Multiple-bay open-sided single-storey outbuilding to north range with pitched corrugated-iron roof and rubble stone walls. Enclosure with rubble stone walls to west of yard, having single-bay single-storey outbuilding to exterior (west) of west wall with pitched slate roof and rubble stone walls, multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding to interior (east) of west wall with lean-to corrugated-iron roof, rubble stone walls and boundary wall with wrought-iron pedestrian gates. Rendered boundary walls to north of house and yard with wrought-iron pedestrian gate, and with square-profile piers with recent vehicular gates to yard entrance. Rubble stone boundary walls to east of house site, having cut limestone square-profile piers with double leaf wrought-iron gates forming farm entrance.
- Holy Trinity Church of Ireland Church, church/chapel, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding Church of Ireland church, built c. 1865, with three-bay nave elevations, canted chancel to south, three-stage square-profile tower with steeple to south-west and gabled porch to east elevation. Pitched slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods, carved limestone eaves course, dressed limestone and sandstone plinth course, dressed limestone copings with carved brackets to gables, carved limestone cross finial to north gable. Dressed limestone pyramidal roof to tower with carved cornice and flush dressed sandstone platbands. Snecked sandstone walls with cut sandstone buttresses having dressed limestone quoins. Flush dressed limestone platbands. Dressed and chamfered limestone surrounds to openings. Paired lancet windows to nave elevations with quarry glazed stained glass windows. Paired lancet openings to chancel with cinquefoil openings above all having stained glass windows. Arrow slit openings to porch. Triple lancet openings to north gable with stained glass windows, pair of quatrefoil openings above with circular carved limestone surrounds having roll mouldings. Paired square-headed openings to first stage of tower, paired lancet arch openings to second stage and paired pointed arch openings to third stage. Carved limestone impost course, stepped limestone and sandstone surround, metal fittings and dressed limestone and sandstone voussoirs to pointed arch openings. Trefoil-headed openings to tower roof with projecting carved limestone surrounds comprising flanking colonettes and pyramidal roofs with finials. Shouldered square-headed opening to tower with carved limestone surround incorporating terracotta decorative motif and timber battened door approached by flight of cut stone steps. Pointed arch opening to tower with timber battened double-leaf doors having cast-iron hinges, carved limestone surround comprising roll mouldings and chamfered voussoirs those flanking door having circular recessed panels. Dressed limestone step and threshold. Retains interior features such as exposed polychrome brick walls, tiled floor, stained glass windows and exposed scissors truss roof having carved marble brackets. Rubble stone boundary walls with rubble copings. Dressed limestone square-profile piers to pedestrian entrance to south with cast-iron gate.
- Coastguard station, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
Description
End-of-terrace two-bay two-storey former coastguard station, built c. 1820, with single-bay single-storey porch to north elevation. Now in use as house. Hipped and pitched roof with rendered chimneystacks and overhanging bracketed eaves. Rubble stone walls with brick quoins. Square-headed openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, cut limestone sills and red brick block and start surrounds. Timber glazing to porch with square-headed opening having timber panelled half-glazed door.
- Post box, 1930–1950 · Regional interest
Description
Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, c. 1940, with lettering in relief. Set into rendered wall.
- House, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey house, built c. 1810, with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed porch to front (south) elevation, catslide stable addition to rear (north) and single-bay single-storey flat-roofed extension to west elevation. Hipped corrugated metal roof with rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls to front elevation, painted rubble stone walls to east, west and rear elevations. Square-headed openings to front elevation with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and render surrounds. Square-headed opening to porch with fixed timber windows and render surround. Square-headed opening to porch with timber battened door and fixed timber sidelights. Square-headed openings to rear with timber battened half-doors. Recent boundary wall to south and 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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Garranekinnefeake.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Garranekinnefeake with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Garranekinnefeake · Garrán an Chiniféicigh
- Area
- 2,631,471 m² (263.15 ha, 650.25 acres)
- Civil parish
- Garranekinnefeake, and its townlands
- Barony
- Imokilly
- Electoral division
- Rostellan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rostellan electoral division: 1,379 people in 461 households; 85% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bawnard West, Jamesbrook, Rathcoursey East, Rathcoursey West, Scartlea Lower, Scartlea Upper
- Placenames
- Garranekinnefeake 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.