Garrylucas
Garrylucas is a townland in the civil parish of Ringrone, barony of Courceys, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Garraí Lúcáis.
- Area
- 60.5 ha
- 150 acres
- Land parcels
- 127
- registered freehold, median 1,902 m²
- Zoning
- C5
- Special Policy Area
- Planning
- 58
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
127 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garrylucas, from 9 m² to 72,176 m² (7.22 ha, 17.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- C5Special Policy Area (Tourism and related)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 4 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
8 May 2026Invalid - case closed
Unique Fitout is applying for planning permission for the construction of a pedestrian wayleave/right of way, including a new vehicular access road and entrance and all associated site works, to facilitate the closure of an existing internal agricultural access road [existing public wayleave] that bisects the applicant’s landholding at Garrylucas, Garrettstown, Co. Cork.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1210
5 Jun 2025Conditional permission
Permission for alterations and extensions to existing dwellinghouse, wastewater treatment plant and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5069
20 May 2025Conditional permission
Permission to carry out the following extensions and alterations : 1) Extend the existing dwelling to a 3 bedroom residence, with ground and first floor extensions to side and front of the premises, also extension to rear of the dwelling with alterations to elevations of the dwelling including a balcony with glass railing at first floor level. 2) The ground floor extension shall also provide staff changing room facilities - namely commercial use. 3) Install new waste water treatment plant and decommission of septic tank. 4) Close existing vehicular entrance and provide new set back vehicular entrance and new car park facility. 5) Provide all associated site works. 6) Carry out a programme of landscaping to generally enhance the property.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4947
9 Apr 2025Incompleted application
Permission to carry out the following extensions and alterations at my premises. Permission to 1) extend the existing dwelling to a 3 bedroom residence, with ground and first floor extensions to the side and front of the premises 2) the ground floor extension shall also provide staff changing room facilities- namely commercial use. 3) install new waste water treatment plant and decommission the existing septic tank, 4) close existing vehicular entrance and provide new set back vehicular entrance and new car park facility, 5) provide all associated site works, 6) carry out a programme of landscaping to generally enhance the property
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4646
24 Feb 2025Incompleted application
Permission for extensions and alterations :- 1) Extend the existing dwelling to a 3/bedroom residence, with ground and first floor extensions to side and front of the premises. 2) The ground floor extension shall also provide staff changing room facilities – namely commercial use. 3) Install new waste water treatment plant and decommission the existing septic tank. 4) Close existing vehicular entrance and provide new set back vehicular entrance and new car park facility. 5) Provide all associated site works. 6) Carry out a programme of landscaping to generally enhance the property.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4292
17 Nov 2023Conditional
Permission is sought to facilitate emergency protection works for a phased plan conservation of 1 no. existing structure & restoration of 2 no. existing residential vernacular buildings, within the curtilage of 'CO124/056 Settlement Cluster' under the protection of the record of monuments and places. Development will also entail the construction of a new single storey extension between existing buildings forming a single family dwelling. In addition to partial removal & reconstruction of residual structures, the development will also include glasshouse construction, landscaping works, boundary treatments, DWWTS system, SuDS drainage plan & all associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6301
1 Nov 2023Conditional
Permission for the following development to dwelling house, namely; proposed single storey and storey and a half type extension at rear (north east facing), new single storey extension at side (north west facing), new single storey extension at side (south east facing), new open canopy type porch extension at front, new velux roof windows at front and rear of existing roof, proposed solar panels positioned on front of existing roof (south west facing) and all associated site works, including new treatment unit with percolation area at rear of site and de-commissioning of existing septic tank.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6194
26 Jul 2023Refused
Permission for alteration, extension and changes of use to premises as follows; a) existing ground floor area of dwelling to change from existing residential use to commercial use, namely food storage and staff facilities for the existing café, b) alter and extend the first floor area of the existing dwelling, and change it's use to use for short term letting as single 3 no. bedroom "living over shop" type dwelling house, c) install new waste water treatment plant to replace the existing septic tank.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5520
14 Jul 2023Conditional
Two-storey granny flat to rear of the existing dwelling.
Retention · Cork County Council, 23/5460
28 Jun 2023Incompleted application
Permission for alteration, extension and change of use to premises as follows: a) existing ground floor area of dwelling to change from existing residential use to commercial use, namely food storage and staff facilities for the existing café, b) alter and extend the first floor area of existing dwelling, for use as a single 3 no. bedroom " living over the shop" type residence, c) install new waste water treatment plant to replace the existing septic tank.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5329
31 Mar 2023Incompleted application
Permission for retention of the two-storey granny flat to the rear of the existing dwelling.
Retention · Cork County Council, 23/4611
13 Feb 2023Conditional
Permission for the retention, modification and completion of a partially completed aparthotel which includes the construction of 20 hotel bedrooms, a bar, a restaurant and 24 apartments [for short term letting] ranging in height from three to four storeys over basement. The application follows a number of similar planning permissions on site under planning reg no's 21/5276, 18/6611, 13/4486, 08/7234, 04/9743 and 02/2828. The basement and steel superstructure of the southern 'apartment wing' have been constructed with some modifications to the previously permitted design, the total area constructed constitutes 1,962.03m2. The proposed development is largely similar to that previously permitted with some simplifications to the elevations, replacement of permitted external stair and lift cores with internal cores, covered balcony projections to the front elevation, changes to the finished floor levels, floor heights, eaves heights and ridge heights and change to the building footprint [as a result of works completed to date]. The applicants are also applying for permission for the construction of necessary upgrades to current waste water treatment system, 2 no. surface car parks [providing 58 no. space], drainage works, landscaping and boundary treatments, bin storage, pedestrian crossing, surface treatments and all ancillary site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4236
8 Feb 2023Refused
Construction of an agricultural entrance and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4185
21 Dec 2022Incompleted application
The construction of an agricultural entrance and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6835
2 Dec 2022Incompleted application
Permission for the retention, modification and completion of a partially completed Aparthotel which includes the construction of 20 hotel bedrooms, a bar, restaurant and 24 apartments (for short-term letting) ranging in height from three to four storeys over basement. The application follows a number of similar planning permissions on site under Planning Reg. No’s 21/5276, 18/6611, 13/4486, 08/7234, 04/9743 and 02/2828. The basement and steel superstructure of the southern ‘Apartment Wing’ have been constructed with some modifications to the previously permitted design, the total area constructed constitutes 1,962.03m2. The proposed development is largely similar to that previously permitted with some simplifications to the elevations, replacement of permitted external stair and lift cores with internal cores, covered balcony projections to the front elevation, changes to the finished floor levels, floor heights, eaves heights and ridge heights and change to the building footprint (as a result of works completed to date). The applicants are also applying for permission for the construction of necessary upgrades to current waste water treatment system, 2 no. surface car parks (providing 58 no. spaces), drainage works, landscaping and boundary treatments, bin storage, pedestrian crossing, surface treatments and all ancillary site development works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6687
4 Nov 2022Incompleted application
Permission for retention, modification and completion of a partially complete aparthotel which includes the construction of 20 hotel bedrooms, a bar, restaurant and 24 apartments [for short term letting] ranging in height from three to four storeys over basement. The application follows a number of similar planning permissions on site under planning reg. no’s. 18/6611, 02/2828, 04/9743, 08/7234 and 13/4486. The basement and steel super structure of the southern ‘apartment wing’ have been constructed with some modifications to the previously permitted design, the total area constructed constitutes 1,962.03m2. The proposed development is largely similar to that previously permitted with some simplifications to the elevations, replacement of permitted external stair and lift cores with internal cores, covered balcony projections to the front elevation, changes to the finished floor levels, floor heights, eaves heights and ridge heights and change to the building footprint [as a result of works completed to date]. The applicants are also applying for permission for the construction of necessary upgrades to current wastewater treatment system, 2 no. surface car parks [providing 58 no. spaces], drainage works, landscaping and boundary treatments, bin storage, pedestrian crossing, surface treatments and all ancillary site development works as well as signage to southern hotel elevation.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6479
9 Sept 2022Incompleted application
Permission for retention, modification and completion of a partially complete aparthotel which includes the construction of 20 hotel bedrooms, a bar, restaurant and 24 apartments [for short term letting] ranging in height from three to four storeys over basement. The application follows a number of similar planning permissions on site under planning reg. no’s. 18/6611, 02/2828, 04/9743, 08/7234 and 13/4486. The basement and steel super structure of the southern ‘apartment wing’ have been constructed with some modifications to the previously submitted design, the total area constructed constitutes 1,962.03m2. The proposed development is largely similar to that previously permitted with some simplifications to the elevations, replacement of permitted external stair and lift cores with internal cores, covered balcony projections to the front elevation, changes to the finished floor levels, floor heights, eaves heights and ridge heights and change to the building footprint [as a result of works completed to date]. The applicants are also applying for permission for the construction of necessary upgrades to current wastewater treatment system, 2 no. surface car parks [providing 58 no. spaces], drainage works, landscaping and boundary treatments, bin storage, pedestrian crossing, surface treatments and all ancillary site development works as well as signage to southern hotel elevation.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6052
14 Apr 2022Conditional
The construction of a dwelling house and domestic garage and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4862
6 Oct 2021Conditional
1. Construct a new single storey dwelling house. 2. Construct a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, a new soakaway and a new well on site. 3. Construct a new entrance to site from the laneway. 4. Carry out all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6718
8 Dec 2017Conditional
The construction of 2 no. two-storey detached dwelling houses, 2 No. site entrances the installation of 2 no. wastewater treatment units and associated sand polishing filters the installation of 2 no. new connections to public water mains and all ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/7219
28 Aug 2017Conditional
Change external finish of proposed dwelling (Reg. 16/5029) from smooth plaster finish to timber sheeting
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6229
9 Aug 2017Conditional
Construction of a caravan park consisting of 34 mobile standings, septic tank, filter system constructed on-site, polishing filter and associated site works to service these developments.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6064
3 May 2016Conditional
Construction of dwellinghouse, domestic garage, entrance, sewerage treatment system and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/5029
28 Jan 2016Conditional
Change of plan of dwelling house already permitted under Planning Ref: 14/4969, including new site entrance, new treatment unit and percolation area, new garage (domestic use) and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4127
20 Jan 2016Conditional
The provision of 6 no. additional caravan plots to an existing caravan park and all ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4062
The 25 most recent of 58 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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Garrylucas Marsh 000087
Recorded monuments
- CO124-056 Settlement cluster
Description
On 1842 OS 6-inch map as compact settlement, named Garrylucas East. Overgrown ruins of stone-built houses at S end; one with gable of mud. Only one house at N end of settlement still occupied; long 1-storey gable-ended structure. 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
- Post box, 1930–1950 · Regional interest
Description
Post-mounted cast-iron post box, erected c.1940, having round-headed body with P & T insignia. Set along roadside at T junction.
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 Garrylucas, 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Garrylucas.
- 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 Garrylucas with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Garrylucas · Garraí Lúcáis
- Area
- 605,466 m² (60.55 ha, 149.61 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ringrone, and its townlands
- Barony
- Courceys
- Electoral division
- Ballinspittle, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 727 people lived in 257 households in the Ballinspittle electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolbane, Kilcolman, Lispatrick Lower
- Placenames
- Garrylucas 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.