Gooldshill

227 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gooldshill, from 10 m² to 115,221 m² (11.52 ha, 28.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Existing residential)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 236 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M4Existing Mixed/General Business/Industrial Uses (Built up area)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.2Industry (General industry)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Green Infrastructure (Active open space)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Green Infrastructure (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Business and General Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4Residential Reserve (Strategic Residential Reserve)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 31 Aug 2026Awaiting admin validation

  Permission for retention of security gate and 2.4m high paladin security fence.

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/2266

• 27 Aug 2026Awaiting recommendation

  Permission for the following works to existing dwelling:- (1) Demolition and reconstruction of the existing front porch, (2) Conversion of the existing garage to habitable accommodation, (3) Re-roofing of the existing garage, (4) Elevational changes to all facades, (5) Demolition of the rear lean-to roof and construction of a flat roof, (6) Demolition of existing side porch and construction of a new bay window and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/2235

• 7 Aug 2026Invalid - case closed

  Permission for:- 1) Demolition and reconstruction of the existing front porch, 2) Conversion of the existing garage to habitable accommodation, 3) Re-roofing of the existing garage, 4) Elevational changes to all facades, 5) Demolition of the rear lean-to roof and construction of a flat roof, 6) Demolition of existing side porch and construction of a new bay window and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/2090

• 7 Apr 2026Grant with conditions

  Permission to alter and to extend existing dwelling, incorporating the following works: a) to alter and construct canopy over front door area, B) clad masonry on the front dwelling wall, c) remove one existing chimney from roof area, d) to construct two new extensions to side and rear of existing dwelling and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0867

• 27 Mar 2026Grant with conditions

  Permission for demolition of existing rear extension, demolition of rear external garden shed, demolition of boiler house to side of house. Permission for proposed construction of single storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling, alterations to facades of existing dwelling and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0773

• 3 Feb 2026Invalid - case closed

  Permission for demolition of existing rear extension and proposed construction of single storey extension to rear of the existing dwelling, alterations to facades of existing dwelling and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0202

• 26 Apr 2024Conditional

  Permission (change of plan from that granted under planning reference no. 23/4252) for a two-storey extension to the side of dwelling, replace existing septic tank with a secondary wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4735

• 22 Feb 2024Conditional

  Permission to retain and complete amendments to planning reference 21/7073. The amendments proposed to retain and complete are as follows: 1) reduction to the size of the previously approved front (eastern) extension, and construction of a new ESB substation & switch room. 2) Extend the size of the distribution & loading bay area to front of the previously approved southern extension. 3) installation of a back up generator to service the entire development and all ancillary works at Lyonara Cold Stores.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 24/4299

• 13 Dec 2023Conditional

  Permission for retention of a change in design, size and location of a domestic garage and home office from what was granted originally under Pl.Reg.No. 16/7247.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 23/6485

• 7 Dec 2023Incompleted application

  Full planning permission for amendments to planning reference 21/7073. The proposed amendments consist of the following: 1/ Reduce the size of the previously approved front (eastern) extension, and construct a new ESB Substation & Switch Room. 2/ Extend the size of the distribution & loading bay area to the front of the previously approved southern extension. 3/ Provision of a backup generator to service the entire development and all ancillary works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6435

• 20 Sept 2023Conditional

  Permission for dwelling, entrance, wastewater treatment plant, and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5904

• 15 Feb 2023Conditional

  Two-storey extension to rear of dwelling, replace existing septic tank with secondary wastewater treatment and polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4252

• 3 Feb 2023Incompleted application

  To construct a two-storey extension to rear of dwelling, replace existing septic tank with a secondary wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4166

• 13 Jan 2023Incompleted application

  To construct a two-storey extension to rear of dwelling, replace existing septic tank with a secondary wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4023

• 14 Dec 2022Incompleted application

  Change in design, size and location of a domestic garage and home office from what was granted originally under planning no. 16/7247.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 22/6759

• 27 Sept 2022Conditional

  (1) Permission for retention of an existing ESB sub-station building (14.4sqm) and existing plant room building (10.3 sqm) and (2) Permission to construct a customer switch room building (10.6 sqm) attached to the western side of the existing ESB sub-station building.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6170

• 25 Jul 2022Incompleted application

  The construction of a light industrial/warehouse building comprising of 2 no. units, associated services yard, parking area, attenuation tank along with carrying out all associated site works. Extension of Duration to Permission granted under Planning Ref. No. 16/7103

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 22/5748

• 8 Jun 2022Conditional

  Permission for an 18m monopole structure with headframe carrying antenna and dishes enclosed within a 2.4 metre high palisade fence compound together with associated ground equipment cabinets and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5322

• 4 May 2022Conditional

  Extension and alterations to existing dwelling house including; demolition of front and side porches, attic conversion, two storey rear extension, single storey side extension, elevational changes, garage conversion and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5007

• 15 Nov 2021Conditional

  1/ Construct 1no. cold store extension to the side of the existing cold store building which will include loading bays and circulation routes. 2/ Construct an additional cold store extension located to the front of the existing cold store development. 3/ Provision of additional car park spaces and all ancillary works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/7073

• 20 Oct 2021Incompleted application

  To construct 1 no. cold store extension to the side of the existing cold store building which will include loading bays and circulation routes and an additional cold store extension located to the front of the existing cold store development known as Lyonara Cold Stores Cork and all ancillary works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6857

• 18 Oct 2021Withdrawn

  To replace an existing 12m telecommunication structure with a new 18m monopole structure with headframe carrying antenna and dishes enclosed within a new 2.4metre high palisade fence compound together with associated ground equipment cabinets and associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6824

• 14 Oct 2021Conditional

  Erect 2,390.00m2 or 484.20 kW of photovoltaic panels on the roofs of the building in the Cold Store with all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6798

• 1 Apr 2021Conditional

  The change of use of units 1, 2, 4 and 5 from office use, to allow for both medical research/services use (Class 8a) and office / administrative use (Class 3) and all associated ancillary development.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4835

• 25 Feb 2021Conditional

  To construct a new domestic entrance and driveway to serve existing dwelling and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4465

The 25 most recent of over 100 applications.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Gooldshill.

Recorded monuments

• CO033-056 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• CO033-057 Enclosure
  Description

  Depicted as hachured rectangular enclosure (c. 50m E-W; c. 25m N-S) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. In pasture, on gentle WNW-facing slope. Levelled; no visible surface trace. Listed by Barry (1981, 83, no. 39). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO033-058 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on NE-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 18m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO033-059 Moated site
  Description

  Depicted as hachured trapezoidal enclosure (c. 70m E-W; c. 60m N-S) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, with W side slightly convex. In pasture, on nearly level ground; short distance to N land falls steeply down to N. Levelled; earthen bank (int. H 1.25m; ext. H 1.4m) survives to W and N incorporated in field boundary system; external fosse (D 0.1m) survives as slight slope down to base of bank. Bank on W side curves as shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Fosse to S clearly visible as shadow mark in aerial photograph (CASAP). Industrial development extends up to edge of enclosure on N side. Circular enclosure (13552) c. 70m to W. Listed by Barry (1981, 83, no. 38). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO033-060 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of bank and external fosse of E, S and W sides of rectangular enclosure, N side formed by field boundary, visible in aerial photograph (GSIAP, W 412, July 1975). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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

• Saint Gobnait's Cemetery, church/chapel, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted single-cell Church of Ireland mortuary chapel, built 1886, standing in graveyard. Pitched artificial slate roof having cast-iron ridge crestings and cross finials, dressed limestone copings, cast-iron rainwater goods and carved limestone bracketed eaves course. Snecked cut limestone walls with dressed limestone buttresses to corners. Pointed arch window openings, triple-light to east gable, with multi-paned timber windows having dressed and chamfered limestone surrounds. Pointed arch door opening to west gable with timber battened double-leaf door, dressed and chamfered limestone surrounds and cut limestone voussoirs.

• Saint Gobnait's Cemetery, church/chapel, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted single-cell Roman Catholic mortuary chapel, dated 1886, standing in graveyard. Pitched artificial slate roof having cast-iron ridge crestings and cross finials, dressed limestone copings, cast-iron rainwater goods and carved limestone bracketed eaves course. Snecked cut limestone walls with dressed limestone buttresses to corners. Circular recessed date plaque to west gable having chamfered dressed limestone surround, cut limestone voussoirs and carved date. Pointed arch window openings, triple-light to east gable, with multi-paned timber windows and dressed and chamfered limestone surrounds. Pointed arch door opening to west gable with timber battened double-leaf door, dressed and chamfered limestone surrounds and cut limestone voussoirs.

• Saint Gobnait's Cemetery, sexton's house, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached cruciform-plan sexton's house, built 1886, with gables to all elevations. Pitched slate roofs with dressed limestone chimneystack, cast-iron ridge crestings, decorative timber bargeboards to gables, and timber eaves. Snecked dressed limestone walls with dressed limestone plinth. Square-headed window openings with multi-paned timber windows with carved transoms and mullions and dressed and chamfered surrounds. Tudor-arch door opening to south elevation with timber battened door and dressed limestone voussoirs. Graveyard to site with carved limestone gravestones. Rubble limestone boundary walls to road with entrance to south having cut limestone square-profile piers with carved caps and decorative cast-iron gates. Rubble limestone internal dividing walls with square-profile cut limestone piers to internal to east with carved caps.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_943 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Gooldshill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Gooldshill · Cnoc an Ghúlaigh

Area

1,166,160 m² (116.62 ha, 288.16 acres)

Civil parish

Mallow, and its townlands

Barony

Fermoy

Electoral division

Mallow Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Mallow Rural electoral division: 5,045 people in 1,684 households; 62% of households own their home; 53% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydahin, Carhookeal, Gortnagraiga, Quartertown Lower, Quartertown Upper

Placenames

Gooldshill 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.