Hollyhill
Townland in the civil parish of Tisaxon, barony of Kinsale, Co. Cork; in Irish Cnoc an Chuilinn
- Area
- 157.9 ha
- 390 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 6,186 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Hollyhill, from 1,234 m² to 280,493 m² (28.05 ha, 69.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Hollyhill 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
9 Jul 2026Grant with conditions
Permission for dwelling, attached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1839
14 Apr 2026Grant with conditions
Permission for the construction of a storage shed for domestic use only, together with Permission for Retention for :- a) two existing vehicular site entrances (as constructed) and b) Permission for Retention for two existing storage sheds (as constructed), together with demolition of dividing block wall and all ancillary site development works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0928
5 Mar 2026Invalid - case closed
Permission for the construction of a storage shed for domestic use only. Permission for Retention for (a) Two existing vehicular site entrances (as constructed) and (b) Two existing storage sheds (as constructed), together with demolition of dividing block wall and all ancillary site development works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0531
1 Oct 2025Grant with conditions
Permission for alterations and extensions to dwelling house consisting of a two-storey side extension, ground floor rear extension, elevational changes and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6071
31 Mar 2025Conditional permission
Permission for the construction of extensions and alterations to an existing dwelling house, including the demolition of an existing extension and garage, the construction of a garage, the installation of a new on-site wastewater system, a new vehicular entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4544
17 Feb 2017Conditional
Construct a new dwelling house and detached domestic garage.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4345
1 Jul 2016Conditional
Permission to construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/5626
30 Jul 2014Conditional
Construction of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5634
2 Jan 2009Conditional
Dwelling and septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4001
22 May 2007Conditional
Dormer style dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8011
24 Nov 2006Conditional
Demolition of dwellinghouse and construction of one and a half storey dwelling with granny flat
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12652
25 Sept 2006Refused
Single storey dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10874
7 Feb 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4605
23 Dec 2005Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9857
8 Apr 2004Conditional
Renovations and extensions to dwelling and construction of detached domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/2383
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Hollyhill.
Recorded monuments
- CO111-078 Country house
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.
Architectural heritage
- House, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1900, having single-bay two-storey return to rear (west). Pitched slate roof with decorative ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks, gable copings and uPVC rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered wall to ground floor of front elevation with roughcast rendered wall with render sill and platbands to first floor. Rendered walls elsewhere. Square-headed window openings with render sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows throughout, having raised render surrounds to first floor of front elevation. Square-headed door opening to front elevation having channelled render pilasters surmounted by capped consoles and cornice with decorative ridge cresting, having glazed timber door with single-pane overlight. Square-headed door opening to side (north) elevation of return, having glazed timber door. Rubble stone boundary walls with square-profile piers having rubble stone coping and single-leaf wrought-iron gate.
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 10 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Hollyhill.
- 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 Hollyhill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Hollyhill · Cnoc an Chuilinn
- Area
- 1,579,051 m² (157.91 ha, 390.19 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tisaxon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kinsale
- Electoral division
- Kinsale Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kinsale Rural electoral division: 5,605 people in 1,855 households; 75% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballywilliam, Killany
- Placenames
- Hollyhill 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.