Inchaleagh
Townland in the civil parish of Aghinagh, barony of Muskerry East, Co. Cork; in Irish An Inse Liath
- Area
- 118.6 ha
- 293 acres
- Land parcels
- 41
- registered freehold, median 2,538 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 20
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Inchaleagh, from 188 m² to 219,448 m² (21.94 ha, 54.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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 Inchaleagh 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
23 Feb 2026Grant with conditions
Permission for the renovation of an existing cottage which includes increasing the roof pitch, an extension to the rear of the cottage, a new vehicular entrance, a domestic garage, an effluent treatment system and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0438
8 Jul 2022Conditional
Construction of dwellinghouse and domestic garage, new entrance, wastewater treatment system together with all other ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5596
17 Jun 2022Incompleted application
Construction of dwelling house and domestic garage, new entrance, waste water treatment system together with all other ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5424
2 Jun 2020Conditional
Permission for retention for demolition of single storey conservatory to rear of dwelling and permission to demolish existing single storey porch and first floor extension and to construct new single storey porch, additional of first floor extension, internal and external alterations, railing to form balcony to existing flat roof, all to existing two storey cottage and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5105
6 Mar 2019Withdrawn
Construction of dwellinghouse, domestic garage, new entrance together with all other site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4531
8 Jan 2015Conditional
Construction of a dwelling house & associated works including modifying entrance to public road & a septic tank system
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4016
3 Jun 2014Unconditional
Dwelling house, domestic store/garage, wastewater treatment unit & percolation area and associated site works, extension of duration to permission granted under Planning Ref. No. 09/4805
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 14/5177
9 Apr 2014Conditional
Retention of extension to side and rear of existing dwelling house
Retention · Cork County Council, 14/4719
17 May 2010Conditional
Dwellinghouse, private garage for the storage of classic cars, septic tank and percolation area
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5193
31 Mar 2010Conditional
Dwelling, septic tank and percolation area
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4738
16 Mar 2009Conditional
Dwelling house, domestic store/garage, wastewater treatment unit & percolation area and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4805
28 Nov 2008Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse & wastewater treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9888
29 Feb 2008Conditional
Dwellinghouse and installation of wastewater treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5122
18 Jan 2008Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse and installation of wastewater treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4206
19 Sept 2007Refused
Dwellinghouse, domestic store/garage, and associated services including installation of new septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11090
8 Mar 2007Refused
Dwellinghouse and domestic garage/store
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5765
17 Aug 2006Conditional
Construction of slatted house with underground tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9822
17 Aug 2006Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse and domestic garage/store
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9821
26 Jul 2005Conditional
2 no. dwellinghouses
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/5359
21 Jun 2004Refused
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/4506
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: Lough Gal 001067
Recorded monuments
- CO060-146 Burial ground
Description
Shown only on 1842 OS 6-inch map, depicted as oval enclosure defined by broken line (c. 110m NE-SW; c. 18m NW-SE), with lane parallel to and inside NW side taking up half of width of enclosure. Lane now disused; overgrown to SE. No visible surface trace of enclosure or gravemarkers. Known locally as "Old Aghinagh burial ground". The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO060-180 Bullaun stone
Description
Forming footstone in gap in N-S field fence; disused burial ground (9332) c. 100m to E. Large irregular stone with two roughly circular hollows. Large hollow (diam. 0.29m; D 0.17m) in centre; smaller hollow (diam. 0.19m; D 0.14m) to one side. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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, 1940–1960 · Regional interest
Description
Pole mounted cast-iron post box, erected c.1950. Raised P&T emblem and panelling detail to main body and door.
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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Inchaleagh.
- 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 Inchaleagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Inchaleagh · An Inse Liath
- Area
- 1,186,028 m² (118.6 ha, 293.07 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghinagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry East
- Electoral division
- Aghinagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Aghinagh electoral division: 518 people in 168 households; 90% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyvongane, Beheena, Coolkisha, Deelish, Drombeg, Knockacroghera, Laharankeal, Leadawillin
- Placenames
- Inchaleagh 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.