# Inishleena, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Inishcarra, barony of Muskerry East, Co. Cork; in Irish Inis Loinge.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 246,696 m² (24.67 ha, 60.96 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 9,690 m² (0.97 ha, 2.39 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Inishcarra, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/inishcarra.md
- Barony: Muskerry East
- Electoral division: Dripsey, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Dripsey electoral division: 1,618 people in 519 households; 86% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/9442
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 43242
- Centre: latitude 51.90545, longitude -8.699266 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Inishleena, from 155 m² to 182,443 m² (18.24 ha, 45.08 acres); 9 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 2153041: 182,443 m² (18.24 ha, 45.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2153041.md
- Parcel 2335152: 74,285 m² (7.43 ha, 18.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2335152.md
- Parcel 6083372: 41,050 m² (4.11 ha, 10.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6083372.md
- Parcel 2153040: 17,072 m² (1.71 ha, 4.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2153040.md
- Parcel 2330545: 2,307 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2330545.md
- Parcel 2153039: 1,165 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2153039.md
- Parcel 2330546: 438 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2330546.md
- Parcel 2293193: 155 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2293193.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Inishleena in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

7 applications, newest first.

- 8 Jan 2015, Cork County Council 15/4014: Unconditional. Extension of duration. Alterations, ground and first floor extensions to bungalow to create a one-and-a-half storey dwelling, extension of duration to permission granted under Planning Ref. No. 09/5645. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=15/4014
- 21 May 2009, Cork County Council 09/5645: Conditional. Permission. Alterations, ground & first floor extensions to bungalow to create a one-and-a-half storey dwelling. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=09/5645
- 16 Mar 2009, Cork County Council 09/4810: Incompleted application. Permission. Alterations, ground & first floor extensins to bungalow to create a one-and-a-half storey dwelling. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=09/4810
- 20 Feb 2009, Cork County Council 09/4521: Incompleted application. Permission. Construction of dormer/storey and half extension and alterations to dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=09/4521
- 10 Oct 2008, Cork County Council 08/9219: Refused. Outline permission. Dwelling, garage and wastewater treatment system. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=08/9219
- 8 Sept 2008, Cork County Council 08/8791: Incompleted application. Outline permission. Dwelling, garage and wastewater treatment system. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=08/8791
- 17 Oct 2007, Cork County Council 07/11706: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of waste water treatment unit. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/11706

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

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

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- CO072-044001: Burial ground, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO072-044001-. Shown on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps as square area in which is marked 'Abbey (Site of)'; shown on 1938 OS 6-inch map, square enclosure marked 'Burial Ground (private)' and 'Abbey (site of)' (CO072-044002-). Bullaun stone (CO072-044003-) within enclosure; holy well (CO072-045----) to NE. On N bank of River Lee; submerged in 1956 by flooding as part of the Lee Valley Hydro-electric Scheme. Excavations by Fahy (1957b, 65-71) revealed roughly rectangular stone-revetted earthen bank, enclosing and partially overlying wall-lines of 17th century stone structure, known to be in ruins by 1716. Burial area in SE corner, defined by 'a group of graves marked by uncut headstones and one modern, dressed headstone' (ibid., 65), overlay foundations of stone structure. Traditionally associated of site with St Senan (O Buachalla et al. 1958, 32). 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
- CO072-044002: Ecclesiastical site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO072-044002-. Formerly on N bank of river Lee; site, known as Inishleena Abbey, was excavated by Fahy in 1956 prior to area being flooded by Lee Valley Hydro-electric Scheme (Fahy 1957b). Before excavation site consisted of roughly rectangular area (c. 24m E-W; c. 21m N-S) enclosed by 'tree-lined bank with stone revetments' (ibid., 65); near W end was bullaun stone (CO072-044003-); holy well (CO072-045----) short distance to NE. Interior archaeologically excavated except for burial ground (CO072-044001-); earliest phase uncovered consisted of 'a two-roomed building of sandstone rubble bonded with lime mortar' (ibid., 68), to which a third room was subsequently added; the earlier building did not appear to be earlier than the 17th century. According to Fahy (ibid., 69), 'the next significant activity on the site was the conversion of its south-eastern corner into a burial ground perhaps one hundred and fifty years ago'. At about same time enclosing bank constructed. Excavation failed to produce evidence in support of claim that this was an early ecclesiastical site (ibid.). Claim based on reference to a foundation here in life of St Senan and the fact that it was later apossession of Gill Abbey (Fahy et al., 1958); Gwynn and Hadcock (1988, 387) attribute its foundation to St Finbar. 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
- CO072-045: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO072-045----. Recorded by Fahy (1957b, 65) prior to flooding by Lee Valley Hydro-electric Scheme. Well stood to N of Inishleena abbey (CO072-044002-), at foot of rock cliff and was traditionally associated with abbey and regarded as a holy well. It was enclosed within a canopy of mortared sandstone-rubble and red brick (int. H 3ft 5in; 2ft 8in x 4ft 6in). 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Inishleena.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 Inishleena.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cork/inishleena.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/inishleena.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/inishleena.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Inishleena with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork: https://everytownland.com/cork.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Clashanure: https://everytownland.com/cork/clashanure.md
- Faha: https://everytownland.com/cork/faha.md
- Magooly: https://everytownland.com/cork/magooly.md
- Walshestown: https://everytownland.com/cork/walshestown-45334.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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