Island

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Island, from 372 m² to 279,799 m² (27.98 ha, 69.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 48 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 4 Apr 2025Conditional permission

  Permission to demolish existing conservatory and construct new single storey extension to rear and side of existing single storey dwelling, internal alterations and all associated works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4598

• 30 Apr 2021Conditional

  Permission for retention of as constructed domestic garage.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 21/5167

• 5 Oct 2015Conditional

  Construction of a new part single storey, part two storey detached dwelling, associated garage and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6210

• 10 Jun 2015Refused

  Construction of a new part single storey, part two-storey dwelling, associated garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5218

• 20 Mar 2015Conditional

  Construction of a first floor extension over an existing bungalow, two storey extension to the southeast of the existing bungalow, elevational alterations to the southeast, southwest and northwest of the existing bungalow, packaged wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, new site entrance to the northeast of the dwellinghouse, removal of two existing site entrances to the east and northeast of the dwellinghouse and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4543

• 26 Sept 2014Conditional

  Retention of extension to rear of dwelling along with retention of attic conversion including 6 no. velux windows to rear of roof and retention of detached domestic garage/fuel store

  Retention · Cork County Council, 14/6076

• 22 Nov 2011Conditional

  Demolition of defective dwelling and detached garage with replacement by construction of dwelling and garage, replacement of existing septic tank with package wastewater treatment system and constructed sand-based polishing filter. Vehicular entry maintained via existing road access

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/6449

• 2 Nov 2010Conditional

  Demolition of front porch, to make elevation alterations and minor internal alterations to the existing dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/8365

• 1 Jun 2010Conditional

  Construction of domestic garage, and alterations to design of dwelling previously permitted under Pl. Reg. No. 08/4816 consisting of alterations to floor plan and elevations

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5352

• 19 Oct 2009Conditional

  Retention & completion of garage & fuel store

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7361

• 23 Sept 2009Incompleted application

  Retention and completion of garage and food store

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7148

• 23 Jun 2008Conditional

  Retention of extension to milking parlour

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7426

• 8 May 2008Conditional

  Domestic garage/fuel store

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6604

• 28 Feb 2008Incompleted application

  Construction of garage incorporating fuel store

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5076

• 18 Feb 2008Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and installation of waste water treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4816

• 17 Jan 2008Refused

  Demolition of dwellinghouse and detached garage and construction of dwellinghouse incorporating garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4184

• 18 Dec 2007Incompleted application

  Demolition of dwelling and construction of dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/13168

• 22 Aug 2007Conditional

  Retention of window to side elevation of dwelling and detached domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10432

• 10 Jul 2007Refused

  Domestic garage and fuel store

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9458

• 6 Jun 2007Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and detached garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8394

• 17 May 2007Incompleted application

  Construction of garage/fuel store

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7869

• 15 May 2007Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7788

• 12 Apr 2006Conditional

  Extension to dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6346

• 16 Mar 2006Incompleted application

  Extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/5632

• 13 May 2005Conditional

  Extension to easy feed and retention of existing easy feed

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3252

The 25 most recent of 28 applications.

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170

Recorded monuments

• CO022-100 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on S-facing slope. Site heavily overgrown with trees, bushes and scrub. Roughly circular area ( 32.5m N-S) defined by earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.45m) to N, S and W; intervening fosse (D 2.75m); outer earthen bank (H 0.45m) survives to N and S; external fosse to S (D 2.05m). Stream flows through intervening fosse from N anticlockwise to S. Entrance (Wth 3.5m) to E. Interior slopes down to S; low mound on E side; possible souterrain (CO022-272---) in SE quadrant. Bowman (1934, 176-7) recorded triple-ramparted ringfort with 'about seven-eights [sic] of the outer, and half of the middle and inner ramparts, levelled'. 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

• CO022-101 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture. Burnt material noted on E bank of stream and in stream bed. Second fulacht fiadh (10972) c. 140m to S. Probably one of four fulachta fiadh (10972, 10973, 10974) recorded in Island by Bowman (1934, 177). 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

• CO022-102 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture, on E side of stream. Horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt material (18.4m NW-SE; 12m NE-SW; H 2.1m); opening faces SSW. Second fulacht fiadh (10971) c. 140m to N. Probably one of four fulachta fiadh (10971, 10973, 10974) recorded in Island by Bowman (1934, 177). 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

• CO022-272 Souterrain
  Description

  In ringfort (CO022-100---). According to Bowman (1934, 177), 'depression on the south part, shows site of souterrain'. Depression (7m N-S; 8.8m E-W; D 1.1m) noted inside inner bank at SE. 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

• CO022-274 Kiln - lime
  Description

  On W side of road. According to local information, front wall retains earthen core; arched recess; brick-lined funnel. Rebuilt by Newmarket Community Council in 1996. 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

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, 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 Island.

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 Island with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Island · An tOileán

Area

2,143,612 m² (214.36 ha, 529.7 acres)

Civil parish

Clonfert, and its townlands

Barony

Duhallow

Electoral division

Newmarket, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Newmarket electoral division: 1,579 people in 647 households; 76% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghaneenagh, Castlemacauliffe, Clonfert, Cloongeel, Dromanarrigle, Liscongill, Longacre, Park

Placenames

Island 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.