Islandbrack
Islandbrack is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmeen (Kanturk Ra), barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An tOileán Breac.
- Area
- 149.4 ha
- 369 acres
- Land parcels
- 63
- registered freehold, median 2,718 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Islandbrack, from 19 m² to 134,043 m² (13.4 ha, 33.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Islandbrack 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
17 Jul 2025Conditional permission
a) Construct a new roof to existing derelict house and renovate same, b) Construct a new extension to the rear of the derelict house, c) Install a new mechanical aeration unit and soil polishing filter.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5426
1 Nov 2022Conditional permission
To construct a new dwelling house and domestic garage served by mechanical aeration unit and soil polishing filter.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6436
17 Apr 2012Unconditional
Dormer dwelling and envirocare sewage treatment plant and a raised percolation-soil polishing filter, Extension of Duration of permission granted under Planning Reg. No. 06/11283
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 12/4776
1 Apr 2009Withdrawn
Extension to side of existing dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5004
4 Oct 2007Conditional
Extension to bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11433
20 Sept 2007Incompleted application
Extension to side of bungalow and ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11109
9 Oct 2006Conditional
Dormer dwelling and envirocare sewage treatment plant and a raised percolation-soil polishing filter
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11283
27 Apr 2006Conditional
Slatted unit extension with underground storage tanks to existing building
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6725
22 Aug 2005Conditional
Dormer bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6034
23 Mar 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Approval · Cork County Council, 04/1923
13 Oct 2003Conditional
Extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/5086
3 Apr 2003Conditional
Extension to dwellinghouse, and construction of new entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/1516
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
Recorded monuments
- CO029-082 Kiln - lime
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
- Doon Bridge, bridge, 1920–1940 · Regional interest
Description
Double-arched concrete road bridge, built c. 1930, at a skew over Owentaraglin River, possible on site of earlier stone bridge. Rubble stone base to northern arch. Render copings to parapet walls. Segmental arches. V-cutwaters to both elevations to front of square-profile piers to centre of river. Tooled coursed rubble stone flagging to embankment.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Islandbrack, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Islandbrack.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Islandbrack with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Islandbrack · An tOileán Breac
- Area
- 1,493,911 m² (149.39 ha, 369.15 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmeen (Kanturk Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Electoral division
- Doonasleen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 470 people lived in 162 households in the Doonasleen electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Doonasleen East, Glantane More, Knockduff Upper, Knocknageeha West, Loumanagh South, Ummeraboy East, Urraghilmore (East), Urraghilmore (West)
- Placenames
- Islandbrack 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.