Kealfadda
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmoe, barony of Carbery West (West Division), Co. Cork; in Irish An Caol Fada
- Area
- 193.8 ha
- 479 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 22,034 m² (2.2 ha, 5.44 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kealfadda, from 106 m² to 338,445 m² (33.84 ha, 83.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Kealfadda 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
24 Feb 2026Grant with conditions
Permission for retention of two no. polytunnels used for the purpose of growing vegetables, permission for retention of composting shed, and all associated site works.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/0453
3 Feb 2021Conditional
Alterations and 2 storey extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/68
10 Aug 2011Conditional
Retention of changes to extensions and alterations to dwelling (granted under Ref: 10/143), including new plant room, lean-to wood store and changes to fenestration
Retention · Cork County Council, 11/491
1 Mar 2010Conditional
Extension to a dwelling house, to connect it to an existing detached guest accommodation building to form one dwelling and permission for alterations to existing conservatory to said dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/143
27 Feb 2006Conditional
Retention & completion of conservatory extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/294
23 Feb 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse & all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/277
1 Sept 2005Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6326
16 Jun 2003Conditional
Retention & completion of alterations to existing cottage & change of use to guest/ancillary accomodation & extension to existing dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/2938
15 Jul 2002Conditional
Construction of conservatory extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 02/3079
6 Mar 2002Conditional
Retention of demolition of cottage and retention and completion of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 02/946
21 Jan 2002Conditional
Renovations and extension to dwelling and demolition of outbuildings
Permission · Cork County Council, 02/140
28 Aug 2001Conditional
Installation of septic tank and percolation area to serve existing dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/4840
29 Aug 2000Conditional
Alterations & extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/5269
17 Dec 1999Conditional
Demolition of garage & construction of ancillary dwelling & domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 99/6947
15 Jun 1999Conditional
Extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 99/3235
9 Jan 1998Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 98/31
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 Kealfadda.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kealfadda.
Architectural heritage
- House, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1870. Later side-entrance gable-fronted porch to front (south). Outbuilding to side (west) and rear (north). Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneys and uPVC rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed openings with two-over-two timber sliding sash windows and concrete sills. Square-headed door opening (porch) with replacement timber door. Square-headed door opening (east) with replacement timber door. Rendered boundary walls with brick coping to piers with 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 5 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 Kealfadda.
- 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 Kealfadda with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Kealfadda · An Caol Fada
- Area
- 1,937,515 m² (193.75 ha, 478.77 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmoe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery West (West Division)
- Electoral division
- Toormore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Toormore electoral division: 216 people in 91 households; 90% of households own their home; 17% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 44% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballydivlin, Ballyrisode, Dunkelly East, Dunmanus West, Toormore
- Placenames
- Kealfadda 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.