Kilbrack

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilbrack, from 403 m² to 429,777 m² (42.98 ha, 106.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• G3Green Infrastructure (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 6 Sept 2024Conditional

  Permission for upgrade and replacement of existing wastewater treatment system and alteration to surface water drainage and all associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5686

• 28 Sept 2012Conditional

  Construction of a domestic entrance

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/6057

• 31 May 2007Conditional

  Alterations and extensions to dwelling and construction of pitched roof over existing flat roof

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8270

• 15 Aug 2006Conditional

  Retention of alterations and extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9784

• 24 Jul 2006Incompleted application

  Retention of alterations and extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9175

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

• CO025-039 Church
  Description

  Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map in demesne of Kilbrack House as D-shaped field (c. 30m NNW-SSE; projecting c. 50m to SW) planted with trees; shown on 1905 OS 6-inch map with field fence removed SE->W; shown on 1937 OS 6-inch map with straight field fence on S side and broken line defining area W->NE. In pasture, on S-facing slope. Field fences removed; E side defined by ha-ha of Kilbrack House; area planted with trees. According to local information, site of 'early church'; mass path led to site from Doneraile. 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

• Kilbrack House, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Two-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c. 1840, with canted north, roadside, elevation projecting from boundary wall. Now private house. Addition to west side. Hipped slate roof to main block, spired to canted bay, with rendered chimneystack, limestone eaves course and recent galvanized rainwater goods, and having slate roof to addition, pitched to north and hipped to south. Painted lined-and-ruled rendered walls with render quoins. Pointed arch window openings to front and road elevations, with timber sash windows, comprising intersecting glazing to top sashes and six-pane lower sashes. Square-headed timber windows elsewhere. Pointed arch door opening having timber battened door approached by limestone steps.

• Laurentinum, gates/railings/walls, gate lodge, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Entrance gates and gate lodge to Laurentinum, erected c. 1840. Square-profile ashlar limestone piers with plinths, caps and limestone wheel guards, having decorative double-leaf cast-iron vehicular gates set in curved rendered walls with cut-stone copings, terminated by similar piers to roadside. Three-bay single-storey gate lodge, now disused, having pyramidal slate roof with low rendered chimneystack, stone cornice under projecting eaves, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rubble stone walls having roughly dressed plinth, roughly dressed stone pilasters to front corners and flanking door. Square-headed openings with brick label-mouldings, limestone sills, fixed timber bipartite windows to front, timber paned casement windows elsewhere, and central door opening with recent timber battened door.

• Laurentinum, farmyard complex, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex of two-storey ranges of farm buildings, built c. 1830, set on three sides of cobbled yard to rear of Laurentinum, and having exposed and rendered rubble limestone walls. Nine-bay two-storey north-west range with pitched slate roof with limestone eaves course, paired three-centred-arch vehicular entrances to centre with cut limestone surrrounds, external steps to east gable accessing first floor, oeil-de-boeuf window openings to first floor over arches and having timber louvers, and square-headed door and window openings elsewhere, with brick voussoirs and timber battened fixtures. Nine-bay two-storey north-east range having pitched corrugated-iron roof and square-headed window and door openings with brick voussoirs and timber fixtures. Five-bay two-storey south-west range having pitched slate roof, external steps to front elevation giving access to first floor, and square-headed window and door openings with some bipartite timber casement windows, and having elliptical-arch vehicular entrances to rear having cut-stone surrounds, and square-headed windows also to rear with dressed stone voussoirs.

• Laurentinum, country house, 1740–1750 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan six-bay two-storey house over half-basement, built c. 1745, facing south-east. Former second floor removed and house re-roofed c. 1850, having projecting porch to front, one-bay deep addition to three-fifths of rear under catslide roof, and single-bay three-storey flat-roof addition to south-west elevation. Hipped slate roof with oversailing eaves, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered rubble limestone walls, painted lined and ruled to front and side elevations and limewashed to rear. Front elevation has channelled ashlar to basement, cut limestone quoins and cut limestone string course between basement and ground floor. Flat-roof porch has tripartite front elevation, with render pilasters flanking openings, moulded cornice, stepped parapet with panels, square-headed door opening with flanking sidelights having cut limestone sills, approached by flight of limestone steps. Square-headed inner door is glazed timber and double-leaf, flanked by fluted Ionic-style pilasters with limestone plinths, in turn flanked by walling with panelling having moudled surrounds. Square-headed window openings, some blind to south-west elevation, with limestone sills and having timber sliding sash windows, recently repaired to front, nine-over-six pane to ground floor, and six-over-six pane to first floor, basement and to rear elevation. Round-headed twleve-over-eight pane stairs window to rear elevation with fanlight. Some brick voussoirs evident to rear elevation. One-over-one pane to south-west addition. Farmyard to rear. Three-bay single-storey lodge set at junction of farmyard lane and main avenue, now disused, having pitched slate roof with projecting eaves and rendered brick chimneystack, exposed and rendered rubble stone walls, and having square-headed timber casement window and timber battened door to front, and rounded-headed window and door openings to rear with limestone voussoirs, doorway now blocked. Double-leaf wrought-iron gates adjacent to lodge. Set in mature parkland landscape. Entrance gates and lodge to north.

• Kilbrack House, country house, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan four-bay two-storey house over basement, built c. 1790, facing east, having four-bay south side elevation, three-bay rear elevation, lower and slightly-recessed two-storey flat-roof addition to north elevation with single-bay ground floor and two-bay first floor, and two-storey recessed wing to north-west having rendered bellcote to gable. Hipped slate roof having rendered chimneystack with ceramic pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods supported on iron brackets. Parapet and moulded cornice to north addition. Pitched slate roof and rendered chimneystack to north-west wing. Rendered walls, with limestone quoins and limestone string course to plinth level. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills, having nine-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to ground floor, and three-over-three pane windows to first floor, having render voussoirs to ground floor and render keystones to first floor. Front elevation of north addition has quadripartite one-over-one pane window to ground floor and pair of two-over-two pane windows to first floor and side elevation has three-over-three pane to first floor and bipartite two-over-two pane to ground. Various openings to north-west wing, including three-over-three pane, onr-over-one pane oriel and nine-over-six pane to first floor, and six-over-six pane to ground floor. Square-headed door opening to façade, having timber panelled door and cobweb fanlight, with render voussoirs and approached by cut limestone steps. Cut limestone gate piers with wheel guards providing access to north end of house extensions, having two-storey farm building to north with pitched slate roof, rendered walls and square-headed doorways and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Farmyard to north-west, enclosed by single- and two-storey ranges, having pitched slate roofs, rubble limestone walls, square-headed openings and elliptical integral carriage arches. Set in mature garden and parkland landscape. Entrance gates and lodge to north.

• Kilbrack House, gates/railings/walls, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Entrance gates to Kilbrack House, erected c. 1840, comprising square-profile ashlar limestone piers with plinths and moulded caps, having double-leaf wrought-iron vehicular gates with decorative details and limestone wheel guards, and having similar piers and gates to flanking pedestrian openings. Curved rendered walls to ends, having cut-stone copings and plinths, teminating in piers similar to those of gates. Gate lodge straddling demesne wall to west.

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 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 Kilbrack.

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

Name

Kilbrack · An Choill Bhreac

Area

1,496,382 m² (149.64 ha, 369.76 acres)

Civil parish

Doneraile, and its townlands

Barony

Fermoy

Electoral division

Wallstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Wallstown electoral division: 270 people in 89 households; 90% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carkerbeg, Castlesaffron, Demesne, Inchakevin, Park North, Park South, Skaghardgannon

Placenames

Kilbrack 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.