Kilbree

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilbree, from 2,142 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres) to 810,835 m² (81.08 ha, 200.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Kilbree 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.

• 6 Oct 2025Grant with conditions

  Permission for retention of a domestic garage and a single unit stable building

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/6115

• 17 Feb 2021Conditional

  Permission for 1) The construction of a single-storey detached garden room and 2) Alteration to existing ground levels along the northern boundary of his site and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4377

• 5 Sept 2018Conditional

  Retention of 1) elevational changes including solar panels to dwelling 2) vehicular entrance as constructed and 3) domestic garage as constructed

  Retention · Cork County Council, 18/6344

• 8 Dec 2016Conditional

  To construct new cheese production facility and a significant upgrade of the existing Dairygold Food Ingredients (DFI) facility. The proposed development consists of: 1. Construction of the following Buildings or structures and associated services and site works:- • Cheese Production Building – predominantly single-storey with 3-storey middle section and 2-storey administration block • Single storey part Open sided, roofed, Milk Intake Unit and piperack structure • Single storey Workshop • Single storey Box Store • 2-storey Reception and Staff Facilities Building • Single storey Boiler House • Single storey RO and Pasteurisation Building • Single storey Weighbridge Security Building • Single storey Water Treatment and Fire Pumphouse Building • Electrical Sub-station and Switchroom • 2-bay Loading Bay structure attached to the northern end of the existing cheese factory • 2 No. water storage tanks (12.6m and 9.6m high); 1 No. Salt Saturation Storage Tank (5.1m high) 2. Closure of 3 entrances and the construction of new entrance for HGV traffic off the L3627 on the northern site boundary. Closure of the existing HGV entrance and construction of new entrance for staff and visitor car traffic only off the L3805 Mogeely-Castlemartyr Road on the eastern site boundary 3. Demolition of the following Buildings or Structures and associated services: a) Dairy and Maintenance Workshop Building; b) Packaging Store; c) Boiler House and 3 No. stacks (33.9m high); d) Canteen; e) Reception and Office Building; f) Generator Building and removal of all associated Redundant Tankage. 4. Upgrade of an existing bund and construction of new adjoining bund to accommodate existing tanks and the following new tankage, (height listed in brackets) and all services associated with the tankage: 6 No. Milk Silos(14.0m), 2 No. Milk Silos(18.5m), 3 No. Cream Storage Tanks(5.8m), 5 No. Cleaning Tanks(8.0m),4 No. Cleaning Tanks(5.0m), 2 No. Whey Silos(12.7m), 2 No. Whey Silos(13.2m), 2 No. Bulk Chemical Tanks(5.45m) 5. Construction of a 124 space Car Park, Internal Roads accessing the site from the new Entrances / Exits, Covered Pedestrian Walkway and mounded Berms, Boundary Walls, Fencing and all Associated Landscaping Works. 6. Upgrade and expansion of the existing Wastewater Treatment Plant including new Balance Tank, Anaerobic and Aerobic Tanks, Clarifier, Picket Fence Thickener, Dissolved Air Flotation (DAF) Plant, Pumping Station, Control Room, Filters and Concrete Plinths. The propo

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/7031

• 30 Nov 2016Incompleted application

  1. Construction of the following Buildings or structures and associated services and site works:- • Cheese Production Building – predominantly single-storey with 3-storey middle section and 2-storey administration block • Single storey part Open sided, roofed, Milk Intake Unit and piperack structure • Single storey Workshop • Single storey Box Store • 2-storey Reception and Staff Facilities Building • Single storey Boiler House • Single storey RO and Pasteurisation Building • Single storey Weighbridge Security Building • Single storey Water Treatment and Fire Pumphouse Building • Electrical Sub-station and Switchroom • 2-bay Loading Bay structure attached to the northern end of the existing cheese factory • 2 No. water storage tanks (12.6m and 9.6m high); 1 No. Salt Saturation Storage Tank (5.1m high) 2. Closure of 3 entrances and the construction of new entrance for HGV traffic off the L3627 on the northern site boundary. Closure of the existing HGV entrance and construction of new entrance for staff and visitor car traffic only off the L3805 Mogeely-Castlemartyr Road on the eastern site boundary 3. Demolition of the following Buildings or Structures and associated services: a) Dairy and Maintenance Workshop Building; b) Packaging Store; c) Boiler House and 3 No. stacks (33.9m high); d) Canteen; e) Reception and Office Building; f) Generator Building and removal of all associated Redundant Tankage. 4. Upgrade of an existing bund and construction of new adjoining bund to accommodate existing tanks and the following new tankage, (height listed in brackets) and all services associated with the tankage: 6 No. Milk Silos(14.0m), 2 No. Milk Silos(18.5m), 3 No. Cream Storage Tanks(5.8m), 5 No. Cleaning Tanks(8.0m),4 No. Cleaning Tanks(5.0m), 2 No. Whey Silos(12.7m), 2 No. Whey Silos(13.2m), 2 No. Bulk Chemical Tanks(5.45m) 5. Construction of a 124 space Car Park, Internal Roads accessing the site from the new Entrances / Exits, Covered Pedestrian Walkway and mounded Berms, Boundary Walls, Fencing and all Associated Landscaping Works. 6. Upgrade and expansion of the existing Wastewater Treatment Plant including new Balance Tank, Anaerobic and Aerobic Tanks, Clarifier, Picket Fence Thickener, Dissolved Air Flotation (DAF) Plant, Pumping Station, Control Room, Filters and Concrete Plinths. The proposed upgrade will include the demolition of the existing works including the existing 9.5m high Biotower. 7. Installation of an underground Pipeline

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6979

• 1 May 2008Conditional

  Demolition of existing cottage, construction of new dwelling, garage, treatment plant, irrigation area, access drive, alterations to entrance and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6456

• 18 Dec 2007Refused

  Dwellinghouse, detached garage, installation of sewage treatment plant, new double entrance incorporating a new entrance for existing cottage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/13150

• 11 Mar 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1481

• 15 Feb 2005Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/813

• 5 Nov 2004Refused

  Dwelling, domestic garage and waste water treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8217

• 18 Aug 2004Withdrawn

  Dwelling, garage and wastewater treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/6325

• 27 Apr 2004Conditional

  Demolition of rear extension, construction of two storey extension to dwelling, replace septic tank with biocycle unit and relocate entrance

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/2820

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

Designated sites

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

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kilbree.

Architectural heritage

• Kilbree House, country house, 1740–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay three-storey country house, built c. 1750, flanked by single-bay two-storey wings attached to east and west gables, and with single-bay two-storey return to rear (north) elevation. Now disused. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings with limestone sills, having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor of main block, and tripartite timber sliding sash windows to first floor of wings, four-over-two pane flanked by two-over-one pane. Replacement timber windows to second floor. Double-leaf half-glazed timber panelled door to front elevation. Enlarged openings with replacement fittings to rear elevation. Remains of yard to east with four-bay two-storey outbuilding to west of yard, having external staircase to east elevation. Pitched slate roof with gabled dormer door, partly rendered rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings. Outbuilding to south with half-hipped slate roof, rubble stone walls, removed to east gable, and square-headed openings. Rubble stone walled garden to west. Rendered entrance walls and square-profile piers.

• House, 1900–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey house, built c. 1910, having single-bay pitched slate roof extension to rear (west) elevation. Now disused. Pitched artificial slate roof with red brick chimneystack. Rendered walls with painted brick quoins. Square-headed openings throughout, with painted brick block-and-start surrounds and four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening with render surround and timber battened half-door. Rubble stone boundary wall with square-profile brick piers and wrought-iron pedestrian gate, and square-profile rubble stone piers with wrought-iron double-leaf gates.

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 5 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 Kilbree.

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

Name

Kilbree · Cill Bhrí

Area

1,325,201 m² (132.52 ha, 327.46 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyoughtera, and its townlands

Barony

Imokilly

Electoral division

Castlemartyr, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castlemartyr electoral division: 1,060 people in 344 households; 87% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrigatogher, Dromsarane, Glennageare West, Gurteenina, Killurriga, Knockasturkeen, Sheanliss

Placenames

Kilbree 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.