Kilbrenan
Townland in the civil parish of Moviddy, barony of Muskerry East, Co. Cork; in Irish Cill Bhréanainn
- Area
- 185.2 ha
- 458 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 4,641 m² (0.46 ha, 1.15 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilbrenan, from 36 m² to 328,787 m² (32.88 ha, 81.24 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 Kilbrenan 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 Jan 2025Conditional permission
Permission for demolition of existing outbuildings and construction of new single storey building consisting of double domestic garage, home office and domestic store. Permission for the construction of new single storey extension to southern elevation of existing cottage with changes in design and layout to that granted under Pl.Reg.No. 23/5004, construction of new single storey extension to western elevation of existing cottage together with elevational changes to existing northern elevation. Decomissioning of existing vehicular entrance and construction of new vehicular entrance located to the west of existing entrance, together with all other ancillary siteworks.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4038
3 May 2024Conditional
Permission for the construction of new dwelling house and domestic garage, new entrance, wastewater treatment system together with all other ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4801
24 Aug 2023Conditional
a) change of use from licenced premises to domestic dwelling house b) single storey side and rear extensions to the property (to include change to roof slope of rear roof of building).
Retention · Cork County Council, 23/5717
1 Aug 2023Incompleted application
Retention planning permission for a) change of use from licensed premises to domestic dwelling house and b) for the single storey side and rear extensions to the property, (to include change to roof slope of rear roof of building)
Retention · Cork County Council, 23/5565
18 May 2023Conditional permission
Retention of as built single storey bedroom extension to eastern elevation of existing cottage and planning permission for the construction of new single storey extension to southern elevation of existing cottage, new waste water treatment system together with all other ancillary site works.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 23/5004
27 Apr 2018Conditional
Construction of new dwellinghouse, domestic garage, new entrance together with all other ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5054
27 Apr 2018Conditional
Construction of dwellinghouse, domestic garage, new entrance together with all other ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5063
2 Jun 2017Withdrawn
Construction of dwellinghouse, domestic garage together with new entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5393
12 Feb 2009Conditional
Demolition of existing domestic garage & construction of new domestic garage, and retention of vehicular entrance on the north east end of the site
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4426
23 Jan 2009Incompleted application
Demolition of existing domestic garage and construction of new domestic garage, and retention of vehicular entrance on the north east end of the site
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4156
2 Nov 2006Conditional
Construction of slatted cattle house, roof existing exercise yard, construction of soil water tank for sprinkler system, effluent tank to serve milking parlour and associated concrete aprons
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11956
13 Sept 2006Incompleted application
Construction of livestock housing, associated effluent tank and clean concrete yards
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10556
23 Apr 2004Refused
Dormer bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/2730
17 Jun 2003Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/2991
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 Kilbrenan.
Recorded monuments
- CO084-049 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture, on N side of stream. Mound of burnt material noted, apparently disturbed. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO084-070001 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture; one of two fulachta fiadh shown as 'site of' on 1943 OS 6-inch map (CO084-07002-). No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO084-070002 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture; one of two fulachta fiadh shown as 'site of' on 1943 OS 6-inch map (CO084-07001-). No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO084-071 Fulacht fia
Description
In reclaimed pasture. Spread of burnt material noted. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO084-072 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture. According to local information, spread of burnt material visible when field is ploughed. No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO084-073 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture. According to local information, burnt material visible when field is ploughed. No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO084-074 Religious house - unclassified
Description
On S-facing slope, near top of hill; immediately S of modern farm buildings, skirted to S by recent coniferous plantation. Roughly rectangular area (18.3m E-W; 6.8m N-S) defined by mound of rubble to W and SW (H c. 2m; 5m E-W), with traces of wall showing to W; and rectangular mound to E (H c. 2m), retained by stone wall (max. ext. H 2m; T 0.75m) to N (L 6.8m), E and S (L 5m); blocked ope at W end of N wall. To W of blocked ope, wall line interrupted by S end of second wall extending to N at right angles (L 2.9m); beyond this wall, line of N wall continues towards W end but is different in character, lower and narrower (H 1m; T 0.5m). E section probably that described by Hartnett (1939, 300) as 'the eastern gable', where he identified 'slight traces of a window opening'. Smith (1750, vol. 1, 198) mentions site as 'an abbey of regular canons, foundedby St. Aedus, in the eighth century'; no such foundation listed by Gwynn and Hadcock (1988); exact nature of site unclear. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO084-075001 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture. Spread of burnt material noted. Another three fulachta fiadh situated c. 30m to NE (CO084-07502-); c. 50m to SE (CO084-07503-) and c. 100m to SE (CO084-076---). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO084-075002 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture. Horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt material (L 7.7m; Wth 6.7m; H 0.15m); opening 2.2m wide. One of group of four fulachta fiadh (CO084-07501-; CO084-07503-; CO084-076---). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO084-075003 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture. Mound of burnt material noted. One of a group of four fulachta fiadh (CO084-07501-; CO084-07502-; CO084-076---). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO084-076 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture. Roughly circular overgrown mound of burnt material (Wth 8.7m; H 0.15m). One of a group of four fulachta fiadh (CO084-07501-; CO084-07502-; CO084-07503-). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO084-122 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture. According to local information, spread of burnt material visible after ploughing. No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO084-123 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture. According to local information, burnt material visible after ploughing. No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO084-157 Enclosure
Description
Depicted as a small circular enclosure on 1st edition OS map (1842), not depicted on subsequent map editions. Visible on as a circular cropmark on Google Earth imagery accessed 23/06/2018. Reported by Edward O'Riordan. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload/revision: 28 January 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilbrenan.
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 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 Kilbrenan.
- 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 Kilbrenan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Kilbrenan · Cill Bhréanainn
- Area
- 1,852,276 m² (185.23 ha, 457.71 acres)
- Civil parish
- Moviddy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry East
- Electoral division
- Moviddy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Moviddy electoral division: 1,592 people in 517 households; 85% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinguilly, Carrigeen, Garranes, Knockaneroe, Moskeagh, Rathfelane, Scarriff
- Placenames
- Kilbrenan 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.