Kilcranathan
Townland in the civil parish of Ballyclogh, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork; in Irish Cill Chranatan
- Area
- 165.5 ha
- 409 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 42,051 m² (4.21 ha, 10.39 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcranathan, from 1,433 m² to 379,799 m² (37.98 ha, 93.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Kilcranathan 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 May 2022Conditional permission
Permission to demolish existing single storey extension to northern elevation and existing porch to the southern elevation. Permission to construct (a) a new two storey extension to northern elevation (b) construct a new single storey extension to western elevation (c) construct a new single storey porch to southern elevation (d) install two new windows to first floor on eastern elevation (e) alterations to southern elevation to include in change of window sizes - all to existing dwelling house and (f) install a new wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5110
21 Dec 2021Refused
To construct a new dwelling house
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/7459
8 Oct 2021Conditional
To construct a dwelling house
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6739
16 Apr 2021Withdrawn
To increase site boundaries to accommodate the construction of a domestic shed for the storage of old/vintage cars, caravan, ride on lawnmower, garden furniture, firewood, etc
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5003
1 Feb 2021Conditional
To construct a dwelling and domestic garage and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4202
5 Dec 2018Conditional
Construct a single storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/7191
3 Dec 2013Conditional
Retention of existing dwelling house as constructed and domestic garages with attached swimming pool hall, exsting site entance as constructed and alterations to existing side road entrance, detached domestic storage building, domestic storage container, control house and generator, existing sewage treatment plant and all associated site works including pond and tennis court
Retention · Cork County Council, 13/6282
23 Mar 2009Withdrawn
One-and-a-half-storey dwelling, garage, entrance, bored well, proprietary treatment system, sand polishing filter & all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4876
3 Mar 2009Incompleted application
One-and-a-half storey dwelling, garage, entrance, proprietary treatment system, soil polishing filter & all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4657
9 Mar 2007Conditional
Construction of an underground covered soiled water tank, extension to the northern and eastern side of the existing cubicle house, raise walls in existing slurry tank and construction of a concrete wall to close existing entrance to slurry tank.
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5849
27 Nov 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse, workshop for maintenance of heavy goods vehicles, yard and associated site works
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/12710
9 Oct 2006Incompleted application
Dwelling, workshop and yard
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/11269
26 Jun 2003Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Approval · Cork County Council, 03/3140
12 Mar 2003Conditional
Dwellinghouse and waste water treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/1050
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 Kilcranathan.
Recorded monuments
- CO032-042 Ringfort - rath
Description
In tillage, on gentle W-facing slope, above Finnow stream. Circular area (internal diam. 40m E-W; 39m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.75m; ext. H 2m); external fosse (D 0.2m) NW->WSW. Bank overgrown with bushes and trees. Entrance (Wth 5m) to SSE; sides stone faced. Interior grass covered; slopes down to NW. 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
- CO032-044 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, with commanding views to S and W. Depicted as hachured roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; bungalow built on site. Bank visible as cropmark in aerial photograph (GSIAP, W410, 03-07-1975), with S side incorporated into field boundary. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 13) as levelled single-ramparted fort (diam. c. 31yd) on J. Tarrant's land, with small portion of rampart remaining to form boundary fence. 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
- CO032-045 Ritual site - holy well
Description
In wooded valley, on S side of stream. Roughly circular, stone-lined well (2m N-S; 1.5m E-W; D 0.6m), much of lining collapsed; water pumped to nearby house. No indication of holy use. Bowman (1934, 14) refers to it as a holy well named 'Tobar Cranatan - Cranat's well...rounds have long since been discontinued.' He (ibid.) relates local folklore of St Cranathan who turned a man to stone (10035) after he refused to return stolen calf. 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 Images provided by and copyright of Amanda Clarke 2016-2022 https://holywellscorkandkerry.com/
- CO032-046 Moated site
Description
In pasture, on N-facing slope, in W corner of field. Rectangular area (59m NE-SW; 54m NW-SE) defined by earthen bank (int. H 0.95m; ext. H 0.84m) on NE, SE and SW sides, with external fosse (D 1.26m). Bank levelled outwards on NW side. Break in bank at N corner; cattle gap in SE side off-centre to S. Fosse waterlogged; infilling apparent along outer edge of SW side. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 13) as square fort, on J. Scanlan's land, called 'Lios Duin a tSeide (i.e. The Lios of the Dun of the Blowing Breezes)_the fosse was c. 18ft. wide, but is now practically filled in.' Listed by Barry (1981, 83, no. 45). 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilcranathan.
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 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_888 (ZIP).
- 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 Kilcranathan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Kilcranathan · Cill Chranatan
- Area
- 1,654,558 m² (165.46 ha, 408.85 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyclogh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Electoral division
- Ballyclogh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballyclogh electoral division: 794 people in 256 households; 94% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Curraghalehane, Curraghcreen, Gortnagross, Kilgobban, Ruanes
- Placenames
- Kilcranathan 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.