Kilcronan
Kilcronan is a townland in the civil parish of Whitechurch, barony of Cork, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Cill Chrónáin.
- Area
- 152.5 ha
- 377 acres
- Land parcels
- 79
- registered freehold, median 1,525 m²
- Zoning
- M1
- Special Policy Area
- Planning
- 61
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
79 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcronan, from 27 m² to 402,728 m² (40.27 ha, 99.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- M1Special Policy Area (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 75 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
28 May 2026Awaiting f.i. response
Permission to construct a new dwelling house. The proposed development is located in the Monard Strategic Development Zone.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1421
27 May 2024Conditional
Permission for construction of a dwelling and attached domestic garage, installation of a septic tank and percolation area and carrying out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4949
2 Nov 2023Conditional
Permission for the construction of a single storey extension to the side of an existing dwelling & all other associated site works. Retention of a detached domestic use home office structure, differing from that granted previously under Pl.Reg.No. 20/6521. The application relates to a development within a Strategic Development Zone.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6208
21 Jul 2023Conditional
A 10-year permission and 40-year operation period for a Solar Farm and underground grid connection within an overall site area of 61.08 hectares. The solar farm consists of 330,200 square meters of solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted steel frames; on-site electrical substation; electrical skids (containing inverters, transformers and switchgear); underground power and communication cables and ducts; boundary security fencing; new internal access tracks and associated drainage infrastructure; new site entrance to the L6965 local road; 10 no. CCTV/lighting posts and all associated site services and works. The development also includes underground grid connection, which is to be installed primarily within the L6965, L2951 and L2963 public roads, this includes the installation of 3 no. underground medium voltage electrical cables, 1 no. fibre communications cable, 2 no. joint bays and associated infrastructure to allow communications and connection between the proposed 38kV on-site substation and the Kilbarry 110kV Substation, Blackpool, Cork City. The total length of the cable is c.4,449m of which c.2,021m will be within the jurisdiction of Cork County Council and c.2,428m within the jurisdiction of Cork City Council. A concurrent planning application will be lodged with Cork City Council for the remainder of the underground cable along the public roads to allow connection to the Kilbarry 110kV Substation in Blackpool, Cork City under Section 34 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (PDA)(as amended).
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5486
9 Nov 2022Conditional
Permission Consequent on the grant of Outline Permission Reg.No. 22/4340 for the construction of a two-storey dwelling house with effluent treatment system and ancillary site works. The proposed development is located in the Monard Strategic Development Zone.
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 22/6503
18 Oct 2022Incompleted application
Construction of a two-storey dwelling, consequent to Outline Permission Reference 22/04340 with associated site works. The proposed development is located in the Monard Strategic Development Zone.
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 22/6338
18 Feb 2022Conditional
The construction of detached, two storey dwelling house with effluent treatment system and ancillary site works. The proposed development is located in the Monard Strategic Development Zone.
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 22/4340
25 Aug 2021Conditional
Retention of existing single storey extension at the side of existing dwelling house, planning permission for the construction of a single storey extension at the rear of existing dwelling house, alterations to the existing internal floor plan layout, alterations to existing elevations, and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6334
31 Mar 2021Unconditional
To demolish two storey dwellinghouse and construct a two storey dwellinghouse with septic tank and associated site works - Extension of duration of permission granted under Planning Reference: 15/5988
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 21/4810
16 Nov 2020Conditional
The construction of a detached domestic use home office structure. The application relates to a development within a Strategic Development Zone.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6521
19 Mar 2020Conditional
Retention of all of the following items. 1) Elevational alterations to an existing dwelling, 2) a detached domestic use garage on the site, 3) a new waste-water treatment system on the site in place of the fomer septic tank which was de-commissioned & 4) a rebuilt vehicular splayed entrance to the site. The application relates to a development within a Strategic Development Zone.
Retention · Cork County Council, 20/4566
22 Aug 2019Withdrawn
Construction of a detached dwelling with proprietary treatment unit and percolation area and associated site works. The application relates to a development within a Strategic Development Zone.
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 19/6085
19 Jul 2019Incompleted application
Construction of a detached dwelling with proprietary treatment unit and percolation area and associated site works. This application relates to a development within a Strategic Development Zone
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 19/5825
17 Apr 2019Incompleted application
Permission for elevational alterations to an existing dwelling and Retention of an existing detached domestic use garage on the site.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4965
22 Dec 2016Conditional
The importation of soil & stone, bricks, tiles, ceramics, concrete for the raising of an agricultural field in order to improve the agricultural output of the field. The application relates to a development in a Strategic development Zone.
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/7261
24 Nov 2016Incompleted application
The importation of soil and stone, bricks, tiles, ceramics, concrete for the raising of an agricultural field in order to improve the agricultural out
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6923
30 Sept 2015Conditional
Construction of a new waste water treatment unit and polishing filter to an existing single detached dwelling and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6170
4 Sept 2015Incompleted application
The removal of the existing septic tank and percolation area associated with the existing single storey detached dwelling and the construction of a new waste water treatment unit polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5984
4 Sept 2015Conditional
To demolish two storey dwellinghouse and construct a two storey dwellinghouse with septic tank and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5988
4 Sept 2015Conditional
The construction of a new part single storey part two storey detached split level dwelling, a new site entrance, a new waste waster treatment unit and polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5987
4 Aug 2015Incompleted application
Removal of the existing septic tank and percolation area associated with the existing single storey detached dwelling and the construction of a new waste water treatment unit and polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5724
4 Aug 2015Incompleted application
Construction of a new part single storey part two storey detached split level dwelling, a new site entrance, a new waste water treatment unit and polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5725
10 Jun 2015Conditional
(a) Construction of 1no. agricultural building to include milking parlour, dairy store and plant room, cubicle livestock housing and slatted tank, and( b) erection of meal bin, 1no. water storage tank and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5226
19 Apr 2010Refused
Dwelling house & treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4913
29 Oct 2009Refused
Dwelling house & septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7482
The 25 most recent of 61 applications.
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 Kilcronan.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kilcronan.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilcronan.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Kilcronan, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilcronan.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Kilcronan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Kilcronan · Cill Chrónáin
- Area
- 1,525,157 m² (152.52 ha, 376.87 acres)
- Civil parish
- Whitechurch, and its townlands
- Barony
- Cork
- Electoral division
- Whitechurch, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,050 people lived in 646 households in the Whitechurch electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinvarrig, Boolybeg, Coolowen, Farranastig, Monard, Rahanisky
- Placenames
- Kilcronan 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.