Kildinan
Townland in the civil parish of Rathcormack, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork; in Irish Cill Daighnín
- Area
- 301.3 ha
- 744 acres
- Land parcels
- 38
- registered freehold, median 55,878 m² (5.59 ha, 13.81 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kildinan, from 379 m² to 476,446 m² (47.64 ha, 117.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Kildinan 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
1 Dec 2025Invalid - case closed
Permission for retention of 1) residential extensions & alterations to a dwelling house, consisting of; a) alterations to the house windows, doors, terraces, yard walls and landscaping, b) extension of 2 porches, c) alteration of location of septic tank, d) addition of a satellite dish, 2) agricultural rural class 9 extensions & alterations, consisting of; a) extensions to a barn & addition of a photo voltaic panel system, b) alterations to vehicular entrances, hard standing, field walls & gates, c) alteration of a garage to a glasshouse.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/6638
11 Apr 2022Conditional
Permission for retention for a calf house with effluent tank and ancillary works
Retention · Cork County Council, 22/4802
8 Sept 2021Withdrawn
To construct a slatted straw-bedded cattle house and a slatted cubicle house for weanlings; both with associated underground slurry storage tanks and site works. In addition, permission is sought to install a meal bin, to construct a farmyard manure store, an underground slabbed effluent storage tank and all associated site works. Retention is sought for a straw-bedded cattle house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6473
20 Aug 2019Conditional
To construct a calf house extension, resurface silage slab, effluent tank and ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6066
3 Apr 2018Conditional
Demolish existing dwellinghouse and to decommission existing septic tank and to construct new dwellinghouse, new domestic garage, new site entrance and driveway, new bored well and to install new wastewater treatment plant to serve proposed development and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4802
28 Jan 2015Conditional
Construction of a silage pit, concrete apron, animal house incorporating a slatted tank, straw bedded area, feed passage and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4139
7 Jun 2007Conditional
Construction of roofed holding yard, covering of existing dairy washings tank and construction of animal house incorporating slatted tank, straw bedded area, feed passage and ancillary concrete works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8460
27 Mar 2007Conditional
Construction of agricultural cattle shed partially covering new slurry tank, meal bin and dung storage area
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6467
22 Mar 2007Conditional
Construction of silage slab, concrete apron, dungstead and animal house incorporating a slatted tank, straw bedded area, feed rail and feed passage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6350
20 Feb 2007Conditional
Construction of slatted unit incorporating 2 no. slatted tanks, feed rails and feed passage and ancillary concrete works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5246
19 Dec 2006Incompleted application
Construction of an agricultural cattle shed partly covering a new slurry tank and meal bin
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13456
11 Mar 2005Refused
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1471
30 Mar 2004Conditional
Extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/2070
11 Apr 2003Withdrawn
Construction of free range poultry house and office
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/1762
23 Jan 2003New application
Construction of free range poultry house and office
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/201
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 Kildinan.
Recorded monuments
- CO044-016 Enclosure
Description
In level wet area. Hachured as circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1904 and 1935 OS 6-inch maps. No visible surface trace. According to local tradition site of mill. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO044-017001 Graveyard
Description
In pasture, on N-facing slope, 300m N of road. Rectangular, slightly raised area (34m N-S; 50m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.7m), planted with deciduous trees. At centre, sod-covered remains of church (CO044-01702-). No gravemarkers noted. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO044-017002 Church
Description
At centre of graveyard (CO044-01701-). Sod-covered ruins of rectangular church (14.5m E-W; 7.5m N-S); E end stands highest (int. H 0.7m; ext. H1m). Scatter of stones around ruin. According to Power (1923, 190), name derives from 'Cill Daighnín (Dinan's Church)'; the origin of this name is unclear. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO044-018 Enclosure
Description
In pasture, on N-facing slope. Rectangular area (27m N-S; 24m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 0.9m). Gap in bank to NNW (Wth c. 1m). Interior rises gently towards centre; NE corner overgrown. Planted with coniferous trees on 1842 OS 6-inch map and situated in Kildinan demesne. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO044-019 Designed landscape - tree-ring
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kildinan.
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, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kildinan.
- 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 Kildinan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Kildinan · Cill Daighnín
- Area
- 3,012,875 m² (301.29 ha, 744.5 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathcormack, and its townlands
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Electoral division
- Kildinan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kildinan electoral division: 681 people in 211 households; 97% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aunamihoonagh, Behernagh Lower, Behernagh Upper, Gearagh, Glannagaul, Portduff, Raheen, Shanaclogh, Shanbally
- Placenames
- Kildinan 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.