Kilgrogan
Kilgrogan is a townland in the civil parish of Kilgrogan, barony of Orrery and Kilmore, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Cill Bhrógáin.
- Area
- 93.3 ha
- 230 acres
- Land parcels
- 5
- registered freehold, median 71,453 m² (7.15 ha, 17.66 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilgrogan, from 702 m² to 419,660 m² (41.97 ha, 103.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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
No zone of a development plan covers Kilgrogan 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
No planning application touches the townland of Kilgrogan in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
Recorded monuments
- CO007-116 Graveyard
Description
In tillage, on S-facing slope; pathway shown approaching site on 1936 OS 6-inch map no longer evident. Rectangular graveyard (28m N-S; 31m E-W) enclosed by well-built limestone wall; entrance to W with tall cut-stone piers. Interior overgrown; earliest headstone noted dated 1794; in occasional use, most recent headstone dated 1987. Probably once contained parish church of Kilgrogan. 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
- CO007-144 Bridge
Description
Slightly hump-backed road bridge (Wth c. 3m; long axis NE-SW) over Awbeg River; site of castle (14279) c. 80m to NE. Two segmental arches (span c. 2.4m) with rough limestone voussoirs; central pier and arch to W have been repaired, cement cutwater added. Widened on upstream side (NW) by c. 3.9m. Vertical stone coping atop parapet; badly weathered plaque in SE parapet wall reads 'Wm Flyn M../ Built this Bridge/for £60 .../1811'. 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 Kilgrogan.
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 Kilgrogan, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilgrogan.
- 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 Kilgrogan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Kilgrogan · Cill Bhrógáin
- Area
- 932,610 m² (93.26 ha, 230.45 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilgrogan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Orrery and Kilmore
- Electoral division
- Churchtown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,286 people lived in 427 households in the Churchtown electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghaburren, Annagh South, Churchtown, Clashganniv, Cullig, Rath
- Placenames
- Kilgrogan 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.