Killabraher North
Killabraher North is a townland in the civil parish of Shandrum, barony of Orrery and Kilmore, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Cill an Bhráthar Thuaidh.
- Area
- 272.7 ha
- 674 acres
- Land parcels
- 42
- registered freehold, median 2,945 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 23
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killabraher North, from 39 m² to 538,765 m² (53.88 ha, 133.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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 Killabraher North 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
19 Feb 2024Conditional
Permission for retention of a dormer style dwelling and wastewater treatment system and permission for an entrance and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4264
11 Aug 2022Conditional
Dwelling house, detached domestic garage/store, waste water treatment system, entrance and bored well
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5872
26 Jan 2022Conditional
Construction of a dwelling house, detached domestic garage/store, wastewater treatment system, entrance and bored well.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4130
23 Aug 2017Conditional
(a) Demolition of existing milking parlour, (b) Construction of a cubicle shed with underground slatted tank, (c) Construction of an extension to existing silage pit, (d) Construction of a milking parlour, dairy, ancillary rooms, handling facilities and unroofed collecting yard with underground slatted tank, (e) Erection of a meal bin and water tank, (f) Construction of a calf house and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6198
7 Jul 2017Conditional
Retention of existing bungalow as constructed and revised site boundaries
Retention · Cork County Council, 17/5743
19 May 2017Incompleted application
Retention of existing bungalow, septic tank and revised site boundaries.
Retention · Cork County Council, 17/5239
23 Dec 2016Conditional
The development will consist of a cattle underpass
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/7314
11 Oct 2010Unconditional
Completion of dwellinghouse, garage and wastewater treatment unit permitted under planning ref. no. 05/721
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 10/8177
9 Dec 2008Conditional
Dwellinghouse and installation of wastewater treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/10029
28 Nov 2008Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse and installation of wastewater treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9876
28 Oct 2008Refused
Renovations to existing single storey dwelling including new roof, single storey & dormer type extension and installation of wastewater treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9445
25 Sept 2008Refused
Dwelling, entrance, bored well and wastewater treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9040
7 Mar 2007Incompleted application
Thatched dwellinghouse, construction of farm yard entrance, slatted easy feed cattle shed, machinery shed, indoor horse arena, repair and conversion of existing sheds to stables, tack room and stores and use of same buildings and farm as riding school
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5743
13 Nov 2006Conditional
Construction of extension to cubicle house to include cubicles, easy feed system, slurry reception/storage tank, effluent storage tank, extension to silage base and steel slurry storage tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12242
20 Oct 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11589
20 Oct 2006Conditional
Construction of 2 no. slatted feed passages and extension to silage base
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11602
16 Aug 2006Conditional
Revised site boundaries for dwelling permitted under Reg. No. 04/3186 and retention of alterations to front elevation and repositioning of dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9803
8 Sept 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6480
11 Feb 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse, garage and waste water treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/721
4 Jan 2005Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4
10 May 2004Conditional
Bungalow and proprietary waste water treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/3186
11 Apr 2003Conditional
Bungalow and proprietary waste treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/1700
24 Mar 2003Withdrawn
Bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/1282
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 Killabraher North.
Recorded monuments
- CO007-014 Fulacht fia
Description
In rough grazing, on NW side of drain. Irregular mound of burnt material (18.4m N-S; 14.9m E-W; H 0.6m). Three depressions in mound probably result of recent digging. Second fulacht fiadh (11029) c. 100m to SW. 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
- CO007-015 Fulacht fia
Description
In rough grazing, to NE of stream. Oval mound of burnt material (13.8m N-S; 13.2m E-W; H 0.5m). Three or four small depressions on the surface probably due to recent digging. Second fulacht fiadh (11028) c. 100m to NE. 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
- CO007-016 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture. Grass-covered spread of burnt material. According to local information, mound levelled c. 1961. 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
- CO007-017 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on NW-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 65m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, skirted by field boundary E->NW; only field boundary remains on 1905 OS 6-inch map; field boundary similar on 1936 OS 6-inch map with hachured scarp NW->E, completing circle. Levelled; arc formed by earthen field boundary survives S->NW; remains of enclosure survives to N as low scarp. 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
- CO007-018 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture, c. 20m W of stream. Grass-covered spread of burnt material. Second fulacht fiadh (11032) c. 90m 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
- CO007-019 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture, c. 50m W of stream. Grass-covered spread of burnt material. Second fulacht fiadh (11031) c. 90m to SE. 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
- CO007-020 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on S-facing slope of Cherryhill. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured circular raised area (diam. c. 22m) on 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; no visible surface trace. According to local information, levelled c. 1978 during land reclamation. 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
- CO007-132 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture. Roughly oval mound of burnt material (13m N-S; 19m E-W; H 0.5m). According to local information, mound formerly higher but lowered by ploughing and reclamation. 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
- CO007-145 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture. Roughly oval mound of burnt material (20m N-S; 12m E-W; H 0.25m). According to local information, mound partially levelled in 1995. Second fulacht fiadh (11035) c. 100m to N. 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
- CO007-146 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture. Partially levelled mound of burnt material (11m E-W; 9m N-S; H 0.41m); truncated on S side by field fence. Second fulacht fiadh (11034) c. 100m to S. 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
- House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey house, built c. 1800, with windbreak to entrance. Now disused and roof partly ruinous. Hipped thatched roof. Pebbledashed walls with smooth rendered eaves, plinth, edges and windbreak and having roughcast rendered walls to rear. Square-headed window openings with smooth rendered surrounds, rendered sills and replacement aluminium windows. Square-headed openings with rendered sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to south-east and rear elevations. Square-headed door opening with replacement aluminium door. Single-storey outbuildings to yard having rendered walls and pitched corrugated-iron roofs.
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 Killabraher North, about 1 in 10 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Killabraher North.
- 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 Killabraher North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Killabraher North · Cill an Bhráthar Thuaidh
- Area
- 2,727,300 m² (272.73 ha, 673.93 acres)
- Civil parish
- Shandrum, and its townlands
- Barony
- Orrery and Kilmore
- Electoral division
- Dromina, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 628 people lived in 229 households in the Dromina electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardagh, Ardglass, Cloonkeen, Curraghcloonabro East, Dromina, Farthingville East, Killabraher South, Teeveeny
- Placenames
- Killabraher North 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.