Killahora

275 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killahora, from 16 m² to 237,308 m² (23.73 ha, 58.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 37 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R3Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 156 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 48 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 23 Apr 2026Grant with conditions

  (A) The demolition of existing single storey conservatory to the southern elevation of the dwelling house and the construction of a new single storey living room extension to the southern elevation of the dwelling house, new detached garage, and all associated site works. (B) Permission for Retention is also sought for 2 no. single storey garden rooms.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1046

• 29 Jan 2026Grant with conditions

  Permission for the construction of a new two storey dwelling, single storey garage, site entrance, waste water treatment system and all associated site works at Killahora, Glounthaune, Co.Cork.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0180

• 8 Dec 2025Grant with conditions

  Permission for the following works to existing single storey dwelling: 1) conversion of attic to provide habitable accommodation, 2) first floor roof extension to front to include provision of external balcony, 3) provision of dormer style rooflights to bathroom, 4) internal alterations to existing dwelling and 5) all associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6708

• 18 Jul 2025Conditional permission

  Permission for the installation of new building mounted signage and all associated works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5438

• 4 Mar 2025Conditional permission

  Permission for:- 1) Removal of the wastewater treatment system of the existing dwelling, 2) Construction of a single storey detached dwelling, vehicular entrance, waste water treatment system and a new waste water treatment system for the existing dwelling and all associated site and boundary works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4347

• 19 Sept 2024Application withdrawn

  Permission for retention of metal storage building for the storage of seasonal furniture and equipment and overflow carpark at the rear of Elm Tree Glounthaune

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 24/5766

• 21 Aug 2024Incompleted application

  Permission for retention of overflow carpark accessed from the rear of Elm Tree Premises

  Retention · Cork County Council, 24/5584

• 21 Aug 2024Refused

  Permission for retention of the following; change of use of former garden centre to container storage facility with containers varying in sizes from 6 feet, 8 feet, 10 feet, 20 feet and 40 feet in length, container with toilet/office facilites connected to an existing effluent holding tank with 4000 litre capacity, vehicular entrance and 8 no. 5 meter high light standards and permission for future connection to public foul and storm sewer, 5 no. 4 meter high light standards on posts attached to containers and all associated site works

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 24/5581

• 7 Jun 2024Conditional

  Permission for the formation of a new vehicular entrance onto the public road (L-2969) to serve existing dwelling house

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5057

• 24 May 2024Incompleted application

  Permission for retention of the following:- change of use of former garden centre to container storage facility with containers varying in sizes from 6 feet, 8 feet, 10 feet, 20 feet and 40 feet in length, container with toilet/office facilities connected to an existing effluent holding tank with 4,000 litre capacity, car parking area, vehicular entrance and 8 no. 5 meter high light standards and Permission for future connection to public foul and storm sewer, 5 no. 4 meter high light standards on posts attached to containers and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4942

• 31 Jan 2024Conditional

  Permission to construct a new dwelling house, new vehicular entrance, install a new wastewater treatment unit & percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4141

• 31 Jan 2024Conditional

  Permission for the retention of existing single storey extension to rear of existing convenience shop building comprising of storage areas, toilet and staff facilities and all associated works. (Gross floor area of retention 131 SQ.M)

  Retention · Cork County Council, 24/4146

• 29 Jan 2024Conditional

  Permission is sought for the construction of a single storey domestic garage including home office within the curtilage of the existing dwelling and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4132

• 6 Dec 2023Conditional

  1) Demolition of the existing conservatory and chimney, 2) Construction of single storey extensions to the front and side of existing dwelling, 3) Partial change of use of the existing detached garage to an en-suite bedroom, ancillary to the main dwelling. 4) Alterations to the existing elevations, to include 3 no. rooflights, and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6423

• 21 Nov 2023Incompleted application

  Permission for the construction of a single storey domestic garage including home office within the curtilage of the existing dwelling and ancillary site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6327

• 2 Nov 2023Incompleted application

  Construction of a single storey domestic garage including home office within the curtilage of the existing dwelling and ancillary site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6207

• 7 Jun 2023Conditional permission

  Permission for retention in respect of the following works to a dwelling: (A) Alterations to as constructed house type 6B.1, to include alterations to elevations, relocation of chimney and provision of roof lights, (B) Construction of external stores/utility, (C) Construction of garden shed and (D) Revised site boundaries in respect of site No. 8 The Grove (change of layout to permission granted under: SHD An Bord Pleanala Ref. No. 301197-18).

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 23/5142

• 3 Jan 2023Conditional permission

  Permission for the change of use of the ground floor doctors surgery permitted under An Bord Pleanala Ref. ABP-301197-18 to 2 no. 2 bed apartment units and the provision of 1 no. bicycle shelter to accommodate 20 no. cycle spaces and 4 no. free standing looped bicycle stands to accommodate 8 no. bicycle spaces and permission for retention of 3 no. vehicular parking spaces, 1 no. external bin store and minor alterations to 1 no. window on the northern elevation and 1 no. window on the southern elevation of the ground floor of the apartment block permitted under An Bord Pleanala Ref. ABP-301197-18.

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 22/6740

• 29 Nov 2022Unconditional

  The development will consist of: a) the construction of 174 no. residential units to include 164 no. dwelling houses (comprising a mix of 2, 3 & 4 bed detached, semi-detached & terraced/town houses, 105 no. units will have the option of a ground floor annex to the rear/side of the proposed dwellings); and 10 no. apartments (comprising a mix of 1 & 2 bed apartments) in a 3-storey block with a creche and doctors surgery at ground floor level; b) the provision of landscaping and amenity areas to include amenity walks and the provision of 1 no. multi use games area and 3 no. local play areas; c) all associated infrastructure and services to include the provision of pedestrian/cyclist facilities including footpaths & cycle lanes along the L3004 public road connecting to Glounthaune rail station/ village centre, a pedestrian crossing linking the footpath network to the train station, 2 no. ESB substations, 1 no. pumping station, lighting, drainage, boundary treatments, bicycle & car parking and a new link/distributor road connecting the existing L3004 public road with the adjoining lands to the north-west. Extension of Duration to Permission granted under Planning Ref. No. ABP-301197-18

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 22/6659

• 30 Sept 2022Conditional

  Permission for retention of change of use of detached domestic garage to self contained granny flat

  Retention · Cork County Council, 22/6206

• 22 Sept 2022Conditional

  The change of use of existing convenience shop to include part off-licence use, gross floor area for off-licence use 12sq.m, and associated works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6133

• 19 Apr 2022Conditional

  Permission for proposed works : 1) to decommission existing underground fuel storage tanks serving the existing filling station; 2) to install new underground fuel storage tanks on site; 3) to decommission exiting septic tank and to install new waste water treatment system and associated sand polishing filter to serve the existing amenity building; 4) to remove the existing manual car wash from site and all associated ancillary site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4865

• 8 Apr 2022Conditional

  The construction of (1) a part one storey, part two storey dwelling, (2) an associated domestic waste treatment system, a new vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4785

• 14 Mar 2022Conditional

  Permission to construct a revised single storey dwelling house and domestic garage (change of plan to that permitted under 13/6424 and extended under 18/6365), updated northern site boundary, updated landscape proposal, new bored well and all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4561

• 15 Feb 2022Conditional

  Construction of a domestic single storey garage with associated works within the curtilage of the existing dwellinghouse.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4305

The 25 most recent of 95 applications.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Great Island Channel SAC 001058
• Special Protection Area: Cork Harbour SPA 004030
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Great Island Channel 001058

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Killahora.

Architectural heritage

• Windsor Cottage, house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey house, built c. 1850, with single-bay single-storey recessed wings to east and west elevations, entrance porch to west wing, and single- and two-storey extensions to rear. Hipped slate roof with overhanging timber battened eaves and rendered chimneystacks. Flat asphalt roofs to wings and porch, with square profile pier supporting roof to porch. Painted roughcast rendered walls with cut limestone plinth. Square-headed window openings with render surrounds extending to eaves, cut limestone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door. Rendered sweep walls to entrance with rendered square-profile piers and metal double-leaf gates.

• House, 1925–1935 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached three-bay single storey house, built c. 1930, having gabled projecting central bay with timber canopy forming porch and single-storey extensions to rear (north). Pitched artificial slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast and smooth rendered walls. Timber cladding to gabled central section. multipartite square-headed timber sliding sash windows to projecting central bay. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills and tripartite two-over-two pane flanked by one-over-over pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled half-glazed door.

• Killora Lodge, country house, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached U-plan five-bay two-storey country house, built c. 1820, with flat-roofed porch to front (south) elevation, gabled return to rear (north) and recent conservatory to west elevation. Hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Render dentilated cornice to porch. Rendered walls. Square-headed diminishing window openings with cut limestone sills, six-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows to first storey and six-over-six pane to ground floor. Paired square-headed window openings to south elevation of porch, having shared render label moulding and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening to east and west elevations of porch, with rendered label mouldings and timber panelled half-glazed double-leaf doors. Round-headed door opening to interior of porch with render doorcase comprising colonettes supporting entablature, surmounted by spoked fanlight and having timber panelled double-leaf doors. Attached multiple-bay two-storey outbuildings to rear with pitched roofs, rubble stone walls, square-headed openings with timber casement windows and segmental-arched carriage arches with timber fittings. Detached single-bay single-storey gate lodge to south-east of site with hipped slate roof, rendered walls with stepped recessed panel and square-headed openings. Rendered boundary walls with square-profile tooled limestone gate piers.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Killahora.

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.

No address of the register names Killahora with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Killahora · Coill an Hóraigh

Area

1,690,563 m² (169.06 ha, 417.75 acres)

Civil parish

Caherlag, and its townlands

Barony

Barrymore

Electoral division

Carrigtohill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carrigtohill electoral division: 8,181 people in 2,751 households; 72% of households own their home; 61% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycurreen, Harpers Island, Johnstown, Killacloyne, Killeena

Placenames

Killahora 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.