Kilshannig Upper

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Kilshannig Upper, from 230 m² to 230 m². The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Kilshannig Upper 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.

• 20 Jul 2018Conditional

  Construct a dwellinghouse and detached domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5917

• 22 May 2015Unconditional

  Dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit, combined shared entrance and associated site development works, extension of duration of permission granted under planning reg. no. 09/6707

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 15/5080

• 13 Aug 2009Conditional

  Dwelling, garage, waste water treatment unit, combined shared entrance and associated site development works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6707

• 31 Mar 2009Conditional

  Dwellinghouse, garage, installation of waste water treatment unit, combined/shared entrance and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4979

• 10 Mar 2009Incompleted application

  Dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit, combined/shared entrance and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4728

• 14 Jun 2007Conditional

  Construction of loose house, covered dungstead, slatted tank, stable and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8646

• 27 Mar 2007Incompleted application

  Construction of loose house, covered dungstead, slatted tank, stables and associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6460

• 26 Feb 2007Incompleted application

  Demolition of storage sheds, outhouses and associated structures, closing of existing entrances from public roadway, construction of 1 no. warehouse unit with ancillary offices for use as general building contractors yard and regional centre, installation of sewage treatment unit, construction of new entrance and access roadway off public roadway and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5438

• 25 Jan 2007Incompleted application

  Construction of loose house, covered dungstead, slatted tank, stables and associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4440

• 7 Dec 2006Incompleted application

  Construction of loose house, covered dungstead, slatted tank and associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13045

• 7 Mar 2005Incompleted application

  Retention of storage of plant machinery and metal containers

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1318

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: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170

Recorded monuments

• CO044-033001 Country house
  Description

  Palladian house designed by Davis Duckart for Abraham Devonsher (Bence Jones 1978, 176); built 1766 according to date on water spouts (Glin 1967,737), but 1765 according to Guinness & Ryan (1971, 77) and 1756 according to Craig (1972, 197). Brick entrance front (S) with stone detail; 2-storeyover basement with mezzanine; central single-storey 3-bay Doric ashlerfrontispiece. View front and returns of ashlar limestone with sandstone detail; 3-bay on return. View front overlooks Rathcormack to N; 5-bay, 2-storey over basement; 3-bay central breakfront; basement windowssemi-circular, glazed as fanlights; entablature over ground floor windows; shouldered architraves around 1st floor windows. L-shaped wings connected to house by linear corridor, with blind pilastered arcades, along N elevation; wings treated as 2-storey on N elevation, with oculi above round-headed windows. W wing derelict. Interior has very fine examples of plasterwork including rococo work by the Francini brothers (Bence Jones ibid; Glin ibid, 737-8; Guinness & Ryan ibid, 77-84). Number of other structures survive on estate including ice house (CO044-03302-), coaching house and renovated farmbuildings, two walled gardens to E; dog kennels with feeding tower and archway to S. 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

• CO044-033002 Icehouse
  Description

  To E of Kilshannig House (CO044-03301-), roofless stone-built octagonal structure (diam. 2.14m); E side collapsed. Door (W-facing) and window (SW-facing) with brick surrounds. Chamber (D c. 2m) under floor and chute in N wall. 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

• CO044-047 Graveyard
  Description

  Roughly circular area (diam. c. 35m) dotted on 1842 OS 6-inch map, c. 40m WNW of Kilshannig House (CO044-03301-). Not marked on later editions of OS 6-inch map; no visible surface trace. Power (1923, 190) describes 'a small pile of stones beside a pair of whitethorn bushes' on 'site of ancient church and graveyard'; probably remains of 'Cill Seanaigh - "Semach's Church"'. 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

Architectural heritage

• Kilshannig House, country house, 1760–1770 · National interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay two-storey country house over basement, built 1765-6, facing south, with three-bay entrance centrepiece continuing to first floor, five-bay two-storey over half-basement rear elevation with three-bay breakfront, and three-bay two-storey over half-basement side elevations. Flanked by half-courtyards to each side, comprising east-west blocks presenting seven-bay two-storey elevations to south and nine-bay single-storey elevations to north, with projecting bays to each end of each elevation, and L-shaped service wings at right angles, each with four-bay two-storey north-south blocks and five-bay single-storey east-west blocks. Each courtyard is screened from house front by concave brick walls having sandstone plinths and copings and square-plan brick piers with carved sandstone caps and finials, flanked by square-headed pedestrian entrances and with round-headed recesses to curving walls with stone sills. Hipped slate skirt roof to house, having lead ridging, rendered chimneystacks, cut limestone parapet, and moulded limestone eaves course. Cast-iron rainwater goods having ornate hoppers, dated 1766, with gambolling lion and winged cherub head, square-profile down pipe and moulded joints. Brick walling to front elevation in Flemish bond, having vertically dressed limestone quoins and plinth course. Cut sandstone entrance centrepiece comprising Doric-style pilasters with moulded capitals and plinths flanking segmental-headed door and window openings with fluted scroll keystones, pilasters supporting entablature with alternating bucrania and fruit and flowers metopes and triglyphs. Rear (north) and side elevations faced in ashlar sandstone having limestone quoins, and brick plinths. Moulded limestone plinth course to all elevations. Windows to centrepiece have moulded surrounds, nine-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and panelled risers, with blind oculus openings above having raised surrounds and moulded sills. Entrance doorway is segmental-headed, with painted moulded surround with fluted scrolled keystone, paned overlight and timber panelled double-leaf door, having later flat-roofed porch to front with moulded timber surround to its front face. Entrance approached by flight of moulded tooled limestone steps, having urns to landing. Round-headed niche to second floor, over centrepiece, having moulded limestone surround. Timber sliding sash windows throughout, front elevation having camber-headed six-over-six pane windows to second floor, camber-headed six-over-three pane to first floor and segmental-headed six-over-six pane to ground floor. Square-headed openings to other elevations, having shouldered moulded limestone surrounds to ground and first floors, first floor having six-over-six pane windows and their sills being incorporated into surrounds and ground floor windows having nine-over-six pane windows with moulded limestone cornices. Semi-circular window openings to basement of sides and rear, having moulded limestone surrounds, triple keystones and ornate fanlights. Square-headed door opening to east side elevation inserted into window opening and having glazed timber door with six-pane overlight, approached by flight of moulded limestone steps, steps formerly giving access to service wing. East-west service blocks have hipped slate roofs. Coursed rubble sandstone walls to north elevation with moulded sandstone eaves course and square-headed mainly six-over-six pane windows to first floor with red-brick surrounds and camber-headed door openings to ground floor with red brick surrounds. Coursed cut sandstone walls to south elevations, with moulded sandstone eaves course, ashlar sandstone quoins to projecting bays, arcading to recessed bays having Doric-style pilasters with moulded capitals and plinths and moulded archivolts connecting to eaves course by roundels, and to each other by impost course and entablature. Middle bays of east arcade blind and ends having fifteen-pane fixed timber window and square-headed doorway with fanlight. Projecting outer end bays have round-headed twelve-pane fixed timber windows with moulded sandstone surrounds and triple-keystones, moulded imposts and moulded sill course, parapet having moulded sandstone coping and oculus openings with raised surrounds. L-plan service blocks under renovation, having hipped slate roofs, south elevations having sandstone ashlar cladding, limestone quoins and moulded limestone eaves course, Flemish bond brick walls to gables and coursed roughly dressed sandstone elsewhere. Round-headed window openings to south and east elevations of southmost return blocks, with brick surrounds throughout, raised block-and-start to south elevation, with limestone sills, some having twelve-pane fixed timber windows, others blocked up. Square-headed window and door openings to other elevations, eastern wing having elliptical-arched vehicular entrances, with inserted half-glazed door with spoked fanlight, flanked by replacement timber-framed windows, having coursed stone beneath. Cast-iron water pump to eastern yard in front of service wing. Fronts onto sweeping gravel drive and landscaped park. Curved entrance gates to north, now disused, having vehicular and flanking pedestrian entrances, rubble stone plinth walls with stone copings and cast-iron railings, having square-profile ashlar limestone piers with moulded cornices and plinths, vehicular and pedestrian cast-iron gates. Second curving entrance gateway, to west, having ashlar sandstone piers to vehicular and flanking segmental-headed pedestrian entrances, with mloulded caps and plinths, having prominent keystones and moulded copings to pedestrian entrances, and cast-iron gates, with rubble limestone flanking walls.

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1289 (ZIP).

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 Kilshannig Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Kilshannig Upper · Cill Seanaigh Uachtarach

Area

974,607 m² (97.46 ha, 240.83 acres)

Civil parish

Rathcormack, and its townlands

Barony

Barrymore

Electoral division

Gortroe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Gortroe electoral division: 815 people in 273 households; 90% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinterry, Bridgeland East, Gneeves, Kilshannig Lower, Knocknabooly, Lackabeha West

Placenames

Kilshannig Upper 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.