Kiltass
Kiltass is a townland in the civil parish of Cooliney, barony of Orrery and Kilmore, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Choill Teas.
- Area
- 36.3 ha
- 90 acres
- Land parcels
- 3
- registered freehold, median 115,648 m² (11.56 ha, 28.58 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kiltass, from 34,495 m² (3.45 ha, 8.52 acres) to 213,029 m² (21.3 ha, 52.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 12 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
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 May 2020Conditional
Construct a two storey/storey and a half style extension to rear of cottage, domestic garage, entrance and a secondary wastewater treatment system including renovations and alterations to existing cottage and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4888
24 May 2017Conditional
Works to connect the permitted Boolard Wind Farm (Reg. Refs. 12/5997 and 15/5521/PL.04.245560) to the existing Charleville 110kv ESBN substation comprising as follows: installation of approximately 5.694 km of 20kv underground electricity cable and fibre communications cable in ducting; 12 no. joint bays, 12 no. communications chambers and 2 no. earth link boxes (all underground); access covers to chambers and boxes at finished surface level; ancillary marker posts and marker plates as necessary; the replacement of an existing concrete pipe with a box culvert under an existing agricultural track and the construction of new parapet walls above the track; and all associated site development and reinstatement works. The development will consist of alterations to permitted wind farm site layout (as per Reg. Ref. 12/5997 and 15/5521 / PL.04.245560) as follows i) widening of permitted vehicular site entrance, ii) provision of 2 no. turning areas/overrun areas for turbine delivery/construction vehicles off the permitted wind farm site road iii) localized realignment and refinement of internal wind farm site road network, iv) increased crane pad size at both permitted turbine locations, and v) also, construction of control building (minor change of location from Reg. Ref. 15/5521/PL.04.245560).
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5292
25 Nov 2016Withdrawn
The installation of 5.645km of 20kV underground electricity cable and fibre communications cable to be contained within ducting; 12 no. joint bays, 12 no. communications chambers and 2 no. earth link boxes (all underground), access covers to chambers and boxes at finished surface level; ancillary marker posts and marker plates as necessary; replacement of an existing concrete pipe with box culvert under an existing agricultural track and the construction of new parapet walls above the track and all associated site development and reinstatement works. The works are required to connect the permitted Bollard Wind Farm (Reg. Nos. 12/5997 and 15/5521) to the existing Charleville 110kV ESBN substation
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6938
17 Nov 2016Incompleted application
The installation of 5.645km of 20kV underground electricity cable and fibre communications cable to be contained within ducting; 12 no. joint bays, 12 no. communications chambers and 2 no. earth link boxes (all underground), access covers to chambers and boxes at finished surface level; ancillary marker posts and marker plates as necessary; replacement of an existing concrete pipe with box culvert under an agricultural track and the construction of new parapet walls above the track and all associated site development and reinstatement works. The works are required to connect the permitted Bollard Wind Farm (Reg. Refs. 12/5997 and 15/5521) to the existing Charleville 110kV ESBN substation.
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6868
18 Dec 2006Conditional
Construction of slurry storage reception tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13447
29 May 2006Conditional
Extension to cubicle house, milking parlour and silage base and construction of slatted effluent tank and overground steel slurry storage tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7580
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 Kiltass.
Recorded monuments
- CO007-046 Ringfort - rath
Description
In low-lying pasture land. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842, 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps; as bivallate circular enclosure on 1905 OS 6-inch map, with outer bank not shown along SE quadrant. Levelled; circular area (c. 38m NE-SW) defined by two concentric shallow fosses (D 0.25m) N->ESE; ill defined outline visible along W half. Fosses NNE->ESE clearly visible as cropmark in aerial photograph (CASAP). Section of field boundary respecting NW quadrant of site and incorporating outer bank (1905 OS 6-inch map) also levelled. Large depression in NW quadrant of interior. 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 Kiltass.
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 Kiltass, about 1 in 20 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_887 (ZIP).
- 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 Kiltass with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Kiltass · An Choill Teas
- Area
- 363,260 m² (36.33 ha, 89.76 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cooliney, and its townlands
- Barony
- Orrery and Kilmore
- Electoral division
- Milltown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 441 people lived in 154 households in the Milltown electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardmore, Cooliney, Garrynagranoge, Killaree, Milltown, Rathnacally
- Placenames
- Kiltass 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.