Kiltoohig
Townland in the civil parish of Ballyhay, barony of Orrery and Kilmore, Co. Cork; in Irish An Choill Tuaidh
- Area
- 144.4 ha
- 357 acres
- Land parcels
- 39
- registered freehold, median 2,814 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt2
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kiltoohig, from 855 m² to 259,777 m² (25.98 ha, 64.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G3Greenbelt2 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 42 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 23 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R2Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Existing residential)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 0 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
25 Aug 2026Awaiting recommendation
Permission for retention of :- a) Kitchen Extension, b) Sunroom and c) Garage (domestic use) incorporating utility room at rear.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/2208
21 Nov 2024Conditional permission
Permission to construct a two storey dwelling house and detached garage for domestic usage and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6202
2 Oct 2024Incompleted application
Permission to construct a two storey dwelling house and detached garage for domestic usage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5843
22 Dec 2022Conditional
Permission for construction of extension to rear of existing dwelling house and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6864
3 Jun 2020Conditional
Permission for retention of a detached garage previously permitted under planning reference no. 09/4331 which includes a ground floor domestic storage area with an 'open style' covered storage area on the north eastern side and a first floor 'granny type flat' which is ancillary to the existing dwelling house.
Retention · Cork County Council, 20/5115
13 Nov 2019Refused
Construction of a dwellinghouse, detached garages, site entrance, waste water treatment system, polishing filter and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6687
29 Jun 2018Conditional
Retention of alterations to elevations and change of use of attached garage to bedroom and permission for alterations to elevations, extensions to dwelling, carport, new boundary walls, new garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5690
28 Feb 2017Conditional
Construction of silage base, agricultural shed comprising of loose house, slatted unit and feeding passage.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4455
23 Dec 2016Withdrawn
Construction of silage base, agricultural shed comprising of loose house, slatted unit and feed passage.
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/7317
14 Jun 2012Conditional
Construction of a single storey extension comprising of bedroom and en-suite to the side of existing dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5309
4 Feb 2009Conditional
Domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4331
24 Jul 2008Conditional
Construction of double entrance and front boundary wall to existing dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/8060
9 Nov 2006Conditional
Construction of overground slurry tank and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12136
28 Jul 2005Conditional
Retention of domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/5435
11 Aug 2004Conditional
Retention of garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/6107
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 Kiltoohig.
Recorded monuments
- CO002-054 Enclosure
Description
In pasture, on level ground. Depicted on 1842 OS 6-inch map as hachured subrectangular bivallate enclosure (c. 70m NE-SW; c. 50m NW-SE), skirted by field boundary to NW->SE; on 1905 OS 6-inch map as hachured bivallate enclosure oval enclosure, with external fosse hachured N->SE; on 1936 OS 6-inch map banks hachured as scarps and surrounding field boundary (NW->SE) also hachured. Levelled; rise visible in area of site; to SE, depression outside raised area, with external low rise, may be remains of intervening fosse and external bank. Insubstantial field boundary surrounds site from NW->SE, with drain to outside. 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
- CO002-055 Moated site
Description
Depicted as roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured rectangular enclosure (c. 35m E-W; c. 25m N-S) surrounded by fosse on 1905 OS 6-inch map; oval area on 1936 OS 6-inch map, defined by two hachured banks with intervening fosse. According to local information, levelled c. 1977; originally consisted of earthen bank overgrown with trees and bushes, separated from low outer bank by waterlogged fosse. In pasture, on E-facing slope. Oval area (43.5m E-W; 34m N-S) enclosed by shallow fosse (D 0.2m) clearly defined by differential growth. Enclosure visible in aerial photograph (GSIAP, R609) as cropmark of subrectangular area enclosed by bank, intervening fosse and external bank with faint trace of linear feature extending E from external bank. 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
- CO002-113 House - vernacular house
Description
To N of road. Front (S) of 5 bays, central door with shallow open porch. Hipped roof with thatch; central chimney. Modern addition to rear. 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 five-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, with open porch to entrance and single-bay single-storey flat roof extension to rear. Hipped thatched roof with rendered chimneystack. Flat roof to porch with rendered coping. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with painted rendered sills and replacement aluminum windows. Round-headed opening to porch with square-headed door opening to interior having replacement glazed timber door. Rendered boundary wall and piers with wrought-iron pedestrian gate to site.
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
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_887 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Kiltoohig, Charleville6 sales
The townland
- Name
- Kiltoohig · An Choill Tuaidh
- Area
- 1,443,890 m² (144.39 ha, 356.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyhay, and its townlands
- Barony
- Orrery and Kilmore
- Electoral division
- Rathluirc, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rathluirc electoral division: 4,446 people in 1,732 households; 56% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardmore, Ballyhubbo, Ballypierce, Broghill South, Fortlands, Garrynagranoge, Kippane, Liscullane, Shandrum
- Placenames
- Kiltoohig 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.