Kishkeam Upper

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kishkeam Upper, from 328 m² to 429,022 m² (42.9 ha, 106.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Kishkeam 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.

• 15 Jan 2025Conditional

  Permission to a) renovate existing dwelling house and b) construct a new extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4022

• 1 Nov 2022Conditional

  Permission for retention of domestic garage and roadside boundary wall and entrances.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 22/6461

• 26 Sept 2022Incompleted application

  Permission for retention of domestic garage and roadside boundary wall and entrances

  Retention · Cork County Council, 22/6161

• 4 May 2022Conditional

  Permission to construct i) dwelling house with secondary effluent treatment system & polishing filter, ii) domestic garage, iii) entrance and roadside boundary iv) all associated services & site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5011

• 28 Feb 2019Conditional

  1) Demolish 2 no. existing storage sheds, 2 no. effluent tanks and existing dungstead, 2) Construct slatted cattle shed with underground slurry storage tanks and 3) Construct new entrance to the farmyard at the east side of the yard.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4483

• 6 Feb 2019Incompleted application

  1)Permission to demolish 2 no existing storage sheds, 2 no. effluent tanks and existing dungstead, 2) Permission to construct slatted cattle shed with underground slurry storage tanks & 3) Construct new entrance to the farmyard at the east side of the yard.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4255

• 25 Jan 2019Conditional

  Retention of existing calf shed and extension to the side of the existing cattle shed

  Retention · Cork County Council, 19/4146

• 20 Dec 2018Incompleted application

  Existing calf shed extension to the side of the existing cattle shed.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 18/7391

• 24 Jul 2018Withdrawn

  For 1) Permission to demolish 2 no. existing storage shed, 2 no. effluent tanks & existing dungstead, 2) Permission to construct slatted cattle shed with underground slurry storage tanks, 3) Retention of existing calf shed and extension to the side of the existing cattle shed & 4) Construct new entrance to the farmyard at the east side of the yard.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5952

• 12 Jun 2018Incompleted application

  Permission to (1) demolish 2 no existing storage sheds, 2 no. effluent tanks and existing dungstead, 2) consstruct slatted cattle shed with underground slurry storage tanks, 3) permission for retention of existing calf shed and extension to the side of the existing cattle shed and 4) construct new entrance to the farmyard at the east side of the yard

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5525

• 4 May 2018Incompleted application

  1) Permission to demolish 2 no. existing storage shed, 2 no. effluent tanks and existing dungstead, 2) Permission to construct slatted cattle shed with underground slurry storage tanks, 3) Permission for retention of existing calf shed and extension to the side of the existing cattle shed and 4) Construct new entrance to the farmyard at the east side of the yard

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5129

• 13 Apr 2018Conditional

  Construct a single storey extension, separate dwelling unit, to the side of an existing two storey dwelling, with installation of new septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4918

• 5 Mar 2007Conditional

  Construction of slatted cattle unit with underground effluent holding tanks, silage base and apron

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5634

• 22 Jan 2007Conditional

  Construction of agricultural shed with slatted unit and underground tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4313

• 3 Apr 2006Conditional

  Construction of slatted unit extension with underground storage tanks to existing building

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6054

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
• Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161

Recorded monuments

• CO021-031 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In rough grazing. Horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt material (13.6m E-W; 9.8m N-S; H 0.3m); opening (Wth 3.3m) faces SW. North side of mound cut by drain. Possibly the fulacht fiadh recorded by Bowman (1934, 469) on J. Murphy's land ..'a drain was made through this, a trough c. 4ft by 3 by c. 1ft. deep was found. It is said that this was made out of one solid piece of oak'. 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

• CO021-032 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In pasture, in rolling countryside. Slightly raised circular area (H 0.25m; 5.1m N-S; 5.7m E-W) enclosed by shallow fosse (D 0.15m). Recorded by Bowman (1934, 468) as 'Levelled. Diameter of surrounding fence 34ft. Diam. of base of mound 18 feet'. 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

• CO021-033001 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In pasture, in rolling countryside. Roughly circular raised area (H 0.55m; 6m N-S; 6.5m E-W) enclosed by shallow fosse with external bank (int. H 0.75m; ext. H 0.35m). Four stones (L 0.6m; 0.3m x 0.5m: L 0.6m; 0.3m x 0.45m: L 0.8m; 0.25m x 0.65m: L 0.5m; 0.2m x 0.6m) lying on surface of interior form rough square. Second ring-barrow (11856) c. 8m 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

• CO021-033002 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In pasture, in rolling countryside. Circular area (4.5m N-S; 4.6m E-W) enclosed by shallow fosse (D 0.4m) with almost levelled external bank (int. H 0.45m). Second ring-barrow (11855) c. 8m 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

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kishkeam Upper.

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

At the centre of the townland of Kishkeam Upper, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

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

Name

Kishkeam Upper · Coiscéim na Caillí Uachtarach

Area

1,986,306 m² (198.63 ha, 490.83 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmeen (Kanturk Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Duhallow

Electoral division

Meens, the unit of the census

Census 2022

457 people lived in 176 households in the Meens electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Glenreagh, Kishkeam Lower, Knocknanagh Commons, Knocknanagh West, Knockyrourke, Rascalstreet, Tooreenduff

Placenames

Kishkeam 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.