Lohort West

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lohort West, from 286 m² to 357,082 m² (35.71 ha, 88.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Lohort West 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.

• 16 Jul 2019Conditional

  Construction of ground and first floor extension to side of dwelling and alterations to front and rear of dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5784

• 1 Feb 2007Conditional

  Construction of concrete yard, extension to silage slab and associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4691

• 30 Jun 2006Refused

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8519

• 25 Jan 2006Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4299

• 10 Aug 2005Conditional

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/5739

• 19 Feb 2004Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/993

• 19 Feb 2004Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/991

• 19 Feb 2004Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/988

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Lohort West.

Recorded monuments

• CO024-117 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on N-facing slope, below crest of hill. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured circular raised area on 1937 OS 6-inch map, with scarp to NE replaced by linear field boundary. Circular area (36m NE-SW; 36m NW-SE) defined by grass-covered scarp (H 0.9m) E->NNW; linear, heavily overgrown, low field boundary NNW->NE; enclosing element not visible NE->E due to overgrowth. Interior covered in tall grass and reeds similar to surrounding field. Bank and external fosse of circular enclosure visible as shadow site in aerial photograph (AP, Dr. D.D.C. Pochin Mould). 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

• CO024-118 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In marshy pasture. Horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt material (8.5m N-S; 6m E-W; H 0.2m); opening (2m N-S; 3.5m E-W) faces E. Second fulacht fiadh (11402) c. 80m to N. 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

• CO024-119 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In marshy ground. Horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt material (10m E-W; 8m N-S; H 0.25m); opening (2m N-S; 3m E-W) faces S. Second fulacht fiadh (11401) c. 80m to S. 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

• CO024-120 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Depicted as hachured circular area (diam. c. 35m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured circular raised area (diam. c. 30m) on 1937 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; roughly circular slightly raised area (34m N-S; 32m E-W) survives; interior surface uneven. Circular enclosure visible as cropmark of bank in aerial photograph (CASAP, 28-06-1984); and as cropmark of fosse in second aerial photograph (CASAP, 24-07-1989). Possibly site recorded by Bowman (1934, 57) as levelled single-ramparted fort (diam. c. 32yd) on Mrs Cott's land. 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 Lohort West.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Lohort West.

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 Lohort West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Lohort West · An Lóthart Thiar

Area

927,522 m² (92.75 ha, 229.2 acres)

Civil parish

Castlemagner, and its townlands

Barony

Duhallow

Electoral division

Roskeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Roskeen electoral division: 493 people in 168 households; 85% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinookery, Ballyhass, Castlelohort Demesne, Coolnamagh, Coolnamagh, Gneeves, Kilpatrick, Knockardsharriv, Lohort East

Placenames

Lohort West 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.