Longstone
Townland in the civil parish of Whitechurch, barony of Barretts, Co. Cork; in Irish An Chloch Fhada
- Area
- 143.6 ha
- 355 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 2,987 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 17
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Longstone, from 25 m² to 596,380 m² (59.64 ha, 147.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 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
No zone of a development plan covers Longstone 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
1 Oct 2024Conditional
Permission for construction of a dwelling and detached domestic garage, installation of a septic tank and percolation area and carrying out of all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5837
26 Feb 2024Conditional
Permission for the construction of a single storey extension to side of dwelling house (previous planning no. 20/05069).
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4322
10 Jun 2022Conditional
Permission to construct a dwelling house
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5357
10 Jun 2022Conditional
Permission to construct a dwelling house
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5366
27 May 2020Conditional
Alterations and extension to dwelling house including (A) to demolish existing extensions to side and rear (B) to construct two storey extension to side (C) to demolish existing outhouses (D) to remove existing conventional septic tank and to install new sewerage treatment system.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5069
24 Apr 2020Incompleted application
Alterations and extension to dwelling house including (A) to demolish existing extensions to side and rear (B) to construct two storey extension to side (C) to remove existing conventional septic tank and to install new sewerage treatment system.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4830
7 Jun 2007Conditional
Conversion of hay barn to calf house, construction of cow house with underground tank and straw bedded area and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8476
13 Jun 2006Conditional
Construction of open slurry storage tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8018
30 Jun 2005Refused
Dormer bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4634
22 Nov 2004Refused
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8610
25 May 2004Conditional
Alterations, attic conversion and extensions to dwelling and detached domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/3631
17 May 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/3406
22 Dec 2003Conditional
Dwellinghouse and treatment unit
Approval · Cork County Council, 03/6664
19 Dec 2003Conditional
Construction of double garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/6610
4 Dec 2003Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Approval · Cork County Council, 03/6179
7 Nov 2003Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/5530
24 Oct 2003Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Approval · Cork County Council, 03/5318
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 Longstone.
Recorded monuments
- CO052-014 Ogham stone
Description
Found in pasture, on an E-facing slope. A recumbent stone (L 3.3m; max. Wth 0.8m) lying E-W with the W end embedded in ground. Recorded as a possible ogham stone. The stone narrows towards the E end which is c. 0.81m above ground level. Known locally as "An Cloch Fhada" (the Long Stone). (Condon 1916, 61; Power et al. 1994, no. 4218) Compiled by: Nora White Date of upload: 1 February 2016
- CO052-015 Standing stone
Description
Not shown on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps. In pasture, on N-facing slope. Removed; no visible surface trace. Condon (1916, 63) recorded 'grayish stone, 58ins high, 20ins broad, 8ins thick'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO052-016 Standing stone
Description
Not shown on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps. In pasture, on N-facing slope. Removed; no visible surface trace. Condon (1916, 63) recorded 'grayish stone, 73ins high, 12ins broad, 11ins thick and 45ins in girth'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO052-017 Standing stone
Description
Not shown on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps. In pasture, on N-facing slope. Removed; no visible surface trace. Condon (1916, 63) recorded 'grayish regular stone 78ins high, 20ins broad, 4ins thick, 49ins in girth'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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 Longstone.
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 5 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 Longstone.
- 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
No address of the register names Longstone with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Longstone · An Chloch Fhada
- Area
- 1,436,368 m² (143.64 ha, 354.93 acres)
- Civil parish
- Whitechurch, and its townlands
- Barony
- Barretts
- Electoral division
- Blackpool, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Blackpool electoral division: 1,103 people in 346 households; 88% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Dromboy South, Dromgarriff North, Dromgarriff South, Farranastig, Gortdotia South, Knockanroe, Lisheenowen, Raheen, Ryefield West, Shanlyre
- Placenames
- Longstone 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.