Lougharuane

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lougharuane, from 550 m² to 262,003 m² (26.2 ha, 64.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Lougharuane 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.

• 14 Feb 2024Conditional

  Permission sought for (1)The construction of a single storey extension to existing dwelling, (2) Alterations to existing dwelling including minor changes to elevations, (3) The construction of an advance domestic wastewater treatment system and polishing filter (4) All associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4240

• 1 May 2007Conditional

  Dormer style dwellinghouse

  Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 07/7427

• 25 Jan 2007Conditional

  Construction of slatted unit building, sheep unit building, open silage pit and associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4464

• 3 Oct 2006Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/11132

• 21 Mar 2003Conditional

  Dwellinghouse with conservatory

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/1269

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 Lougharuane.

Recorded monuments

• CO026-069 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Low undulations visible in area of site. 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

• CO026-159 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of fosse of circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) visible in aerial photograph (CASAP, July 1989); possible entrance to SE. Ring-ditch (11927) and circular enclosure (13615) c. 170m to E and c. 190m to SE respectively. 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

• CO026-160 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Cropmark of fosse of circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m) visible in aerial photograph (CASAP, July 1989). Circular enclosures (CO026-159---; CO026-161---) c. 200m to W and c. 120m to S respectively. 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

• CO026-161 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of fosse of circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) visible in aerial photograph (CASAP, July 1989). Ring-ditch (11927) c. 120m to N and circular enclosure (13614) c. 220m 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

• CO026-162 Enclosure
  Description

  Indicated on 1842 OS 6-inch map as circular area (diam. c. 30m) planted with trees; not shown on 1905 or 1935 OS 6-inch maps. Cropmark of fosse visible in aerial photograph (CASAP, July 1989); trace of outer fosse NW->SE and S->SW. Linear cropmark (E-W), probably a levelled field fence, crosses field tangential to inner fosse to N; W and S sides of possible annexe, also visible in aerial photograph, on S side of this fence and adjoining W side of enclosure. 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

• CO026-237 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage field, cropmark of circular-shaped area (diam. c. 30m) defined by a ditch. Visible on Apple Maps. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère See attached image Date of upload/revision: 10 January 2022

Architectural heritage

• Glenanore, gate lodge, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c. 1810, now disused. Hipped slate roof with projecting eaves having cast-iron valence, supported on circular-plan Doric-style cast-iron columns to north elevation, and having brick chimney. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings having tooled limestone sills and remains of some timber sliding sash windows, with one four-pane timber casement window remaining. Square-headed door openings having timber battened doors. Quadrant entranceway to road having roughcast rendered curving walls, paired cut limestone inner piers to vehicular and flanking pedestrian entrances with plinths, caps and single- and double-leaf wrought-iron gates and terminating in rendered outer piers with cut limestone caps.

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

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Lougharuane.

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

Name

Lougharuane · Loch an Ruáin

Area

1,233,061 m² (123.31 ha, 304.7 acres)

Civil parish

Castletownroche, and its townlands

Barony

Fermoy

Electoral division

Castletownroche, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castletownroche electoral division: 925 people in 373 households; 73% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinvoher, Ballyadeen, Ballygrillihan, Scrarour

Placenames

Lougharuane 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.