# Maghereen, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Macroom, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork; in Irish An Machairín. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 131,389 m² (13.14 ha, 32.47 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 307 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): R2 Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 20 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Macroom, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/macroom.md - Barony: Muskerry West - Electoral division: Macroom Urban, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Macroom Urban electoral division: 4,395 people in 1,639 households; 61% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/11620 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 44266 - Centre: latitude 51.910092, longitude -8.959391 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Maghereen, from 45 m² to 42,197 m² (4.22 ha, 10.43 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 3766209: 42,197 m² (4.22 ha, 10.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3766209.md - Parcel 6118156: 18,521 m² (1.85 ha, 4.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6118156.md - Parcel 2528920: 16,734 m² (1.67 ha, 4.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2528920.md - Parcel 6142151: 6,817 m² (0.68 ha, 1.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6142151.md - Parcel 2324342: 6,310 m² (0.63 ha, 1.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2324342.md - Parcel 6118148: 3,716 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6118148.md - Parcel 6118127: 3,553 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6118127.md - Parcel 6118170: 3,444 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6118170.md - Parcel 2528933: 2,384 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2528933.md - Parcel 2159783: 2,010 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2159783.md - Parcel 2159784: 1,978 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2159784.md - Parcel 2159785: 1,155 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2159785.md - Parcel 4830219: 736 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4830219.md - Parcel 2528892: 315 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2528892.md - Parcel 2528896: 307 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2528896.md - Parcel 2528877: 278 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2528877.md - Parcel 2528914: 275 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2528914.md - Parcel 2638143: 269 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2638143.md - Parcel 2608254: 267 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2608254.md - Parcel 2324341: 234 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2324341.md - Parcel 2526723: 223 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2526723.md - Parcel 2526722: 220 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2526722.md - Parcel 2526720: 208 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2526720.md - Parcel 6118141: 187 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6118141.md - Parcel 6118147: 187 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6118147.md - Parcel 6118138: 128 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6118138.md - Parcel 2528934: 86 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2528934.md - Parcel 2133554: 49 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2133554.md - Parcel 6118169: 45 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6118169.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - R2 Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Existing residential): Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork; 37 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.corkcoco.ie/sites/default/files/2022-06/volume-4-south-cork.pdf - G3 Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape): Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork; 4 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.corkcoco.ie/sites/default/files/2022-06/volume-4-south-cork.pdf - R1 Residential (New/proposed residential): Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.corkcoco.ie/sites/default/files/2022-06/volume-4-south-cork.pdf - G1 Green Infrastructure (Open space, park): Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.corkcoco.ie/sites/default/files/2022-06/volume-4-south-cork.pdf ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 20 applications, newest first. - 24 Jul 2025, Cork County Council 25/5480: Conditional permission. Permission for retention. Permission for the retention of as built extension to the rear (northern) elevation of existing dwelling house together with all other ancillary site works which is in the curtilage of a Protected Structure.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=25/5480 - 19 Dec 2023, Cork County Council 23/6518: Conditional permission. Permission. Permission for the proposed construction of a residential development of 62 no. dwelling houses and all ancillary works. The proposed development consists of 4 no. detached housing units, 34 no. semi-detached housing units, and 24 no. terraced housing units. Ancillary site works include the provision of all associated site landscaping, public open spaces, a new public footpath (connecting to Masseytown Road via Cornmills) and servicing proposals. Vehicular access to the proposed development will be provided by a new entrance from the Mill Road.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=23/6518 - 26 Aug 2022, Cork County Council 22/5955: Refused. Permission. Permission for the construction of 2 number 2-bedroom apartments ancillary to main dwelling house, connection to public sewer together with all other ancillary site works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=22/5955 - 27 Nov 2019, Cork County Council 19/6823: Refused. Outline permission. A new residential development. Works to include: (1) to construct new 7 no. detached dwellings, (2) to construct new site entrance and access road to serve development, (3) installation of on site foul sewer pumping station, (4) all associated site services and site works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=19/6823 - 3 Sept 2019, Cork County Council 19/6175: Incompleted application. Outline permission. Residential development works to include: (1) to construct 7 no. detached dwellinghouses, (2) to construct new site entrance and access road to serve development, (3) installation of on site foul sewer pumping station, (4) all associated site services and site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=19/6175 - 7 Mar 2014, Cork County Council 14/54003: Conditional. Permission. Permission consequent on grant of outline permission (planning ref no. 10/54013) for the construction of 7 no dwelling houses including site road and associated site works with access via the roadway from Cornmills as permitted under planning ref. 08/54033.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=14/54003 - 2 Sept 2010, Cork County Council 10/54013: Conditional. Outline permission. 7 No. dwelling houses including site road and associated site works with access via the roadway from Cornmills as permitted under Planning Reg No. 08/54053. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=10/54013 - 30 Dec 2009, Cork County Council 09/54024: Refused. Permission. Construction of 4 No. dwelling. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=09/54024 - 23 Dec 2009, Cork County Council 09/54022: Conditional. Permission. Access road to service zoned development lands including re-alignment of existing public roadway. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=09/54022 - 28 Sept 2009, Cork County Council 09/54019: Withdrawn. Outline permission. Construction of 3 no. dwellings. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=09/54019 - 28 Jul 2009, Cork County Council 09/54015: Withdrawn. Outline permission. Construction of 3 No. Dwellings. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=09/54015 - 28 Nov 2008, Cork County Council 08/54053: Conditional. Permission. Permission for an access roadway running eastwards from entrance to cornmills to serve sites on which Planning Reg No 04/54047 (Garden Centre - Full P.P & 06/54062 offices & laboratories - Outline P.P) have been granted. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=08/54053 - 30 Sept 2008, Cork County Council 08/54045: Withdrawn. Outline permission. Construction of a Local Authority Yard. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=08/54045 - 30 Sept 2008, Cork County Council 08/54044: Conditional. Outline permission. Construction of Caravan and camping park. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=08/54044 - 22 Jan 2008, Cork County Council 08/54001: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF ENTRANCE TO SITE FOR WHICH OUTLINE PLANNING PERMISSION REG NO. TP 06/54062) HAS BEEN OBTAINED FOR OFFICES AND LABORATORIES. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=08/54001 - 17 Oct 2007, Cork County Council 07/54052: Conditional. Permission. Permission to construct 2 no. dwelling houses with garages and propietary treatment units together with all associated site works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/54052 - 13 Jun 2007, Cork County Council 07/54032: Conditional. Permission. Construction of a road from the existing Cornmills entrance to the vicinity of Coolyhane Cottage, Coolyhane, Macroom.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/54032 - 21 Dec 2006, Cork County Council 06/54062: Conditional. Outline permission. Offices and Laboratories. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/54062 - 23 Dec 2004, Cork County Council 04/54047: Conditional. Permission. Garden Centre and Restaurant. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=04/54047 - 14 Oct 2004, Cork County Council 04/54037: Withdrawn. Outline permission. Construction of Two-Storey Dwelling And domestic Garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=04/54037 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Maghereen. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CO071-047001: Mill - corn, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO071-047001-. Abandoned 2-storey structure in Massytown, Macroom, named 'Corn Mill' on 1842 OS 6-inch map. According to local information built by Waltons in 1750, whose family later built oat mill (CO071-049002-). Rectangular structure (24m N-S; 6m E-W) with lower 2-storey grain-drying kiln added to N and 2-storey residential block added to E, making T-shaped ground plan. Wheel-pit (Wth 1.7m) within now houses a small inward flowing turbine fed by narrow pipe from mill pond (dry) to W. Tail race arch in E elevation. Turbine powered two pairs of millstones at 1st floor via belt and pulley system. Two wooden H-support frames for millstone on ground floor; western spindle and 1st floor stones gone, eastern spindle to 1st-floor bedstone in position with wooden hopper and long shoe. Sandstone runner millstone leans against wall on 1st floor and another lies in yard to SW. Secondary line shaft with series of pulley wheels hang from 1st-floor ceiling transmitted power to Harrison McGregor metal grinder and pair of encased millstones with iron hopper, both on ground floor. Other mill features include weighing scales, enclosed wooden elevators and separator. Grain-drying kiln has central brick-lined furnace on ground floor, 1st floor of stone slabs resting on wooden beams with ceramic grain drying kiln tiles above. 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 - CO071-047002: Mill - corn, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO071-047002-. Roadside in Massytown, Macroom. According to owner oat mill built in 1832 onto earlier carding, mill by Walton family who came from nearby flour mill (CO071-047001-). Rectangular carding mill (19.1m N-S; 12.2m E-W) used now as corn store. Oat mill built onto W side of carding mill, indicated on 1842 OS 6-inch map as 'Flour Mill', with mill race flowing along N wall and through middle of carding mill. By 1904 OS 6-inch map mill race realigned to present layout: approaches from Sullane River c. 1.5km to SW (recently damaged by road works); fills mill pond immediately to N of mill; head race runs into mill at W end of N wall to fill internal wheel-pit housing Craig Francis Turbine brought from Crossmaglen in 1956. Mill burnt in early 1920s and refitted with present mill machinery. Two pairs of millstones, for shelling and grinding, rest on low iron table over cogged gearing which is powered by belt and pulley system from turbine, now mainly driven by electricity due to lack of water. Enclosed 1930s flour mill in NW corner used only during World War II. Upper stories contain cleaning machinery. Grain transferred through mill via elevators. Still in use as oat mill. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Mill (water), 1810–1850, Regional interest, registry number 20852010, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CO®no=20852010. Detached L-plan double-pile multiple-bay five-storey mill, built c.1830. Having single-storey extension and canopied loading area to rear (west). Pitched corrugated-iron roofs with cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with cast-iron bracing plates to front (east) elevation. Square-headed window and loading bay openings with render sills throughout, having timber battened fittings. Timber casement windows to rear elevation. Square-headed door openings with timber battened doors, having concrete stepped approach to raised opening to rear elevation. Located on roadside. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Maghereen. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cork/maghereen.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/maghereen.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/maghereen.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Maghereen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork: https://everytownland.com/cork.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballyveerane: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballyveerane.md - Coolyhane: https://everytownland.com/cork/coolyhane.md - Kilnagurteen: https://everytownland.com/cork/kilnagurteen.md - Sleveen East: https://everytownland.com/cork/sleveen-east.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cork/maghereen - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/maghereen