Maul
Maul is a townland in the civil parish of Ross, barony of Carbery East (West Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Mhaoil.
- Area
- 46.4 ha
- 115 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 6,831 m² (0.68 ha, 1.69 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Maul, from 16 m² to 176,923 m² (17.69 ha, 43.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Maul 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
21 Aug 2026Awaiting recommendation
Retention of works to existing dwelling consisting of i) alterations to elevations, ii) sunroom extension, iii) rear extension and iv) provision of attic storage area
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/2193
9 Jan 2023Incompleted application
Construction of Family Fun Go Karting track and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4
9 Dec 2019Conditional
Construction of Summer Tubing Park (outdoor activity area), consisting of 3 number runs/lanes, tubing ramp, air bag, walkways and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/797
29 Apr 2013Conditional
Construct a timber fence fun 'maze' facility and associated car parking arrangements
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/255
6 Jan 2012Conditional
Construct an adventure golf course facility within the curtillage of the existing golf driving range
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5
19 Jan 2009Conditional
(a) Restoration and extension of ruined dwelling, installation of Bord na Mona Puraflo sewerage treatment system with constructed raised percolation area; (b) Retention for widened entrance access and (c) Retention of stable building
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/28
15 Dec 2008Incompleted application
Restoration and extension of existing ruined dwelling, installation of Bord na Mona Puraflo sewage treatment system with constructed raised percolation area; Retention permission for widened entrance access and stable building
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/2186
2 Jun 2005Refused
Demolition of dwellinghouse and construction of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3856
18 Feb 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/901
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 Maul.
Recorded monuments
- CO143-017 Enclosure
Description
On top of a hillock in rolling pasture. Raised oval area (34m E-W; 20m N-S) with trace of bank to W (H 1.55m); scarp (H 0.9m) elsewhere. Partially levelled c. 1975. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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 Maul.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Maul, about 1 in 5 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 Maul.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Maul with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Maul · An Mhaoil
- Area
- 464,078 m² (46.41 ha, 114.68 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ross, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery East (West Division)
- Electoral division
- Derry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 512 people lived in 194 households in the Derry electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardagh West, Curraheen, Derry, Gallane
- Placenames
- Maul 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.