Maulbrack West
Maulbrack West is a townland in the civil parish of Desertserges, barony of Carbery East (East Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Meall Breac Thiar.
- Area
- 98.3 ha
- 243 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 2,309 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 27
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Maulbrack West, from 50 m² to 372,147 m² (37.21 ha, 91.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Maulbrack 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
8 Dec 2025Grant with conditions
Permission for a dwelling house, a domestic garage, an effluent treatment system and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6720
20 Nov 2025Grant with conditions
Permission to construct a cattle house with slatted slurry tank, upgrade existing site entrance and carry out all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6530
18 Oct 2017Conditional
Construct a dwellinghouse and garage with related site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6697
29 Mar 2016Conditional
Alterations and extension to existing dwellinghouse, domestic garage and new waste water treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4700
31 Jul 2014Conditional
Retention of dwellinghouse as constructed
Retention · Cork County Council, 14/5644
26 Jun 2012Conditional
Alterations and extensions to existing dwelling house, including first floor extension change of plan, layout and elevations to that permitted under 05/8233
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5393
26 Jun 2012Unconditional
Dwellinghouse, detached garage and installation of proprietary treatment unit - Extension of duration of permission granted under Planning Reg. No. 08/4192
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 12/5390
30 May 2012Incompleted application
Alterations and extensions to existing dwellinghouse, including first floor extension (change of plan, layout and elevations to that permitted under Planning Reg. No. 05/8233)
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5169
17 Sept 2010Conditional
Construction of single storey extension to side of existing dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/6324
19 Mar 2009Conditional
Demolition of existing cottage & construction of a two-storey dwelling, garage & associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4844
17 Jan 2008Conditional
Dwellinghouse, detached garage and installation of proprietary treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4192
5 Dec 2007Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse, detached garage and installation of proprietary waste treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12870
29 Jun 2007Conditional
Construction of overground slurry storage tank, lined wintering pad, silage slab and soiled water tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9160
29 Jan 2007Conditional
Retention of domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4565
29 Nov 2006Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12812
20 Oct 2006Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11895
18 Aug 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9888
15 Feb 2006Conditional
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4828
9 Nov 2005Conditional
Alterations and extensions to dwelling including first floor extension
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8233
2 Nov 2005Conditional
Construction of a storey and a half style dwelling (change of plan)
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8066
28 Jun 2005Refused
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/4558
15 Feb 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/817
1 Nov 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8078
12 Aug 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse and wastewater treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/6171
26 Feb 2004Conditional
Extension to dwelling and retention of existing extension
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/1168
The 25 most recent of 27 applications.
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 Maulbrack West.
Recorded monuments
- CO109-032 Fulacht fia
Description
Overgrown oval mound (13m E-W; 9.6m N-S; H 0.6m) of burnt material in pasture. Drain cuts northern end of mound. Stream to N. 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 Maulbrack 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Maulbrack West, about 1 in 10 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 Maulbrack West.
- 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 Maulbrack West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Maulbrack West · An Meall Breac Thiar
- Area
- 982,913 m² (98.29 ha, 242.88 acres)
- Civil parish
- Desertserges, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery East (East Division)
- Electoral division
- Boulteen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 695 people lived in 237 households in the Boulteen electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Boulteen, Carrigroe, Kilcolman, Knockmacool, Knocknastooka, Maulbrack East
- Placenames
- Maulbrack 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.