Maulvirane
Maulvirane is a townland in the civil parish of Castleventry, barony of Carbery East (West Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Meall Bhioráin.
- Area
- 122.3 ha
- 302 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 3,414 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Maulvirane, from 188 m² to 772,222 m² (77.22 ha, 190.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Maulvirane 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
12 Jun 2026Invalid - case closed
The erection of 2 no. Vestas V52 850Kw Wind Turbines (49.00m tower hub height and 75.00M blade tip height). The construction of 1 no. 23.00 sq. m electrical sub-station / control building, the construction of a site access track and hardstanding area, and all associated ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1580
14 Jun 2019Conditional
Construction of a livestock underpass , effluent building tank and all associated siteworks
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/406
8 May 2014Conditional
Permission for retention of extension to cattle house and permission for retention of slatted slurry tank, permission to construct an open cattle holding yard, roofed cattle holding yard, milking parlour, concrete apron, hard surfaced cow path, hard surfaced area, installation of surface water gullies and drains in existing farmyard and carry out associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/285
15 Jan 2009Conditional
Demolish existing store house, construct extension to existing dwellinghouse to be used as separate dwelling unit, installation of septic tank and percolation area and carry out associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/19
12 Nov 2008Unconditional
Construction of 5 wind turbines, electrical substation and control building, 50m high meteorological mast, site tracks and associated works
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 08/2037
16 May 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3301
22 Sept 2003Conditional
Windfarm to incl. 5 no. wind turbines,electrical substation & control building, 50m high meteorological mast, site tracks & associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/4740
13 May 2003Conditional
Construction of cattle house with slatted slurry tanks
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/2249
25 Oct 2001Refused
Windfarm to include 4 no. turbines, meteorological mast, substation with control building, site tracks and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/5840
11 Dec 2000New application
Erection of a temporary 40m high monitoring mast with wind speed & direction sensors
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/7457
15 Jan 1998Conditional
Bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 98/80
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 Maulvirane.
Recorded monuments
- CO134-021 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on break in N-facing slope. Circular area (30m N-S; 31.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1m); external fosse (D 0.5m) S->NNE; outer bank S->NNE, incorporated into field fence system. Possible souterrain (CO134-093---) in SE quadrant. 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
- CO134-093 Souterrain
Description
In SE quadrant ringfort (CO134-021---). Depression (L 5.5m; Wth 3.2m) with low earthen mound on N side may indicate position souterrain. 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 Maulvirane.
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 Maulvirane, 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 Maulvirane.
- 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 Maulvirane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Maulvirane · Meall Bhioráin
- Area
- 1,223,046 m² (122.3 ha, 302.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castleventry, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery East (West Division)
- Electoral division
- Castleventry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 278 people lived in 94 households in the Castleventry electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Castleventry, Derrybaun, Foxhall, Maulyregan, Sarue
- Placenames
- Maulvirane 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.