Meelon
Meelon is a townland in the civil parish of Ballymodan, barony of Kinalmeaky, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Maoileann.
- Area
- 173.1 ha
- 428 acres
- Land parcels
- 44
- registered freehold, median 9,104 m² (0.91 ha, 2.25 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 21
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meelon, from 796 m² to 138,179 m² (13.82 ha, 34.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 64 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
29 Jan 2026Grant with conditions
Planning permission to construct a new dwelling house
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0179
6 Sept 2024Refused
Permission to construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5696
11 Feb 2022Conditional
Permission for retention of playroom with shower room on the ground floor and storage on the first floor, all in an existing detached building which is ancillary to the existing dwelling.
Retention · Cork County Council, 22/4282
6 Dec 2021Incompleted application
Permission for change of use from apartment to playroom with shower room on the ground floor and storage on the first floor, all in existing detached building which will be ancillary to the existing dwelling.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/7275
21 Oct 2021Refused
To construct dwelling install treatment unit and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6872
18 Oct 2021Incompleted application
Change of use from apartment to playroom with shower room on the ground floor and storage on the first floor, all in an existing detached building which will be ancillary to the existing dwelling.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6826
18 Jan 2021Conditional
Permission for retention of (i) dwelling (change of plan to that permitted under Ref. No. 00/5890) (ii) detached apartment building for long-term letting, (iii) detached domestic garage/workshop and (iv) associated site works.
Retention · Cork County Council, 21/4073
30 Oct 2020Conditional
To demolish existing outbuilding to side of existing dwelling and to construct an extension to the side of existing dwelling with minor internal alterations to existing dwelling and install a septic tank and soil polishing percolation area
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6390
16 Aug 2019Refused
The construction of cattle shed to include slatted slurry tank and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6051
12 Jul 2019Conditional
To construct a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, on-site sewage treatment system and all associated siteworks
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5767
19 Dec 2018Conditional
Demolition of existing calf house construction of calf/calving house to include slatted slurry storage, farmyard manure slab and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/7364
19 Nov 2018Incompleted application
The demolition of existing calf house, construction of calf/calving house to include slatted slurry storage, farmyard manure slab and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/7024
7 Sept 2018Refused
Demolition of existing dwelling house and construction of a new dwelling house and associated siteworks.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6380
30 May 2014Conditional
Dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system & polishing filter
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5157
25 Jan 2012Unconditional
Completion of demolition of derelict dwelling and construction of dwellinghouse as permitted under planning reg 07/8423
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 12/4092
29 Sept 2011Conditional
Replacement of existing septic tank and percolation area with a new septic tank and percolation area within the confines of its own site to service the existing dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/6083
1 Sept 2011Incompleted application
Replacement of existing septic tank and percolation area with new septic tank and percolation within the confines of its own site to service the existing dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5886
6 Jun 2007Conditional
Demolition of derelict dwelling and construction of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8423
1 Feb 2006Conditional
Construction of first floor extension and sunroom to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4487
13 Aug 2004Conditional
Construction of sunroom extension and retention of extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/6235
9 May 2003Conditional
Reconstruction & extension of dwellinghouse and installation of treatment plant
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/2215
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 Meelon.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Meelon.
Architectural heritage
- Farm house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey vernacular farmhouse, built c.1800, having single-storey lean-to extension to side (north). Now disused. Pitched corrugated-iron roof having dressed stone eaves course. Corrugated-iron lean-to roof to extension. Roughcast rendered rubble stone walls throughout. Rubble stone wall to north elevation of side (north) extension. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills throughout, having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to front (west) elevation. One-over-one pane timber sliding sash window to gable of side (north) elevation. Square-headed door openings throughout. Limestone doorstep and timber panelled door to front (west) elevation. Timber battened door to front (west) elevation of north (extension). Attached single-storey lean-to outbuilding to side (south) elevation. Replacement timber gate on square-profile rubble stone gate piers to west. Remains of rubble stone outbuilding to south-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 Meelon, 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 Meelon.
- 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 Meelon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Meelon · Maoileann
- Area
- 1,731,488 m² (173.15 ha, 427.86 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballymodan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kinalmeaky
- Electoral division
- Ballymodan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 4,660 people lived in 1,643 households in the Ballymodan electoral division. 68% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clancool Beg, Dangan More, Knocknagallagh, Knocknagarrane, Roundhill
- Placenames
- Meelon 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.