# Meeshal, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Magourney, barony of Muskerry East, Co. Cork; in Irish Míseal.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 987,106 m² (98.71 ha, 243.92 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 31,068 m² (3.11 ha, 7.68 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 20 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Magourney, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/magourney.md
- Barony: Muskerry East
- Electoral division: Magourney, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,148 people lived in 430 households in the Magourney electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/11531
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 44381
- Centre: latitude 51.932984, longitude -8.753395 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meeshal, from 1,720 m² to 358,865 m² (35.89 ha, 88.68 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 5329396: 358,865 m² (35.89 ha, 88.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5329396.md
- Parcel 2160498: 117,063 m² (11.71 ha, 28.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2160498.md
- Parcel 2323687: 105,941 m² (10.59 ha, 26.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2323687.md
- Parcel 2323688: 95,637 m² (9.56 ha, 23.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2323688.md
- Parcel 2323689: 85,723 m² (8.57 ha, 21.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2323689.md
- Parcel 5329408: 62,234 m² (6.22 ha, 15.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5329408.md
- Parcel 2160504: 39,689 m² (3.97 ha, 9.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2160504.md
- Parcel 5329356: 39,305 m² (3.93 ha, 9.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5329356.md
- Parcel 2160501: 22,831 m² (2.28 ha, 5.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2160501.md
- Parcel 5329412: 8,004 m² (0.8 ha, 1.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5329412.md
- Parcel 2160499: 5,202 m² (0.52 ha, 1.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2160499.md
- Parcel 2323686: 4,796 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2323686.md
- Parcel 2160502: 3,873 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2160502.md
- Parcel 2160500: 2,863 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2160500.md
- Parcel 2160503: 2,027 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2160503.md
- Parcel 2323685: 1,720 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2323685.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Meeshal in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## 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 25/5479: Grant with conditions. Permission for retention. Permission for • Retention of previously excavated pit floors and faces within approximately 1.2 hectares of the existing sand-and-gravel pit, where average excavation depths exceeded the permitted levels by approximately 4-5 metres (within a maximum differential of c. 8 metres in localised areas) below the levels shown on the drawings approved under Plan File ref. No. 08/6662 & ABP Ref. PL 04.232102. These areas have since been infilled using on-site material to return them to the permitted levels and are now to be fully restored to agricultural use, with no further extraction proposed within them; • Retention and continue use of the existing historic site access; • Permission for : Recommencement of extraction within the remaining previously authorised sand and gravel resources over c. 2.4 ha (excluding the retained/restored areas), at a rate of approximately 50,000-60,000 tonnes per annum. Proposed pit floor levels will range between 100-105mOD. Extraction will be carried out on a dry-working basis only, with no requirement for dewatering; Recommencement and continued use of the existing aggregate processing plant and associated closed-circuit water settlement lagoons; Restoration of all worked areas to agricultural use through biodiversity-led measures. All for a period of 10years and within an application area of 6.2 hectres.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=25/5479
- 4 Jul 2025, Cork County Council 25/5321: Awaiting f.i. response. Permission. Permission to construct a new dwelling house (change of design from that granted under Pl.Reg.No. 21/4208).. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=25/5321
- 25 Nov 2024, Cork County Council 24/6217: Conditional permission. Permission. Permission for alteration, renovation, extension and change of use of the existing agricultural buildings forming the stable yard adjoining Dripsey Castle, a Protected Structure, RPS no. 442. The proposed works comprise of: (A) The alteration, renovation, extension and change of use of stable buildings into a garden room and 4 no. bedroom suites, for short term letting, (B) The alteration, renovation and change of use of cow byre and adjoining storage rooms into ancillary recreational facilities including a pool, sauna, steam room and changing facilities, and change of use of agricultural storage building to plant room, (C) The alteration, renovation and change of use of agricultural barn and adjoining storage buildings into ancillary storage and general purpose rooms, (D) Construction of semi basement storage with overhead roof terrace. Permission for elevational modifications including fenestration replacement & repair, structural interventions, construction of new opes, internal wall removal and roof repairs, and modifications to existing paving treatments to the above, along with the removal and decommissioning of the existing wastewater treatment system (septic tank) and the provision and installation of a new wastewater treatment system including proprietary treatment plant and tertiary treatment system and all ancillary site works necessary to facilitate the development.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=24/6217
- 16 Aug 2024, Cork County Council 24/5556: Withdrawn. Permission. Permission to construct a new dwelling house. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=24/5556
- 1 Nov 2023, Cork County Council 23/6199: Refused. Permission. The development will consist of: • Continued extraction of remaining authorised sand and gravel resources (Plan File Ref. No. 08/6662 & ABP. PL 04.232102) over a total extraction area of c. 2.4 Ha. ; • Continued use of the existing aggregate processing plant and associated water settlement lagoons ; • Retention and continued use of the existing historic site access arrangements; • Restoration of all areas back to agricultural use. All for a period of 10 years and within an application area of 5.25 hectares.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=23/6199
- 11 Oct 2023, Cork County Council 23/6057: Withdrawn. Permission. Permission for the alterations, renovations, extension and change of use of the existing agricultural buildings forming the stable yard adjoining Dripsey Castle, a protected structure, RPS no. 442, Dripsey Castle Estate. The proposed work comprise of; a) The alterations, renovations, extension and change of use of stable buildings into a garden room and 4 no. bedroom suites, for short term letting, b) the alteration, renovation and change of use of cow byre and adjoining storage rooms into ancillary recreational facilities including a pool, sauna, steam room and changing facilities, and change of use of agricultural storage building to plant room, c) The alterations, renovations and change of use of agricultural barn and adjoining storage buildings into ancillary storage and general purpose rooms, d) construction of semi basement storage with overhead roof terrace. Planning permission is also being sought for elevational modifications including fenestration replacement & repair, structural interventions, construction of new opes, internal wall removal and roof repairs, and modifications to existing paving treatments to the above, along with the removal and decommissioning of the existing wastewater treatment system (septic tank) and the provision and installation of a new wastewater treatment system including proprietary treatment plant and tertiary system & all ancillary site works necessary to facilitate the development. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=23/6057
- 18 Sept 2023, Cork County Council 23/5879: Incompleted application. Permission. Permission for alterations, renovation, extension and change of use of the existing agricultural buildings forming the stable yard adjoining Dripsey Castle, a protected structure, RPS No. 442. The proposed works comprise of: A) The alteration, renovation and change of use of cow byre and adjoining storage rooms into recreational facilities including a pool, sauna, steam room and changing facilities, and change of use of agricultural storage building to plant room. B) The alteration, renovation and change of use of agricultural barn and adjoining storage buildings into ancillary storage and general purpose rooms. C) The alteration, renovation, extension and change of use of stable buildings into 4 no. bedroom suites and a garden room. D) construction of semi-basement with overhead roof terrace. Planning permission is also being sought for elevational modifications including fenestration replacement & repair, structural interventions, construction of new opes, internal wall removal and roof repairs, and modifications to existing paving treatments to the above, along with the removal and decommissioning of existing wastewater treatment system (septic tank) and the provision and installation of a new waste water treatment system including a proprietary treatment plant and tertiary treatment system & all ancillary site works necessary to facilitate the development.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=23/5879
- 2 Feb 2021, Cork County Council 21/4208: Conditional. Permission. To construct a 2 storey dwelling, a septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=21/4208
- 19 Dec 2018, Cork County Council 18/7356: Conditional. Permission. Convert existing dis-used out-building for use as a self-contained granny flat to include all necessary repair works, facade & roof alterations, connection to existing sewerage system and all associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=18/7356
- 31 Jul 2018, Cork County Council 18/6009: Unconditional. Extension of duration. Extraction of sand and gravel, processing of same by crushing, screening and washing using mobile/semi-mobile processing plant, settlement lagoons, new access with gates and natural stone pillars with internal roadway, site office and canteen, weighbridge, wheelwash, bunded fuel tank, chemical toilet and ancillary site works to include landscaping and screening berms and restoration of site for agricultural use. Extension of Duration of Permission granted under Planning Reference: 08/6662 and PL04.232102.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=18/6009
- 11 Feb 2015, Cork County Council 15/4250: Conditional. Permission. Demolition of existing milking parlour, construction of new milking parlour, construction of 2 no. slatted underground tanks, construction of new cattle shed, construction of new silage slab, and all ancillary site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=15/4250
- 18 Jul 2014, Cork County Council 14/5564: Incompleted application. Extension of duration. Extraction of sand and gravel quarry in an area of 8.1 ha, extension of duration to permission granted under Planning Reg. No. 08/6662 and An Bord Pleanala Reg. No. PL04.232102. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=14/5564
- 3 Dec 2008, Cork County Council 08/9939: Refused. Permission. One-and-a-half-storey dwelling, domestic garage, treatment unit & associated site works to include upgrading & resurfacing of existing agricultural entrance & access road. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=08/9939
- 5 Nov 2008, Cork County Council 08/9568: Incompleted application. Permission. One-and-a-half-storey dwelling, domestic garage, treatment unit & associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=08/9568
- 26 Sept 2008, Cork County Council 08/9050: Withdrawn. Permission. Replacement of existing septic tank with proprietary treatment unit and retention of relocation of site entrance. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=08/9050
- 12 May 2008, Cork County Council 08/6662: Conditional. Permission. Extraction of sand and gravel, processing of same by crushing, screening and washing using mobile/semi-mobile processing plant, settlement lagoons, new access with gates and natural stone pillars with internal roadway, site office and canteen, weighbridge, wheelwash, bunded fuel tank, chemical toilet and ancillary site works to include landscaping and screening berms and restoration of site for agricultural use. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=08/6662
- 9 May 2007, Cork County Council 07/7631: Withdrawn. Outline permission. Dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/7631
- 15 Dec 2006, Cork County Council 06/13391: Withdrawn. Permission. Extraction of sand and gravel, processing of same by crushing, screening and washing using semi-mobile processing plant, 3 no. settlement lagoons, new acess with gates and natural stone pillars with internal roadway, site office and amenity block, weighbridge, bunded fuel tank and proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area, demolition of existing two storey dwellinghouse and construction of two storey dwelling and all ancillary site works to include landscaping and screening berms and progressive restoration of site for agricultural use. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/13391
- 7 Dec 2006, Cork County Council 06/13066: Conditional. Permission. Construction of slatted housing unit for cattle and associated works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/13066
- 26 Jun 2006, Cork County Council 06/8358: Refused. Outline permission. Dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/8358

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## 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 Meeshal.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- CO061-186: Country house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO061-186----. Abandoned rectangular early 19th-century house, 1-storey over basement. Entrance front (S) of 3 bays; door in central recess; tripartite windows in shallow projections. Low hipped roof with central valley, projecting eaves. One off-centre chimney, two others to rear. House demolished subsequent to visit. 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
- CO061-195: Burnt spread, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO061-195----. In pasture, overlooking Dripsey River to S. According to local information spread of dark coloured soil visible when field is ploughed. Dark soil identified under grass; appearance not consistent with that of fulacht fiadh. 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)

- Meeshal House, gate lodge, 1900–1920, Regional interest, registry number 20906113, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CO&regno=20906113. Detached three-bay two-storey dormer attic former gate lodge, built c.1910, having lean-to extension to rear (north). Now in use as domestic residence. Hipped slate roof with over sailing eaves, timber bargeboards, looped terracotta ridge cresting, red brick chimneystacks and uPVC rainwater goods with cast-iron downpipe and hopper. Pitched slate roofs to dormer windows with timber bargeboards. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings having painted stone sills. One-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor and side elevations. Timber casement windows to ground floor of front elevation. Square-headed door opening with glazed timber door with overlight and concrete step. Square-profile lined-and-ruled gate piers having carved vase finials, flanking double-leaf wrought-iron cast-iron gates. Set back from roadside at entrance to Meeshal House.
- Meeshal House, country house, 1905–1910, Regional interest, registry number 20906115, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CO&regno=20906115. Detached U-plan five-bay two-storey house, dated 1908, having pedimented breakfront and single-storey porch to front (south-west). Stepped gabled single-storey wings to sides (east and west), linked to house by single-bay with blind niche. Hipped slate roofs having overhanging eaves, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Decorative render finial to front pediment. Rendered walls with raised render date to breakfront. Blind ocului to gables of wings. Roughcast rendered walls to porch. Paired square-headed window openings with render sills to first floor of front elevation having timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings to ground floor with render sills, round-headed window openings to breakfront, all having timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening to porch with timber panelled door. Square-headed door openings to wings with timber panelled doors. Set within own grounds.
- Meeshal House, outbuilding, 1800–1840, Regional interest, registry number 20906116, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CO&regno=20906116. Farmyard complex, built c.1820, comprising multiple-bay single and two-storey blocks. Pitched and barrel corrugated-iron roofs to north-west and south-east blocks, pitched slate roof to north-east block. Dressed stone eaves courses. Rubble stone walls with south-east block white washed. Square-headed window openings some with timber fittings. Square-headed door openings with timber battened doors. Segmental-headed carriageway openings to north-west and north-east blocks having dressed voussoirs. Integral carriage arch to north-west block with dressed voussoirs. Located to the rear of Meeshal House.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Meeshal, about 1 in 5 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: 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 Meeshal.
- 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/meeshal.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/meeshal.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/meeshal.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Meeshal 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)

- Carrignamuck: https://everytownland.com/cork/carrignamuck-41370.md
- Deeshart: https://everytownland.com/cork/deeshart.md
- Kilcolman: https://everytownland.com/cork/kilcolman-43338.md
- Lismahane: https://everytownland.com/cork/lismahane.md
- Tullig Beg: https://everytownland.com/cork/tullig-beg-45297.md
- Tullig More: https://everytownland.com/cork/tullig-more-45298.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.

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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.

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