Minehill
Minehill is a townland in the civil parish of Dromtarriff, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Cnoc an Mhianaigh.
- Area
- 66.4 ha
- 164 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 4,249 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Minehill, from 1,328 m² to 504,560 m² (50.46 ha, 124.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Minehill 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
9 Jun 2026F.i. consultees/awaiting recommendation
Permission for Retention for a two-storey domestic dwelling house and Permission for alterations to the site boundaries.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/1533
19 Jan 2021Conditional
(A) Retention of underground slatted tank and flow channel and extension to milking parlour for storage. (B) Construction of a cubicle and feeding shed with flow channel adjacent to existing cubicle shed. (C) Construction of extension to milking parlour. (D) Construction of a silage pit and underground effluent tank. (E) Construction of dungstead. (F) Construction of an overground circular slurry storage tank and all associated siteworks.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4076
18 Feb 2020Withdrawn
To construct (i) cubicle shed extension with loose straw area and slatted tank (ii) silage pit with effluent tank (iii) dung stead (iv) extension to milking parlour and (v) rain water harvesting tank all associated site works. Retention is also required for (i) slatted tank (ii) extension to milking parlour for storage area.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4308
30 Jan 2020Incompleted application
To construct (i) cubicle shed extension with loose straw area and slatted tank (ii) silage pit with effluent tank (iii) dung stead (iv) extension to milking parlour and (v) rain water harvesting tank all associated site works. Retention is also required for (i) slatted tank (ii) extension to milking parlour for storage area.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4144
15 Jan 2020Incompleted application
To construct (i) cubicle shed extension with loose straw area and slatted tank (ii) silage pit with effluent tank (iii) dung stead (iv) extension to milking parlour and (v) rain water harvesting tank all associated site works. Retention is also required for (i) slatted tank (ii) extension to milking parlour for storage area.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4028
2 May 2017Conditional
Construction of a two storey dwelling with septic tank & percolation area, entrance and all services.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5053
16 Jul 2012Conditional
Demolition of an existing store house and construction of a milking parlour, dairy, plant room, dairy washings tank, covered collecting yard, flow channel, extension to existing cow house, reception tank, round tower slurry storage and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5552
5 Dec 2007Conditional
Demolition of building, covering of existing yard, construction of straw bedded shed and a box culvert for use as cattle crossing under road and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12876
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 Minehill.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Minehill.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Minehill.
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 Minehill, 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 Minehill.
- 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 Minehill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Minehill · Cnoc an Mhianaigh
- Area
- 663,636 m² (66.36 ha, 163.99 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dromtarriff, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Electoral division
- Keale, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 357 people lived in 121 households in the Keale electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Garrane North, Garrane South, Garrane West, Killetragh
- Placenames
- Minehill 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.