Moreagh
Townland in the civil parish of Fanlobbus, barony of Carbery East (West Division), Co. Cork; in Irish Maigh Riabhach
- Area
- 105.6 ha
- 261 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 2,806 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moreagh, from 6 m² to 274,403 m² (27.44 ha, 67.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 38 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
27 Nov 2024Conditional
Construction of a dwelliing house and domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/651
19 Jul 2024Conditional
Construction of a dwelling house, a domestic garage and associated siteworks
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/388
22 Dec 2021Conditional
A ten year planning permission for proposed development consisting of a 20 kilovolt (kV) electrical powerline grid connection, approximately 10,117 metres in overall length (made up of approximately 9,983 metres of underground cable and approximately 134 metres of Over Head Line with three wooden support single poles), connecting the approved electrical substation at Knockeenboy Wind Farm (Planning Register Reference No. 11/00059 & An Bord Pleanala Ref. PL88.240070) to the existing Dunmanway 110kV ESB Networks substation at Ballyhalwick; together with all ancillary works and apparatus. The grid connection will be developed from the approved substation through the townlands of Knockeenboy, Kilronane West, Kilronane East, Moreagh, Nedinagh West, Acres and Ballyhalwick townlands. The proposed development is located to the east, south and southwest of Dunmanway, Co. Cork. The planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS).
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/902
22 Dec 2017Conditional
To construct a dwelling and domestic garage with associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/828
23 Mar 2010Conditional
Change of use of attached garage to living accommodation and for construction of an extension to same to form self contained living accommodation ancillary to the existing dwelling. Permission is also sought to construct an extension to the front of the dwelling and to carry out alterations to elevations of said dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/203
25 Aug 2006Withdrawn
Construct 3.No dwellings with individual treatment units with associated site works
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/1724
16 Dec 2005Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9375
29 Nov 2001Refused
Dwelling
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 01/6486
29 May 2001Conditional
Dwellinghouse & domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/3018
9 Mar 2001Conditional
Slatted cattle house & silage effluent tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/1174
11 Dec 2000Refused
2 no. dwellings
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 00/7462
11 Mar 1999Conditional
Demolition of ruined dwelling & construction of dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 99/1192
22 Feb 1999Withdrawn
3 no. dwellinghouses
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 99/803
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Bandon River SAC 002171
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bandon Valley South Of Dunmanway 001035
Recorded monuments
- CO108-043 Souterrain
Description
In pasture on E-facing slope. When investigated in 1960 (UCC), two portions of site remained in quarry: partially destroyed earth-cut chamber with short passage and creepway to possible second chamber (not explored); two further earth-cut chambers at right angles to each other, c. 12m away. (McCarthy 1977, 299-300). Subsequently destroyed. 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
- CO108-044 Ringfort - rath
Description
In lowlying pasture land, S of Bandon River. Roughly circular area (40m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.3m). Gap in bank to S (Wth 4.5m). Farmhouse cuts into outer bank face to SE; road skirts bank to S. 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 Moreagh.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Moreagh.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Moreagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Moreagh · Maigh Riabhach
- Area
- 1,055,842 m² (105.58 ha, 260.9 acres)
- Civil parish
- Fanlobbus, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery East (West Division)
- Electoral division
- Manch, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Manch electoral division: 598 people in 197 households; 91% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Inchafune, Kilronane East, Lisbealad East, Nedinagh East, Nedinagh West
- Placenames
- Moreagh 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.