Mountbell
Townland in the civil parish of Killeagh, barony of Imokilly, Co. Cork; in Irish Cnoc an Loiscreáin
- Area
- 98.8 ha
- 244 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 3,462 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres)
- Zoning
- M2
- Town Centre/Neighbourhood Centres
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountbell, from 110 m² to 423,022 m² (42.3 ha, 104.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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
- M2Town Centre/Neighbourhood Centres (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 1 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
6 Oct 2025Grant with conditions
Permission to construct a new Dwelling house, Domestic garage, New vehicular entrance, install a new waste water treatment unit & percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6109
19 Dec 2022Conditional
Construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, install a new waste water treatment unit and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6809
15 Jun 2018Conditional
The construction of a single storey side extension, new gable window in existing cottage, internal alterations to existing cottage, demolish existing front porch and replace existing external door with a new window along with and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5550
21 Dec 2009Withdrawn
Construction of a two-storey 60-bed nursing home & associated 20no. 2-bed single storey sheltered housing units in 4 separate terraced blocks together with effluent pumping/treatment facility with direct connection to public sewer, surface water soakaway, new site entrance & ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7999
14 Aug 2008Conditional
Construction of sunroom extension to side of dwelling and detached garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/8391
14 Mar 2008Conditional
Single storey nurse's treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5451
7 Jan 2008Conditional
One and half storey dwellinghouse and installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4042
17 May 2007Conditional
Alterations to permitted nursing homes/residential development to include the omission of 7 no. dwellinghouses and treatment unit and construction of 23 no. dwellinghouses (change of layout and increase in denisty)
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7900
23 Apr 2007Incompleted application
Alterations to permitted nursing home/residentail development to include the omission of 7 no. dwellinghouses and treatment unit and construction of 23 no. dwellinghouses (change of site layout and increase in density)
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7231
28 Mar 2007Conditional
Construction of cubicle house with covered feed passage, yard scrapers, covered slatted tank and concrete walls to silage slab
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6513
16 Mar 2007Incompleted application
Alterations to permitted residential development (06/4875) to include replacement of 7 no. dwellinghouses with 23 no. two storey dwellinghouses comprising of 10 no. semi-detached and 13 no. terraced dwellings with associated alterations to site layout, omission of effluent pumping/treatment facility with direct connection to public sewer
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6168
15 Dec 2006Conditional
Construction of cattle cubicle housing unit, feeding passage, slatted covered slurry tank and extension to existing cattle housing unit with slatted covered slurry tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13364
5 Apr 2006Conditional
Dwelling and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6114
17 Feb 2006Conditional
Construction of 81 no. dwellinghouses consisting of 16 no. four bed detached dwellings, 18 no. four bed semi-detached dwellings, 22 no. three bed semi-detached and 25 no. three bed townhouses, 60 bed nursing home with 25 no. two bed sheltered housing units and associated site development works including provision of attenuation tank and pumping stations for foul and storm sewers
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4875
18 Oct 2005Conditional
Construction of indoor ball alley, gymnasium, changing rooms, waste water treatment system and percolation area, hurling pitch with flood lighting around the perimeter and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7628
6 May 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse with garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3030
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 Mountbell.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mountbell.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mountbell.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1535 (ZIP).
- 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 Mountbell with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Mountbell · Cnoc an Loiscreáin
- Area
- 987,604 m² (98.76 ha, 244.04 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killeagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Imokilly
- Electoral division
- Killeagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killeagh electoral division: 1,588 people in 538 households; 78% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycarnane, Ballyquirk, Carrigarostig, Clashdermot East, Clashdermot West, Curraghishal, Fortyacres, Killeagh Gardens, Knocknaskagh, Lisglasheen, Lissacrue
- Placenames
- Mountbell 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.