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

Townland in the civil parish of Churchtown, barony of Orrery and Kilmore, Co. Cork; in Irish Drom Carbaid.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 708,154 m² (70.82 ha, 174.99 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 30,996 m² (3.1 ha, 7.66 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 17 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Churchtown, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/churchtown.md
- Barony: Orrery and Kilmore
- Electoral division: Churchtown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,286 people lived in 427 households in the Churchtown electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 13% 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/11755
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 44496
- Centre: latitude 52.253237, longitude -8.742824 (WGS 84)

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

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountcorbitt, from 2,293 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres) to 315,281 m² (31.53 ha, 77.91 acres); 7 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 2323093: 315,281 m² (31.53 ha, 77.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2323093.md
- Parcel 2161203: 204,149 m² (20.41 ha, 50.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2161203.md
- Parcel 2323094: 125,676 m² (12.57 ha, 31.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2323094.md
- Parcel 2161201: 48,485 m² (4.85 ha, 11.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2161201.md
- Parcel 2161202: 13,507 m² (1.35 ha, 3.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2161202.md
- Parcel 2161204: 2,465 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2161204.md
- Parcel 2133617: 2,443 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2133617.md
- Parcel 2323095: 2,293 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2323095.md

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

No zone of a development plan covers Mountcorbitt 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)

17 applications, newest first.

- 4 Jun 2025, Cork County Council 25/5067: Application withdrawn. Permission. Permission to construct a two-storey extension onto the south (front) side of an existing dwelling house, the demolition of the ground floor extension at the west (Left) side of the dwelling and replacing it with a new two-storey extension. Alterations to elevations and the raising of the roof of the existing dwelling house.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=25/5067
- 25 Mar 2022, Cork County Council 22/4645: Conditional. Permission. Retention and completion of a two-storey dwelling and permission for an entrance, wastewater treatment and all associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=22/4645
- 10 Jul 2015, Cork County Council 15/5515: Withdrawn. Permission. Construct two storey dwelling house with waste water treatment system and all associated services and site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=15/5515
- 15 Aug 2012, Cork County Council 12/5760: Incompleted application. Permission. Permission for retention and up-grade of the existing treatment unit and percolation area.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=12/5760
- 28 May 2012, Cork County Council 12/5126: Conditional. Permission. Permission to construct an indoor horse riding arena.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=12/5126
- 16 May 2012, Cork County Council 12/5022: Incompleted application. Permission. Construction of an indoor horse riding arena. The proposed development is within the curtilage of a protected structure. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=12/5022
- 26 Apr 2012, Cork County Council 12/4865: Incompleted application. Permission. Construction of an indoor horse riding arena.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=12/4865
- 20 Mar 2012, Cork County Council 12/4532: Conditional. Permission. Permission for retention of works to stables and horse riding facility as follows: (A)Internal alterations to Maisonette No.1 (B) Alterations and change of use of existing stable and storage rooms to Mainsonette No. 2 (C) Alterations to layout of storage rooms (D) Additional 1st floor over stable tack room consisting of kitchen and dining area (E) Alterations and change of use of exising stables to office, services and electrical room and additional 1st floor over consisting of pool room and storage (F) Additional hay-barn and services room. (G) 2 no. horse walking units (H) Additional generator building (I) Additional 6 no. stables. Permission is also sought for the following: (A) new boiler room building (B) additional 2 no. windows to southern elevation of Maisonette No.2. This development consists of works to a protected structure. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=12/4532
- 5 Mar 2012, Cork County Council 12/4384: Incompleted application. Permission. Retention of works as follows: [a] internal alterations to maisonette no. 1, [b] alterations and change of use of existing stable and storage rooms to maisonette no. 2, [c] alterations to layout of storage rooms, [d] additional first floor over stable tack room consisting of kitchen and dining area, [e] alterations and change of use of existing stables to office, services and electrical room and additional first floor over consisting of pool room and storage, [f] additional haybarn and services room, [g] 2 no. horse walking units, [h] additional generator building, and [i] additional 6 no. stables. Permission for: [a] new boiler room building and [b] additional 2 no. windows to southern elevation of maisonette no. 2. The development consists of work to a protected structure. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=12/4384
- 9 Feb 2012, Cork County Council 12/4199: Incompleted application. Permission. Retention of: [a] internal alterations to maisonette no. 1, [b] alterations and change of use of existing stable to maisonette no. 2, [c] alterations to layout of storage rooms, [d] additional first floor over stable tack room consisting of kitchen and dining area, [e] alterations and change of use of existing stables to office, [f] additional hay bar and services room, [g] 2 no. horsewalker units, [h] additional generator building and [i] additional 6 no. stables. Permission for the following: [a] new boiler room building and [b] additional 2 no. windows to southern elevation of maisonette no. 2. This development consists of work to a Protected Structure. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=12/4199
- 20 Mar 2008, Cork County Council 08/5565: Withdrawn. Permission. Two storey dwellinghouse and installation of wastewater treatment plant and garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=08/5565
- 27 Feb 2008, Cork County Council 08/5046: Incompleted application. Permission. Two storey dwellinghouse and installation of wastewater treatment plant. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=08/5046
- 1 Feb 2008, Cork County Council 08/4488: Conditional. Permission. Two storey dwellinghouse, garage and installation of septic tank. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=08/4488
- 21 May 2007, Cork County Council 07/7977: Conditional. Outline permission. Dwelling. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/7977
- 21 Dec 2005, Cork County Council 05/9591: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=05/9591
- 2 Mar 2005, Cork County Council 05/1225: Withdrawn. Permission. Dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=05/1225
- 2 Feb 2005, Cork County Council 05/512: Conditional. Permission. Conservation works, alterations and extensions to existing residence, conservation works and partial change of use of existing stable block for use as stables, offices and 1 no. apartment and construction of new garage and stables as part of training stables.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=05/512

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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 Mountcorbitt.

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

- CO016-116: Country house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO016-116----. Two-storey double-gable-ended house. South elevation 3-bays over basement, is 18th-century in appearance, N elevation obscured by addition of 2-storey house of early 19th-century in appearance. South elevation has central rectangular door ope flanked by sidelights; basement-channel bridged by causeway; inserted round-headed stairway windows; gable-ended with attic windows, broad chimney stack atop both gables. One-storey hipped addition onto E gable. Entrance front (N) of 19th century addition is of 3 bays, central segmental-headed door ope with fanlight and sidelights incorporated into frame; sidelights rest on cut-stone panels; gable-ended, chimney stack on both gables. Two-storey farm buildings to SW, set around three sides of yard. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO016-117: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO016-117----. In pasture, on NE-facing slope, in demesne of Mount Corbitt and in field to NNE of house. Circular area (diam. c. 22m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.3m; ext. H 0.9m) with external fosse (max. D 1m). Bank planted with deciduous trees. Entrance (Wth 0.8m) to E. Interior heavily overgrown with bushes. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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)

- Mount Corbitt, country house, 1770–1790, Regional interest, registry number 20901616, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CO&regno=20901616. Detached double-pile three-bay two-storey over basement house with attic, built c. 1780, having two-bay single-storey projection to east gable. Currently undergoing restoration. Pitched reslated roof with replacement rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings having render surrounds, tooled limestone sills and replacement two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows throughout. Round-headed window opening to rear elevation. Elliptical-headed door opening having render surround with render keystone, timber panelled door flanked by carved timber engaged colonnettes, spoked timber fanlight, paned sidelights and timber panelled risers with limestone plinths. Approached by diminishing limestone steps. Cast-iron railings to basement area at rear. Courtyard of outbuildings to west. Coursed rubble sandstone and limestone curved entrance walls terminating in lightly tooled sandstone and limestone rubble square-plan piers.
- Mount Corbitt, stables, 1840–1860, Regional interest, registry number 20901617, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CO&regno=20901617. U-plan courtyard of two-storey outbuildings to west of Mount Corbitt House, built c. 1850, currently undergoing restoration, and having hipped slate roofs, artificial slate to east range, with coursed rubble chimneystacks, and coursed rubble limestone walls with flat-arch door and window openings, and elliptical-arch vehicular entrances, having lightly tooled voussoirs and sills. Currently undergoing restoration. East range is five-bay, linked to south-bay by angled walling. South range is five-bay, having elliptical oculus window openings to loft storey. West range is nine-bay, currently roofless, with some loop vents to ground floor.

## 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 Mountcorbitt, about 1 in 20 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.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mountcorbitt.
- 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/mountcorbitt.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/mountcorbitt.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/mountcorbitt.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Mountcorbitt 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)

- Ballygrace: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballygrace.md
- Ballynamuck: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballynamuck.md
- Egmont: https://everytownland.com/cork/egmont.md
- Mountbridget: https://everytownland.com/cork/mountbridget.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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