Mountkeeffe

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountkeeffe, from 574 m² to 490,934 m² (49.09 ha, 121.31 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.

• G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 28 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 22 Aug 2023Conditional permission

  Permission to construct a new dwelling house, entrance walls, wastewater treatment system with percolation area and associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5698

• 17 May 2023Conditional

  The construction of a cattle underpass, slatted effluent tank and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4999

• 1 Apr 2021Conditional

  Construction of a slatted unit and all associated site work

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4833

• 17 May 2018Conditional

  The construction of a new part single storey part two storey detached dwelling and single storey detached garage including a new waste water treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5258

• 15 Jun 2012Conditional

  Retention of attic conversion to living accommodation, installation of additional velux roof light to existing dwelling and alterations to site boundaries and percolation area from that granted under planning ref. no. 04/5824

  Retention · Cork County Council, 12/5313

• 10 Apr 2012Incompleted application

  Retention of attic conversion to living accommodation and installation of additional velux roof light to existing dwelling and alterations to site boundaries and percolation area from that granted under Planning reg. No. 04/5824

  Retention · Cork County Council, 12/4719

• 19 Aug 2011Withdrawn

  Retention of attic conversion to living accommodation and installation of additional velux roof light to existing dwelling and alterations to site boundaries from that granted under planning permission Reg. No. 04/5824

  Retention · Cork County Council, 11/5777

• 11 Nov 2009Conditional

  Extension to side of dwelling house

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7605

• 2 May 2008Conditional

  Dwellinghouse & septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6491

• 30 Nov 2006Conditional

  Construction of straw storage shed, extension to slatted unit with underground slatted tank, construction of 2 no. underground effluent storage tanks and 1 no. silage effluent storage tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12827

• 17 Aug 2006Conditional

  Construction of slatted tank unit and extension to machinery shed

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9855

• 23 Jun 2006Conditional

  Construction of cattle shed and 3 no. underground effluent tanks

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8329

• 25 Jan 2006Conditional

  Retention of treatment unit and percolation area to serve existing dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4306

• 29 Jul 2004Conditional

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/5824

• 6 Jul 2004Conditional

  Farm buildings and stables

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/5172

• 2 Dec 2003Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/6112

• 4 Sept 2003Conditional

  Construction of dwellinghouse & demolition of dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/4438

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Mountkeeffe.

Recorded monuments

• CO014-063 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In reclaimed marshy land. Shown on 1936 OS 6-inch map as mound on S side of stream. Mound levelled and stream drained. No visible surface trace. 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

• CO014-064 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In marshy ground, adjacent to road. Semicircular mound of burnt material (13.9m NE-SW; 11.5m NW-SE; H 1.4m); surface uneven. Mound possibly disturbed by roadworks. Second fulacht fiadh (11494) c. 80m to SW and third (11495) c. 50m to SE. 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

• CO014-065001 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In marshy ground. Horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt material (12m NE-SW; 11m NW-SE; H 0.8m); opening (Wth 4m) faces SE. Mound eroded at N side. One of a group of three fulachta fiadh (11493, 11495). 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

• CO014-065002 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In marshy ground. Horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt material (18.8m NE-SW; 13.6m NW-SE; H 1.6m); opening (Wth 4.8m) faces NNW. Mound cut by field fence on SE side. One of a group of three fulachta fiadh (11493, 11494). 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

• CO014-066 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture, c. 50m NE of Rampart Stream. Grass-covered spread of burnt material. 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

• CO014-067 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In boggy ground, c. 15m E of Rampart Stream. Area of site heavily overgrown. Burnt material visible, exposed in face of natural scarp to E of stream. 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

Architectural heritage

• Mount Keeffe, house, 1750–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached T-plan three-bay two-storey house with attic, built c. 1770, facing south. Return slightly lower than main block and having flat-roof two-bay single-storey addition to its rear with water tank, with slightly lower single-bay lean-to additions to re-entrant corners, with recent single-storey lean-to extension to westmost lean-to addition. Single-storey lean-to addition to west gable. Pitched slate roof to main block, hipped to return, and having rendered end chimneystacks, and eaves course. Painted rendered walls with rusticated render quoins to front elevation. Square-headed window openings having mainly replacement uPVC windows, with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window to attic level of east gable and to west end of ground floor at rear. Round-headed door opening to front, approached by stone step, having moulded render surround and timber panelled door with cobweb fanlight over. Cast-iron water tank having raised lettering and associated cast-iron water pipes and chimney. Some coursed rubble boundary walls with wrought-iron gates. Some fencing with wrought-iron gates. Curved entrance having painted roughcast rendered walls terminating in square plan piers with double-leaf wrought-iron gates. Double turnstile to south, comprising painted wrought-iron railings and gates, latter fixed to tooled cut limestone square plan pillar. Yard of outbuildings to rear, built c. 1770, set around rectangular yard, mainly having pitched roofs and rubble limestone walls with square-headed window and door openings. Detached corrugated-iron building to south-west, erected c.1920, having square-headed corrugated-iron door and manufacturer's plaque to front (south) gable. Detached two-bay single-storey with loft outbuilding to north, having slate roof, painted walls, loft level having vent openings and ground floor having replacement timber windows and some timber doors and metal sliding doors on iron rails, one door being approached by rendered steps. Lean-to extension, dated 1964, to rear of this building. Single-storey outbuilding to north end of yard, having slate roof, elliptical carriage arch to gable with double-leaf corrugated-iron door, and window openings with rubble voussoirs and timber battened door. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding with pitched corrugated-iron roof forming northern boundary to yard, having coursed walls and some blocked openings, others having timber and metal fittings. Lofted single-bay outbuilding to south with pitched slate roof, coursed walls with limestone quoins and having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to gable and timber battened door to north side. Single-storey pitched roof outbuilding to east of house, having pitched corrugated-iron roof, rendered walls, timber battened door approached by rendered steps.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mountkeeffe.

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.

No address of the register names Mountkeeffe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Mountkeeffe · Cnocán Uí Chaoimh

Area

2,859,795 m² (285.98 ha, 706.67 acres)

Civil parish

Clonfert, and its townlands

Barony

Duhallow

Electoral division

Newmarket, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Newmarket electoral division: 1,579 people in 647 households; 76% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barleyhill, Killowen, Knockduff Lower, Meeneeshal, Scarteen Lower, Scarteen Upper

Placenames

Mountkeeffe 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.