# Mountkeeffe, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clonfert, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork; in Irish Cnocán Uí Chaoimh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,859,795 m² (285.98 ha, 706.67 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,465 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): G3 Greenbelt1, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 17 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clonfert, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/clonfert.md - Barony: Duhallow - Electoral division: Newmarket, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,579 people lived in 647 households in the Newmarket electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/10768 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 44502 - Centre: latitude 52.238519, longitude -8.992608 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountkeeffe, from 574 m² to 490,934 m² (49.09 ha, 121.31 acres); 27 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2161301: 490,934 m² (49.09 ha, 121.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2161301.md - Parcel 2161295: 343,022 m² (34.3 ha, 84.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2161295.md - Parcel 2161293: 337,446 m² (33.74 ha, 83.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2161293.md - Parcel 2161300: 306,194 m² (30.62 ha, 75.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2161300.md - Parcel 3776372: 296,392 m² (29.64 ha, 73.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3776372.md - Parcel 2161298: 250,870 m² (25.09 ha, 61.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2161298.md - Parcel 2322999: 238,161 m² (23.82 ha, 58.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2322999.md - Parcel 3576254: 220,894 m² (22.09 ha, 54.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3576254.md - Parcel 2161296: 180,747 m² (18.07 ha, 44.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2161296.md - Parcel 2161294: 63,996 m² (6.4 ha, 15.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2161294.md - Parcel 2323003: 60,870 m² (6.09 ha, 15.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2323003.md - Parcel 5115151: 23,568 m² (2.36 ha, 5.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5115151.md - Parcel 2322996: 4,748 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2322996.md - Parcel 2161292: 4,171 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2161292.md - Parcel 2323000: 3,726 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2323000.md - Parcel 2323001: 3,465 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2323001.md - Parcel 2323002: 3,402 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2323002.md - Parcel 2323007: 2,604 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2323007.md - Parcel 2541675: 2,550 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2541675.md - Parcel 2161299: 2,545 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2161299.md - Parcel 2323006: 2,454 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2323006.md - Parcel 2161302: 2,353 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2161302.md - Parcel 4728689: 2,268 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4728689.md - Parcel 4296348: 2,124 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4296348.md - Parcel 2323005: 2,099 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2323005.md - Parcel 2322998: 1,689 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2322998.md - Parcel 2322997: 1,517 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2322997.md - Parcel 2323004: 1,421 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2323004.md - Parcel 2161297: 1,258 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2161297.md - Parcel 5974414: 1,160 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5974414.md - Parcel 5705732: 574 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5705732.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - G3 Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape): Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County; 28 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.corkcoco.ie/sites/default/files/2022-06/volume-3-north-cork.pdf ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 17 applications, newest first. - 22 Aug 2023, Cork County Council 23/5698: Conditional permission. Permission. Permission to construct a new dwelling house, entrance walls, wastewater treatment system with percolation area and associated site works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=23/5698 - 17 May 2023, Cork County Council 23/4999: Conditional. Permission. The construction of a cattle underpass, slatted effluent tank and all associated site works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=23/4999 - 1 Apr 2021, Cork County Council 21/4833: Conditional. Permission. Construction of a slatted unit and all associated site work. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=21/4833 - 17 May 2018, Cork County Council 18/5258: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=18/5258 - 15 Jun 2012, Cork County Council 12/5313: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=12/5313 - 10 Apr 2012, Cork County Council 12/4719: Incompleted application. Retention. 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. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=12/4719 - 19 Aug 2011, Cork County Council 11/5777: Withdrawn. Retention. 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. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=11/5777 - 11 Nov 2009, Cork County Council 09/7605: Conditional. Permission. Extension to side of dwelling house. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=09/7605 - 2 May 2008, Cork County Council 08/6491: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse & septic tank. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=08/6491 - 30 Nov 2006, Cork County Council 06/12827: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/12827 - 17 Aug 2006, Cork County Council 06/9855: Conditional. Permission. Construction of slatted tank unit and extension to machinery shed. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/9855 - 23 Jun 2006, Cork County Council 06/8329: Conditional. Permission. Construction of cattle shed and 3 no. underground effluent tanks. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/8329 - 25 Jan 2006, Cork County Council 06/4306: Conditional. Permission. Retention of treatment unit and percolation area to serve existing dwelling. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/4306 - 29 Jul 2004, Cork County Council 04/5824: Conditional. Permission. Dwelling. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=04/5824 - 6 Jul 2004, Cork County Council 04/5172: Conditional. Permission. Farm buildings and stables. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=04/5172 - 2 Dec 2003, Cork County Council 03/6112: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=03/6112 - 4 Sept 2003, Cork County Council 03/4438: Conditional. Permission. Construction of dwellinghouse & demolition of dwelling. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=03/4438 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Mountkeeffe. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CO014-063: Fulacht fia, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO014-063----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO014-064----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO014-065001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO014-065002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO014-066----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO014-067----. 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 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 Keeffe, house, 1750–1790, Regional interest, registry number 20901403, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CO®no=20901403. 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. ## 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 Mountkeeffe, about 1 in 10 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 Mountkeeffe. - 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/mountkeeffe.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/mountkeeffe.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/mountkeeffe.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Mountkeeffe 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) - Barleyhill: https://everytownland.com/cork/barleyhill.md - Killowen: https://everytownland.com/cork/killowen-43494.md - Knockduff Lower: https://everytownland.com/cork/knockduff-lower-43771.md - Meeneeshal: https://everytownland.com/cork/meeneeshal.md - Scarteen Lower: https://everytownland.com/cork/scarteen-lower.md - Scarteen Upper: https://everytownland.com/cork/scarteen-upper.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. --- 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cork/mountkeeffe - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/mountkeeffe