Mountprospect

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountprospect, from 54,299 m² (5.43 ha, 13.42 acres) to 88,988 m² (8.9 ha, 21.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Mountprospect in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

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

• 17 Jul 2020Unconditional

  Wheel wash, patent domestic sewage treatment and raised soil polishing filter. Retention of existing quarry including crushing, screening & ancillary plant, existing pump house, water tank, mobile home (for use as office, canteen, toilet), existing access roadway & entrance. Extension of duration of permission granted under Planning Reference: 09/7066 and An Bord Pleanála Reference PL 04.236346.

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 20/5517

• 3 Apr 2020Incompleted application

  Wheel wash, patent domestic sewage treatment & raised soil polishing filter. Retention of existing quarry including crushing, screening & ancillary plant, existing pump house, water tank, mobile home (for use as office, canteen, toilet), existing access roadway & entrance. Extension of duration of permission granted under Planning Reference: 09/7066 and An Bord Pleanála Reference PL 04.236346.

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 20/4690

• 7 Dec 2016Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse - Extension of Duration of permission granted under Planning Reg. No. 05/8149 and extended under Pl. Reg. No.11/6182

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 16/7049

• 14 Dec 2015Conditional

  Construct a 2 storey dwelling house, garage, entrance and associated site work

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6823

• 25 Nov 2015Incompleted application

  Construction of a 2 storey dwellinghouse, garage, entrance and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6658

• 3 Dec 2013Unconditional

  Construction of 12 no. stables, new sections of farm access road, feed storage, covered manure pit and waste water storage facility and retention of existing site levelling and development works to include parts of existing access road, extension of duration to permission granted under Planning Ref. No. 08/6061 and An Bórd Pleanála Ref. No. PL04.231816

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 13/6279

• 11 Oct 2011Unconditional

  Completion of dwelling permitted under Pl. Reg. No. 05/8419

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 11/6182

• 16 Sept 2009Conditional

  Wheel wash, patent domestic sewage treatment & raised soil polishing filter. Retention of existing quarry including crushing, screening & ancillary plant, existing pump house, water tank, mobile home (for use as office, canteen, toilet), existing access roadway & entrance.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7066

• 15 Apr 2008Conditional

  Construction of 12 no. stables, new sections of farm access road, feed storage, covered manure pit and waste water storage facility and retention of existing site levelling and development works to include parts of existing access road

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6061

• 7 Mar 2008Refused

  Construction of wheel wash, patent domestic sewage treatment unit and raised soil polishing filter, extension to existing access roadway and new entrance and retention of existing quarry to include crushing, screening and ancillary plant, retention of existing pump house, water tank and mobile home for use as office, canteen and toilet and retention of part of existing access roadway

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5299

• 15 Feb 2008Incompleted application

  Construction of 12 no. stables, new sections of farm access road, feed storage, covered manure pit and waste water storage facility and retention of existing site levelling and development works to include parts of existing access road

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4790

• 24 Aug 2007Refused

  Construction of 1 no. two storey dwelling, 1 no. single storey dwelling and 2 no. treatment units

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/10494

• 8 Aug 2007Incompleted application

  Retention of quarry development with associated mobile home, temporary processing plant, temporary welfare facilities and access road

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10170

• 3 Aug 2007Refused

  Construction of complex of 12 no. stables incorporating feed storage, soiled water tank, manure storage facilities and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10079

• 25 Jul 2007Incompleted application

  2 no. dwellinghouses

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/9851

• 21 Mar 2007Incompleted application

  Retention of quarry development including the associated plant settling pond, entrance from public road and access road and to extend boundaries of existing development

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6232

• 16 Nov 2005Conditional

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8419

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 Mountprospect.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mountprospect.

Architectural heritage

• Mountprospect House, house, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan two-storey house, built c. 1810, facing west, having return to north end with six-bay elevation, having multiple-bay two-storey additions to east and west end of rear elevation of latter, east addition having lower single-bay two-storey addition to east side, and single-bay single-storey lean-to to south gable of three-bay block. Hipped slate skirt roof with rendered chimneystacks. Single-pitched corrugated-iron roof to lean-to, hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks to additions and pitched slate roof to lowest addition with rubble sandstone chimneystack. Painted rendered walls, with slate-hanging to east wall of east addition. Main block has square-headed window openings, with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor and nine-over-six pane to ground floor, all with limestone sills, round-headed eight-over-eight pane window to south elevation having spoked fanlight and cast-iron railings. Round-headed carved limestone doorcase to front elevation, with moulded pilasters having plinths and imposts, moulded archivolt with triple keystone, and timber panelled double-leaf door with ornate petal fanlight. Elliptical archway to east having roughly dressed sandstone voussoirs, now blocked up. Multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to south having pitched corrugated-iron roof, painted rendered rubble sandstone walls, square-headed window and door openings with fixed timber fittings and timber battened doors, and round-arched vehicular entrance with roughly dressed sandstone voussoirs and corrugated-iron doors. Rendered square-profile piers to road entrance, with render caps and painted render walls, terminating in second pair of piers.

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

At the centre of the townland of Mountprospect, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1502 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Mountprospect with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Mountprospect · Cnocán an Radhairc

Area

414,582 m² (41.46 ha, 102.45 acres)

Civil parish

Mogeely, and its townlands

Barony

Kinatalloon

Electoral division

Curraglass, the unit of the census

Census 2022

429 people lived in 144 households in the Curraglass electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Curraglass East, Curraglass West, Glasshouse, Glengoura Lower, Kilmacow, Lisnabrin North

Placenames

Mountprospect 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.