Muckenagh
Muckenagh is a townland in the civil parish of Tullylease, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Muiceanach.
- Area
- 187.1 ha
- 462 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 26,580 m² (2.66 ha, 6.57 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Muckenagh, from 777 m² to 358,601 m² (35.86 ha, 88.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Muckenagh 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
25 Apr 2025Conditional permission
Permission to construct an agricultural storage shed incorporating hay bale storage area, stables, feed & tack room
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4773
10 Mar 2025Incompleted application
Permission to construct an agricultural storage shed incorporating hay bale storage area, stables, feed & tack room
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4413
13 Feb 2025Incompleted application
Permission to construct an agricultural storage shed incorporating hay bale storage area, stables, feed & tack room
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4203
25 Oct 2018Conditional
Construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, domestic wastewater treatment system, entrance and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6832
25 Jun 2013Conditional
Retention of ground floor extension onto side of dwelling
Retention · Cork County Council, 13/5212
14 Jun 2007Conditional
Construction of slatted dairy unit, calving house, soiled water tank, silage base, extension to milking parlour and cattle crush
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8648
12 Nov 2004Conditional
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8365
19 Feb 2004Conditional
Bungalow and effluent treatment system
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/990
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
Recorded monuments
- CO006-066 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture, to W of stream. Spread of burnt material noted. Probably one of five fulachta fiadh (11502, 11503, 11504, 11505) recorded in townland by Bowman (1934, 717). 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
- CO006-067 Fulacht fia
Description
In reclaimed boggy ground, to W of stream. Spread of burnt material exposed by deep ploughing. Probably one of five fulachta fiadh (11501, 11503, 11504, 11505) recorded in townland by Bowman (1934, 717). 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
- CO006-068 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture, to NE of well. Grass-covered spread of burnt material. According to local information, mound levelled c. 1981. Probably one of five fulachta fiadh (11501, 11502, 11504, 11505) recorded in townland by Bowman (1934, 717). 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
- CO006-124 Bridge
Description
Road bridge (Wth 8.75m; long axis NW-SE) over River Allow. Roughly coursed sandstone construction. Two wide segmental arches (span c. 8-10m) with well-dressed limestone voussoirs and prominent key stones; limestone string courses over arches. Bluntly pointed cutwaters of cut stone. Piered abutments at either end of parapet wall; D-shaped limestone coping atop parapet wall. Plaque in parapet wall reads 'William Allen Esq. overseer Executed by M. Fitzgerald 1835'. 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Muckenagh.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Muckenagh, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_602 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Muckenagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Muckenagh · Muiceanach
- Area
- 1,871,371 m² (187.14 ha, 462.43 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tullylease, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Electoral division
- Allow, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 523 people lived in 191 households in the Allow electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynaguilla, Coolbane, Curraleagh, Glanycummane Upper, Knockskehy, Raheen
- Placenames
- Muckenagh 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.