Muingyroogeen
Muingyroogeen is a townland in the civil parish of Clonmeen, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Moing an Ghruaigín.
- Area
- 88.4 ha
- 219 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 14,614 m² (1.46 ha, 3.61 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 20
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Muingyroogeen, from 539 m² to 140,131 m² (14.01 ha, 34.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Muingyroogeen 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
29 Sept 2023Conditional
Permission to construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5961
8 Oct 2019Conditional
The retention of; a dwelling house, a shed, a vehicular entrance and a domestic well and the permission for the installation of a new septic tank and all ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6427
13 Mar 2019Conditional
Retention of garage as constructed (change of plan from that permitted under planning reg no 04/9412 to include an increase in ridge height, addition of first floor and 3 no. velux rooflights and Permission for (a) alterations to elevations, additional rooflight and conversion of existing garage into granny flat with living accommodation on the ground floor and a store and exercise room on the first floor, (b) decommissioning of septic tank and percolation area and installation of packaged waste water treatment system and polishing filter to serve the existing dwelling and the proposed granny flat, (c) alterations to existing entrance and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4627
6 Feb 2019Incompleted application
(1) The retention of alterations made to existing garage permitted under Planning Reference No. 04/9412: - (a) increase in ridge height (b) conversion of attic into living space and (c) addition of three Velux windows to roof on the east elevation, (2) the conversion of the existing garage into a granny flat with living accommodation on ground floor and a store and exercise room on the first floor, (3) proposed alterations to all four existing elevations of garage (4) decommissioning of existing septic tank and percolation area and replacing with advanced waste water treatment system with tertiary filter to serve main dwelling and granny flat and (5) all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4243
10 Jul 2018Withdrawn
The conversion of existing garage (permitted under Planning Reference No. 04-9412) into a granny flat which will include living accommodation on the ground floor and a store and exercise room on the first floor. Development will involve 1/Minor modifications to the all four elevations, 2/ the addition of one roof light to the rear and 3/ all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5803
15 Jun 2016Conditional
Permission for the development of a solar photovoltaic panel array consisting of up to 33,000sq.m of solar panels on ground mounted steel frames, 2 no. electricity control cabins, 4 no. inverter units, underground cable and ducts, hardstanding area, boundary security fence, new entrance onto public road, CCTV and all associated site services and works. Planning permission is sought for a period of 10 years. A Natura Impact Assessment (NIS) accompanies this application.
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/5455
28 Sept 2012Conditional
Construction of a dwelling, entrance and septic tank
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 12/6058
28 Sept 2012Conditional
Construction of a dwelling, entrance and septic tank
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 12/6055
20 Aug 2010Conditional
Construction of extensions to side and rear of existing dwellinghouse, fitting of velux roof windows to existing dwellinghouse roof, installation of new septic tank and percolation area and retention of existing dwellinghouse, domestic garage and 2 no. entrances
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/6096
4 Aug 2010Incompleted application
Extensions to side & rear of existing dwelling house, velux roof windows to existing dwelling house, and new septic tank & percolation area. Retention of the existing dwelling house as constructed, domestic garage & 2no. entrances
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5966
25 Mar 2010Refused
Extensions to side & rear of dwelling & fitting of roof windows to the existing dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4676
1 Apr 2009Conditional
Retention of dwelling on site with revised boundaries, septic tank & percolation area
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5003
24 Feb 2009Unconditional
Completion of windfarm to include 10 no. wind turbines, ESB control building, compound and ancillary site works permitted under Pl. Reg. No. 03/4181 (New pemisssion to expire on 27/02/2012)
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 09/4564
15 Oct 2008Conditional
Demolition of dwellinghouse and construction of dwellinghouse, garage and installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9312
30 Aug 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/10146
1 Aug 2006Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/9409
20 Dec 2004Conditional
Bungalow & Garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/9412
6 May 2004Conditional
Dwellinglhouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/3074
20 Aug 2003Conditional permission
Windfarm to include 10 no. wind turbines, ESB control building, compound and ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/4181
23 Jan 2003Conditional
Retention of dwelling and installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/208
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Muingyroogeen.
Recorded monuments
- CO040-006 Kiln - lime
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- CO040-035 Enclosure
Description
In pasture, on gentle N-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 10m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, with lime kiln adjoining to NW. Levelled; no visible surface trace. (Inadvertently included as no. 9166 in vol. 3 of this inventory). 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
- CO040-061001 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on NW-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map; hachured as bivallate circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m), truncated by roadway to NE and by field boundary to SE on 1904 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Enclosure inaccessible due to heavy overgrowth of gorse and briars. Two earthen banks with intervening fosse visible through overgrowth, ESE->W; trench dug along line of intervening fosse as shown on 1937 OS 6-inch map. Interior overgrown, appears level; souterrain (CO040-06102-) in N half. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 255) as double ramparted fort called 'Lisin na Mealbhog' on T. O'Connor's land; diam. 35yd with inner rampart c. 7ft H; intervening fosse c. 15ft wide; outer rampart c. 5ft H. Possible ringbarrow (CO040-139---) immediately outside ringfort to W. 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
- CO040-061002 Souterrain
Description
In N half of ringfort (CO040-06101-). According to local information, marked by large flagstone (6ft x 8ft). Interior of ringfort heavily overgrown; 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
- CO040-139 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
Outside W edge of ringfort (CO040-06101-). Levelled. Circular area (3.4m NNW-SSE) enclosed by traces of fosse and outer bank. 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 Muingyroogeen.
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 Muingyroogeen, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Muingyroogeen.
- 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 Muingyroogeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Muingyroogeen · Moing an Ghruaigín
- Area
- 884,279 m² (88.43 ha, 218.51 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonmeen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Electoral division
- Banteer, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 756 people lived in 293 households in the Banteer electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carragraigue, Charlesfield, Kilmacurrane, Knockbrack, Knockeenatuder
- Placenames
- Muingyroogeen 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.