# Murnaghbeg, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballyvourney, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork; in Irish An Muirneach Beag. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,128,588 m² (112.86 ha, 278.88 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,931 m² (0.59 ha, 1.47 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballyvourney, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/ballyvourney.md - Barony: Muskerry West - Electoral division: Gortnatubbrid, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 474 people lived in 173 households in the Gortnatubbrid electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/11377 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 44543 - Centre: latitude 51.931118, longitude -9.189254 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Murnaghbeg, from 349 m² to 508,637 m² (50.86 ha, 125.69 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2284945: 508,637 m² (50.86 ha, 125.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2284945.md - Parcel 2203635: 157,629 m² (15.76 ha, 38.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2203635.md - Parcel 2284937: 152,819 m² (15.28 ha, 37.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2284937.md - Parcel 2284938: 147,853 m² (14.79 ha, 36.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2284938.md - Parcel 5904761: 30,337 m² (3.03 ha, 7.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5904761.md - Parcel 5904811: 27,958 m² (2.8 ha, 6.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5904811.md - Parcel 2284944: 19,639 m² (1.96 ha, 4.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2284944.md - Parcel 2203634: 12,060 m² (1.21 ha, 2.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2203634.md - Parcel 5904816: 8,688 m² (0.87 ha, 2.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5904816.md - Parcel 5904763: 5,931 m² (0.59 ha, 1.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5904763.md - Parcel 2284943: 4,957 m² (0.5 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2284943.md - Parcel 2203636: 4,804 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2203636.md - Parcel 2284940: 4,794 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2284940.md - Parcel 2284946: 4,431 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2284946.md - Parcel 2284941: 3,288 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2284941.md - Parcel 2117315: 1,293 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2117315.md - Parcel 2284936: 922 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2284936.md - Parcel 5904833: 857 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5904833.md - Parcel 2284939: 349 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2284939.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Murnaghbeg in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 27 Nov 2025, Cork County Council 25/6599: Grant with conditions. Permission. Full planning permission for the construction of a new dwellinghouse and garage, new entrance, wastewater treatment system and bored water well together with all ancillary siteworks. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=25/6599 - 27 May 2024, Cork County Council 24/4957: Conditional. Permission. Permission for alterations to northern and southern elevations of existing dwelling house together with all other ancillary site works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=24/4957 - 10 May 2024, Cork County Council 24/4844: Incompleted application. Permission. Permission for alterations to Northern and Southern elevations together with all other ancillary site works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=24/4844 - 9 Mar 2011, Cork County Council 11/4457: Conditional. Permission. Leathnuchan a chur lena tig conaithe ar a mbeidh leithreas inaimsithe do cathaior rothai, dorchla inaimsithe leathan agus seomra storail. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=11/4457 - 9 Feb 2011, Cork County Council 11/4234: Conditional. Permission. Construction of a dwelling. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=11/4234 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 Murnaghbeg. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CO058-026: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO058-026----. In pasture, on W-facing slope. Circular raised area (27m E-W; 24m N-S) defined by traces of earthen bank (max. int. H 1.2m) NW->SE; scarp (H 1m) S->NW, topped by stone field boundary. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 - CO058-027001: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO058-027001-. In pasture, on gentle SW-facing slope, above sharp fall in slope. Circular, slightly raised area (28m N-S; 28m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.8m). Gaps in bank to N and W; entrance (Wth 4m) to S. Interior slopes gently down to S; foundations of circular hut site (8m N-S; 8m E-W) in E half. Bullaun stone (CO058-027002-) protrudes from S side of hut site. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 - CO058-027002: Bullaun stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO058-027002-. Protruding from S side of hut site in ringfort (CO058-027001-). Large boulder with circular hollow (diam. 0.23m; D 0.05m) on upper surface. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 - CO058-028: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO058-028----. In pasture, on N-facing slope, commanding extensive view across Sullane River valley to Derrynasaggart Mountain. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 12m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Murnaghbeg. ## 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 Murnaghbeg, about 1 in 5 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, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Murnaghbeg. - 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/murnaghbeg.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/murnaghbeg.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/murnaghbeg.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Murnaghbeg 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) - Coolea: https://everytownland.com/cork/coolea-41757.md - Derreenaling: https://everytownland.com/cork/derreenaling.md - Gortnagross: https://everytownland.com/cork/gortnagross-43019.md - Gortnatubbrid: https://everytownland.com/cork/gortnatubbrid.md - Togher: https://everytownland.com/cork/togher-45204.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/murnaghbeg - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/murnaghbeg