Mushera

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mushera, from 202 m² to 1,190,579 m² (119.06 ha, 294.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Mushera 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.

• 8 Aug 2007Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and domestic store/garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10167

• 5 Jul 2007Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse and domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9365

• 14 Apr 2005Conditional

  Two storey extension & porch extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2395

• 23 Mar 2005Conditional

  Extension to dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1758

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Mullaghanish to Musheramore Mountains SPA 004162

Recorded monuments

• CO048-042002 Boulder-burial
  Description

  In flat pasture, on SW side of Owenbaun River valley near NW foot of Musheramore Mountain. Description in OS Name Book (1841) suggests three boulder-burials. No visible surface trace survives. Standing stone (6802) in townland boundary fence c. 60m to N of site. (O Nualláin 1978, 83-4, no. 2, Lackadotia) 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

• CO048-042003 Boulder-burial
  Description

  In flat pasture, on SW side of Owenbaun River valley near NW foot of Musheramore Mountain. Description in OS Name Book (1841) suggests three boulder-burials. No visible surface trace survives. Standing stone (6802) in townland boundary fence c. 60m to N of site. (O Nualláin 1978, 83-4, no. 2, Lackadotia) 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

• CO048-042004 Boulder-burial
  Description

  In flat pasture, on SW side of Owenbaun River valley near NW foot of Musheramore Mountain. Description in OS Name Book (1841) suggests three boulder-burials. No visible surface trace survives. Standing stone (6802) in townland boundary fence c. 60m to N of site. (O Nualláin 1978, 83-4, no. 2, Lackadotia) 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

• CO048-083 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Not shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map. On lower NW slope of Musheramore Mountain; second well (9285) near summit. Well modernised in 1982 and stations of the cross erected on N side. Now enclosed in stone and concrete facade with concrete steps leading up to front. Recess over well holds statue of St John and petitions from pilgrims; coins in well. According to Broker (1937, 35), 'two holy wells in commonage of Muisire Mountain - one at top (for cattle) and one at foot (for christians). Rounds are made at them on St. John's Day- 24th June....five or six hundred come to the foothill well....Both wells are called Tobairín na bhFaithni, warts being cured by washing in them'. 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 Images provided by and copyright of Amanda Clarke 2016-2022 https://holywellscorkandkerry.com/

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mushera.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mushera.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

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

Name

Mushera · Muisire

Area

2,619,513 m² (261.95 ha, 647.3 acres)

Civil parish

Drishane, and its townlands

Barony

Muskerry West

Electoral division

Drishane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drishane electoral division: 2,032 people in 699 households; 69% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloghboola Beg, Knocknagappul, Lackdotia, Maulnahorna, Mushera, Tullig

Placenames

Mushera 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.