Mushera
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcorney, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork; in Irish Muisire
- Area
- 181.9 ha
- 449 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 7,580 m² (0.76 ha, 1.87 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mushera, from 462 m² to 976,870 m² (97.69 ha, 241.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
7 Jun 2013Conditional
(A) Erection of three permanent timber camping pods for provision of seasonal holiday letting accommodation, (B) Erection of two permanent bathroom pods, (C) Provision of a new waste water tretment unit and percolation area, and (D) All associated site works. (Note that this application is an amendment which represents a change in design and layout of planning permission register no. 12/06216 entailing the omission of the log cabin, omission of the alterations to existing out building and the inclusion of two permanent bathroom pods)
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/5077
24 Oct 2012Conditional
(a) Erection of three permanent timber camping pods for provision of seasonal holiday letting accommodation, (b) erection of a log cabin type common room, (c) alterations to and refurbishment of 1no. existing outbuilding for use as shower and toilet facilities and a crafts room, (d) provision of a new waste water treatment unit and percolation area, and (e) all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/6216
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 Mushera.
Recorded monuments
- CO048-049 Standing stone
Description
Not shown on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps. In pasture on N side of Musheramore. Stone (H 1.6m; 0.5m x 0.25m) is rectangular in plan, narrowing towards top; long axis N-S. 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
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Mushera with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Mushera · Muisire
- Area
- 1,818,787 m² (181.88 ha, 449.43 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcorney, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Electoral division
- Kilcorney, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilcorney electoral division: 333 people in 128 households; 82% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynagree East, Ballynagree West, Brookpark, Finnanfield, Knocknagappul, 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.