Neaskin
Neaskin is a townland in the civil parish of Fanlobbus, barony of Carbery East (West Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Eascainn.
- Area
- 161.2 ha
- 398 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 14,860 m² (1.49 ha, 3.67 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Neaskin, from 2,310 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres) to 489,190 m² (48.92 ha, 120.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Neaskin 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 Jan 2025Conditional
Construct a dwelling house, domestic garage and carry out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/31
23 Oct 2023Conditional
Construct a cattle house over existing slatted slurry tank and carry out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/596
5 Feb 2016Conditional
Construct a cattle house with two no. slatted slurry tanks, two no. concrete aprons and carry out associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/68
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: Bandon River SAC 002171
Recorded monuments
- CO094-072 Enclosure
Description
In marshland on W-facing slope. Natural hillock of outcropping rock (28.1m N-S; 32m E-W) enclosed by streams to E and S; partially stone-faced earthen bank (H 0.5m) SW->N; stone-faced scarp (H 0.7m) topped by stone-built wall (H 0.6m) N->NE. External fosse (D 0.4m) to W. Interior incorporates top of hillock, overgrown with gorse; some rock outcropping noted. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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 Neaskin.
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 Neaskin, about 1 in 10 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, 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 Neaskin.
- 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 Neaskin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Neaskin · An Eascainn
- Area
- 1,612,026 m² (161.2 ha, 398.34 acres)
- Civil parish
- Fanlobbus, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery East (West Division)
- Electoral division
- Coolmountain, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 435 people lived in 156 households in the Coolmountain electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardcahan, Aultagh, Aultaghreagh, Cooranig, Gortanure, Keelaraheen, Knockariblihane
- Placenames
- Neaskin 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.