Newcestown

94 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newcestown, from 123 m² to 354,275 m² (35.43 ha, 87.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• G4Green Infrastructure (Active open space)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 24 Jun 2026F.i. consultees/awaiting recommendation

  Permission to construct dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1678

• 23 Mar 2026Application withdrawn

  Permission to construct dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0723

• 4 Sept 2025Grant with conditions

  Permission for construction of a dwelling house, a garage for domestic purpose. Construction of a new vehicular entrance, installation of a domestic waste water treatment system and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5791

• 9 Dec 2024Application withdrawn

  Permission of a dwelling house, a garage for domestic purpose, installation of a domestic waste water treatment system, construction of a new vehicular entrance and to carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6333

• 8 Nov 2024Incompleted application

  Permission for construction of a dwelling house, a garage for domestic purpose, installation of a domestic waste water treatment, construction of a new vehicular entrance and to carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6124

• 13 Feb 2024Withdrawn

  Permission for the construction of a dwelling house, a garage for domestic purpose, installation of a domestic waste water treatment system, construction of a new vehicular entrance and to carry out all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4225

• 17 Jan 2024Incompleted application

  Permission for construction of a dwelling house, a garage for domestic purpose, installation of a domestic waste water treatment system, construction of a new vehicular entrance and to carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4062

• 13 Sept 2023Withdrawn

  Construction of a dwelling house, garage for domestic purpose, installation of a domestic waste water treatment system, construction of a new vehicular entrance and to carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5857

• 4 Aug 2023Conditional

  The construction of a split-level dwelling house, detached garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5603

• 3 Apr 2023Conditional permission

  Permission for Retention for; A) 2 No. detached structures which comprise of a home gym and home office ancillary to the main dwelling, B) All associated site works.

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 23/4600

• 10 Oct 2022Conditional permission

  Planning permission to construct a new dormer dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area and all site development works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6263

• 14 Jun 2022Refused

  Permission for retention for; a) 2 no. log cabins which comprise of a granny flat and living accommodation ancillary to the main dwelling, b) all associated site works

  Retention · Cork County Council, 22/5384

• 7 Feb 2022Refused

  Construct a dwelling house, garage and wastewater treatment unit with all associated works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4228

• 26 Jan 2022Refused

  Construct one and a half storey dwelling house and domestic double garage, including installing a wastewater treatment unit and ancillary site development works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4129

• 5 Aug 2021Conditional

  Permission for retention and completion of the following: (a) Refurbishment of existing derelict dwelling to comprise of a single storey 2-bedroom dwelling house, (b) Change of use of existing attached derelict out-building to granny flat, (c) Material alterations to the existing building elevations to incorporate new door and window opes and permission for the construction of a new wastewater treatment system and all associated siteworks.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6159

• 9 Apr 2021Incompleted application

  (a) Refurbishment of existing derelict dwelling to comprise of a single storey 2-bedroom dwelling house, (b) Change of use of existing attached derelict out-building to granny flat, (c) Material alterations to the existing building elevations to incorporate new door and window opes, (d) Construction of a new wastewater treatment system and all associated siteworks.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4898

• 18 Dec 2020Conditional

  Permission for retention of sunroom at the side and bay window at front (ground floor) of their existing dormer bungalow.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 20/6893

• 20 Oct 2020Incompleted application

  Retention of sunroom at the side and bay window at front (ground floor) of the existing dormer bungalow.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 20/6308

• 10 Sept 2020Incompleted application

  To retain sunroom at the side and bay window at the front (ground floor) of the existing dormer bungalow.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 20/5963

• 14 Oct 2019Conditional

  Construction of a dwelling, domestic garage and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6477

• 4 Oct 2019Conditional

  To construct a dwelling-house, domestic garage, on-site sewage treatment system and all associated siteworks, including widening of existing entrance and construction of a new shared vehicle entrance.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6399

• 7 Aug 2015Conditional

  Construction of agricultural slatted unit which will adjoin existing agricultural building together with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5758

• 24 Mar 2014Conditional

  Change of plan and location of dwelling house and garage, and all associated site works already granted under Planning Ref. No’s. 08/9881 and 13/4452 (extension of duration of Permission)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4584

• 18 Feb 2014Conditional

  11 no. dwellinghouses (consisting of 8 no. semi-detached and 3 no. detached), 3 no. serviced residential sites, septic tank and puraflo waste water treatment system and associated site works and services, extension of duration to permission granted under Planning Ref. No. 08/8538

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 14/4309

• 27 Nov 2013Conditional

  Construction of dwellinghouse and domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/6247

The 25 most recent of 85 applications.

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Newcestown.

Recorded monuments

• CO095-069 Souterrain
  Description

  Discovered in 1969 but backfilled before it was possible to record. (pers. comm. J.P. McCarthy). 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

• CO095-070 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on S-facing slope. Circular area (39m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 0.7m), with external fosse (D 1.2m). Interior planted with conifers; raised on S side to compensate for hillslope. Field boundary respects line of enclosure W->E. 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

• Garage, 1950–1955 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached stepped gable-fronted garage, built 1953. Pitched corrugated-iron roof behind stepped rendered parapet. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with render sills and timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening with double-leaf sliding corrugated-iron doors. Petrol pumps to front of site on concrete plinths. Set back from roadside.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, having four-bay two-storey former outbuilding attached to south-west gable, now in use as part of house. Two-storey stairwell block to rear (north-west). Later porch to front (south-east) elevation of north-eastern block. Extension to rear (north-west) elevation. Pitched slate roof to north-eastern block with artificial slate elsewhere, having rendered chimneystacks, gable copings and eaves course. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills throughout, having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to front elevation of north-eastern block, fixed timber-framed window to porch, and uPVC casement windows to south-western block. Margined one-over-one pane timber sliding sash window to first floor of stairwell block having stained glass margins. Square-headed door opening to porch with glazed timber door and side lights. Set within own grounds, having rendered boundary wall to front of site.

• Water pump, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron water pump, installed c.1880, having banded cylindrical shaft, curved cow tail handle, fluted neck and cap with foundry stamp to shaft. Located to roadside.

• House, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey house, built c.1900, having porch to front (south-east), lean-to extension and attached outbuilding to rear (north-west). Pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with render sills throughout, having three-over-four pane horizontally glazed timber sliding sash windows to front elevation. Two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window and fixed four-pane timber window to rear elevation of lean-to addition. Square-headed door opening to porch, having uPVC door. Single-storey concrete outbuilding to north-west. Square-profile rough-cast rendered piers with pointed rendered caps and wrought-iron pedestrian gate.

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

At the centre of the townland of Newcestown, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Newcestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Newcestown · Baile Níos

Area

2,637,101 m² (263.71 ha, 651.64 acres)

Civil parish

Murragh, and its townlands

Barony

Kinalmeaky

Electoral division

Murragh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

541 people lived in 164 households in the Murragh electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bengour East, Coolanagh, Farranalough, Farranthomas, Tullyglass

Placenames

Newcestown 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.