Oldcastletown

129 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oldcastletown, from 57 m² to 224,824 m² (22.48 ha, 55.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 74 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Oldcastletown 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.

• 6 Mar 2026Grant with conditions

  Permission for retention of a detached domestic store serving dwelling.

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/0539

• 24 Jan 2023Conditional

  Permission for (i) retention of kitchen extension as constructed to shop and permission for demolition of same extension, (ii) change of use of ground floor public house and shop and existing first floor living accommodation to provide 1 no. dwelling house, (iii) alterations to existing building including changes to fenestration (iv) 16m2 of photovoltaic panels to south facing roof and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4071

• 9 Dec 2022Incompleted application

  Permission for (i) Retention and demolition of 6.5m2 kitchen extension, (ii) change of use of ground floor public house and shop to residential, (iii) alterations to existing building including changes to fenestration, (iv) 16m2 of photovoltaic panels to south facing roof and (vi) all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6721

• 17 Sept 2020Conditional

  Permission for retention of dwellinghouse and boundaries as constructed (original granted planning application 12/5341) including (a) permission for retention of modifications to the internal floor layouts and minor alterations to the external elevations of the dwellinghhouse, (b) permission for retention of as constructed boundaries comprising of reinforced concrete walls and steel railings and all associated siteworks.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 20/6022

• 6 Aug 2019Conditional

  Retention of existing shopfront

  Retention · Cork County Council, 19/5962

• 18 Sept 2018Conditional

  To roof existing milking facility and collecting yard and extend existing slatted underground tank to incorporate external agitation point and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6466

• 10 Aug 2018Conditional

  Construction of part 2 storey and part single storey dwellinghouse, garage, new entrance, septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6103

• 11 Jul 2018Incompleted application

  A part 2 storey and part single storey dwelling house, garage, new entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5821

• 29 Jun 2018Conditional

  To erect a storey and a half style/single storey dwelling, garage, entrance and septic tank.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5696

• 28 May 2018Incompleted application

  To construct a storey and a half style-single storey dwelling, garage, entrance and septic tank.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5381

• 9 Feb 2018Withdrawn

  A one and a half storey/single storey style dwelling, garage, entrance and septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4343

• 16 May 2017Unconditional

  Completion of (1) Demolition of existing (a) milking parlour and dairy (b) straw bedded house and (c) concrete slurry tank (2) construction of extensions to existing straw bedded calf and calving shed on the northern elevation and eastern elevation for straw bedded livestock housing (3) increase height of existing over ground slurry tank by 1.5m (4) construction of building to include milking parlour, ancillary rooms, waiting yard, livestock handling facilities, slatted slurry tank (e) erection of meal bin and 2 no. water storage tanks (6) construction of extension to existing cubicle housing to the eastern elevation along with slatted slurry tanks along with associated site works (7) construction of cubicle housing along with slatted slurry tank - Extension of duration of permission granted under Planning Reg. No. 12/5523

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 17/5191

• 24 Mar 2017Conditional

  Construct a dormer style dwelling, garage, treatment unit with percolation area, upgrade existing entrance and ancillary works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4710

• 17 Nov 2016Conditional

  Retention and completion of domestic garage/store and vehicular entrance.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 16/6869

• 18 Oct 2016Incompleted application

  Retention and completion of domestic garage / store and vehicular entrance

  Retention · Cork County Council, 16/6584

• 20 Jul 2016Conditional

  Construction of dwellinghouse with domestic garage, entrance, connection to the public sewer and all site and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/5810

• 17 Jun 2016Incompleted application

  Construction of a dwelling house with domestic garage, entrance connection to the public sewer and all and ancillary works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/5486

• 16 May 2016Refused

  To construct a dwelling house.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/5166

• 12 Feb 2016Conditional

  Construction of 2 no. agricultural entrances along with all associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4287

• 23 Oct 2015Conditional

  Demolition of existing single storey cottage element to side of dwelling and construction of a new part-single storey, part-dormer extension also to side, together with associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6393

• 12 Jun 2015Refused

  Construction of dwelling house

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5244

• 10 Dec 2013Conditional

  Construction of existing to existing dwelling and relocation of existing site boundary

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/6336

• 12 Jul 2012Conditional

  (1) Demolition of existing (a) milking parlour and dairy (b) straw bedded house and (c) concrete slurry tank (2) construction of extensions to existing straw bedded calf and calving shed on the northern elevation and eastern elevation for straw bedded livestock housing (3) increase height of existing over ground slurry tank by 1.5m (4) construction of building to include milking parlour, ancillary rooms, waiting yard, livestock handling facilities, slatted slurry tank (e) erection of meal bin and 2 no. water storage tanks (6) construction of extension to existing cubicle housing to the eastern elevation along with slatted slurry tanks along with associated site works (7) construction of cubicle housing along with slatted slurry tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5523

• 20 Jun 2012Conditional

  Construction of a split level dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5341

• 11 May 2012Incompleted application

  Construction of a split level dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4981

The 25 most recent of 72 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 Oldcastletown.

Recorded monuments

• CO018-009 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Depicted as subcircular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured arc, showing bank, W->SE on 1905 OS 6-inch map, and field boundary enclosing interior to S; hachured as circular platform (diam. c. 30m) with outer bank W->NE on 1936 OS 6-inch map. According to local information levelled c. 1982. Arc formed by earthen bank (H 0.8m) survives in corner of field to SE; in field to N circular cropmark indicates outline of site. Arc (W->E), formed by two upstanding banks with intervening fosse, visible in aerial photograph (GSIAP, R640, dated May 1977); S half of enclosure appears to be incorporated into field boundary system. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO018-010 Souterrain
  Description

  In pasture; circular enclosure (CO018-009---) c. 150m to NE and rectangular enclosure (CO018-011---) c. 140m to SW. According to local information, souterrain found here in the past. No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO018-011 Enclosure
  Description

  Depicted as hachured square enclosure (c. 30m N-S; c. 30m E-W) on 1842, 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps. In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Levelled; no visible surface trace. According to local information, enclosure was square. Roughly square enclosure visible in aerial photograph (GSIAP, R640; May 1977) as soilmark of recently levelled bank. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO018-012 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Depicted as subrectangular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; saucer-shaped hollow remains; field fence to E may incorporate part of bank. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO018-013 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, just below brow of hill on S-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 32m) immediately NE of NW-SE townland boundary on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured arc N->SW on 1936 OS 6-inch map, with interior delimited to NW by field boundary extending SW->NE, curved to respect site and by straight townland boundary to SW. Partially levelled; interior (31m N-S) defined by earthen stone-faced bank to N, incorporated into field fence system; earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1m) NNE->SE; scarp (H 0.4m) SE->SSW. Grass-covered interior slightly raised, especially on S side to compensate for hillslope. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO018-014 House - vernacular house
  Description

  On NW side of road. A long front elevation of 4 bays, off-centre door to left; window in left end wall with attic window overhead. Half-hipped roof with thatch of wheaten straw, two off-centre brick chimneys. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO018-015 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  No visible surface trace of castle; later country house, now in ruins, occupies the site. Castle of the Fitzgibbon family, commonly known as the White Knights (Healy 1988, 428-30). Described in 1583 as having 'one hall and three chambers and three cellars enclosed within stone walls' (ibid., 429). Captured by Lord Broghill in 1650, subsequently passed to Fennel family (ibid., 430). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO018-016 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle E-facing slope. Circular area (33.5m N-S; 31.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (max. int. H 1m; max. ext. H 1.5m). Bank planted with mature hawthorn bushes; some stone facing noted on external bank face. Fosse survives as gentle slope down to base of bank; overgrown with nettles. Entrance (Wth 3.5m) to NE. Interior grass-covered except for bushes in E quadrant. See also: July 2000 - unpublished archaeological report by Archaeological Services Unit, UCC. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO018-017 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, atop natural rise. Circular area (diam. c. 45m) defined by heavily overgrown earthen bank (int. H 1.25m) N->SW; scarp elsewhere; external fosse (D 0.5m) N->SSE. Fosse visible as cropmark to W. Bank incorporated into field fence to S. Boreen runs N-S outside fosse to E. Interior covered in rough grass and thistles. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO018-107 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture. Roughly oval mound of burnt material (13m N-S; 18m E-W; H 0.4m). West end crossed by field fence. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO018-111 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture, c. 12m W of stream. Oval mound of burnt material (12.8m N-S; 6.4m E-W; H 0.25m). Second fulacht fiadh (11521) c. 120m to NNW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO018-112 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture, c. 22m W of stream. Roughly circular mound of burnt material (19m N-S; 18m E-W; H 0.3m). Second fulacht fiadh (11520) c. 120m to SSE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO018-113 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In tillage. Roughly oval mound of burnt material (24m N-S; 22m E-W; H 0.9m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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

• House, 1900–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1910. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted smooth rendered walls having render platbands at eaves and first floor sill level. Square-headed windows with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, double to ground floor. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door and overlight. Sited on edge of former Fair Green.

• Sheahan's Spar/The Hill Top Lounge/Sheehans Bar, house, 1900–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Corner-sited attached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1910, formerly two properties, having shop and public house to ground floor of front, south, elevation. Render shopfronts to each end of front elevation, one disused. Side elevation prolonged by slightly lower two-storey two-bay addition with pitched roof. Pitched artificial slate roofs, hipped to return, with rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods, render bracketed eaves course with molulded string course below. Painted smooth rendered walls with render quoins. Square-headed window openings, having shouldered render surrounds to first floor of front and to side elevation, with painted sills mainly having decorative brackets, and replacement uPVC windows. Ground floor window openings to front elevation have panelled render pilasters, fluted scrolled brackets and moulded and dentillated cornices. Render shopfronts comprising panelled render pilasters with plinth blocks, fluted scrolled brackets and dentillated moulded cornices. Shopfront in use has glazed timber panelled double-leaf door with overlight and plate glass timber-framed display window. Disused shopfront has replacement uPVC fittings. Square-headed door opening serving house has painted carved timber panelled door set into round-headed doorway having render panelled pilasters, fluted scrolled brackets and moulded archivolt.

• House, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached six-bay two-storey house, dated 1845, with integral carriage arch to east end. Building erected as pair of houses. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls to front, and smooth rendered walls to rear and sides. Square-headed openings with painted stone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed door opening at west end with render surround, raised keystone, replacement uPVC door and fanlight. Carriage arch has cut-stone jambs and voussoirs, raised keystone carved ‘JC 1845’, and double-leaf metal gates. Ground floor window at east end replaces earlier door. Carved limestone spout stone to downpipe at centre of façade.

• Oldcastletown House, house, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, built c. 1880, facing south, with porch to front, full-height canted bay to north-east gable and slightly lower two-storey return to middle of rear, and lean-to addition to north-east re-entrant corner. Now vacant. Pitched slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods and with brick chimneystacks to gable ends. Painted smooth rendered walls, rubble stone exposed in places. Brick-built flat-roof porch, with segemental-headed tripartite timber casement window with overlights. Square-headed window openings having timber sliding sash windows, two-over-two pane except for canted bay which has one-over-one pane windows. House approached by short curving overgrown avenue with rendered piers and wrought-iron gates. Farmyard to rear enclosed by long single-storey outbuilding to north side with pitched slate roof, rendered chimneystack, rendered walls, camber-headed door openings and segmental-arch vehicular entrance, all openings having brick voussoirs. Wall with double-leaf wrought-iron gates on east side of yard. Two-storey outbuilding to east side of yard, on opposite side of approach road, with pitched corrugated-iron roof, rubble limestone walls, external stone steps at gable accessing first floor, limestone string course between floors at front, square-headed timber battened double-leaf fixtures to first floor, and elliptical-arch vehicualr entrances to ground floor with brick voussoirs, one with corrugated-iron door. Gateway to east having rendered piers and wrought-iron double-leaf gates with decorative finial.

• Farmyard complex, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey direct-entry vernacular farmhouse with attic, built c. 1820, now vacant. Corrugated-iron roof, half-hipped to south gable and hipped to north, over thatch and having rendered chimneystack. Painted roughcast rendered random rubble stone walls, with concrete wall plate. Square-headed window openings having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and stone sills, with attic window to south-west elevation. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door having chamfered edges, and overlight. Kitchen having open fireplace with crane and bellows to north side of doorway and narrow wooden stairs to attic room to south side. Stone steps attached to north gable leads to first floor of adjacent outbuilding. This outbuilding single-storey with loft, pitched slate roof and rubble limestone walls and having square openings. Detached single-storey outbuildings to front of house, with pitched slate roofs and limewashed walls, having square-headed doorway and segmental-arch vehicular entrances with brick voussoirs. Stone boundary wall to front of house, along road with stone stile beside deep rendered stone piers with rebates for double-leaf wrought-iron gates.

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 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 Oldcastletown.

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.

• Oldcastletown, Kildorrery6 sales

Name

Oldcastletown · Baile an tSeanchaisleáin

Area

3,568,856 m² (356.89 ha, 881.88 acres)

Civil parish

Kildorrery, and its townlands

Barony

Condons and Clangibbon

Electoral division

Kildorrery, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kildorrery electoral division: 807 people in 295 households; 78% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghacross, Ballyenahan North, Ballyvisteen, Boleynanoultagh, Carhoo, Cullenagh, Cullenagh, Glasvaunta, Graigue, Kildorrery, Scart

Placenames

Oldcastletown 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.