Oysterhaven
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmonoge, barony of Kinalea, Co. Cork; in Irish Cuan Oisrí
- Area
- 20.1 ha
- 50 acres
- Land parcels
- 2
- registered freehold, median 100,201 m² (10.02 ha, 24.76 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oysterhaven, from 23,563 m² (2.36 ha, 5.82 acres) to 176,838 m² (17.68 ha, 43.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 5 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 Oysterhaven 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
27 Nov 2025Grant with conditions
Permission for the construction of a detached two-storey dwelling and associated shed, creation of a new site entrance, provision of a wastewater treatment system, and all associated site development works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6604
19 Dec 2018Unconditional
Relocation of site entrance and driveway and ancillary site works, Extension of Duration of Permission granted under planning reg: 13/5862
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 18/7370
13 Apr 2017Unconditional
Construction of a split level, part two storey dwellinghouse, the construction of a new site entrance, proposed waste water treatment unit with associated sand polished filter and all ancillary site works - Extension of duration of Permission granted under Planning Reg. No. 12/5021
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 17/4888
2 Jul 2014Conditional
Amendment to Planning Permission granted under Planning Reg. No. 12/5950 for restoration and extension to Newborough House. Amendment to consist of a reduced single storey extension to dwelling at basement level on the Western elevation, omission of door at basement level to Eastern elevation, new door at basement level and window instead of door at ground floor level both on the Western elevation
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5407
30 May 2014Incompleted application
Alteration to permission granted under Planning Ref. No. 12/5950 to restore Newborough House from a single storey extension on the basement to the West to a reduced single storey extension at basement level
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5146
26 Sept 2013Conditional
Relocation of site entrance and driveway and ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/5862
16 May 2012Conditional
Construction of a split level, part two storey dwelling house, the construction of a new site entrance, proposed waste water treatment unit with associated sand polished filter and all ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5021
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 Oysterhaven.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Oysterhaven.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Oysterhaven.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Oysterhaven.
- 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 Oysterhaven with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Oysterhaven · Cuan Oisrí
- Area
- 200,924 m² (20.09 ha, 49.65 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmonoge, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kinalea
- Electoral division
- Kilmonoge, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilmonoge electoral division: 1,337 people in 416 households; 82% of households own their home; 62% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolnagaug, Ringville
- Placenames
- Oysterhaven 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.