Paal East

57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Paal East, from 6 m² to 325,376 m² (32.54 ha, 80.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 68 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Green Infrastructure (Open space, park)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Green Infrastructure (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 15 Jul 2026Awaiting f.i. response

  Planning permission sought for (1) the decommissioning the existing septic tank and soakaway, (2) the construction of an advanced domestic waste water treatment system and (3) all associated site works at The Lodge, Paal East, Kanturk, Co Cork P51 Y2W8

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1886

• 5 Jul 2019Conditional

  Provision of a pedestrian footpath including public lighting, installation of rock armour/gabions and all associated services from entrance to Kanturk Castle (Paal East) along R579 to the junction fronting North Cork Co-op Stores (Dromalour).

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5708

• 17 May 2019Incompleted application

  Provision of a pedestrian footpath including public lighting, installation of rock armour/gabions and all associated services from entrance to Kanturk Castle (Paal East) along R579 to the junction fronting North Cork Co-op Stores (Dromalour).

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5249

• 10 Apr 2019Incompleted application

  The provision of a pedestrian footpath and all associated services from entrance to Kanturk Castle (Paal East) along R579 to the junction fronting North Cork Co-Op stores (Dromalour).

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4886

• 13 Mar 2009Conditional

  Construction of 250m banked inner cycling track, a 400m outer training track and access road and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4785

• 7 Dec 2007Refused

  Construction of single storey office building, new entrance, car park and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12932

• 31 Oct 2007Incompleted application

  Construction of single storey office building, car park and asociated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12028

• 23 Apr 2007Conditional

  Two storey dormer style extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7217

• 13 Dec 2005Refused

  Dwelling and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9228

• 20 Jun 2005Refused

  Dwelling and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4321

• 29 Apr 2005Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2846

• 18 Apr 2005Withdrawn

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2460

• 24 Oct 2003Conditional

  Bungalow

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/5276

• 19 Jun 2003Conditional

  Construction of new entrance to dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/3030

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170

Recorded monuments

• CO023-119001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In grounds of Castle Park house. Bowman (1934, 502) recorded fort in K.G. Priestly's, 'single-rampart, only one-sixth of the circuit now stands, this portion being c. 14 feet high, and c. 22 feet wide at base'. Very faint outline of penannular circle (diam. c. 40m) NNE->W, defined by dotted line (doubled S->WSW), surrounds Castle Park house on 1842 OS 6-inch map ; may indicate former extent of ringfort. Arc formed by earthen bank survives to SW of house. Bank (int. H 2.75m; ext. H 1.35m) forms part of rockery; stone faced to S. House appears to be built in N half of enclosure. 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

• CO023-119002 Country house
  Description

  Early 19th-century 2-storey house over basement; occupied. Entrance front (SE) of 5 bays, central 1-bay recess, central large round-headed door ope with Ionic portico of cut limestone pillars with brick entablature. Two bays on either side of central recess have plaster pediments. Side elevations 3 bays deep. Rear elevation has central round-headed stairway window; shallow hipped projection at NE end of rear. Hipped roof with central valley, also covers projection to rear. U-shaped range of farm buildings around courtyard to W. 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

• CO023-120 House - fortified house
  Description

  On land sloping gently down to the Brogeen River to the SE; the Allow River flows a short distance to the E. This fortified house was built by the MacDonagh MacCarthys. A number of legends are associated with the building of Kanturk (see Kelly 1896), but its exact date of construction is conjectural; Craig (1982, 117), following Leask (1941, 126), suggests before 1609, though the 3rd-floor fireplace in the E wall is similar in style to the fireplace in Monkstown castle (CO087-028----), which bears the date 1636, suggesting a somewhat later date. However, the house was never completed: the machicolations were never finished and it was never roofed. According to tradition, when news of the ongoing construction reached the Privy Council in England, the Crown became suspicious of the MacCarthys' motives for building such a large, fortified house, and ordered that work should stop (Kelly 1896, 258). Dermot MacCarthy later mortgaged the castle to Sir Philip Perceval during the 1641 rebellion, but by 1667 the estate had legally passed to Sir Philip's grandson (Lewis 1837, 33). The castle has stood unchanged ever since. The remains consist in a 4-storey rectangular block (27.7m N-S; 11.3m E-W) with a 5-storey square flanking tower (8.5m x 8.5m) at each corner (see plan in Leask 1941, 128). The main entrance is a 1st-floor doorway in the centre of the W wall. It has a limestone door surround with a round arch with a pilaster on either side supporting a frieze and cornice (see photograph in de Breffny 1977, 144), which reflects influences from the European Renaissance. Directly beneath the latter is the ground-floor doorway, almost completely ruined; the second ground-floor doorway in the centre of the E wall has a door surround with a pointed arch, twist-carved moulding, and yett holes. The interior had wooden floors throughout, now marked by opposing lines of joist sockets. All floors well lit by symmetrically arranged windows; the ground floor has single rounded or semi-elliptically arched lights, but the other floors have larger rectangular lights with mullion and transom divisions, covered by hood mouldings. Most window embrasures have had original flat-arched roofs replaced by concrete lintels. The house contains numerous fireplaces; those in the main block are positioned near either end of both side walls, whilst most floors in corner towers have their own fireplace - except for the NE stairway tower. Most fireplace surrounds have a flat arch and a shallow mantle; however, the surround of the fireplace near the S end of the E wall, at 3rd-floor level, has a mantle carved with 'bold frieze and cornice' in the same fashion as the entrance door. The largest fireplace is near the N end of the E wall, on the ground floor; the lintel is missing; there are the remains of a domed bread oven on the S side, suggesting this was the kitchen fireplace. The chimney stacks on the side walls of the main block project externally at either end of the front face of these walls; stacks do not survive above wall level. The NE tower formerly contained wooden stairs, probably with landing at each corner, judging by position of windows, joist holes and plaster-shadow on inside wall faces. Doorways at N end of E wall of main block give entry to stairs from four main floors. Similarly positioned doorways, at S end of E wall and at either end of W wall, give entry to chambers in other three corner towers. Tower defended by series of splayed gun loops at ground-floor level, one on each face of SE and NE towers and one on E face of NW and SW towers; loops positioned under window lights; front opening is circular. Lack of loops on W side suggests existence of former bawn on that side. Base batter on all external walls except main W face and W and inside faces of SW and NW towers, which have vertical face. Continuous string course marks floor levels, except that between ground and 1st floor, on all exterior walls. Row of tapering corbels, formerly supporting continuous machicolations, survive atop each wall face. This is a National Monument in State Guardianship (no. 517). 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. See also Heritage Castles of County Cork (Heritage Unit of Cork County Council, 2017): https://www.corkcoco.ie/sites/default/files/2022-10/heritage_castles_of_county_cork_2017.pdf See attached photographs CO023-120----_01: View of the W façade with main entrance in the centre. CO023-120----_02: View of exterior from W. CO023-120----_03: View of exterior from SW. CO023-120----_04: View of interior. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 Date of last revision: 28 April 2023

Architectural heritage

• Castlepark House, country house, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey over basement country house, built c. 1800. Façade has recessed entrance bay with portico to front, flanked by pedimented ends having two-bay first floors and tripartite window arrangements to ground floors. Three-bay two-storey over half-basement side elevations. North bay of rear elevation projects slightly. Hipped slate roof, pitched to pedimented bays, with rendered chimneystacks, render eaves course, and having timber brackets to eaves. Rendered walls with cut limestone quoins and plinth course. Roughcast rendered walls to rear. Timber sliding sash windows throughout with limestone sills, round-headed to first floor of rear middle bay with margined six-over-four pane window having traceried top, square-headed elsewhere and having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor, nine-over-six pane to ground floor, tripartite windows being flanked by six-over-four pane sidelights. Replacement uPVC window to basement. Round-headed opening to rear with Y-tracery six-over-four pane margin timber sliding sash window, having render sill. Narrow six-over-four pane windows to south end of rear wall. Round-headed entrance doorway with carved timber panelled Ionic-style pilasters with limestone plinths, moulded archivolt, elaborate spoked timber fanlight and timber panelled door flanked by margined sidelights. Limestone threshold to entrance. Carved limestone prostyle tetrastyle Ionic portico, surmounted by stepped painted brick entablature with ball finial, and having flight of limestone steps. Square-profile rendered piers to road entrance, with wrought-iron vehicular gate.

• Castlepark House, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Entrance gateway to Castlepark House, erected c. 1810, with gate lodge to north-west. Vehicular entrance flanked by pedestrian entrances, all with square-profile cut limestone piers, those to middle piers being slightly higher, with moulded plinths, moulded cornices and flat caps and courses having decorative cast-iron gates, double-leaf to middle entrance, all set to curved rubble limestone sweep walls with render copings and plinth courses. Doorless cast-iron post box to walling at northmost pier. Detached three-bay single-storey former gate lodge, built c. 1810, now in use as private house, and having two-bay lean-to at rear, hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystack, painted rendered walls with render plinth course, and square-headed door and window openings with render label-mouldings, replacement timber casement windows with painted render sills, and timber panelled door with decoratively glazed overlight, approached by rendered steps. Painted rendered boundary walls with square-profile rendered piers and cast-metal garden gate.

• Castlepark House, farmyard complex, 1760–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex, built c. 1770, comprising two-storey four-bay west and south ranges and five-bay north range, having corrugated-iron roofs, pitched to west and north ranges and half-hipped to south, with rubble sandstone walls and square-headed door and window openings with rubble sandstone voussoirs and corrugated-iron fittings. West and north ranges have elliptical-headed arches, partly blocked up to west range. North range has recent lean-to to south elevation. South range has timber battened doors and three-bay two-storey extension to east elevation, with half-hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystack, and painted rendered walls. Rubble sandstone masonry boundary walls to site.

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 10 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_607 (ZIP).

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.

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

Name

Paal East · Páil Thoir

Area

1,009,343 m² (100.93 ha, 249.41 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmeen (Kanturk Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Duhallow

Electoral division

Kanturk, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kanturk electoral division: 2,287 people in 909 households; 59% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolacoosane, Dromalour, Gurteenard, Kanturk, Kilcaskan North, Paal West, Pulleen

Placenames

Paal East 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.