Pillmore
Pillmore is a townland in the civil parish of Clonpriest, barony of Imokilly, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Poll Mór.
- Area
- 163.6 ha
- 404 acres
- Land parcels
- 126
- registered freehold, median 2,397 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 27
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
126 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pillmore, from 10 m² to 101,719 m² (10.17 ha, 25.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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 Pillmore 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
9 Jun 2026Grant with conditions
planning permission to construct a new dwelling house
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1524
27 Jan 2026Grant with conditions
Permission for Retention of as constructed existing detached domestic single storey home office/garden room and gym along with all associated site works and services.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/0157
3 Oct 2024Withdrawn
Permission for construction of a dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit, percolation area, new agricultural entrance and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5851
27 Jul 2021Conditional permission
To construct a single storey dwellinghouse, domestic garage, recessed site entrance, septic tank and percolation area including all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6041
12 Jul 2021Conditional
Construct a single storey extension to existing dwellinghouse including alterations to existing dwellinghouse and retention of domestic garage including all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5939
24 Nov 2020Conditional
2 storey and single storey extension to dwelling, renovations to include the raising of the roof to provide first floor accommodation, installation of a wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter and associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6621
8 Oct 2020Incompleted application
Permission for elevational changes, renovation and extension to existing dwelling, installation of a wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter area and associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6191
20 Jul 2020Conditional
Construct dwelling house, domestic garage, recessed site entrance, septic tank and percolation area.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5532
22 May 2018Incompleted application
40 no. pitch Motorhome Park together with associated site development works and underground services including, (1) holding tank for the off-site disposal of motorhome chemically treated WC wastewater, (2) On-site disposal of motorhome shower and sink wastewater to wastewater treatment and percolation area and, (3) adjustment of existing vehicular entrance to facilitate the proposed development.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5299
11 Apr 2018Conditional
1) Construction of a new single storey front porch extension, 2) a new single extension to the rear elevation, 3) alterations to the existing facades., 4) alterations to the existing roof structure, 5) conversion of an existing attached garage to residential accommodation, and all associated site works all to the existing detached single storey dwelling.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4898
4 Sept 2017Conditional
Construct dwellinghouse, domestic garage, recessed site entrance, septic tank and percolation area
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6286
12 Dec 2016Refused
Conversion of existing dormer styled domestic garage to habitable use including addition of single-storey extensions to form new dwelling to replace that previously demolished under P.A. Reg. Ref. No. 99/1590 including associated elevational alterations, site development works and installation of domestic treatment unit and percolation area
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/7093
22 Jun 2016Conditional
Construction of a bungalow, detached domestic garage, installation of a septic tank and percolation area and carry out of all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/5539
12 Aug 2015Conditional
Construction of an animal house, silage slab and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5794
22 Dec 2009Refused
Bungalow, septic tank, percolation area and site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/8053
18 Dec 2009Conditional
Two-storey dwelling, septic tank, percolation area and site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7957
19 Nov 2007Conditional
Dormer dwellinghouse, garage and installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12470
16 Aug 2007Conditional
Retention of extensions to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10325
3 Aug 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/9468
13 Jun 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8017
22 Dec 2005Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/9637
5 Aug 2005Conditional
Construction of extension to commercial store
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/5650
8 Jun 2005Conditional
Change of use of offices and display areas from commercial to residential use
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4004
7 Oct 2004Conditional
Extensions to sides and rear of office/display area incorporating additional display area and staff facilities
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/7602
20 Oct 2003Conditional
Change of use of agricultural store to commercial store & retention of offices, display areas, porch, workshop/studio/ stores,boundary walls,entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/5226
The 25 most recent of 27 applications.
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: Ballymacoda (Clonpriest and Pillmore) SAC 000077
- Special Protection Area: Ballymacoda Bay SPA 004023
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballymacoda (Clonpriest And Pillmore) 000077
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Pillmore.
Architectural heritage
- House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Detached single-storey thatched house, built c. 1860. Hipped thatched roof with red brick chimneystack. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding to east range of yard having pitched corrugated-iron roof, rendered walls and square-headed openings. Drystone boundary wall to north. Recent rendered piers and sweep walls with metal gates to site entrance.
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 Pillmore, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Pillmore.
- 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 Pillmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Pillmore · An Poll Mór
- Area
- 1,635,888 m² (163.59 ha, 404.24 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonpriest, and its townlands
- Barony
- Imokilly
- Electoral division
- Clonpriest, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,234 people lived in 402 households in the Clonpriest electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymadog, Beanfield, Clonard East, Clonard West
- Placenames
- Pillmore 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.