Poulleagh

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Poulleagh, from 641 m² to 186,753 m² (18.68 ha, 46.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Poulleagh 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.

• 13 Jun 2012Conditional

  Extension to existing dwelling house and form new site entrance

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5287

• 18 Oct 2006Conditional

  Construction of concrete slab for farmyard manure and effluent tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11544

• 23 Jun 2004Conditional

  Retention of elevational changes to dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/4582

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 Poulleagh.

Recorded monuments

• CO018-073 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In tillage, on gentle N-facing slope. Circular area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.3m; ext. H 1.5m). Bank survives best S->WNW, where overgrown with bushes; low and eroded elsewhere. Break in bank to NW. Interior raised and saucer-shaped; overgrown with ferns and thistles; in SW quadrant, platform (H 0.4m) extends from bank for c. 1m into interior and is 3m L. Surrounding field fences removed. 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

• CO018-074 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, atop knoll. Depicted as hachured arc SSE->N (C c. 25m) on 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; low rise visible in area. 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

• CO018-108 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In tillage, on NE side of pond. Roughly oval mound of burnt material (36m NW-SE; 30m NE-SW; H 0.27m). Present extent of spread seems largely due to ploughing. 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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Poulleagh.

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 Poulleagh, 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 Poulleagh.

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 Poulleagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Poulleagh · An Poll Liath

Area

595,455 m² (59.55 ha, 147.14 acres)

Civil parish

Templeroan, and its townlands

Barony

Fermoy

Electoral division

Shanballymore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

662 people lived in 238 households in the Shanballymore electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrigleagh, Farahy, Shanballymore Upper

Placenames

Poulleagh 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.