Raleigh North
Townland in the civil parish of Kilnamartery, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork; in Irish Ráth Luíoch Thuaidh
- Area
- 108.3 ha
- 268 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 5,546 m² (0.55 ha, 1.37 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 29
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raleigh North, from 20 m² to 215,864 m² (21.59 ha, 53.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 37 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
26 Jul 2021Unconditional
Construction of agricultural slatted unit and machinery shed together with all ancillary site work. - Extension of duration of permission granted under Planning Reference: 15/5547.
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 21/6051
9 Jul 2021Incompleted application
Construction of agricultural slatted unit and machinery shed together with all ancillary site work. - Extension of duration of permission granted under planning reference: 15/5547.
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 21/5912
4 Jun 2019Conditional
Retention of domestic garage (including storage space at first floor level).
Retention · Cork County Council, 19/5464
19 Oct 2018Conditional
Work carried out to existing dwelling house, consisting of alterations to the external finish, extension of a sun room to the front and a two storey extension to the rear of the dwelling. Retention of a domestic garage is also being applied for.
Retention · Cork County Council, 18/6781
11 Aug 2015Conditional
Construction of dwellinghouse and garage, associated waste water treatment system, private water well, site boundary treatments and alterations to the existing site entrance, and all associated landscaping and site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5786
15 Jul 2015Conditional
Construction of new dwelling house, domestic garage and new entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5573
14 Jul 2015Conditional
Construction of agricultural slatted unit and machinery shed together with all ancillary site work
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5547
17 Sept 2013Conditional
Construction of sunroom extension to the side of existing two-storey dwelling, construction of a single storey detached double garage and granny flat to the rear of the existing dwelling as previously granted under Planning Ref. No. 97/0623
Retention · Cork County Council, 13/5800
6 Oct 2011Conditional
Retention of dwelling as constructed (minor changes to that granted under Pl. Reg. No. 00/1873)
Retention · Cork County Council, 11/6144
19 Feb 2010Application finalised
One and half storey dwellinghouse and septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4353
22 Jan 2010Incompleted application
Storey and a half dweling and septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4096
4 Dec 2009Conditional
Retention and completion of domestic garage with attic storage
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7824
14 Aug 2009Conditional
Alterations to dwelling comprising of ground and first floor extension
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6716
15 Apr 2009Conditional
Retention of domestic garage attached to gable end of dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5183
5 Feb 2007Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4723
22 Aug 2006Conditional
Conservation works including reconstruction of roof to existing dwellinghouse and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9964
15 Aug 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9772
28 Jul 2006Incompleted application
Conservation works to Raleigh House and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9338
17 Jul 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 06/8963
22 Jun 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8310
7 Apr 2006Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6201
31 Jan 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4458
12 Dec 2005Conditional
Extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9173
21 Mar 2005Conditional
Deposition of soil/subsoil
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1673
23 Jul 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/5688
The 25 most recent of 29 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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Raleigh North.
Recorded monuments
- CO070-088 Designed landscape - belvedere
Description
On top of a rock outcrop, immediately S of avenue to Raleigh House (CO070-109----).Two-storey square embattled tower (int. 1.3m N-S) built within NW side of D-shaped platform (H c. 4.5m); fireplace in NE corner; upper floor and roof no longer survive. Platform, accessed by stairs in W wall, enclosed by parapet wall with low turret projecting from SW corner. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO070-109 Country house
Description
Renovated 2-storey house; entrance front (E) of 5 bays; central doorway with fanlight; central ornate triple light window at 1st floor. Central gabled stairway projection to rear flanked by lean-to additions. One- and 2-storey farm buildings still in use to rear. Restored gate lodge withTudor-style windows; tall castellated tower (CO070-088----) overlooking entrance. Oval stone structure (3.78m x c. 2.7m) 600m to NW of house overlooking lake, known to landowner as 'picnic house'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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
- Bridge, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Double-arch rubble limestone road bridge, built c.1800, located spanning Suilane River and ancillary water course. Round-headed arches with roughly cut limestone voussoirs and rendered soffit. Rubble limestone walls rising to parapets with solider rubble limestone copings and square-headed drain openings.
- Raleigh House, gate lodge, 1845–1855 · Regional interest
Description
Detached two-bay (two-bay deep) single-storey gate lodge, c.1850, on a square plan. Now disused. Pyramidal slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered central chimney stack on rendered base having stringcourse below stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta octagonal pot, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging eaves. Rendered walls on rendered plinth with rendered monolithic pilasters including rendered monolithic pilasters to corners supporting frieze. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement with sills, timber mullions, and moulded rendered surrounds with hood mouldings framing timber casement windows having Y-traceried square glazing bars. Set back from line of road at entrance to grounds of Raleigh House with rendered piers to perimeter having pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron double gates.
- Raleigh House, folly, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Detached square-plan single-bay three-stage ornamental tower with base batter and D-plan single-bay two-storey entrance bay with bartizan, built c.1840. Castellated parapets. Rubble stone walls. Pointed arch door opening. Pointed arch window openings.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, 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 Raleigh North.
- 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 Raleigh North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Raleigh North · Ráth Luíoch Thuaidh
- Area
- 1,082,626 m² (108.26 ha, 267.52 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilnamartery, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Electoral division
- Kilnamartery, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilnamartery electoral division: 731 people in 249 households; 86% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Brehaun, Clonfadda, Codrum, Curraheen, Dundareirke, Gortyleahy, Inchibrackane, Raleigh South, Rockborough
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Raleigh North 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.