Rangaroe
Rangaroe is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmocomoge, barony of Bantry, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Reanga Rua.
- Area
- 79.8 ha
- 197 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 19,792 m² (1.98 ha, 4.89 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 23
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rangaroe, from 1,067 m² to 493,555 m² (49.36 ha, 121.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Rangaroe 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
6 Mar 2026Grant with conditions
Permission for agricultural building for housing of sheep and storage of animal feed, and for all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0550
27 Feb 2013Conditional
Demolition of existing dwelling house, construction of new dwelling house and attached domestic garage, installation of septic tank system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/110
21 Aug 2009Withdrawn
Ten year permission to construct a 45MegaWatt Pumped Hydroelectric Energy Storage (PHES) Scheme, including pump/turbine building, upper and lower water lakes/reservoirs of 300,000m³ capacity, spill reservoir, 2no. peat storage pits, 6no. permanent sedimentation ponds, over and underground penstock/pipeline interconnecting the upper and lower lakes, permanent access road, and septic tank, 1no. puraflo module, and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/949
24 Jul 2009Incompleted application
Ten year permission to construct a 45MegaWatt Pumped Hydroelectric Energy Storage (PHES) Scheme, including pump/turbine building, upper and lower water lakes/reservoirs of 300,000m³ capacity, spill reservoir, 2no. peat storage pits, 6no. permanent sedimentation ponds, over and underground penstock/pipeline interconnecting the upper and lower lakes, permanent access roads and temporary removable bridge over the Coomhola River, and septic tank, 1no. puraflo module, and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/847
7 Nov 2008Conditional
Retention of (a) rebuilding and conversion of existing barn to provide barn, stables, workshop, teaching space and games room with associated sanitary accommodation, (b) biocycle treatment system with reed bed percolation and (c) associated road
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1998
31 Oct 2008Incompleted application
Retention of (a) rebuilding and conversion of existing barn to provide barn, stables, workshop, teaching space and games room with associated sanitary accommodation, (b) biocycle treatment system with reed bed percolation and (c) associated road
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1959
22 Sept 2008Incompleted application
Rebuilding and conversion of an existing barn to provide barn, stables workshop, teaching space and games room with associated sanitary accommodation, biocycle treatment system with reed bed percolation and associated road
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1725
26 Mar 2007Conditional
Construction of agricultural slatted house for housing cattle and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/845
15 Nov 2005Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8391
19 Aug 2005Conditional
Construction of greenhouse and adjoining compost toilets
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6010
19 Aug 2005Withdrawn
Excavation of lake and construction of small dam and shed for housing a turbine
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/6011
12 Jul 2005Incompleted application
Construction of small dam and shed to house a turbine
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/4951
24 Jan 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/265
21 Sept 2004Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse
Approval · Cork County Council, 04/7155
26 Aug 2004Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/6477
26 Aug 2004Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 04/6501
9 Aug 2004Incompleted application
Dutch Hut as temporary housing
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/6045
21 Jul 2004Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 04/5578
21 Jul 2004Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/5591
2 Mar 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse and mini-treatment plant
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/1342
20 Aug 2003Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/4183
9 Jul 2001Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 01/3911
4 Jan 2000Conditional
Renovations & extensions to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/15
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 Rangaroe.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rangaroe.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rangaroe.
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
- The EPA radon map did not answer.
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rangaroe.
- 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 Rangaroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Rangaroe · Reanga Rua
- Area
- 798,430 m² (79.84 ha, 197.3 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmocomoge, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bantry
- Electoral division
- Ahil, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 264 people lived in 96 households in the Ahil electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cappanabrick, Coorloum East, Derryduff More, Kippaghingergill, Knockanecosduff, Tooreen
- Placenames
- Rangaroe 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.