Rathnaruogy
Townland in the civil parish of Inishannon, barony of Kinalea, Co. Cork; in Irish Ráth na Ruaige
- Area
- 171 ha
- 422 acres
- Land parcels
- 57
- registered freehold, median 4,060 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 52
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathnaruogy, from 103 m² to 428,240 m² (42.82 ha, 105.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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
No zone of a development plan covers Rathnaruogy 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
7 Jul 2026Grant with conditions
Permission for :- 1) Partial demolition of existing dwelling house, 2) Alterations to existing elevations and internal alterations to existing dwelling house, 3) Construction of two storey dwelling house, 4) Proposed new entrance, 5) Demolition of existing shed, 6) Construction of a new shed, 7) Installation of a wastewater treatment unit, 8) All associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1826
18 Jun 2026Invalid - case closed
Permission for:-1) Partial demolition of existing dwelling house, 2) Alterations to existing elevations and internal alterations to existing dwelling house, 3) Construction of two storey dwelling house, 4) Proposed new entrance, 5) Demolition of existing shed, 6) Construction of a new shed, 7) Installation of a wastewater treatment unit, 8) All associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1621
12 Jun 2026Awaiting f.i. response
a) Construction of a new agricultural entrance. b) Construction of an agricultural building consisting of livestock housing and an integrated loft area for the storage of fodder/ bedding. c) Construction of livestock handling facilities d) Construction of an underground effluent storage tank and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1565
11 Jun 2026Application withdrawn
1) Permission for Partial Demolition of Existing Dwelling house, 2) Alterations to existing elevations and internal alterations to existing dwelling house, 3) Construction of two storey dwelling house, 4) Proposed new entrance, 5) Demolition of existing shed, 6) Construction of a new shed, 7) Installation of a wastewater treatment unit and 8) all associated site works at Farnahoe, Innishannon, Co. Cork.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1552
22 May 2026Invalid - case closed
Permission for:- 1) Partial demolition of existing dwelling house, 2) Alterations to existing elevations and internal alterations to existing dwelling house, 3) Construction of two storey dwelling house, 4) Proposed new entrance, 5) Demolition of existing shed, 6) Construction of a new shed, 7) Installation of a wastewater treatment unit, 8) All associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1360
30 Apr 2026Unconditional permission
Permission for works to comprise the construction of a single-storey extension to the north elevation of the existing dwelling and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1127
28 Apr 2026Invalid - case closed
Permission for :- 1) Partial demolition of existing dwelling house. 2) Alterations to existing elevations and internal alterations to existing dwelling house. 3) Construction of two storey dwelling house and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1081
4 Feb 2026Grant with conditions
Permission for the construction of a two-storey dwelling house, detached garage with home office/study to first floor of same, wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0233
30 Dec 2025Invalid - case closed
Permission for the construction of a two-storey dwellinghouse, detached garage with home office/study to first floor of same, wastewater treatment system and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6988
19 Dec 2025Application withdrawn
Permission for the construction of a two-storey dwellinghouse, detached garage with home office/study to first floor of same, wastewater system and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6907
27 Nov 2025Grant with conditions
Permission for the construction of a dwelling house and domestic garage and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6605
3 Sept 2025Grant with conditions
Permission to construct dwelling and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5781
3 Sept 2025Grant with conditions
Permission for retention of sunroom extension to dwelling and an extended detached domestic garage. Permission to change boundaries of site from those granted in Planning Ref. No. 97/1599 and to construct a new vehicular entrance to the existing dwelling (the existing vehicular entrance is proposed to be used for a new dwelling under a separate planning application) and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5780
26 Mar 2025Conditional permission
Permission to demolish existing old cattle house, permission to construct a replacement cattle house and carry out all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4523
24 Feb 2025Unconditional
Permission for the construction of vehicular entrance serving existing dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4287
17 Feb 2025Application withdrawn
Permission for the extension and subdivision of the existing dwelling to provide 2 no. dwellings on site and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4229
31 Jan 2025Incompleted application
Permission for the subdivision of the existing dwelling and a proposed annex extension to the existing dwelling and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4107
15 Sept 2023Conditional
The development will consist of works to existing dwelling to comprise partial demolition, construction of part single storey extension, part two-storey extension, modifications to said dwelling, a wastewater treatment system and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5867
21 Jul 2023Incompleted application
Construction of a two-storey extension to the existing dwelling, modifications to said dwelling, a wastewater treatment system and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5492
14 Jul 2023Refused
Permission for the construction of a four-storey dwelling house with garage, waste water treatment system and all ancillary utilities, services, roadways and site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5448
9 Jun 2023Incompleted application
The construction of a two-storey over ground and lower ground floor dwelling house with detached garage, wastewater treatment system and all ancillary utilities, services, roadways and site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5180
4 May 2023Conditional
Modifications and storey & a half extension to rear of existing single storey dwelling and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4877
9 Nov 2022Conditional
Permission to modify and extend existing dwelling to include conversion of first floor attic space and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6496
21 Dec 2021Refused
To demolish existing machinery storage building and to construct non-domestic and non-agricultural building for use as a general machinery and storage building and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/7433
3 Nov 2021Incompleted application
To demolish existing machinery storage building and to construct building for use as a general machinery and storage building and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6974
The 25 most recent of 52 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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bandon Valley Above Inishannon 001740
Recorded monuments
- CO097-054005 Bridge
Description
At E end of Inishannon village; road bridge (Wth 15.2m) over tributary to Bandon river. Two low segmental arches with roughly cut voussoirs; pointed breakwater. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO097-056 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on S-facing slope. Circular area (30.5m N-S; 30.15m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.8m) with external fosse (D 0.2m). Breaks in bank to E (Wth 2m) and SW (Wth 2.6m). Fosse filled with farm waste and field clearance material. Farm building beside fort to W. Field clearance material dumped in interior; ESB pole in centre. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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
- Sign post, 1930–1950 · Regional interest
Description
Cast-iron road sign, erected c.1940, comprising rectangular sign having rounded corners with raised text and harp motif. Mounted on circular-profile pole, located at road junction.
- Inishannon House, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c.1810, with Doric entrance portico. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and wide eaves. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings with limestone sills and one-over-one timber sliding sash windows, having recent exterior shutter additions. Round-headed door opening having Doric doorcase and timber panelled door with fanlight above. Rubble stone gate piers and boundary walls having pair of wrought-iron gates. Ranges of single- and two-storey rubble stone outbuildings to north.
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 10 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 Rathnaruogy.
- 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 Rathnaruogy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Rathnaruogy · Ráth na Ruaige
- Area
- 1,709,721 m² (170.97 ha, 422.48 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inishannon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kinalea
- Electoral division
- Inishannon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Inishannon electoral division: 2,094 people in 721 households; 81% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolmoreen, Farnahoe, Killaminoge, Knockmullane
- Placenames
- Rathnaruogy 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.