Renny Lower

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Renny Lower, from 265 m² to 3,794 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Renny Lower 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.

• 15 Feb 2007Conditional

  Construction of out wintering pad, lagoon, dairy washings lagoon, calf house, extension to existing holding yard, silage slab with concrete apron and ancillary concrete works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5082

• 2 Sept 2003Conditional

  Tunnel underpass for livestock

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/4397

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Blackwater Valley (Kilcummer) 001794

Recorded monuments

• CO034-030 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  On cliff-edge, overlooking Blackwater River valley to S. All that now stands is section of W wall (L 5.42m; H 4m), with short (L c. 0.4m) return of N wall. Double-splayed lintelled window at S end of W wall. According to Smith (1750, vol. 1, 343), a Fitzgerald castle. Subsequently in possession of Edmund Spenser of Kilcolman and his descendants (Healy 1988, 430). 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

• CO034-031001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on SW-facing slope, c. 250m NE of River Blackwater. Depicted on 1935 OS 6-inch map as hachured penannular enclosure SW->E. Levelled; roughly circular area (30m E-W; 28m N-S) enclosed by low grass-covered rise (H 0.3m) S->SSE. Break (Wth 12m) to SSE may be remains of entrance. Enclosure (CO034-03102-) lies 30m to E in adjoining field. 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

• CO034-031002 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In tillage, on gentle SE-facing slope. Circular area (16m E-W) enclosed by wide, shallow fosse (Wth 15m; D 0.5m) with external bank (H 0.3m). Gap to S and WSW, latter possibly ancient. Regularly ploughed. 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 Renny Lower.

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 Renny Lower, 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 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 Renny Lower.

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

Name

Renny Lower · Rinnigh Íochtarach

Area

709,481 m² (70.95 ha, 175.32 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcummer, and its townlands

Barony

Fermoy

Electoral division

Kilcummer, the unit of the census

Census 2022

283 people lived in 103 households in the Kilcummer electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydague, Castleblagh, Conva, Kilcummer Lower, Kylenahoory, Renny Upper

Placenames

Renny Lower 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.