Renny Upper
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcummer, barony of Fermoy, Co. Cork; in Irish Rinnigh Uachtarach
- Area
- 147.5 ha
- 364 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 2,089 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Renny Upper, from 254 m² to 5,075 m² (0.51 ha, 1.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Renny Upper 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
4 Apr 2023Conditional
Permission to construct a new dwelling house and detached domestic garage.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4646
18 Oct 2022Conditional
To construct a dwelling house and garage with related site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6341
1 Mar 2022Withdrawn
Permission to construct a new dwelling house and detached domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4433
14 Aug 2019Conditional
To demolish existing dwelling, removal of existing septic tank and road entrance and to construct a new dwelling, domestic garage, site entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6031
29 Sept 2016Conditional
Construction of a Solar PV Energy development within a total site area of up to 21.9hA, to include one single storey electrical substation building, electrical transformer/inverter station modules, solar PV panels ground mounted on steel support structures, access roads, fencing and associated electrical cabling, ducting and ancillary infrastructure
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6410
16 Sept 2016Incompleted application
Construction of a Solar PV Energy development within a total site area of up to 21.9 HA, to include one single storey electrical substation building, electrical transformer/inverter station modules, solar PV panels ground mounted on steel support structures, access roads, fencing and associated electrical cabling, ducting and ancillary infrastructure
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6300
22 Feb 2007Conditional
Construction of easy feed passage, round tower slurry store, dungstead, silage slab and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5327
25 Aug 2006Withdrawn
Single storey dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/10046
14 Dec 2005Refused
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/9264
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.
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 Renny Upper.
Recorded monuments
- CO026-155 Earthwork
Description
In level pasture. According to local information, when field ploughed circle (diam. c. 100ft) visible. Low rise evident in area of site (c. 20m N-S; c. 16m E-W; H 0.3m). 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
- CO034-032 Ringfort - rath
Description
In tillage, on level ground, below slight E-facing slope. Circular area (30m N-S; 30m E-W) enclosed by heavily overgrown earthen bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 1.2m). Field ploughed up to base of bank. Interior covered in thorns and briars. 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
- CO034-076001 Field system
Description
Pattern of rectilinear cropmarks, some perpendicular to each other, visible in aerial photographs (CASAP, July 1989). Cropmarks indicate relict field system covering area of c. 30ha. The large field in which most of the cropmarks occur is shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map and was probably associated with Renny estate. Possible circular enclosure (CO034-07602-) and fulacht fiadh (CO034-07603-) within field system. Disused Mallow to Fermoy railway line also noted as cropmark traversing field system. 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
- CO034-076002 Enclosure
Description
Within field system (12022). Cropmark of arc of fosse roughly NE->W visible in aerial photograph (CASAP, July 1989). 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
- CO034-076003 Fulacht fia
Description
In tillage. Irregular spread of burnt material (23m N-S; 25m E-W). Within field system (12022). 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 Upper.
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 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 Renny Upper.
- 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 Renny Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Renny Upper · Rinnigh Uachtarach
- Area
- 1,474,964 m² (147.5 ha, 364.47 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcummer, and its townlands
- Barony
- Fermoy
- Electoral division
- Kilcummer, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilcummer electoral division: 283 people in 103 households; 82% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Conva, Kilcummer Lower, Kilcummer Upper, Renny Lower
- Placenames
- Renny Upper 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.