Rowgarrane
Rowgarrane is a townland in the civil parish of Caherlag, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Ruagharrán.
- Area
- 97.3 ha
- 241 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 2,748 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 49
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rowgarrane, from 7 m² to 223,084 m² (22.31 ha, 55.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Rowgarrane 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
13 Jul 2026Awaiting f.i. response
Proposed new dwelling house, waste water treatment system, new site entrance and all associated site works at Rowgarrane, Glanmire.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1870
3 Dec 2024Conditional
The development will consist of the replacement of approx. 359m of existing 2.4m high chain link fencing and associated gates with approx. 359m of new 2.4m high green palisade security fencing/gates, 1 no. 8m CCTV pole and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6300
22 Jul 2024Conditional permission
Permission for the following; a) demolition of existing unroofed slurry tank, b) construction of 1 no. agricultural building to include slatted livestock housing along with associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5376
18 Oct 2022Conditional permission
Permission for the construction of 1 no. silage pit & 2 no. aprons along with associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6328
18 Aug 2021Conditional
The construction of a detached dwelling house and associated detached garage and detached storage shed, a new site entrance and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6286
30 Jul 2021Conditional
To erect a 2 storey dwelling house, an on-site sewage treatment system and all associated site development works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6117
28 Sept 2020Conditional
Retention of the existing single-storey porch extension to the east, retention of the subdivision of the existing dwelling to form a granny flat including minor alterations to external windows and also for permission to construct a new single storey extension to the west, including all associated site works, all to existing dwelling.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6111
11 Jun 2020Conditional
To install a new 4m x 4m x 2.5m high prefabricated instrumentation kiosk to replace the existing kiosk, including new concrete base, all ancillary services and associated site works within the existing GNI compound at Caherlag AGI (Above Ground Installation).
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5186
5 May 2020Incompleted application
To install a new 3.6m x 3.6m x 3m high prefabricated instrumentation kiosk to replace the existing kiosk, including new concrete base, all ancillary services and associated site works within the existing GNI compound at Caherlag AGI (Above Ground Installation).
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4895
20 Mar 2020Conditional
Retention of layout and elevational changes to an existing permitted dwelling house (Planning Reference 871/73) and all associated site works.
Retention · Cork County Council, 20/4578
27 Feb 2020Conditional
Demolish existing cottage, construct a two storey dwelling, domestic garage, new vehicular entrance and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4408
9 Aug 2019Conditional
Construction of a 2-storey dwellinghouse, a domestic garage, an on-site sewage treatment system, and all associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6004
29 Jan 2019Conditional
To retain domestic garage and domestic store
Retention · Cork County Council, 19/4178
15 Nov 2018Conditional
Works to existing dwelling house including 1) construction of a granny flat extension 2) raising of existing roof and construction of first floor dormer style extension 3) alterations to existing elevations 4) installation of new waste water treatment system 5) alterations to existing site entrance and raising of front boundary walls and all associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/7003
19 Jul 2018Conditional
Construction of a new detached dwelling, detached garage, new entrance form public road, access road, septic tank and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5903
25 Jun 2018Incompleted application
Construction of a detached dwelling, detached garage, new entrance from public road, access road, septic tank and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5630
25 May 2018Conditional
A single storey dwellinghouse, (Bungalow), Bio-treatment unit, modification of existing vehicular entrance and associated siteworks.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5371
9 Mar 2017Conditional
a) Demolition of the following agricultural buildings: (i) Storage building, (ii) Straw bedded livestock housing and meal store. b) Construction of agricultural building for straw bedded livestock housing along with associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4565
29 Apr 2016Conditional
Demolition of existing cottage, construct one and a half storey dwelling, domestic garage, new vehicular entrance and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/5010
29 Mar 2016Conditional
Construction of detached dwelling, detached garage, new entrance from public road, access road, waste water treatment plant and polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4694
17 Dec 2015Refused
Construction of a detached dwelling, detached garage, new entrance to site, new entrance from public road, access road, waste water treatment plant and polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6876
1 Dec 2015Incompleted application
Construction of a new detached dwelling, detached garage, new site entrance, access road, waste water treatment plant and polishing filter and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6714
10 Feb 2015Conditional
Construction of single storey extension to side of existing dwelling house consisting of kitchen/dining area and relocation of entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4229
12 Jan 2015Conditional
Single storey rear extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4035
19 May 2014Unconditional
Dwellinghouse, domestic garage and waste water treatment system - Extension of duration to permission granted under Planning Ref. No. 09/5890
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 14/5028
The 25 most recent of 49 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 Rowgarrane.
Recorded monuments
- CO075-004 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on S-facing slope. Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m). Levelled; no vislble surface trace. 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
- CO075-007 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on gentle N-facing slope. Hachured as circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as curved field fence on later eds OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace. 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
- CO075-008 Enclosure
Description
In pasture, on SE-facing slope. Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m). Levelled; no visible surface trace. Two ringforts (CO075-009---; CO-75-010---) c. 120m and c. 260m to S, respectively. 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rowgarrane.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Rowgarrane, 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 Rowgarrane.
- 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 Rowgarrane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Rowgarrane · Ruagharrán
- Area
- 973,479 m² (97.35 ha, 240.55 acres)
- Civil parish
- Caherlag, and its townlands
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Electoral division
- Caherlag, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 3,626 people lived in 1,264 households in the Caherlag electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinglanna, Ballyhennick, Ballynagarbragh, Ballynaroon, Corbally South, Kilcoolishal
- Placenames
- Rowgarrane 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.