Ryefield East
Ryefield East is a townland in the civil parish of Whitechurch, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Gort an tSeagail Thoir.
- Area
- 140.2 ha
- 346 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 2,802 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ryefield East, from 14 m² to 339,328 m² (33.93 ha, 83.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Ryefield East 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
8 Oct 2024Unconditional
1) Construction of a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and associated works, and 2) Construction of an agricultural site entrance. Extension of Duration to permission granted under Planning Ref. No. 19/4997.
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 24/5886
24 May 2019Conditional
Retention and completion of dwelling, change of plan from that permitted under Pl. Reg. No. 17/7297 (two storey dwellinghouse to single storey dwellinghouse), detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Retention · Cork County Council, 19/5333
23 Apr 2019Conditional
1) Construction of a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and associated works, and 2) Construction of an agricultural site entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4997
15 Dec 2017Conditional
Construction of a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/7297
22 Aug 2016Conditional
Construction of a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, improvements to existing road entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6108
31 Mar 2016Refused
Construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage and all ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4726
21 Oct 2011Conditional
Alteration to levels and retention permission for the use of already imported soil and stone to improve the land
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/6268
6 Oct 2011Incompleted application
Permission to alter levels and retention permission for the use of already imported soil & stone to improve the land
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/6138
3 Apr 2008Conditional
Extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5816
18 Jan 2008Conditional
Alterations and single storey extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4211
5 Dec 2007Conditional
Construction of milking parlour and dairy, cow collecting yard, cattle pens with drafting area and access passage, cubicle house with double slatted tank and central feed passage, open silo and calf shed with internal pens and access passage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12863
21 Mar 2007Conditional
Construction of extension to milking parlour, dirty water/parlour washings tank, extension to existing cubicle house, construction of new cubicle house with slatted tank and feed passage, 3 no. open silos with effluent tank and dungstead
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6278
3 Oct 2006Conditional
Attic conversion aond installation of velux windows to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11141
21 Sept 2006Conditional
Demolition of derelict dwelling and construction of silage base, machinery/hay shed and slatted shed and retention of dry store
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10786
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 Ryefield East.
Recorded monuments
- CO052-019 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on NE-facing slope. Hachured as circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1842 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
- CO052-020 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Description
Situated on gently sloping arable land, in undulating country, c. 300m SE of Cloghnagashee river. Tomb is very ruined. Large roofstone (L 3.9m; Wth over 2.2m) rests above a number of fallen slabs. Single orthostat to S may be sidestone; second leaning orthostat to W may be facade stone. Structure incorporated in a low mound. Despite its ruinous condition the monument maybe interpreted as a wedge-tomb with a gallery orientated roughly W-E. (deValera and O Nualláin 1982, 9, No. 11). 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 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume IV. Counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1982)
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ryefield East.
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 Ryefield East, 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 low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ryefield East.
- 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 Ryefield East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ryefield East · Gort an tSeagail Thoir
- Area
- 1,401,548 m² (140.15 ha, 346.33 acres)
- Civil parish
- Whitechurch, and its townlands
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Electoral division
- Carrignavar, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,325 people lived in 426 households in the Carrignavar electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycaskin, Boherard, Dromboy South, Gormlee, Knockanroe, Ryefield West, Whitechurch
- Placenames
- Ryefield East 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.