Ryefield West
Ryefield West is a townland in the civil parish of Whitechurch, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Gort an tSeagail Thiar.
- Area
- 66.2 ha
- 164 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 1,671 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ryefield West, from 255 m² to 378,751 m² (37.88 ha, 93.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 West 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
12 Feb 2024Conditional
Permission for the demolition of the existing rear extension and permission for the construction of a single storey extension to the rear, permission for internal alterations and alterations to elevations of the existing dwelling house and permission for construction of detached domestic garage and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4217
15 Jan 2024Incompleted application
Permission for the demolition of the existing rear extension and permission for the construction of a single storey extension to the rear, permission for alterations to the existing front and side elevations and permission for the construction of a detached garage and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4040
8 Jan 2021Unconditional
Construction of dwellinghouse - Extension of duration of permission granted under Planning Reference: 15/6409.
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 21/4014
11 Nov 2020Incompleted application
Construction of dwellinghouse - Extension of duration of permission granted under Planning Reference: 15/6409.
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 20/6478
7 Oct 2020Incompleted application
Construction of dwellinghouse - Extension of duration of permission granted under Planning Reference: 15/6409.
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 20/6177
28 Oct 2015Conditional
Construction of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6409
1 Jun 2011Conditional
Construction of a domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5185
29 Apr 2011Incompleted application
Construction of a domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/4936
29 Jun 2007Withdrawn
Demolish existing shed and Construction of a slatted beef unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9137
23 Jun 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse with integral garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8340
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 West.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ryefield West.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ryefield West.
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 West, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ryefield West.
- 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 West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ryefield West · Gort an tSeagail Thiar
- Area
- 662,428 m² (66.24 ha, 163.69 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
- Farranastig, Knockanroe, Longstone, Ryefield East, Whitechurch
- Placenames
- Ryefield West 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.