Sandyhill
Sandyhill is a townland in the civil parish of Mogeely, barony of Kinatalloon, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Cnoc an Ghainimh.
- Area
- 115.8 ha
- 286 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 16,306 m² (1.63 ha, 4.03 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sandyhill, from 606 m² to 237,666 m² (23.77 ha, 58.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Sandyhill 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
19 Dec 2025Grant with conditions
Planning permission for construction of a slatted unit and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6894
21 Mar 2023Conditional permission
Planning permission to erect a single storey dwellinghouse and a domestic garage with secondary wastewater treatment unit and tertiary filter, site entrance and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4496
24 Feb 2023Incompleted application
Planning permission to erect a single storey dwellinghouse and a domestic garage with secondary wastewater treatment unit and tertiary filter, site entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4315
30 Jul 2019Conditional
Construction of a dwelling, garage, septic tank, percolation area, well and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5914
30 Jun 2009Conditional
Construction of dwellinghouse and detached domestic garage, installation of septic tank and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6156
1 Feb 2008Conditional
Dwellinghouse, detached garage and installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4501
18 Aug 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9880
5 Apr 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2101
9 Feb 2005Withdrawn
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/663
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 Sandyhill.
Recorded monuments
- CO055-011 Designed landscape - tree-ring
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- CO055-055 Designed landscape - tree-ring
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
- Sandyhill House, country house, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Detached country house, built c. 1860. Outbuildings to site. Rendered rubble stone walls to entrance with two pairs of rendered circular-profile piers, having rendered caps and double-leaf wrought-iron gates. Identical piers to opposite side of road.
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 Sandyhill, 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 Sandyhill.
- 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 Sandyhill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Sandyhill · Cnoc an Ghainimh
- Area
- 1,157,618 m² (115.76 ha, 286.05 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mogeely, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kinatalloon
- Electoral division
- Kilcronat, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 212 people lived in 69 households in the Kilcronat electoral division. 97% of households owned their home. 51% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyanthony, Glenacroghery, Monaloo, Reanduff, Rearour North, Rearour South
- Placenames
- Sandyhill 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.