Sandyhill
Sandyhill is a townland in the civil parish of Dungourney, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Cnoc na Gainimhe.
- Area
- 131.7 ha
- 325 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 1,073 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sandyhill, from 71 m² to 220,188 m² (22.02 ha, 54.41 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
26 Apr 2010Conditional
Demolition of existing loose house and constuction of new shed incorporating a slatted tank, straw bedded area and feed passage and associated concrete works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4993
31 Mar 2010Incompleted application
Construction of a new shed incorporating a slatted tank, straw bedded area & feed passage & associated concrete works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4731
25 Aug 2008Conditional
Loose house & feed passage, and concrete works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/8547
27 Jun 2008Incompleted application
Construction of loose house and feed passage and associated concrete works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7530
2 Jan 2007Conditional
Construction of animal house incorpoarting slatted tank, cubicles, feed passage, straw bedded area and ancillary concrete works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4011
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
- CO065-037 Cairn - unclassified
Description
In pasture, atop Slievecorran. Circular cairn (26m N-S; 25m E-W; H c. 1.5m) with trigonometrical station in centre; now diminished in size. 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
- CO065-038 Standing stone
Description
In pasture on E-facing slope. 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Sandyhill.
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 na Gainimhe
- Area
- 1,316,730 m² (131.67 ha, 325.37 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dungourney, and its townlands
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Electoral division
- Ballyspillane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 355 people lived in 122 households in the Ballyspillane electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynagaul, Ballynona North, Cottstown, Glenathonacash, Glenbeg, Knockanemore, Walshtown More East
- 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.