Scrahan
Townland in the civil parish of Nohavaldaly, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork; in Irish An Screathan
- Area
- 122.3 ha
- 302 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 9,670 m² (0.97 ha, 2.39 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 17
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Scrahan, from 1,044 m² to 191,547 m² (19.15 ha, 47.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Scrahan 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
Full planning permission to construct a new dwelling house with detached garage, new site entrance, domestic wastewater system and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6889
19 May 2022Conditional
To construct a public footpath, roadside boundaries, pedestrian crossing & all associated service & site works (From Knocknagree GAA pitch entrance to the village)
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5164
11 Sept 2020Conditional
(A) To renovate existing club rooms to include a referee’s room, wheelchair accessible toilet and new metal roof covering. (B) To construct an extension onto existing club rooms consisting of a new gymnasium, meeting room, dressing rooms, kitchenette, treatment room and male and female toilet facilities. (C) To remove existing septic tank and permission to install a new treatment unit and polishing filter unit and all site development works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5980
29 May 2017Conditional
To construct a new dwelling house (change of house plan from that previously granted under planning ref: 16/7243)
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5318
21 Dec 2016Conditional
To demolish an existing dwellinghouse and out buildings and to construct a dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/7243
26 Feb 2014Conditional
(a) Construction of extension to existing dwelling house, and (b) construction of wing walls and gates to existing entrance and all site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4376
7 Sept 2012Conditional
1) Construct dwellinghouse with treatment unit and percolation area & 2) Refurbish existing outhouse as domestic garage with changes to the elevation of the existing building
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5921
7 Jul 2010Conditional
chun (1) na seid ata ann faoi lathair a leagan (2) meadu a dheanamhh ar tosach, ar cul agus ar da thaobh an ti ata ann faoi lathair agus (3) dabhalach mhunlaigh a aistriu on ait ina bhfuil se go h-ait eile agus siothucheapach ardaithe a thogail(demolition of existing sheds, construction of extension to front, rear & both sides of existing dwelling, relocation of existing septic tank, and construction of a raised percolation area).
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5674
30 Jul 2008Withdrawn
Extension to dwellinghouse and retention of installation of septic tank and percolation area
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/8181
18 Sept 2006Conditional
Retention of attic conversion to living accommodation and flat roofed dormer extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10686
31 Aug 2006Incompleted application
Retention of conversion of attic to habitable living space and construction of flat roofed dormer windows to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10191
27 Apr 2006Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6705
15 Nov 2005Conditional
Construction of domestic garage/store
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8406
28 Jan 2005Conditional
Floodlighting on 3 no. football pitches
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/389
11 Nov 2004Refused
Dwelling House and waste water treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8347
4 Oct 2004Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/7501
17 Dec 2003Conditional
Construction of a 38kv line from an existing ESB structure in the townland of Nohoval Upper to a proposed 38kv station in the townland of Lackanastooka and construction of a 38kv line from a point crossing the Blackwater river in the townland of Scrahan to a proposed 38kv station in the townland of Lackanastooka
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/6522
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
Recorded monuments
- CO029-023 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture. Grass-covered spread of burnt material. According to local information, horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt material, with opening facing well to W, was levelled c. 1982. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 654). The 1938 OS 6-inch map shows well to N of site. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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 Scrahan.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Scrahan.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Scrahan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Scrahan · An Screathan
- Area
- 1,223,207 m² (122.32 ha, 302.26 acres)
- Civil parish
- Nohavaldaly, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Electoral division
- Knocknagree, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Knocknagree electoral division: 610 people in 257 households; 84% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Farrankeal, Knockyhena, Lisheen (Co. Kerry), Shanbally
- Placenames
- Scrahan 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.