Scrahanagown
Townland in the civil parish of Ballyvourney, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork; in Irish Screathan na nGabhann
- Area
- 169.2 ha
- 418 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 56,054 m² (5.61 ha, 13.85 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Scrahanagown, from 652 m² to 337,908 m² (33.79 ha, 83.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Scrahanagown 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
22 Aug 2025Conditional permission
Permission for the demolition of 5 no. agricultural buildings and permission for the construction of the following: a) Agricultural building to include livestock housing, milking parlour and associated facilities along with slatted slurry storage tanks and parlour washings/soiled water tank, b) 2 no. silage slabs and apron, c) installation of meal bin and water storage tank, along with associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5684
17 Sept 2021Conditional
Permission for the retention of existing as built residential unit.
Retention · Cork County Council, 21/6559
24 Oct 2019Conditional
Reclamation of land for agricultural use by filling low lying area with imported fill.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6555
3 Nov 2016Conditional
To alter condition no. 2 of previous planning ref 15/5991 from “the maximum number of loads delivered to the site each day shall be 4 loads” to a maximum of 11 loads per day.
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6754
4 Sept 2015Conditional
Reclamation of land for agricultural use by filling low lying area with imported fill
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5991
31 Dec 2014Conditional
Change of use of disused school building to dwellinghouse and installation of domestic waste water treatment unit and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/6835
8 Oct 2014Unconditional
Dwellinghouse, garage and septic tank, extension of duration to permission granted under Planning Ref. no. 09/4190
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 14/6165
26 Jan 2009Conditional
Dwellinghouse, garage and septic tank
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 09/4190
17 Jun 2008Conditional
Construction of a storey and a half dwelling, proprietary wastewater treatment system and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7318
9 May 2008Conditional
Tigh conaithe a thogail le oibreacha cuideachta laithrean
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6622
22 Oct 2007Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse and installation of proprietary waste water treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11842
4 May 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/2955
11 Apr 2005Conditional
Agricultural building and associated slurry tank for wintering cattle
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2259
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 Scrahanagown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Scrahanagown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Scrahanagown.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, 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 Scrahanagown.
- 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 Scrahanagown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Scrahanagown · Screathan na nGabhann
- Area
- 1,692,415 m² (169.24 ha, 418.2 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyvourney, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Electoral division
- Gortnatubbrid, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Gortnatubbrid electoral division: 474 people in 173 households; 79% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bardinch, Coumaclovane, Lumnagh More, Reanabobul
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Scrahanagown 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.