Seafield

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Seafield, from 13 m² to 135,179 m² (13.52 ha, 33.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 13 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Existing residential)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 13 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Green Infrastructure (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C6Business and General Employment (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M5Special Policy Area (Other mix of uses)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town Centre/Neighbourhood Centres (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 17 Apr 2026Grant with conditions

  Permission for construction of extension to existing industrial unit and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0982

• 10 Dec 2025Application withdrawn

  Full Planning Permission for the installation of 4 no. modular, portable Padel tennis courts, complete with artificial grass surface, 4m high fencing around sections of the Padel courts perimeter and 6m high integrated LED lighting and all other ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6747

• 17 Oct 2024Conditional

  Construction of a creche and ancillary store and all ancillary site works including signage, bin store, bicycle parking, and car parking and vehicle set-down

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/562

• 23 Apr 2024Conditional

  Construction of 2 no. semi-detached dwelling houses and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/193

• 2 Jun 2023Conditional

  Construction of dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/297

• 21 May 2021Conditional

  Construction of 2 no. detached dwelling houses and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/332

• 10 Jul 2019Conditional

  Permission for retention of (a) change of use of land to motorhome parking; (b) retention of 3 no. signs, (c) retention of 2 no. dwellings for short term / holiday letting as constructed and (d) retention of amalgamation of 2 no. cottages for short term/holiday let into one

  Retention · Cork County Council, 19/468

• 15 May 2019Incompleted application

  Permission for retention of (a) change of use of land to motorhome parking, (b) retention of 3 no. signs, (c) retention of 2 no. dwellings for short term/holiday letting as constructed and (d) retention of amalgamation of 2 no. cottages for short term / holiday let into one

  Retention · Cork County Council, 19/327

• 5 Apr 2019Incompleted application

  Permission for retention of (a) change of use of land to motorhome parking, (b) retention of signage, (c) retention of 2 no. dwellings for short term/holiday letting as constructed & (d) retention of amalgamation of 2 no. cottages for short term/holiday let into one

  Retention · Cork County Council, 19/225

• 9 Apr 2018Conditional

  Permission for retention of changes to the permitted development of Inner Bantry Harbour Development, Planning Ref. 12/00735 consisting of retention permission of a binstore, toilet block, the installation of a waste water treatment system on the reclaimed quayside along with UV treatment units and sand filter bed. This application also seeks retention of the realignment of the permitted widening of the Town Pier

  Retention · Cork County Council, 18/193

• 9 Mar 2018Incompleted application

  Changes to the permitted development of Inner Bantry Harbour Development, planning ref 12/00735 consisting of retention permission of a binstore, toilet block, the installation of a waste water treatment system on the reclaimed quayside along with UV treatment units and sand filter bed. This application also seeks retention of the realignment of the permitted widening of the Town Pier

  Retention · Cork County Council, 18/123

• 30 Nov 2017Conditional

  Permission is sought for construction of 2 no. semi-detached houses and 1 no. detached house and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/757

• 2 Aug 2017Withdrawn

  Changes to the permitted development of Inner Bantry Harbour Development, Planning Ref 12/00735 consisting of permission for the installation of a waste water treatment system on the reclaimed quayside along with UV treatment units and sand filter beds. This development is being undertaken in a phased basis. Phase 1 consists of the constructing the permitted widening the Town Pier, dredging a portion of the overall permitted dredge area, installing a portion of the permitted marina pontoon structures, constuction of the permitted quayside reclaimation and construction of the permitted amenity area

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/503

• 7 Dec 2016Conditional

  Permission for the installation of 3 no. information and descriptive signage and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/752

• 3 Nov 2016Incompleted application

  Permission for the installation of 3 no. information and descriptive signage and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/673

• 17 Oct 2016Conditional

  This application pertains to proposed changes to the permitted development of Inner Bantry Harbour Development, Planning Ref 12/00735. This development is being undertaken in a phased basis. Phase 1 consists of the constructing the permitted widening the Town Pier, dredging a portion of the overall permitted dredge area, installing a portion of the permitted marina pontoon structures, construction of the permitted quayside reclamation and construction of the permitted amenity area. It is proposed to install a Floating breakwater in the location of the permitted fixed rubble mound breakwater. This breakwater is moored using block and chain anchoring so it can be moved to allow for the construction of the fixed breakwater in a future phase of the development. It is proposed to re align the previously permitted marina pontoon structure adjacent to the Quayside reclamation. The re aligned section will be moored using block and chain anchoring allowing for future re alignment when Phase 2 of the Bantry inner harbour project. It is proposed to alter the alignment of the proposed Town pier extension at the head of the pier. The proposed realignment is within the permitted outline of the pier widening. It is also proposed to extend site working hours by two hours during weekdays from 8am to 8pm.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/640

• 24 Jan 2014Conditional

  Construction of extension to dwelling house, construction of detached domestic garage and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/47

• 11 Oct 2013Conditional

  To Install 4 no. pole mounted closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras at 3 no. locations

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/577

• 3 Dec 2012Conditional

  Permission for the development of a 230 berth marina within Bantry Inner Harbour along with enabling works, required at associated neighbouring sites. The works associated with this scheme include: Within Bantry Inner Harbour • Dredging of harbour sediments to provide navigable water depths • Temporary treatment area for contaminated dredge material • Treatment and re-use of contaminated dredged material as fill material for reclamation • Land reclamation at Railway Pier, adjacent to Town Pier and adjacent to Wolfe Tone Square • Widening of Town Pier and Extension to Pier Head • Breakwater and Open Pile Quay construction • Improvement works to quay wall along Fishing Docks and in front of Maritime Hotel • Revetment construction along northern embankment of Inner Harbour • Carparking and landscaped amenity area • Associated street and pier lighting • Provision of pontoons and marina infrastructure. Cove and Beicin Strand • Placement of approx 79,500m3 of uncontaminated dredged material at Cove and approx 2,000m3 along Beicin Strand as part of a beach renourishment scheme. • The construction of two beach retention groynes at the entrance to Cove to retain placed dredged material. Abbey • Dredging of approx 25,000m3 of contaminated material from outer harbour approaches • Treatment of material and reuse as fill material for the extension of the existing hardstanding area westwards • Sides of reclaimed area to be protected by sloping rock armour revetments. • Extended hardstanding area to be used for boat storage • Associated lighting

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/735

• 19 Nov 2012Incompleted application

  See Part 9 of application form

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/708

• 8 Aug 2012Conditional

  (a) Retention of dwellinghouse for permanent use and temporary and short term use (b) retention of revised site boundaries from those which were previously granted under planning ref: W/99/0984

  Retention · Cork County Council, 12/510

• 20 Sept 2011Withdrawn

  Proposed 1,759 m² extension to the basement car park permitted under planning reg no: 04/9336 and modified by planning reg no: 05/5550: the proposed extension to the permitted basement will require the demolition of the existing quay wall, the reorganisation of part of the permitted basement layout and the relocation of the previously permitted access ramp

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 11/576

• 14 Jul 2011Conditional

  Raise the pier deck level, raise the roof and floor levels of the public toilet block and waiting building, extend staircases, replace and refurbish ladders, bollards, toe rails and associated infrastructure

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/431

• 25 Feb 2011Conditional

  Installation of a floating steel pontoon, access gangway, fixed access ramp and platform and associated infrastructure

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/116

• 22 Oct 2010Conditional

  Construction of detached domestic storage building and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/716

The 25 most recent of 62 applications.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Seafield.

Recorded monuments

• CO118-032 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on SW shoulder of NE-SW ridge. Visible as shadow site from air (aerial photograph; Dr. D.D.C. Mould). Roughly circular area (diam. c. 40m) defined by slight rise (H 0.35m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO118-075 Country house
  Description

  18th century house overlooking Bantry Bay; 5-bay, 3-storey. Enlarged and remodelled in early 19th century with addition of balustrading, pilasters and brick detail. 19th century glazed corinthian entrance on both garden and entrance front. Pedimented stable to SE with cupola. Lodge to N with central archway. (Bence-Jones 1978, 30-31). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO118-095 Settlement cluster
  Description

  Research excavations were carried out in 2001 in an area directly W of the 18th-century Bantry House (CO118-075---) at the site of a deserted Gaelic medieval village and a 17th-century English settlement. Geophysical and topographic surveys had confirmed that earthworks in the area were cultural in character and a magnetic survey located at least two house sites as well as a number of boundary features. Excavations revealed the foundations of the gable end of a mid-17th-century house. This was in turn overlain by a more substantial and better-built rectangular structure, interpreted as a timber-built English administrative building. A palisade trench, dug late in the 16th or early in the 17th century, immediately pre-dated this building. According to the excavator, this had presumably provided a stockade around the early plantation settlement (Breen 2003a, 31). Sixteenth-century cultivation ridges were also uncovered. These had cut the foundations of a 15th/16th-century Gaelic domestic structure. The excavator noted that the area appears to have been abandoned in the middle of the 17th century and all available cartographic and documentary evidence indicated that no further subsequent building or landscaping had taken place (ibid.). (Breen 2003a, 31) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Architectural heritage

• Bantry House, stables, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached square-plan former stable block, built c.1845, comprising five-bay two-storey entrance block (north-west) with integrated carriage arch to central bay, giving access to yard at rear (south-east), enclosed by multiple-bay two-storey wings. Now in use as commercial accommodation and gallery. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, clay chimneypots and rubble stone parapet with carved stone coping. Domed cupola to central bay comprising copper roof with wrought-metal finial, supported on rendered frieze and columns. Exposed rubble stone walls with projecting cut limestone pilasters articulating bays and carved limestone pediment to central bay, having metal clock face to tympanum. Rendered sculptures of horse heads and plaques with crown motifs over openings to yard. Square-headed window openings to first floor with red brick voussoirs and timber framed casement windows. Three-centred arch openings to ground floor with red brick voussoirs and timber battened infill, some having timber casement windows and some having recent cast-iron gates. Square-headed openings to yard with timber sliding sash windows (north-east wing), two-over-two pane (north of west elevation), eight-over-eight pane (south) and timber casement windows to remainder with stone sills throughout. Three-centred arch openings to ground floor of yard having red brick voussoirs and double-leaf timber battened doors. Carved limestone Venetian style archway (north) comprising Doric piers and columns supporting full entablature broken by round-headed arch, with sculpted urns to outer edges of cornice and flight of steps to rear (south). Double-leaf wrought-iron gates to north-east. Three-bay single-storey gate lodge to north-east, with hipped slate roof, overhanging eaves supported on carved timber columns and forming veranda, now disused. Sited to south-east of Bantry House.

• Bantry House, gate lodge, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey gate lodge, built c.1845, with integral carriage arch to central bay. Hipped slate roof having cast-iron rainwater goods and coursed cut stone parapet, with dressed stone coping and string course. Coursed cut and tooled ashlar limestone walls (north and south) and rubble stone walls (east and west) with metal support brackets. Square-headed openings with six-over-six (outer bays) and four-over- four (central bay) timber sliding sash windows and stone sills. Square-headed door openings to outer bays with timber panelled doors. Segmental-arched carriage arch to central bay with cut stone voussoirs. Sited within flanking quadrant of roughly coursed rubble stone walls to north-east of Bantry House and at west entrance to Bantry town.

• Bantry House, country house, 1705–1715 · National interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey country house over basement, built c.1710, with later six-bay two-storey bow-ended additions over basement, built 1820, to east and west and later six-bay two-storey addition over basement with pair of four-bay three-storey bow-ended wings, built 1845, to south. Later porticos to east and west elevations. Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, parapet, stone balustrade and cast-iron rainwater goods with lead guttering. Rubble stone, roughcast rendered (1820 addition) and lined-and-ruled rendered (south elevation) walls with string course and red brick pilasters having carved stone bases and Corinthian capitals. Square-headed openings to original block with four-over-two timber sliding sash and timber glazed French windows, tooled stone sills and red brick block-and-start surrounds and relieving arches. Camber-headed openings to 1820 addition with nine-over-nine and six-over-six timber sliding sash windows and one-over-one and two-over-two replacement timber sliding sash windows having stone sills and red brick block-and-start surrounds and relieving arches. Camber and square-headed openings to 1845 extension with six-over-six and nine-over-nine timber sliding sash windows and replacement awning windows having stone sills, red brick block-and-start surrounds and relieving arches, timber panelling and shutters. Camber and square-headed service door openings with timber battened doors and replacement timber glazed and uPVC doors with overlights. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber glazed French doors having overlights, sidelights, timber pilasters, consoles and entablature. Accessed by cast-iron and timber flight of steps with railing. Portico to east elevation with six Corinthian-Tuscan orders having crocket capitals and supporting an entablature with ridge moulded architrave, plain frieze, cornice and modillions. Round and square-headed openings with fixed pane windows and round-headed door opening with double-leaf timber glazed door. Similar portico to west elevation with seven Corinthian-Tuscan orders having crocket capitals and supporting an entablature with ridge moulded architrave, plain frieze, cornice and modillions, and a stone balustrade. Located within extensive terraced formal Italian gardens having carved stone balustrade and garden furniture including cast-iron gazebo, decorated fountains, Greco-style statuary, ashlar archway and limestone steps.

• Bantry House, stables, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey stables, built c.1845, with pedimented central bay having cupola above. Now in ruins. Rubble stone and rendered walls with red brick quoins, pilasters, plinth and string course. Copper dome, finial, plinth and six Tuscan-Corinthian columns to cupola. Square-headed and oculus windows and ventilation openings with stone sills, red brick block-and-start surrounds and relieving arches. Square- and camber-headed door openings with timber battened door and red brick block-and-start surrounds. Some openings blocked with timber and stone. Camber-headed blind arches with red brick block-and-start surrounds. Located to south-east of Bantry House.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, moderately low (inferred), low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Seafield.

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.

No address of the register names Seafield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Seafield · Gort na Mara

Area

728,792 m² (72.88 ha, 180.09 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmocomoge, and its townlands

Barony

Bantry

Electoral division

Bantry Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bantry Urban electoral division: 3,358 people in 1,345 households; 51% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abbey, Beach, Cappanaloha East, Clashduff, Dromleigh North, Kilnaruane, Kinathfineen, Town Lots

Placenames

Seafield 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.