Skanagore

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Skanagore, from 668 m² to 79,627 m² (7.96 ha, 19.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Skanagore 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.

• 22 Sept 2025Refused

  Permission for the construction of a 28m² ground floor extension, demolition of existing 154m² roof, construction of a new roof structure of 270m² including overhang, new first floor accommodation including en-suite bedroom, alterations to elevations of dwelling, construction of a balcony at first floor level and all associated site works to existing dwelling house.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6000

• 11 Aug 2025Incompleted application

  Permission for construction of 28m2 ground floor extension, demolition of existing 154m2 roof, construction of new roof structure of 270m2 including overhang and new first floor accommodation including en-suite bedroom and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5612

• 15 Apr 2024Conditional

  Permission to construct a detached two storey dwelling house, domestic detached garage/shed with domestic workshop at first floor level, septic tank and percolation area, a new well and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4632

• 21 Jul 2023Conditional

  Demolition of existing hall and sunroom and the construction of a single storey extension to the south and west elevations of the existing dwelling house, modifications to said dwelling house and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5490

• 19 Sept 2022Conditional

  The construction of an extension to an existing gate house, and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6111

• 18 Feb 2022Conditional

  1. Construct a new one and a half storey small dwelling house – granny flat. 2. Decommission the existing septic tank that serves the existing dwelling house on site. 3. Install a new waste water treatment system and percolation area which will serve the existing dwelling house and the proposed small dwelling house – granny flat. 4. Carry out all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4341

• 23 Dec 2020Conditional

  1. 2 no. silage pits and apron 2. Silage effluent tank along with associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6998

• 12 Feb 2019Unconditional

  Retention of development. The development consists of; A)the existing dwelling as constructed (change of plan and layout to that permitted under PL. Reg. No. 00/6988), B) the existing 40.08 sq. m. single-storey extension (in use as a granny flat) to the rear of the existing dwelling, C) The existing 37.85 sq. m. single-storey detached domestic garage, and D) all ancillary works.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 19/4317

• 27 Jul 2017Unconditional

  Retention of a) sunroom extension to the side of existing dwelling house and b) detached single storey garage.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 17/5951

• 18 Nov 2015Conditional

  Construct dwellinghouse, garage and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6590

• 17 Jan 2014Conditional

  Construction of one new three bedroom timber frame dwelling along with sustainable composting lavatory, rainwater harvesting, water recycling and general site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4075

• 9 Jan 2014Incompleted application

  Construction of one new three bedroom timber frame dwelling along with sustainable composting lavatory, rainwater harvesting, water recycling and general site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4025

• 30 Dec 2013Incompleted application

  Construction of a new three bedroom timber frame dwelling along with sustainable composting lavatory, rainwater harvesting, water recycling and general site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/6510

• 13 Dec 2013Incompleted application

  Construction of one new three bedroom timber frame dwelling along with sustainable composting lavatory, rainwater harvesting, water recycling and general site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/6376

• 24 Aug 2012Conditional

  Construction of a 1 and a half storey, principle private residence 4 bedroom dwelling house; combined shed and boiler house, new vehicular driveway and access to, and junction with, the pubic road; a new bored well, waste treatment unit and percolation area; associated landscaping; connection to relevant public services and ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5833

• 23 May 2011Conditional

  Construction of (a)shed to include cubicle livestock housing, milking parlour, dairy, plant room, office, store and drafting/livestock handling facilities (b)waiting yard (c)slatted slurry storage facilities (d)2 no. walled silage pits and 2 no. aprons (e)erection of feed silo and water storage tank along with associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5102

• 4 Aug 2010Conditional

  One-and-a-half storey dwelling house, shed & boiler house, new drive & access to public road, new bored well, waste treatment unit & percolation area, associated landscaping, connection to relevant public services, & ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5976

• 14 Jun 2010Incompleted application

  One-and-a-half storey dwelling house, shed & boiler house, new drive & access to public road, new bored well, waste treatment unit & percolation area, associated landscaping, connection to relevant public services, & ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5471

• 29 Jun 2009Withdrawn

  One and half storey dwellinghouse, boiler house and storage, new drive and access to public road, new bored well, waste treatment unit and percolation area, associated landscaping, connection to relevant public services and ancillary site works all on site

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6135

• 9 Mar 2009Refused

  Construction of new entrance to serve existing dwelling and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4712

• 21 Jan 2009Conditional

  Dwellinghouse (change of plan from that permitted under Planning Reg. No. 04/4817)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4122

• 8 Dec 2008Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse- change of plan from that previously permitted under planning ref.no. 04/4817 to include single storey extension to side of dwelling not yet under construction

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/10001

• 1 Jul 2008Conditional

  Dwellinghouse & septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7614

• 26 Sept 2007Withdrawn

  Two storey dwellinghouse, storage and utility building to rear and installation of septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11226

• 12 Sept 2007Incompleted application

  Construction of two-storey dwellinghouse, one-storey storage & utility building to rear, new drive and access to public road, installation of septic tank and percolation area and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10958

The 25 most recent of 36 applications.

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bandon Valley Below Inishannon 001515

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Skanagore.

Architectural heritage

• Shippool House, gate lodge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1820, having later lean-to additions to rear (north-west) and side (north-east). Hipped replacement tile roof with gable to side (north-east), having red-brick chimneystack and uPVC rainwater goods. Corrugated-iron roofs to lean-to additions. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with plinth to front (south-east) and side (south-west) elevations, having rendered walls to side (north-east) elevation and additions. Round-headed blind niches with raised render voussoirs and tooled limestone sill to side (south-west) elevation. Round-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills to front elevation, having three-pane timber casement windows surmounted by tripartite fanlights. Round-headed door opening with replacement timber battened door to front elevation. Square-headed window openings to side (south-east) elevation of addition to north-west. Square-headed door openings to rear (north-west) elevations of additions. Located within grounds of the Shippool estate, having rubble stone boundary walls including splayed rendered entrance with plinth, tooled limestone coping and square-profile piers with single and double-leaf cast-iron gates.

• Shippool House, country house, 1920–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached U-plan five-bay single-storey over basement with dormer-attic former country house, built c.1925, with central bowed-bay window. Multiple-bay single-storey additional wings to side (south-east, north-west) elevations having projecting bays to front (south-west) with canted bay windows. Flat-roofed addition to north-west end of rear (north-east) elevation having lean-to additions to side (north-west) and rear (north-east) elevations. Hipped slate roofs with red-brick chimneystacks, rooflights and cast-iron rainwater goods. Felt-lined flat roofs to canted bays, central bowed bay, dormers and flat-roofed addition to rear having rough-cast rendered chimneystack with redbrick copping. Roughcast rendered walls throughout with tooled limestone plinth band to house, rendered plinth band to later additions. Square-headed openings having later timber casement windows throughout. Tooled stone sills to front and rear elevations of house, rendered sills bowed-bay, later additions and canted bays. Bowed bay comprising of rendered sill and six timber-framed casement windows. Round-headed door openings having concrete stepped approach, double-leaf timber glazed doors surmounted by fanlight to side (north-west and south-east) elevations of projecting end-bays, timber battened door with blocked overlight to rear elevation of basement. Square-headed door openings having rendered stepped approach, double-leaf timber glazed doors with overlight to front elevation, stone paved stepped approach and replacement timber panelled door surmounted by spoked overlight to side (south-east) elevation and concrete stepped approach with timber battened door having overlight to rear elevation of south-east wing. Timber panelled door to internal courtyard rear elevation. Timber battened doors to rear (north-east) elevations of lean-to additions. Timber battened utility door to basement rear elevation of north-west wing. Rendered parapet wall and coping with rendered and stone paved stairs to basement rear elevation. Stone paved patio with rubble stone parapet walls and central bowed stepped approach. Stables to south-east of house. L-plan farmyard to south-east of house, comprising of integral double-height carriage arch with three-bay two-storey former gate/carriage house to front (south-west) elevation with eleven-bay two-storey return to side (south-west), pitched slate roof to gate/carriage house, hipped slate roof to return and rubble-stone walls throughout. Two entrances with associated gate lodges, three-bay single-storey lodge to north-west and two-bay single-storey lodge to south-west.

• Shippool House, gate lodge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1820, having lean-to addition to side (south-west) with recessed porch to front (north-west) elevation and later lean-to addition to side (south-west). Currently vacant. Hipped artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystack and uPVC rainwater goods. Artificial slate roof to lean-to addition with corrugated-iron roof to later addition. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls throughout having rendered walls to side (south-west) and rear (north-east) elevations of lean-to addition. Corrugated-iron walls to later lean-to addition. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows throughout. Replacement timber casement windows to rear elevation of lodge and side (south-east) elevation of lean-to addition. Blind square-headed door opening to front elevation of lodge. Square-headed door opening to interior of porch, having glazed timber door. Square-headed door opening to side (north-west) elevation of lean-to addition with timber battened door. Located at south-west entrance to Shippool House, having rubble stone boundary walls including splayed rendered walls with plinth, tooled limestone coping, and square-profile piers with single and double-leaf cast-iron gates.

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

At the centre of the townland of Skanagore, about 1 in 10 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 high, 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 Skanagore.

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.

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

Name

Skanagore · Sceach na nGabhar

Area

1,053,887 m² (105.39 ha, 260.42 acres)

Civil parish

Leighmoney, and its townlands

Barony

Kinalea

Electoral division

Leighmoney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

814 people lived in 259 households in the Leighmoney electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolmoreen, Lissheeda, Ship-Pool, Slievegallane

Placenames

Skanagore 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.