Sleemana

48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sleemana, from 19 m² to 270,633 m² (27.06 ha, 66.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Sleemana 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.

• 23 Aug 2021Withdrawn

  Demolish 3 no. two storey derelict terraced dwellings including single storey derelict shed and construct 4 no. two storey terraced dwellings with ancillary off street car parking and communal bin storage area together with associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6315

• 19 Nov 2019Withdrawn

  Change of use from grain store to dwellinghouse incorporating new entrance door and dormer roof lights with all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6744

• 13 Mar 2015Conditional

  Construct a bay window to the front of the existing dwelling and associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4496

• 28 May 2013Conditional

  Construction of a two-storey dwelling house incorporating the existing front and gable walls of existing derelict dwelling and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4997

• 18 Jul 2012Withdrawn

  Demolition of existing derelict dwelling and construction of two storey dwelling house

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5578

• 13 Jun 2012Incompleted application

  Demolition of an existing derelict dwelling and to construct a two storey dwellinghouse and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5292

• 9 Jul 2009Conditional

  Single storey dwelling, treatment plant, percolation area and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6293

• 10 Jun 2009Incompleted application

  Single storey dwelling, treatment plant, percolation area & ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5910

• 11 Feb 2009Refused

  Single storey dwelling, treatment plant, percolation area and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4412

• 12 Jun 2008Refused

  Bungalow and installation of treatment plant

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7255

• 28 Nov 2006Conditional

  Revised site boundaries and entrance location for permitted dwelling and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12765

• 18 Aug 2006Conditional

  Demolition of dwellinghouse and construction of dwellinghouse and biocycle treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9903

• 3 Mar 2006Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/5235

• 30 Jan 2006Conditional

  Dwellinghouse (change of plan and layout)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4422

• 22 Jun 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4372

• 27 May 2005Conditional

  Dwelling and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3687

• 10 Feb 2005Refused

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/691

• 19 Apr 2004Conditional

  Two storey dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/2589

• 19 Jun 2003Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 03/3024

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Awbeg Valley (Castletownroche) 001561

Recorded monuments

• CO026-083 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In tillage, atop ridge to N of Castletownroche. Depicted as hachured roughly circular raised area (diam. c. 20m) on 1935 OS 6-inch map, surrounded by fosse to W and N, truncated by building on E side. Levelled; undulations visible in area 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

• CO026-084001 Graveyard
  Description

  On top of a hillock, at E end of Castletownroche. Subcircular graveyard (diam. c. 60m) enclosed by retaining wall around top of hillock; wall of random rubble construction with entrance gate at SW corner. Just N of centre, C of I parish church of Castletownroche (14724). In occasional use; earliest headstones date from mid-18th century; chest tomb also present (Grove White 1892-4a, 45-9). 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

• CO026-084002 Church
  Description

  In graveyard (14618), atop hill, on E side of Castletownroche. Cruciform church (long axis E-W) of coursed ashlar limestone construction. Nave (8.8m E - W; 7.6m N - S) lit by large pointed window with perpendicular tracery, flanked by tall lancets; transepts (10.8m N - S; 5.8m E - W) have pointed windows in stepped headed rebate. Chancel to E, has pointed E window with perpendicular tracery; connected to transepts by narrow angled gabled structures set at 45 degree angle between nave and transept (similar to 14708), one to SE used as vestry. Buttresses and hood mouldings throughout. Pinnacled, embattled 2-storey tower (4m sq.) to W, with spire; entrance door in S wall. Built in 1825, capable of accommodating 200 persons, on or near church which was 'much damnified by the late wars but now in repairing' in 1694 (Brady 1863, vol. 2, 104-106); attributed to James Pain (Annesley et al. 1994, 63). In 1882 underwent improvements (Cole 1903, 176). Inscribed stone in external S wall of transept has Latin inscription and date of 1585; according to Grove White (1892-4a, 459) it was removed here from Bridgetown Abbey (14381). 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

• CO026-184 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of fosse of circular enclosure (diam. c. 55m) visible in aerial photograph (CASAP, July 1989); possible annexe to NNE. Linear cropmarks (on E-W axis) immediately to S and a short distance to N are probably levelled field fences. 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

• CO026-252 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage, cropmark of circular-shaped area (diam. c. 44m) defined by a ditch visible on Apple Maps imagery. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère See attached image Date of upload/revision: 05 April 2022

Architectural heritage

• House, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house having lower three-bay two-storey building to south, built c. 1860, now disused. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Painted coursed rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings having timber louvers to two-storey block. South building has double four-pane casement window to first floor and two-over-two pane and one-over-one pane to ground floor, with temporary timber backing boards. No glass to windows. Square-headed door opening to south building having timber battened door.

• Store/warehouse, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Corner-sited end of terrace two-storey former warehouse, built c. 1860, having three-bay front and two-bay rear elevations, with single-storey building to south. North end curves around junction of streets. Hipped slate roof, rounded to north end, with pitched corrugated-iron roof to south building, with some cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted coursed rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings having timber louvers. Square-headed door opening to first floor of front elevation, with timber battened door. Yard to south with painted coursed rubble stone walls terminating in square-plan piers with double-leaf corrugated-iron vehicular gate.

• House, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1810, as part of terrace of three. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed diminishing window openings having painted sills, with four-pane timber casement windows to first floor and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window and boarded former window to ground floor. Square-headed door opening having timber battened door.

• House, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1810, as part of terrace of three. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed diminishing window openings having painted sills with four-pane timber casement windows to first floor and to south bay of ground floor, and with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window to north bay of ground floor. Square-headed door opening having timber battened door.

• House, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1810, as part of terrace of three. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack, and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed diminishing window openings having painted sills with six-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor, four-pane timber casement window to south bay of ground floor and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window to north bay of ground floor. Square-headed door opening having timber battened door.

• Saint Mary's Church (Castletownroche), church/chapel, 1820–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cruciform-plan limestone-built Church of Ireland church, built c. 1825, having three-bay nave, two-stage tower and spire to west elevation, single-bay transepts, canted apse and diagonally placed projections to north-east and south-east corners. Pitched slate roof with limestone copings and cast-iron rainwater goods, some downpipes draining into carved stone basins. Castellated parapet and corner finials to tower. Coursed and snecked squared limestone walls with plinth course and with stepped angled buttresses to corners of plan. Tooled limestone string courses between stages of tower. Stepped recessed surrounds to second stage openings of tower and to transept. Carved limestone plaque dated 1585 to south transept gable. Clock to west face of tower. Pointed arch window openings to nave, transepts and apse, latter being triple-light, all with chamfered surrounds hood-mouldings and latticed glazing having repeated ogee-headed motif incorporated into frame. Nave windows flanked by chamfered lancet openings. Apse has mullions and geometric tracery. Lancet openings to clerestory of re-entrant sides of apse, having some stained glass latticed windows. Square-headed window openings to diagonal projections, with latticed timber windows having label-mouldings. Lancet openings to upper stages of tower, having latticed glazing to middle stage and triangular-headed timber louvers and blind openings to top stage. Double ogee-headed window to ground floor of tower's west elevation, with label-moulding and having carved spandrels with depiction of Christ on the Cross, palm fronds and Celtic knot. Pointed arch door opening to ground floor of south elevation of tower, having label-moulding and double-leaf timber battened door, with flight of steps. Square-headed door openings to projections, having label-mouldings and single-leaf timber battened doors. Interior has sculpted marble pulpit. Graveyard to site having some ornate Georgian and Victorian grave markers. Double-leaf wrought-iron gate between square-profile piers with cut-stone caps and set into rubble limestone boundary walls.

• House, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1870, with two-bay two-storey addition to rear. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls, some painted, with decorative render quoins and painted rendered plinth course. Square-headed windows throughout. Windows diminishing to front elevation, with painted sills and timber sliding sash windows, two-over-two pane to first floor and six-over-six pane to ground floor. Replacement timber windows to addition and four-pane timber casement window to north gable. Square-headed door opening having timber surround with panelled Doric-style pilasters, timber panelled door having cast-iron door furniture, and rectangular overlight, approached by two limestone steps.

• Water pump, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding water hydrant, erected c. 1870, on Doneraile Road, with round, fluted shaft, moulded base and fluted domed cap with acorn finial. Lion's head spout to front and recent tap to side. Set into footpath at side of road.

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 5 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 Sleemana.

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 Sleemana with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Sleemana · Slí Mheánach

Area

795,559 m² (79.56 ha, 196.59 acres)

Civil parish

Castletownroche, and its townlands

Barony

Fermoy

Electoral division

Castletownroche, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castletownroche electoral division: 925 people in 373 households; 73% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinvoher, Ballyadeen, Ballygrillihan, Castletownroche, Castlewidenham, Naglesborough

Placenames

Sleemana 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.