Sleveen West
Townland in the civil parish of Macroom, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork; in Irish An Sléibhín Thiar
- Area
- 91.7 ha
- 227 acres
- Land parcels
- 81
- registered freehold, median 1,908 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses
- Planning
- 47
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
81 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sleveen West, from 17 m² to 297,745 m² (29.77 ha, 73.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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
- R2Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Existing residential)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 62 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 45 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1Residential (New/proposed residential)
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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
1 May 2025Conditional
Permission for construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, sewerage system, site entrance and all associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4823
11 Apr 2025Incompleted application
Permission for single storey dwelling, domestic garage, sewerage system, site entrance and all associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4665
4 Apr 2025Conditional permission
Permission for retention for garage and site entrance, re-located from that permitted under planning reference 13/54018, and permission for single storey front and side extensions and internal alterations to existing two storey split level dwelling.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/4597
14 Mar 2025Conditional
Permission for the demolition of existing rear single storey extension and the construction of new two-storey extension to the rear of existing dwelling house together with all other ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4452
11 Oct 2024Withdrawn
Permission to construct a new dwelling house
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5916
3 May 2023Conditional
Extensions to east side and rear of bungalow, demolition of existing domestic garage and sundry associated site landscaping works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4871
30 Jan 2023Conditional
Construction of dwelling, vehicular and pedestrian entrances, gate way and wingwalls, septic tank with percolation area, landscaping and associated site works (change of plan from that permitted under Pl. Reg. No. 18/6968).
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4122
29 Dec 2022Incompleted application
Construction of dwelling, vehicular and pedestrian entrances, gate way and wingwalls, septic tank with percolation area, landscaping and associated site works (change of plan from that permitted under Pl.Reg.No. 18/6968).
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6896
14 Nov 2022Incompleted application
Permission for construction of dwelling, vehicular and pedestrian entrances, gateway and wing walls, septic tank with percolation area, landscaping and associated site works (change of plan from that permitted under Pl. Reg. No. 18/6968).
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6533
12 Oct 2022Incompleted application
Take notice that planning permission register no. 18/6968 was granted to applicant Oliver. G Heffernan on the 1st may 2019 for a proposed development consisting of " construct a single storey dwelling house with mezzanine, septic tank with percolation area, new entrance gate, landscaping and associated site works. Take further notice that planning permission is now sought for a dwelling house (change of design), road entrance, gateway and wing walls ( change of design and location of frontage) proprietary domestic effluent treatment plant in addition to septic tank with percolation area, landscaping and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6298
5 May 2021Conditional
The construction of new dwellinghouse, domestic garage, new entrance, wastewater treatment system together with all other ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5201
25 Mar 2021Conditional
To construct new extension and for alterations to existing storey and ½ dwelling house, to include; 1) to construct new extension to side elevation of existing dwelling, 2) minor alterations to existing elevations to include i) demolition of 1no. chimney stack, ii) demolition of adjoining structure covering yard area located to side elevation of dwelling, iii) alterations to 2 no. existing first floor window openings, 3) to construct new single-storey domestic garage to serve dwelling and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4753
11 Mar 2021Conditional permission
Alterations to dwelling, to include raised roof and provision of habitable accommodation at first floor level, erection of extension to rear at ground floor level, demolition of existing domestic garage, erection of new domestic garage and sundry site landscaping works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4590
5 Feb 2021Incompleted application
Alterations to dwelling, to include raised roof and provision of habitable accommodation at first floor level, demolition of existing domestic garage, erection of new domestic garage and sundry site landscaping works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4259
20 Nov 2020Withdrawn
The construction of new dwellinghouse, domestic garage, new entrance, waste water treatment system together with all other ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6581
14 Oct 2020Incompleted application
The construction of new dwellinghouse, domestic garage, new entrance, waste water treatment system together with all other ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6251
9 Jun 2020Conditional
The demolition of an existing garage and the construction of 2 no. residential dwellings
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5170
11 Sept 2019Refused
Demolition of an existing garage and replace with 2 no. town houses.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6230
29 Jul 2019Incompleted application
Demolition of an existing garage and replace with 2 no. town houses.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5901
9 Nov 2018Conditional
Construct a single storey dwellinghouse with mezzanine, septic tank with percolation area, new entrance gate, landscaping and associated siteworks
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6968
4 Oct 2018Incompleted application
Construct a single storey dwellinghouse with mezzanine, septic tank with percolation area, new entrance gate, landscaping and associated siteworks.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6606
6 Aug 2014Conditional
Construction of dwellinghouse, retaining wall, new entrance and all associated site works (change in house design to that permitted under planning ref. no. 14/54007)
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5683
25 Jul 2014Incompleted application
Construction of dwellinghouse, retaining wall, new entrance and all associated site works (change in house design from that permitted under Planning Ref. No. 14/54007)
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5609
23 Apr 2014Conditional
Dwellinghouse, retaining wall, new entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/54007
8 Oct 2013Conditional
Construction of a single dwelling house, detached domestic garage, site entrance, private well, installation of a wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter and all ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/54018
The 25 most recent of 47 applications.
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: The Gearagh SAC 000108
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: The Gearagh 000108
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Sleveen West.
Architectural heritage
- House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced five-bay two-storey house, built c.1820. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, eaves course and uPVC rainwater goods. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills, having timber casement windows to first floor and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to ground floor. Square-headed opening with replacement glazed timber door. Fronting directly onto street.
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; parts are made ground and water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Sleveen West.
- 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 Sleveen West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Sleveen West · An Sléibhín Thiar
- Area
- 917,015 m² (91.7 ha, 226.6 acres)
- Civil parish
- Macroom, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Electoral division
- Macroom Urban, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Macroom Urban electoral division: 4,395 people in 1,639 households; 61% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annahalabog, Carriganine, Farranavarrigane, Gearagh East, Lackaduff, Sleveen East, Tullatreada
- Placenames
- Sleveen West 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.