Smorane
Townland in the civil parish of Creagh, barony of Carbery West (East Division), Co. Cork; in Irish Smúrán
Parcel 2280198
- Area
- 12,974 m² (1.3 ha, 3.21 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- G3 Greenbelt1 (Cork County Development Plan 2022) The objective
- Townland
- Smorane
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 177.3 ha
- 438 acres
- Land parcels
- 62
- registered freehold, median 4,248 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 27
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Smorane, from 115 m² to 254,542 m² (25.45 ha, 62.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 78 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1Business and General Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R2Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Existing residential)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 0 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
23 Dec 2025Grant with conditions
Construct a dwelling house and detached garage, wastewater treatment system and sand polishing filter and all associated site works. Permission also sought to restore and reroof existing cottage and use as storage building for use solely in connection with the main dwelling.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6980
25 Nov 2025Invalid - prepare letters
Permission to construct a dwelling house and detached garage, wastewater treatment system and sand polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6576
23 Feb 2024Conditional
To construct a dwelling hosue and detached garage, wastewater treatment system and sand polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/79
26 Sept 2022Conditional
Construct a dwelling house and garage/garden store, install a wastewater treatment system and undertake all associated site works, including demolition of stone ruin
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/601
17 Jan 2022Refused
Construction of dwelling house, conversion of existing ruin to garage/garden store along with partial demolition of adjacent ruin, wastewater treatment system and with all associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/21
21 Dec 2021Incompleted application
Construction of dwelling house, Conversion of existing ruin to garage/garden store along with partial demolition of adjacent ruin, wastewater treatment system and with all associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/891
25 Jan 2019Conditional
Construction of a dwelling house and garage, wastewater treatment system and sand polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/41
24 Jan 2018Conditional
Construct a single storey extension to a dwelling and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/33
26 Jun 2017Unconditional
Permission for retention and permission for completion of alterations and extension to dwellinghouse and permission for installation of a small treatment unit.
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 17/394
19 Jun 2015Refused
Agricultural development consisting of erection of slatted shed for the housing of livestock and for all associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/338
23 Dec 2013Conditional
Construction of dwelling house, waste water treatment system and all associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/722
20 Sept 2013Incompleted application
Construction of dwelling house, waste water treatment system and all associated site development work
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/541
14 Jan 2013Conditional
(1) Removal of condition No. 6 PL Reg. 99/3893 to allow for permission for retention of alterations and change of use from workshop/studio to a guest cottage ancillary to main dwelling (2) Extension to this guest cottage (3) Septic tank system serving guest cottage (4) Unauthorised structure as a workshop/studio (5) Garden Shed (6) Domestic fuel store (7) Glasshouse (8) Polytunnel
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/12
21 Dec 2012Incompleted application
(1) Removal of condition No. 6 PL Reg. 99/3893 to allow for permission for retention of alterations and change of use from workshop/studio to a guest cottage ancillary to main dwelling (2) Extension to this guest cottage (3) Septic tank system serving guest cottage (4) Unauthorised structure as a workshop/studio (5) Garden Shed (6) Domestic fuel store (7) Glass house (8) Polytunnel
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/789
26 Oct 2011Conditional permission
Permission for retention and permission for completion of alterations and extension to dwelling house and permission for installation of a small treatment unit and associated site works
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 11/653
2 Sept 2011Incompleted application
Permission for retention and permission for completion of alterations and extension to dwelling house and permission for installation of a small treatment unit and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/536
7 Jul 2008Refused
Partially demolish existing dwelling and to construct extensions to front, rear and side of existing dwelling. Permission to make minor alterations to existing ancillary accommodation dwelling. Permission to construct link corridor between extended dwelling and existing ancillary accommodation dwelling. Permission to construct detached garage and ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1257
10 Jun 2008Incompleted application
Permission to partially demolish existing dwelling and to construct extensions to front, rear and side of existing dwelling. Permission to make minor alterations to existing ancillary accommodation dwelling. Permission to construct link corridor between extended dwelling and existing ancillary accommodation dwelling. Permission to construct detached garage and ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1097
25 Jan 2008Conditional
Raise existing ground levels and carry associated site works, import to site materials as would be permitted by granting of Waste Management Permit under Waste Management Acts 1996 to 2005 at lands zoned I-03:Skibbereen Environs, in Cork County Council Development Plan 2003
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/133
8 Nov 2007Withdrawn
Raise existing ground levels and carry out associated works and imort to said site such material as would be permitted by granting of Waste Management Permit under the Waste Management Act 1996 to 2005 at lands zoned 1-03: Skibbereen Environs, in the Cork County Development Plan 2003
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/2816
21 Oct 2004Conditional
Domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/7882
17 Sept 2004Conditional
Erection of advertisement sign
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/7086
28 May 2004Refused
Site development works for 12 no. enterprise sites
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/3810
23 Apr 2004Conditional
Granny flat extension to dwelling and retention of domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/2723
19 Dec 2002Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 02/5689
The 25 most recent of 27 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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Smorane.
Recorded monuments
- CO142-041 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on gentle NE-facing slope. Circular, slightly raised area (28m N-S; 31m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.7m), stone-faced in parts; shallow external fosse. Numerous cattle breaks. 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Smorane.
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 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 Smorane.
- 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
- Smorane, Skibbereen8 sales
The townland
- Name
- Smorane · Smúrán
- Area
- 1,773,159 m² (177.32 ha, 438.16 acres)
- Civil parish
- Creagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery West (East Division)
- Electoral division
- Skibbereen Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Skibbereen Rural electoral division: 1,400 people in 484 households; 86% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cullenagh, Derryleigh, Gortnaclohy, Lettertinlish, Lurriga, Tooreennasillane
- Placenames
- Smorane 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.