Sorrel

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sorrel, from 1,985 m² to 723,811 m² (72.38 ha, 178.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 6 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 Sorrel 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 Mar 2024Conditional

  Permission to construct a new dwelling house

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4494

• 29 Sept 2016Withdrawn

  Construction of a dwellinghouse and partial demolition, alterations and change of use of the existing dwellinghouse to a garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6418

• 12 Jun 2015Conditional

  Construction of single storey extensions to front and rear of dwellinghouse including renovations and alterations to existing dwelling and installation of septic tank and percolation area

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5241

• 30 Apr 2007Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7396

• 12 Oct 2005Refused

  Demolition of shed and construction of dwelling and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7453

• 17 Feb 2004Withdrawn

  Windfarm to include 8 no. wind turbines and ancillary equipment for generation of electricity, control building, substation and 60m wind monitoring mast

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/909

• 16 Oct 2003Conditional

  Dormer type dwellinghouse and double garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/5155

• 14 May 2003Conditional

  Windfarm to include 12 no. turbines, 50m anemometer mast, control building/ switchyard,fencing & access tracks

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/2263

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: Ballyhoura Mountains 002036

Recorded monuments

• CO008-042 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture. Shown on 1937 OS 6-inch map as mound. No visible surface trace; soil in area is dark and peaty. According to local information, mound levelled c. 1971. 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

• CO008-043 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on break in slope at foot of NNW-facing slope of Knockafutera (Ballyhoura Mountain range). Roughly circular, slightly raised area (34.15m E-W; 29.2m N-S) enclosed by two earthen banks and intervening fosse; outer fosse (D 0.2m) to SE. Inner bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.05m) planted with mature deciduous trees. Intervening fosse (Wth 2.7m) disturbed by field boundary to NE; waterlogged to W. Outer bank (H 1.2m) levelled to NE. Break in banks to WSW; numerous cattle gaps through banks. 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

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Sorrel.

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 high, 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 Sorrel.

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

Name

Sorrel · Seireal

Area

1,761,990 m² (176.2 ha, 435.4 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyhay, and its townlands

Barony

Fermoy

Electoral division

Ardskeagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ardskeagh electoral division: 510 people in 170 households; 90% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 2% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinvonear, Ballynaboola West, Newtown, Pruntus, Streamhill West

Placenames

Sorrel 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.