Sparrograda
Sparrograda is a townland in the civil parish of Skull, barony of Carbery West (West Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Sparr Uí Ghráda.
- Area
- 106.3 ha
- 263 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 23,759 m² (2.38 ha, 5.87 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 19
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sparrograda, from 369 m² to 282,817 m² (28.28 ha, 69.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Sparrograda 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
9 Aug 2019Conditional
Permission for retention for the following: (a) fenestration changes to front elevation of existing dwelling (installation of a window instead of a door) from that granted under Panning Permission 01/1515, (b) detached single storey domestic garage, (c) detached single storey agricultural stable building with entrance off the public roadway along with all associated site works
Retention · Cork County Council, 19/527
15 Jan 2010Conditional
Construction of detached stable and store building
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/22
6 Jan 2010Incompleted application
Construction of detached stable and store building
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4
17 Jun 2008Conditional
Construct entrance porch to front of dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1147
19 May 2008Conditional
Extensions to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/933
23 Apr 2008Incompleted application
First floor extension to dwelling and front porch extension
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/731
7 Aug 2007Incompleted application
One building consisting of one stable, one stable/tackroom and shed for storage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/2097
11 Dec 2006Incompleted application
One building of one stable/tackroom and shed for storage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/2658
8 Sept 2006Incompleted application
Outbuilding consisting of stable, stable/tackroom and shed for storage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1809
19 Jun 2006Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1183
24 Mar 2006Incompleted application
Shed and 2 stables
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/503
3 Mar 2006Refused
1 no. dwelling house with septic tank, percolation area and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/326
26 Jul 2004Conditional
Extension to dwelling and retention of conservatory extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/5725
21 Nov 2002Conditional
Domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 02/5133
21 Nov 2002Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Approval · Cork County Council, 02/5140
24 Oct 2001New application
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 01/5831
1 Jun 2001Refused
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 01/3149
21 Jul 2000Conditional
Retention of dwelinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/4462
12 Mar 1999Conditional
Construction of dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 99/1252
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 Sparrograda.
Recorded monuments
- CO131-033 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, atop hillock. Circular area (42.5m N-S; 40m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 2.15m) WSW-NE, with large stones atop bank N->NE; position of bank defined by large slabs at intervals NE->SE; stone bank (Wth 1.5m) SE->SSW. Entrance (Wth 1.6m) to SSE, defined by upright slab on each side. Interior overgrown with deciduous trees; souterrain (CO133-052---) in side entrance. 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
- CO131-052 Souterrain
Description
In S quadrant ringfort (CO131-033---). Four slabs lying in depression (L 3.6m; Wth 2m; D 0.5m) inside entrance are said to cover underground chamber. 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 Sparrograda.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Sparrograda, about 1 in 5 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 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 Sparrograda.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Sparrograda with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Sparrograda · Sparr Uí Ghráda
- Area
- 1,062,727 m² (106.27 ha, 262.61 acres)
- Civil parish
- Skull, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery West (West Division)
- Electoral division
- Ballybane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 289 people lived in 133 households in the Ballybane electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybane West, Bawnshanaclogh, Derreennaclogh, Dromkeal, Oughtohig
- Placenames
- Sparrograda 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.