Springhill
Townland in the civil parish of Tracton, barony of Kinalea, Co. Cork; in Irish Cnoc na Tiobraide
- Area
- 38.9 ha
- 96 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 587 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Springhill, from 17 m² to 354,510 m² (35.45 ha, 87.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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
No zone of a development plan covers Springhill 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
2 Oct 2023Refused
Permission for the construction of a community playground and recreational area and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5972
28 May 2021Conditional
(a) The demolition of existing disused workshop and storage sheds. (b) The demolition of the existing storage shed (associated with adjacent shop) for the storage of gas bottles, coal and peat briquettes (approximately 18 square meters in area) and the construction of a replacement storage shed for these items adjacent to the shop. (c) The construction of a detached house, associated waste water treatment unit, new vehicular entrance and associated site works. (d) and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5485
9 Oct 2009Refused
Dwelling, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7287
25 Sept 2009Incompleted application
Dwelling & domestic garage and ancillary site works including wastewater treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7167
10 Sept 2009Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse, domestic garage, treatment system and ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6999
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 Springhill.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Springhill.
Architectural heritage
- House, 1770–1775 · Regional interest
Description
Detached formerly T-plan five-bay two-storey house with dormer attic, dated 1771, having pitched roof two-storey flanking bays to sides (east, west). Later lean-to extensions to rear and pitched roof porch to front. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron and uPVC rainwater goods. Rendered walls throughout having tooled limestone plaque over porch door opening. Rubble stone walls to side elevations of extensions and rear elevation. Square-headed window openings with stone sills throughout, having replacement uPVC windows to front elevation. Six-over-six pane and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows elsewhere. Square-headed door opening to porch having replacement sidelights, overlight and timber panelled door. Ruinous outbuildings to rear and sides having round-headed carriage arch to rear. Ruinous tower house to north. Set within own grounds.
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 10 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 Springhill.
- 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 Springhill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Springhill · Cnoc na Tiobraide
- Area
- 389,486 m² (38.95 ha, 96.24 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tracton, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kinalea
- Electoral division
- Kilpatrick, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilpatrick electoral division: 557 people in 181 households; 82% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballygrissane, Kilpatrick, Minane
- Placenames
- Springhill 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.