Springville
Springville is a townland in the civil parish of Castlemagner, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Baile an Tobair.
- Area
- 57.8 ha
- 143 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 6,446 m² (0.64 ha, 1.59 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Springville, from 593 m² to 186,545 m² (18.65 ha, 46.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 7 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
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 4 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
10 Sept 2004Withdrawn
Dwelllinghouse with waste water treatment plant, farm buildings including stables, yard area and access road.
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/6909
16 Oct 2003Conditional
Renovations and extension to dwelling, construction of domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/5159
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 Springville.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Springville.
Architectural heritage
- Springville House, house, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1810, with three-bay south side elevation, porch to front and having bay windows to north and south elevations. Three-bay two-storey block to rear with two-bay two-storey extension, and two-bay single-storey addition to north with porch. Hipped slate roof with brick chimneystack and limestone eaves course. Lean-to slate roofs to rear block and to extension, with rendered chimneystack. Pitched slate roof to north addition with rendered chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Square-headed bay windows, north elevation having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash window with render sills and south having bipartite opening to first floor centre bay with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash window with limestone sill. Round-headed entrance door opening with render surround, cobweb fanlight and timber panelled door. Porch to front of entrance comprising render cornice over square-headed opening with half-glazed timber panelled door, flanked by square-headed sidelights with fixed timber windows and render sills over recessed render panels. Square-profile rendered piers to road entrance with double-leaf cast-iron gates and rendered walls with render copings and plinth courses.
- Springville House, farmyard complex, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Farmyard complex, built c. 1790, comprising stable range to west and carthouse and outbuilding range to north. North range has two-bay single-storey block to north end with pitched slate roof and nine-bay single-storey south block with pitched corrugated-iron roof, both with roughcast rendered rubble limestone walls. Front elevation of north block has lunette window with timber louvers to loft and square-headed doorways to ground floor with timber battened doors flanked by two-over-two pane timber sash windows to outer sides with render sills, having pair of paned overlights over each opening. South block has square-headed openings with timber fixtures and timber battened doors and double-leaf doors, doorways having paned overlights. North range is five-bay and single-storey with carved limestone openwork bellcote to east gable, pitched slate roof and roughcast rendered rubble limestone walls. Front elevation has segmental-arched vehicualr entrances and square-headed doorways and window, with timber battened doors and louvers, and rear elevation has fixed timber windows. Rubble limestone masonry boundary walls to site, with square-profile rendered piers to east having ornate render caps and single-leaf wrought-iron gate. Pedestrian entrance with single-leaf timber gate to south.
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 Springville, 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Springville.
- 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 Springville with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Springville · Baile an Tobair
- Area
- 578,214 m² (57.82 ha, 142.88 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castlemagner, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Electoral division
- Greenane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,440 people lived in 555 households in the Greenane electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballintober, Ballyheen South, Ballyphilibeen, Spring Grove
- Placenames
- Springville 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.