Streamhill West
Streamhill West is a townland in the civil parish of Doneraile, barony of Fermoy, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Cnoc Sruthán Thiar.
- Area
- 366.9 ha
- 907 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 4,511 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 27
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Streamhill West, from 2,157 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres) to 487,802 m² (48.78 ha, 120.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 5 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 Streamhill West 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
24 Mar 2026Refused
The development will consist of construction of a single storey dwelling house with a detached garage, wastewater treatment plant, site entrance and associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0729
2 Mar 2026Invalid - case closed
Permission for construction of a single storey dwelling house with a detached garage, wastewater treatment plant, site entrance and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0507
9 Jan 2026Invalid - case closed
The development will consist of construction of a single storey dwelling house with a detached garage, wastewater treatment plant, site entrance and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0022
7 Jun 2024Conditional
Permission to (a) construct a new dwelling house, (b) construct a new detached domestic garage, (c) construct a new domestic vehicular entrance and (d) install a new septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5061
12 Feb 2019Conditional
To construct new single storey dwelling, site entrance, sewerage treatment system and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4313
10 Sept 2018Incompleted application
Construction of dwellinghouse and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6390
11 Dec 2017Withdrawn
Construction of slatted unit, bulk feed storage bin and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/7230
30 Sept 2013Conditional
Permission for wind farm. The development will consist of the erection of 6no.wind turbines with ancillary equipment for the generation of electricity, upgrading of relevant access tracks and construction of new access tracks where required, a fenced electrical compound comprising a single storey control building and substation, transformwers, towers, and all associated site works. Each wind turbine will have an overall maximum height of 126m, comprising a tower of nominally 80-85m high, with a diameter of about 4 metres at the base, to which three blades of 41-45 metres length will be attached together with all other ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/5885
1 Aug 2013Incompleted application
The development will consist of the erection of 6no. wind turbines with ancillary equipment for the generation of electricity, upgrading of relevant access tracks & construction of new access tracks where required, a fenced electrical compound comprising a single storey control building and substation, transformers, towers and all associated site works. Each wind turbine will have an overall maximum height of 126 metres, comprising a tower of nominally 80-85 metres high, with a diameter of about 4 metres at the base, to which three blades of 41-45 metres length will be attached together with all other ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/5499
21 Jun 2013Incompleted application
The development will consist of the erection of 6 wind turbines with ancillary equipment for the generation of electricity, upgrading of relevant access tracks and construction of new access tracks where required, a fenced electrical compound comprising a single-story control building and substation, transformers, towers and all associated site works. Each wind turbine will have an overall maximum height of 126 metres, comprising a tower of nominally 80-85 metres high, with a diameter of about 4 metres at the base, to which 3 blades of 41-45 metres length will be attached together with all other ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/5191
28 May 2013Incompleted application
A ten year Planning Permission to construct a wind farm. The development will consist of the erection of 6no. wind turbines with ancillary equipment for the generation of electricity, upgrading of relevant access tracks & construction of new access tracks where required, a fenced electrical compound comprising a single-storey control building and substation, transformers, towers & all associated site works. Each wind turbine will have an overall maximum height of 126 metres, comprising a tower of nominally 80-85 metres high, with a diameter of about 4 metres at the base, to which three number blades of 41-45 metres length will be attached together with all other ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/5004
14 Mar 2012Conditional
Construction of a dwelling and all associated services
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4483
5 Jul 2010Conditional
Dwellinghouse and septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5650
12 May 2010Withdrawn
Dwelling house & septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5146
30 Apr 2010Conditional
Dormer style dwelling, garage, entrance, & septic tank
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 10/5032
6 Oct 2009Refused
Chalet, waste water treatment plant & associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7247
24 Feb 2009Conditional
Dwelling, domestic garage and septic tank
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 09/4560
11 May 2007Conditional
Extension to dwelling and construction of detached garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7709
12 Mar 2007Conditional
Construction of steel slurry tower and reception tank, silage slab and concrete apron, extension to existing cubicle house and conversion of existing hay shed to cubicle house
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5894
19 Jan 2006Conditional
One and half storey dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/4192
25 Aug 2005Conditional
Retention of attic conversion and 5 no. velux rooflights to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6140
8 Mar 2005Refused
2 no. dwellinghouses
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/1372
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
14 May 2003Conditional
Windfarm to include 12 no. turbines, 50m anemometer mast, control building/ switchyard,fencing & access tracks
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/2263
10 Apr 2003Conditional
Dwelling and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/1685
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyhoura Mountains 002036
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Streamhill West.
Architectural heritage
- Heatherside Hospital, church/chapel, 1935–1940 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding gable-fronted single-cell church, built 1936, with six-bay nave elevations having confessional projections with catslide roofs, gabled projecting porch to south, and pitched roof single-bay sacristy to north. Steeply-pitched tiled roofs to church, porch and sacristy, with cast-iron rainwater goods. Horizontal timber cladding to walls, on concrete plinth, with pointed louvred vent openings to gable apexes. Date stone set under porch window. Triple windows with pointed heads, painted moulded timber surrounds, and leaded stained glass. Square-headed window openings to confessionals, sacristy and porch, having moulded timber surrounds and leaded glazing. Square-headed window opening over porch, having spoked window, rose-window-style. Pointed timber battened doors on either side of porch, with moulded timber surrounds. Interior has open scissors brace timber roof supported on rendered corbels, Tudor-arch embrasures to nave walls, and pointed segmental-headed door to nave.
- Heatherside Hospital, house, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1900, as doctor's residence for former TB sanatorium, now part of hospital complex, and having lower two-bay two-storey addition to rear. Entrance bay flanked by canted-bay window with flat roof and canted full-height bay with hipped roof. Hipped slate roof with projecting eaves, rendered chimneystacks with moulded copings and ceramic pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted ruled and lined rendered walls, having plinths to façade projections. Square-headed window openings having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, some bipartite, having. Round-headed margined one-over-one pane stairway window to rear. Segmental-headed entrance doorway with doible-leaf timber panelled door, glazed and panelled sidelights, overlights, cut limestone plinth and approached by concrete steps. Square-headed carved timber panelled door to rear with overlight and cut limestone plinth blocks.
- Heatherside Hospital, gate lodge, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
Description
Detached square-plan two-bay single-storey with attic gate lodge, built c. 1900, facing east, with one-bay single-storey return to north and recent flat-roof porch to front. Corrugated-iron roof, pyramidal to main block and having dormer windows to east and west slopes, oversailing eaves with timber brackets, replacement uPVC rainwater goods, hipped corrugated-iron roof to return, with red brick and rendered chimneystacks. Timber-clad walls to main block, boards being laid horizontally, and corrugated-iron cladding to return, all with concrete plinths. Square-headed window openings having replacement uPVC windows,and recent timber door to porch. Hedge boundary to front garden, with timber gate.
- Heatherside Hospital, hospital/infirmary, 1905–1940 · Regional interest
Description
Hospital complex, formerly tubercolosis sanatorium, comprising main hospital building built 1909 and ancillary buildings built mid-1930s. Two-storey main building has continuous façade comprising seven-bay central part flanked by projections having two-bay first floors, in turn flanked by four-bay recessed parts in turn flanked by slightly forward-angled ten-bay parts. Single-storey projections to front of projecting parts and balcony to full length of front elevation of the fifteen-bay flanking parts. Two canted-bay windows and flat-roof porch to central part of façade. Possibly original multiple-bay block at right angles to rear of central part, and various single- and two-storey additions to rear of main block and of rear block. Hipped recent tiled roof to main block and hipped and pitched recent tiled roofs elsewhere, and having brick chimneystacks. Round pediment detail over entrance bay to front elevation, supported on corbels at each end. Roughcast rendered walls. Balconies supported on square-profile posts on concrete plinths. Square-headed timber mullioned and transomed windows to front elevation, with some metal casement windows and with some replacement windows to additions. Porch has glazed timber sides with overlights and double-leaf glazed timber door with paned sidelights. Multiple-bay single-storey H-plan laundry building to rear of main building, having pitched and hipped recent tiled roof, and timber-clad walls. Ten-bay single-storey building to south of laundry building having rendered walls, hipped tiled roof, square-headed two-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with paned overlights, and glazed timber door having sidelights and paned overlights, with steps. Multiple-bay former X-ray building to north of main hospital building, comprising projecting single-bay double-height ends and central entrance bay, and three-bay projection to rear. Flat concrete roof and rendered concrete walls. Ribbon windows to recessed parts of front elevation, having brick jambs. Windows throughout are steel casement with concrete sills. Entrance doorway comprises stepped-plan opening with timber panelled double-leaf door having geometric glazing to upper parts. Square-headed doorways to gables with recent tmber doors. Three-bay single-storey house to east of former X-ray building having entrance and windows similar to X-ray building, and hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, and roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth. Shelter to side of approach avenue has concrete walls and pitched corrugated-iron roof.
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 Streamhill West, 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 high, 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 Streamhill West.
- 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 Streamhill West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Streamhill West · Cnoc Sruthán Thiar
- Area
- 3,669,354 m² (366.94 ha, 906.72 acres)
- Civil parish
- Doneraile, and its townlands
- Barony
- Fermoy
- Electoral division
- Streamhill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 107 people lived in 42 households in the Streamhill electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 51% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinvonear, Ballynaboola West, Garrane, Inchnagree, Kilcolman East, Sorrel, Streamhill East
- Placenames
- Streamhill West 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.