Sycamore
Townland in the civil parish of Doneraile, barony of Fermoy, Co. Cork; in Irish Teach na Seiceamar
- Area
- 53.5 ha
- 132 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 3,296 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sycamore, from 1,829 m² to 457,794 m² (45.78 ha, 113.12 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
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 6 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
26 Feb 2026Grant with conditions
Permission to construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0470
28 Mar 2025Application withdrawn
Permission to construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4542
12 Apr 2023Conditional
(1) To demolish existing extensions to the front, sides and rear of existing dwelling and to construct a single storey extension to the southern side and rear of existing dwelling and to construct a 2-storey extension to the northern side of same dwelling and all associated site works and services. (2) Retention of alterations made to the existing domestic garage previously granted under Pl.Reg.No. 05/3005 consisting of relocated doors and windows, a mezzanine floor with first floor window and minor increase in ridge height and floor area.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4688
16 Apr 2021Refused
To construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4995
9 Dec 2020Conditional
To construct a single storey extension to the side elevation of the existing dwelling house with all alterations and associated site and ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6779
26 Mar 2008Conditional
Dwellinghouse and installation of treatment plant
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5673
30 May 2007Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8238
22 Sept 2006Conditional
Construction of dwellinghouse, site entrance and installation of bio-cycle treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10834
5 May 2005Conditional
Alterations and extensions to dwellinghouse and construction of domestic garage/store
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3005
8 Apr 2005Refused
Bungalow
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/2216
30 Jul 2004Refused
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/5906
29 Mar 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 04/2061
29 Mar 2004Conditional
Domestic Garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/2042
16 Oct 2003Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 03/5157
17 Jun 2003Refused
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 03/2973
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 Sycamore.
Recorded monuments
- CO017-093 Enclosure
Description
In tillage, on NE-facing slope. Oval area (64.5m NW-SE; 46.9m NNE-SSW) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 1.1m) with external fosse (D 0.8m). Bank wide and flat topped (Wth of top 2.2m); entrance to SSW (Wth 2m). Fosse U-shaped, dry, partially overgrown. Interior planted with beech trees. Known as 'Lis-na-reenawn' according to Jones (1910, 57). 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 Sycamore.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Sycamore.
- 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 Sycamore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Sycamore · Teach na Seiceamar
- Area
- 534,765 m² (53.48 ha, 132.14 acres)
- Civil parish
- Doneraile, and its townlands
- Barony
- Fermoy
- Electoral division
- Doneraile, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Doneraile electoral division: 1,555 people in 599 households; 67% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carkerbeg, Cloonbane, Knockbrack, Skaghardgannon
- Placenames
- Sycamore 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.