Taurbeg

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Taurbeg, from 8,024 m² (0.8 ha, 1.98 acres) to 544,282 m² (54.43 ha, 134.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Taurbeg 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.

• 15 Jul 2025Refused

  Permission for the continued operation of the existing Taurbeg Wind Farm, which includes 11 no. turbines, a 38kV substation and associated infrastructure (as permitted by cork county council ref N/02/3608) for a further period of 10 years from the date of expiry of the current planning permission and for the decommissioning of the entire Taurbeg Wind Farm at the end of that further period. All elements of the wind farm are pre-existing and no modifications are proposed to the existing Taurbeg wind farm as part of this planning application. The Taurbeg wind farm comprises the following elements: 1. 11 no. existing wind turbines with a tip height of 108.2 metres and all associated foundations and hardstanding areas, 2) 1 no. existing onsite 38kV electrical substation including a control building, associated electrical plant and equipment, welfare facilities and a wastewater holding tank, 3) 1no. existing meteorological mast with height of 67m, 4) all existing underground electrical and communications cabling connecting the existing wind turbines to the existing onsite 38kV substation, 5) an existing gated site entrance and existing internal access tracks, 6) existing site drainage, 7) existing ancillary infrastructure, associated site fencing and signage. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in relation to the proposed development and accompany this planning application. The EIAR assess both the continued operation of the Taurbeg wind farm as well as integral elements of the wider project comprising the undertaking of removal of commercial forestry and restoration of farmland habitat at Coom and Knockatee County Kerry, which constitute offsetting measures associated with the continued operation of the Taurbeg Wind Farm. These offsetting measures are located in a separate planning authority jurisdiction (Kerry County Council) and will be subject of a separate planning application to the planning authority.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5406

• 26 Sept 2016Refused

  To amend Condition No. 7 of windfarm development permitted under planning Reg No. 02/3608 which specified that ‘the structures shall be removed at the expiration of a period of 20 years beginning on the date of commissioning of the development to allow for a period of 25 years from the date of commissioning instead of 20 years specified in the condition and extend the permitted operational lifetime of the Taurbeg Windfarm for a period of 5 years (2026-2031) and Permission for the clear felling of approximately 0.15ha of existing conifer plantation and the replanting of same

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6366

• 1 Sept 2016Incompleted application

  A Ten Year Permission for development of this site. To extend the permitted operational lifetime of the Taurbeg wind farm for a period of 5 no. years (2026-2031), from 20 to 25 years which was consented under Planning Reg. 02/3608. Activities which will be carried out within that period will also include the clear felling of approx. 0.15ha of existing conifer plantation and the replanting of same. An Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted with the planning application.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6195

• 18 May 2010Unconditional

  Completion of construction of 29 no. wind turbines, 2 no. meteorological masts, electrical substation, construction and upgrading of internal site tracks and associated works granted under pl.reg.no. 04/8354 (New permission to expire on 22/12/2014)

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 10/5211

• 7 Feb 2005Conditional

  Borrow pit to win road stone for on site access tracks associated with construction of wind farm permitted under Reg. No.02/3608, and a short section of access track

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/602

• 11 Nov 2004Conditional

  29 no. wind turbines (hub height 80 m, blade diameter 90 m), electrical sub station with control building, 2 no. 80 m high meteorological masts, construction and extension of internal site tracks and associated works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8354

• 30 Jun 2003Conditional

  Windfarm including 29 no. wind turbines (80m high),electrical substation with control building, 2 no. 60m meteorlog- ical masts & assoc works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/3220

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Taurbeg.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Taurbeg.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 20 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 Taurbeg.

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.

No address of the register names Taurbeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Taurbeg · Teamhair Bheag

Area

1,661,722 m² (166.17 ha, 410.62 acres)

Civil parish

Clonfert, and its townlands

Barony

Duhallow

Electoral division

Clonfert East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonfert East electoral division: 355 people in 137 households; 86% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Foiladaun, Glasheenanargid, Glennaknockane, Knockacluggin, Meentinny West, Taurmore

Placenames

Taurbeg 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.