Templeconnell
Templeconnell is a townland in the civil parish of Kilbroney, barony of Orrery and Kilmore, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Teampall Chonaíle.
- Area
- 91.9 ha
- 227 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 33,055 m² (3.31 ha, 8.17 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Templeconnell, from 1,312 m² to 394,694 m² (39.47 ha, 97.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 · 13 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
1 Apr 2021Conditional
The retention of the conversion of the existing garage to a habitable space including the construction of a 1st floor mezzanine and modifications to the rear roof gradient with incorporation of a dormer window, the retention of minor elevational changes to T.P.194149 and the retention of the reconstructed front boundary wall and construction of the new southern boundary wall, all to the existing dwelling house.
Retention · Cork County Council, 21/4831
3 Mar 2021Conditional
Retention of dwelling house and detached garage as constructed (change of layout from that previously granted under 83/543)
Retention · Cork County Council, 21/4534
17 Dec 2020Incompleted application
Retention of existing bungalow dwelling and detached garage.
Retention · Cork County Council, 20/6876
25 Sept 2020Incompleted application
Retention for new front boundary wall and dormer window in rear elevation and conversion of existing garage into bedroom and all associated site works.
Retention · Cork County Council, 20/6099
25 Jan 2019Conditional
To construct a new single storey extension to front of existing dwellinghouse and to install a new window to southern gable of existing dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4149
12 Nov 2010Conditional
Dwelling, entrance and septic tank
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 10/8444
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
Recorded monuments
- CO016-070 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 80m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured raised roughly circular area on 1905 OS 6-inch map; as roughly circular area (diam. c. 70m) on 1937 OS 6-inch map, enclosed by fosse. Levelled; stunted grass in parts over area of site. 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
- CO016-071 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, broken by rock outcrop. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured circular raised area (diam. c. 30m) on 1905 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace. Quarrying of rock outcrop appears to have taken place. 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
- CO016-072001 Castle - tower house
Description
In level pasture, overlooking bogland to N, W, and S. Rectangular 5-storey tower (8.5m E-W; 6.7m N-S); large breaches in N, E, and S walls at 1st/2nd-floor level. Tower entered through ground-floor doorway near E end of S wall; door surrounds missing. Lobby inside, covered by vault with murder hole, gives entry on W side to straight mural stairs, and straight through to main ground-floor chamber. Latter (5.8m E-W; 2.48m N-S) lit by slit windows with segmental-arched embrasure in E, W and N walls. Chamber covered by pointed vault (long axis E-W).Stairs, missing many steps, rise to SW corner at 1st-floor level; it then U-turns, and continues to rise straight up through S wall to SE corner, continuing upwards as a spiral stairs. Doorway into 1st-floor chamber missing; chamber lit by slit window in W wall; probably similar windows in N and E walls where there are now wide breaches. A carved human head projects over light of W window on exterior wall face. Dividing wall between chamber and mural stairs in S wall has collapsed. In SE corner steps lead down to murder hole chamber under upper flight of mural stairs; chamber lit by slit windows in S and E walls. Second-floor chamber entered at SE corner from stairs; doorway completely missing. Chamber lit by window in E wall with single ogee-head light; jambs and sill of light missing, embrasure arch collapsed. Third-floor chamber also entered at SE corner from stairs; doorway completely missing. Chamber lit by window with small rectangular light in W wall. Roofed by high pointed vault (long axis E-W). East wall of chamber has collapsed, exposing mural chamber with lintelled roof. Latter entered from spiral stairs through door of which only E jamb survives; chamber extends N in E wall, curves to W through N wall in haunch of vault, probably giving access to garderobe; garderobe chute exits from E end of N wall at 2nd-floor level. Mural chamber in S wall extends from SE to SW corner; original access from spiral stairs in SE corner, only S jamb of doorway survives. Above this level upper parts of spiral broken, inaccessible. External broken walls of inaccessible 4th-floor level visible from below, surviving to greatest height at N end of E wall; slit light visible in this area. Aerial photograph (CASAP) shows outline of bawn as crop mark with tower house near its SW corner. Castle of the Magners, lost to Percival in 1656 (MacCotter and Nicholls 1996, 212). 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
- CO016-072002 Bawn
Description
This bawn is referred to in the 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork - vol. 4 North Cork' (2000, 538-9) under the entry (no. 14371) for a tower house (CO016-072001-). It is referred to as follows: 'Aerial photograph (CASAP) shows outline of bawn as crop mark with tower house near its SW corner.' 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
- CO016-073 Kiln - lime
Description
In quarry. Overgrown mid/late 19th-century lime kiln. Front elevation faces N; semicircular arched recess (H c. 2m; Wth c. 2m), sloping slabs at rear. 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
- CO016-074 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, near base of S-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1842, 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps; bivallate with external fosse to W on 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; circular interior and N half of enclosing banks and fosses, clearly visible due to differential growth patterns. Bivallate circular enclosure visible as cropmark of banks and fosses in aerial photograph (CASAP). 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 Templeconnell.
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 Templeconnell, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Templeconnell.
- 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 Templeconnell with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Templeconnell · Teampall Chonaíle
- Area
- 918,943 m² (91.89 ha, 227.08 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbroney, and its townlands
- Barony
- Orrery and Kilmore
- Electoral division
- Churchtown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,286 people lived in 427 households in the Churchtown electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinguile, Ballyvorisheen, Imogane, Knockroundaly, Liskelly, Moanroe
- Placenames
- Templeconnell 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.