Terramount

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Terramount, from 22 m² to 138,523 m² (13.85 ha, 34.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• R2Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Existing residential)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 42 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C6Business and General Employment (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 29 May 2026Grant with conditions

  planning permission to erect a two storey dwellinghouse, single storey detached domestic garage, install septic tank and percolation area, new bored well, new site entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1440

• 17 Apr 2026Invalid - case closed

  Permission to erect a two storey dwellinghouse, single storey detached domestic garage, install septic tank and percolation area, new bored well, new site entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0975

• 1 May 2025Conditional permission

  Permission to erect a farm machinery shed with water harvesting unit, entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4810

• 24 Feb 2023Conditional

  1) Construct a single story dwelling unit for granny flat use ancillary to existing dwelling, 2) Construct a single storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling, and 3) Decommission the existing septic tank, and install a new septic tank and percolation area, and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4331

• 22 Sept 2008Conditional

  Dwellinghouse & wastewater treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/8974

• 13 Feb 2008Conditional

  Rentention of incorporation of public open space into curtilage of dwellinghouse and retention of front boundary wall

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4744

• 25 Jan 2008Incompleted application

  Retention of alterations to boundaries of dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4360

• 4 Dec 2006Conditional

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12948

• 1 Dec 2005Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8877

• 18 Nov 2005Conditional

  Demolition of extension and outbuildings and construction of single storey and two storey extension and alterations to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8521

• 19 Aug 2005Conditional

  Retention of waste water treatment unit and irrigation area serving existing dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/5965

• 18 May 2005Refused

  Dwellinghouse, garage and proprietary treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3369

• 11 Jun 2004Conditional

  Construction of 21 no. dwellinghouse and 3 no. duplex type dwellings, change of use of mill building to 3 no. apartments and conversion of existing residential unit in mill building to townhouse, parking, landscaping and associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/4269

• 19 Apr 2004Conditional

  Dormer dwelling, entrance & septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/2600

• 3 Mar 2004Conditional

  Domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/1361

• 17 Nov 2003Conditional

  Construction of garage and conservatory extension to dwelling and retention of entrance

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/5703

• 21 Oct 2003Conditional

  2 no. dwellinghouses

  Approval · Cork County Council, 03/5235

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Terramount.

Recorded monuments

• CO044-052 Mill - corn
  Description

  In Rathcormack to E of Shanowen river. Indicated as long rectangular structure (long axis N-S) named flour mill on 1842 OS 6-inch map with mill race approaching mill from E, running through centre of mill structure. Mill is a rectangular, 4-storey, 6-bay structure, date plaque on E elevation 'Rathcormack Mills 1833'. According to local information, wheel-pit in centre of building covered over. Mill in use until 1960s, still inoccasional use. Low modern buildings surround mill. At S end is stone built addition indicated on 1842 OS 6-inch map, 3-bay, 3-storey but similar in height to mill; now functions as dwelling house. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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

• Terramount House, country house, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1840, with two-bay end elevations, east gable having canted bay to south end. Hipped artificial slate roof having oversailing eaves, moulded render eaves course, and rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Replacement casement windows to ground floor of west elevation. Flat-roofed portico to front supported by paired painted columns with limestone plinths, moulded capitals, entablature, moulded cornice, and pilasters to façade of house proper with render with moulded plinths and capitals pilasters. Round-headed door opening, approached by three cut limestone steps, with double-leaf timber panelled door, flanked by sidelights with decorative glazing to upper half, sidelights being flanked in turn flanked by Doric colonettes, and having cobweb fanlight over. Approached from south-east by curving avenue. Curved coursed rubble stone walls with render copings terminating in square-profile piers having cast-iron gates to entrance. Coursed rubble stone boundary walls surrounding grounds.

• Mill (water), 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached nine-bay three-storey former watermill, dated 1833. Southern three bays are later addition. Building part of larger structure that extended to west. Pitched reslated roof. Rubble limestone and sandstone walls, with roughly dressed quoins to older block and squarer blocks to later part. Roughly dressed voussoirs to camber-arched openings, now squared off and having replacement windows. Recent wide openings added to ground floor of east, roadside, elevation. Replacement doors to openings in west elevation. Tie bars between floors. Carved liemstone plaque to south gable reads 'Rathcormac Manor Mills 1833'.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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 Terramount with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Terramount · Tuairín an tSléibhe

Area

518,274 m² (51.83 ha, 128.07 acres)

Civil parish

Rathcormack, and its townlands

Barony

Barrymore

Electoral division

Rathcormack, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathcormack electoral division: 2,643 people in 884 households; 74% of households own their home; 65% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Knockauduff, Loughaphreaghaun, Mondaniel, Rathcormack

Placenames

Terramount 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.