Tober
Townland in the civil parish of Drishane, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork; in Irish An Tobar
- Area
- 44 ha
- 109 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 3,140 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tober, from 1,221 m² to 237,191 m² (23.72 ha, 58.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 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 · 5 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
25 Apr 2025Conditional
a) Retention Permission for demolition of a loose house & diary parlour, b) Retention Permission for the construction of an underground slurry tank, c) Planning Permission for the construction of an agricultural shed and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4772
15 Mar 2023Conditional
Permission for a dwelling house, garage, new site entrance, secondary waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4471
27 Apr 2018Conditional
(a) Demolition of existing sheds (b) Construction of a straw bedded calf rearing shed with underground slatted slurry storage tank and a straw bedded shed with underground slatted storage tank and an external covered crush area (c) Construction of a walled dungstead (d) Construction of a walled silage pit and all associated siteworks.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5051
6 Feb 2008Conditional
Demolition of calving/calf house and construction of calving/calf house with slatted tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4601
30 Jan 2008Conditional
Construction of domestic store/garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4466
12 Jan 2006Conditional
Slatted house with underground tanks and slatted tank in holding yard
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4091
19 Oct 2005Conditional
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7659
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
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tober.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tober.
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 10 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tober.
- 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 Tober with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Tober · An Tobar
- Area
- 440,494 m² (44.05 ha, 108.85 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drishane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Electoral division
- Coomlogane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Coomlogane electoral division: 995 people in 401 households; 72% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annagloor, Ballydaly, Coolanarney, Ferm
- Placenames
- Tober 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.