Tooreen

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tooreen, from 35 m² to 162,524 m² (16.25 ha, 40.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Tooreen 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.

• 19 May 2026Grant with conditions

  Construct dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1326

• 10 Aug 2012Conditional

  Retention of A) Change of use of agricultural building to pottery studio including extension and alteration of same for use ancillary to the dwelling B)Septic tank and percolation area serving pottery studio. C) an extension to a detached domestic storage building D) a detached car port/garage

  Retention · Cork County Council, 12/520

• 9 Nov 2001Conditional

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 01/6163

• 3 Aug 2000Conditional

  Construction of two storey mansard extension with link to side of existing dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 00/4739

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 Tooreen.

Recorded monuments

• CO093-026 Standing stone
  Description

  In pasture on S-facing slope. Rectangular prostrate stone (L 1.2m; 0.76m x 0.6m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO093-027001 Standing stone
  Description

  In pasture on W-facing slope to NW of standing stone (CO093-02702-). Sub-rectangular stone; long axis NW-SE (H 1.3m; 0.55m x 0.35m). Prostrate stone with two perforations lies on E side (L 2.5m; 0.6m x 0.4m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO093-027002 Anomalous stone group
  Description

  In pasture on W-facing slope to E of standing stone (CO093-02701-). Two low stones at right angles to each other. Southernmost stone; rectangular plan with long axis E-W (H 0.46m; 0.59 x 0.3m). Second stone set at right angles to first with long axis N-S (H 0.39m; 0.8m x 0.3m). Prostrate third stone to E of first. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO093-027003 Standing stone
  Description

  In pasture incorporated into field fence. Standing stone pair (CO093-02701-) to NW and anomolous stone group (CO093-02702-) to W. Subrectangular stone aligned NE-SW (H 3m; 1.25m x 0.5m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO093-090 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In level pasture, c. 10m E of a stream. A low grass-covered horseshoe-shaped mound (c. 20m E-W; c. 14m N-S; H 0.8m) of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil with a W-facing opening (Wth 4m). Patches of burnt material are exposed on the SW side and on the E arm of the mound. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

• CO093-108 Fulacht fia
  Description

  This possible fulacht fia was reported to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland by Tony Miller on the 10th of December 2014. He describes it as follows: "During recent cleaning of a drain in this field a large quantity of burnt stone and charcoal rich soil was brought up to the surface. It is not possible to see exactly where the burnt spread is but it is somewhere immediately south of the causeway over the drain, connecting two fields. A large fulacht (CO093-090--) is sited c 150m to the north west and a stream runs c10m to the south. It is a level area of improved grassland, close to the base of Shehy Mountain. The stream is a tributary of the Bandon River.'' Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 16 December 2014

• CO093-109 Fulacht fia
  Description

  This fulacht fia was reported to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland by Tony Miller on the 10th of December 2014. He describes it as follows: "Horse shaped mound, partially levelled, in NW corner of a large reclaimed field of pasture, next to a stream. It is about 20m north of site one [CO093-108----] and adjacent to the same open drainage ditch. The mound has its open side facing the drain c. 3m to the west. Its total size is c. 10m N-S, 6m E-W, 0.5m in height with the opening of the trough c. 3m in width. It is under the spreading branches of an old oak tree.'' Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 16 December 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, moderately high, 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 Tooreen.

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

Name

Tooreen · An Tuairín

Area

618,079 m² (61.81 ha, 152.73 acres)

Civil parish

Inchigeelagh, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery East (West Division)

Electoral division

Garrown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Garrown electoral division: 311 people in 107 households; 91% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolmountain, Shanacrane East, Shanacrane West, Shehy Beg

Placenames

Tooreen 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.