Tooreenduff
Tooreenduff is a townland in the civil parish of Inchigeelagh, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Tuairín Dubh.
- Area
- 176.8 ha
- 437 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 1,511 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tooreenduff, from 193 m² to 781,718 m² (78.17 ha, 193.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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
No zone of a development plan covers Tooreenduff 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
27 Sept 2006Conditional
Extend dwelling by adding pitched roof to existing flat roofs for use as studio
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1966
22 Dec 2005Refused
8 no. wind turbines each turbine with an overall height of 107 m. , access roads , control building and substation compound and ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9688
25 May 2001Conditional
Erection of temporary 50m high monitoring mast with wind speed & direction sensors
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/2968
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Tooreenduff.
Recorded monuments
- CO080-094 Field boundary
Description
Described by Quinn and Carroll (2010) as ‘located to the N of wall (65) in pasture and orientated E/W until it turns N at the W end. Wall consists of random uncoursed stones some of which are large boulders. Overall poorly preserved and survives to only 1 course in height. Length 65.8m, Width 0.95m, Height 0.3m.' Quinn, A and Carroll, M (2010) ‘Archaeological, Architectural and Cultural Heritage Assessment for a Proposed Wind Farm at Doonens Co. Cork’, Unpublished report, Tobar Archaeological Services. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tooreenduff.
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 Tooreenduff, 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 high, 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 Tooreenduff.
- 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 Tooreenduff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Tooreenduff · An Tuairín Dubh
- Area
- 1,767,577 m² (176.76 ha, 436.78 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inchigeelagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Electoral division
- Bealanageary, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 190 people lived in 63 households in the Bealanageary electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 16% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bargarriff, Carrig, Derryvacorneen, Dooneens, Inchi More, Inchinossig, Kealvaugh More, Tooreenlahard, Tooreennanean
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Tooreenduff 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.