Toorgarriff
Toorgarriff is a townland in the civil parish of Ardnageehy, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Tuar Garbh.
- Area
- 260.2 ha
- 643 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 33,292 m² (3.33 ha, 8.23 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toorgarriff, from 1,906 m² to 901,064 m² (90.11 ha, 222.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Toorgarriff 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
2 Jun 2023Conditional
Construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5136
29 Apr 2022Conditional
Construct a dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4981
23 May 2013Conditional
Demolition of existing extension and outhouses and construction of new ground floor and first floor extension, sunroom and porch to existing dwellinghouse.
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4960
10 May 2013Incompleted application
Demolition of existing extension and outhouses and construction of new ground floor and first floor extension, sunroom and porch
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4876
15 Jan 2007Conditional
Construction of beef house
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4183
15 Jul 2005Conditional
Construction of beef house
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/5082
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 Toorgarriff.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Toorgarriff.
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 Toorgarriff, 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Toorgarriff.
- 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 Toorgarriff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Toorgarriff · An Tuar Garbh
- Area
- 2,602,042 m² (260.2 ha, 642.98 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardnageehy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Electoral division
- Carrig, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 159 people lived in 53 households in the Carrig electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bunaglanna, Chimneyfield, Glannasack, Inchinanagh, Killeagh, Knockdoorty, Moneygorm
- Placenames
- Toorgarriff 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.