Towermore Upper

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Towermore Upper, from 818 m² to 539,510 m² (53.95 ha, 133.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Towermore Upper 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.

• 10 May 2023Conditional permission

  Retention of porch as constructed to front elevation and alterations to fenestration of existing dwelling house as constructed, from that granted under planning Pl.Reg.No. N/01/0337. Permission for construction of new extension to side of existing dwelling house, upgrade of existing septic tank to new treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary site works.

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 23/4916

• 21 Dec 2020Conditional

  Construction of detached domestic shed for the storage of vintage tractors and machinery and all ancillary works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6917

• 13 Mar 2020Refused

  Construction of detached domestic shed for the storage of vintage tractors and machinery, vehicular entrance and all ancillary works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4534

• 10 May 2013Refused

  Residential development of 4 no. two storey dwellinghouses with waste water treatment plants, extension of duration to permission granted under Planning ref. No. 07/11233

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 13/4873

• 26 Sept 2007Conditional

  Residential development of 4 no. two storey dwellinghouses with waste water treatment plants

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11233

• 3 Aug 2007Incompleted application

  Residential development of 4 no. two storey dwellinghouses, wastewater treatment units and associated works

  Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 07/10094

• 17 Oct 2006Conditional

  Bungalow

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11502

• 7 Apr 2006Conditional

  5 no. dwellinghouses

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/6200

• 10 Nov 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8267

• 12 Apr 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2308

• 15 Mar 2005Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1544

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 Towermore Upper.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Towermore Upper.

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Towermore Upper.

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

Name

Towermore Upper · Teamhair Mhór Uachtarach

Area

994,089 m² (99.41 ha, 245.64 acres)

Civil parish

Castlelyons, and its townlands

Barony

Barrymore

Electoral division

Coole, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Coole electoral division: 1,210 people in 405 households; 82% of households own their home; 46% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballytrasna, Coole Lower, Coole Upper, Kilmagner, Rathbarry, Towermore Lower

Placenames

Towermore Upper 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.