# Towermore Upper, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Castlelyons, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork; in Irish Teamhair Mhór Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 994,089 m² (99.41 ha, 245.64 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,011 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 11 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Castlelyons, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/castlelyons.md - Barony: Barrymore - Electoral division: Coole, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,210 people lived in 405 households in the Coole electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/10059 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 45263 - Centre: latitude 52.110617, longitude -8.182342 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Towermore Upper, from 818 m² to 539,510 m² (53.95 ha, 133.32 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2282621: 539,510 m² (53.95 ha, 133.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2282621.md - Parcel 2206206: 113,235 m² (11.32 ha, 27.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2206206.md - Parcel 2282624: 94,185 m² (9.42 ha, 23.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2282624.md - Parcel 2206304: 91,200 m² (9.12 ha, 22.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2206304.md - Parcel 2206306: 73,804 m² (7.38 ha, 18.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2206306.md - Parcel 5200533: 60,715 m² (6.07 ha, 15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5200533.md - Parcel 3352448: 8,101 m² (0.81 ha, 2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3352448.md - Parcel 3351627: 4,011 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3351627.md - Parcel 2206303: 2,770 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2206303.md - Parcel 2206305: 2,305 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2206305.md - Parcel 2282623: 2,027 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2282623.md - Parcel 3351407: 1,143 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3351407.md - Parcel 2282625: 841 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2282625.md - Parcel 2282622: 827 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2282622.md - Parcel 2206207: 818 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2206207.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 11 applications, newest first. - 10 May 2023, Cork County Council 23/4916: Conditional permission. Permission for retention. 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.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=23/4916 - 21 Dec 2020, Cork County Council 20/6917: Conditional. Permission. Construction of detached domestic shed for the storage of vintage tractors and machinery and all ancillary works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=20/6917 - 13 Mar 2020, Cork County Council 20/4534: Refused. Permission. Construction of detached domestic shed for the storage of vintage tractors and machinery, vehicular entrance and all ancillary works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=20/4534 - 10 May 2013, Cork County Council 13/4873: Refused. Extension of duration. 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. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=13/4873 - 26 Sept 2007, Cork County Council 07/11233: Conditional. Permission. Residential development of 4 no. two storey dwellinghouses with waste water treatment plants. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/11233 - 3 Aug 2007, Cork County Council 07/10094: Incompleted application. Permission consequent. Residential development of 4 no. two storey dwellinghouses, wastewater treatment units and associated works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/10094 - 17 Oct 2006, Cork County Council 06/11502: Conditional. Permission. Bungalow. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/11502 - 7 Apr 2006, Cork County Council 06/6200: Conditional. Outline permission. 5 no. dwellinghouses. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/6200 - 10 Nov 2005, Cork County Council 05/8267: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse and garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=05/8267 - 12 Apr 2005, Cork County Council 05/2308: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse and garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=05/2308 - 15 Mar 2005, Cork County Council 05/1544: Incompleted application. Permission. Dwellinghouse and garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=05/1544 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Towermore Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Towermore Upper. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Towermore Upper. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Towermore Upper, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low. - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cork/towermore-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/towermore-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/towermore-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/cork.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballytrasna: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballytrasna-40835.md - Coole Lower: https://everytownland.com/cork/coole-lower.md - Coole Upper: https://everytownland.com/cork/coole-upper.md - Kilmagner: https://everytownland.com/cork/kilmagner-43513.md - Rathbarry: https://everytownland.com/cork/rathbarry.md - Towermore Lower: https://everytownland.com/cork/towermore-lower.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cork/towermore-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/towermore-upper