Tullacondra

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tullacondra, from 4,954 m² (0.5 ha, 1.22 acres) to 344,361 m² (34.44 ha, 85.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Tullacondra 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.

• 9 Aug 2024Conditional permission

  The Applicant is seeking permission for the construction, operation and decommissioning of a wind energy development including: • 9 wind turbines each with a blade tip height of 175 metres, rotor diameter of 150 metres, hub height of 100 metres and a rated output of 4.5 megawatts. • Turbine Foundations, crane pad hardstanding areas and associated drainage. • Upgrade of existing site tracks and construction of new site tracks and associated drainage. • Access from the local road L5302 at Crought, Ballyclogh including a new site entrance for the construction phase and upgrading of an existing entrance for the operational phase. • An on-site 38 kilovolt electrical substation to Electricity Supply Board Networks specification to include control building with electrical infrastructure, welfare facilities supplied by rainwater harvesting and storage tank, a wastewater holding tank with high level alarm, car parking, security fencing and lighting, and all associated infrastructure, services, and site works including a temporary construction compound. • All associated underground electrical and communications cabling connecting the turbines to the proposed electrical substation. • A temporary site construction compound and associated ancillary infrastructure including welfare services, office accommodation, parking, fencing, lighting etc. • Areas for temporary storage of excavated materials. • A permanent meteorological mast of 100 metres height above ground level on a concrete base. • Installation of approximately 13.5 kilometres of 38 kilovolts underground electrical cabling, mainly within the public road, between the proposed wind farm substation to the boundary of Mallow 110 kilovolt substation at Saint Joseph’s Road Mallow. • All associated site works including site clearance and ancillary development including site drainage/Sustainable Drainage System, security gates, fencing, permanent and temporary signage, and biodiversity mitigation and enhancements, including hedgerow planting. The Applicant is seeking a 10-year duration planning permission and 35-year operational period from the date of overall commissioning of the entire wind farm. The Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application.The wind farm development is proposed on a site in the townlands of Polnareagha and Ardskeagh (Templemary E.D.); and Tullacondra and Croughta, (Kilmaclenine E.D.), County Cork. The proposed grid connection will be installed underground mainly within the public road from the wind farm site at Croughta, Ballyclogh to the boundary of the 110 Kilovolts substation at Saint Joseph’s Road, Mallow passing through the townlands of Kilmaclenine, Croughta, Knockaunavaddreen, Copestown, (Kilmaclenine E.D.), Ballybeg (Buttevant E.D.), Baltydaniel East, Twopothouse, and Caurraghakerry (Caherduggan E.D); and Cloghlucas North, Curraghphadeen, Ballyviniter Upper, Ballyviniter Middle, Ballyviniter Lower, Parkadallane, Carrigoon More and Carrigoon Beg Mallow Rural E.D.).

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5503

• 28 Jun 2024Incompleted application

  Permission for the construction, operation and decommissioning of a wind energy development including: • 9 wind turbines each with a blade tip height of 175 metres, rotor diameter of 150 metres, hub height of 100 metres and a rated output of 4.5 megawatts. • Turbine Foundations, crane pad hardstanding areas and associated drainage. • Upgrade of existing site tracks and construction of new site tracks and associated drainage. • Access from the local road L5302 at Croughta, Ballyclogh including a new site entrance for the construction phase and upgrading of an existing entrance for the operational phase. • An on-site 38kilovolt electrical substation to Electricity Supply Board Networks specification to include control building with electrical infrastructure, welfare facilities supplied by rainwater harvesting and storage tank, a wastewater holding tank with high level alarm, car parking, security fencing and lighting, and all associated infrastructure, services, and site works including a temporary construction compound. • All associated underground electrical and communications cabling connecting the turbines to the proposed electrical substation. • A temporary site construction compound and associated ancillary infrastructure including welfare services, office accommodation, parking, fencing, lighting etc. • Areas for temporary storage of excavated materials. • A permanent meteorological mast of 100 metres height above ground level on a concrete base. • Installation of approximately 13.5 kilometres of 38 kilovolts underground electrical cabling, mainly within the public road, between the proposed wind farm substation to the boundary of Mallow 110 kilovolt substation at Saint Joseph’s Road Mallow. • All associated site works including site clearance and ancillary development including site drainage/Sustainable Drainage System, security gates, fencing, permanent and temporary signage, and biodiversity mitigation and enhancements, including hedgerow planting. The Applicant is seeking a 10-year duration planning permission and 35-year operational period from the date of overall commissioning of the entire wind farm. The Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application. The wind farm development is proposed on a site in the townlands of Polnareagha and Ardskeagh (Templemary E.D.); and Tullacondra and Croughta, (Kilmaclenine E.D.), County Cork. The prop

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5215

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 Tullacondra.

Recorded monuments

• CO024-091001 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture. Spread of burnt material (12m N-S; 8m E-W). Ringfort (12899) immediately to ESE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO024-091002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on W-facing slope. Circular area (29m N-S; 27m E-W) defined by two earthen banks with intervening fosse, internal fosse and external fosse. Inner fosse (int. D 1m) survives ESE->ENE; may imply former presence of now levelled inner bank. Bank one (H 0.9m) overgrown and broken to ESE. Intervening fosse (D 0.1m) waterlogged to N and W. Bank two (max. H 1.2m) heavily overgrown; break (Wth 1m) to ENE. External flat-bottomed fosse (D 0.7m) survives NNW->E; not visible SE->SW due to overgrowth. Fulacht fiadh (CO024-09101-) immediately outside fort to W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Architectural heritage

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

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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tullacondra.

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

Name

Tullacondra · Tulach Chonrachta

Area

894,904 m² (89.49 ha, 221.14 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyclogh, and its townlands

Barony

Orrery and Kilmore

Electoral division

Kilmaclenine, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilmaclenine electoral division: 709 people in 266 households; 85% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardskeagh, Ballycushen, Croughta, Derryorgan, Kilmaclenine

Placenames

Tullacondra 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.