Tuocusheen

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tuocusheen, from 2,605 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres) to 229,122 m² (22.91 ha, 56.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Tuocusheen 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.

• 29 Sept 2016Conditional

  Retention of a detached domestic garage and all associated site works.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 16/6421

• 6 Dec 2013Conditional

  Construction of a storey and a half style dwelling, waste water treatment system, percolation area and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/6313

• 10 Jun 2013Refused

  Construction of a two-storey dwelling with detached garage, septic tank and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/5082

• 27 Jul 2011Conditional

  Demolition of existing dwelling and construction of dormer style dwellinghouse, septic tank and percolation area including ancilliary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5633

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 Tuocusheen.

Recorded monuments

• CO096-029 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In small triangular field of rough grazing land. Circular area (27.9m E-W; 27.8m N-S) enclosed by low earthen bank (H 0.45m) to N and E; slight rise elsewhere. External fosse survives as shallow depression at base of bank to W and NE. Bank incorporated into field fence system to N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO096-030 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; NW side truncated by laneway on 1904 OS 6-inch map. Levelled. No visible surface trace. According to Hartnett (1939, 267), 'single-ramparted ringfort now enclosed by modern fence. Farm buildings encroach on...rampart...to SW'; 'boreen has cut off...small segment' to NW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO096-031 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Square, level area, just E of farmhouse; partially used as garden; known locally as site of castle. Wall along E side (L c. 15m) has external batter (H 2.8m), inner facing does not survive (int. H c. 1.2m); wall along S side (L c. 16m) has very loose rubble facing externally (H c. 1.25m) and is planted with trees. No visible surface trace of return walls to W or N. According to Healy (1988, 293), a castle of the Barry Oge. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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 Tuocusheen.

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

At the centre of the townland of Tuocusheen, 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.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Tuocusheen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Tuocusheen · Tuath an Chúisínigh

Area

1,130,910 m² (113.09 ha, 279.45 acres)

Civil parish

Knockavilly, and its townlands

Barony

Muskerry East

Electoral division

Knockavilly, the unit of the census

Census 2022

477 people lived in 145 households in the Knockavilly electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Kilnagnady, Knockaphreaghane, Moneen, Rearour, Russelhill

Placenames

Tuocusheen 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.