Turbeagh
Turbeagh is a townland in the civil parish of Brigown, barony of Condons and Clangibbon, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Tor Beithigh.
- Area
- 210.3 ha
- 520 acres
- Land parcels
- 35
- registered freehold, median 5,396 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 27
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Turbeagh, from 118 m² to 202,726 m² (20.27 ha, 50.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 43 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
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 78 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
11 Jun 2025Conditional permission
Permission for the construction of a new single storey dwelling, single storey garage, site entrance, waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5125
28 Jun 2024Conditional
Permission for a photovoltaic (Solar PV) energy generation scheme with a total area of 3.76ha within the townlands of Ballybeg and Turbeagh in Mitchelstown Co. Cork. The development will consist of the installation of 4,182 no. ground mounted Solar PV arrays, a 20kV substation, the installation of 120m of 20kV underground electrical cabling from the proposed substation to an existing pole and overhead line to connect to the national grid, the upgrade of an existing entrance off the local road to serve as a permanent site entrance for the solar farm and all associated site development works including upgrading 80m of existing tracks and installing 435m of new access track 3m wide and all associated site works. The applicant is seeking a 10-year planning permission and an operational period of 40 years.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5212
31 May 2024Incompleted application
Permission to construct a photovoltaic (Solar PV) energy generation scheme with a total area of 3.76ha within the townland of Ballybeg & Turbeagh, Co. Cork. The development will consist of the installation of 4,186 no. ground mounted Solar PV arrays, a 20kV substation, the installation of 120m of 20kV underground electrical cabling from the proposed substation to an existing pole and overhead line to connect to the national grid, the upgrade of an existing entrance off the local road to serve as a permanent site entrance for the solar farm and all associated site development works including upgrading 80m of existing tracks and installing 435m of new access track of 3m wide and all associated site works. The applicant is seeking a 10-year planning permission and an operational period of 40 Years.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5008
14 Dec 2021Conditional
Construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, install a septic tank, new entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/7344
17 Jun 2021Conditional
To construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, install a septic tank, new entrance and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5685
3 Sept 2019Conditional
Demolish a derelict dwelling upgrade existing entrance and to construct a single storey dwelling, garage, septic tank and percolation area and ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6173
26 Jul 2019Conditional
Erection of PV solar panels on the western aspect of the roofs of the following buildings in the farmyard complex: Mill Building 11, Biomass Store, Milking Parlour1, Droving Yard 2, Machinery Shed 16, Dry stores 12 &15
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5879
5 Jun 2018Conditional
To extend the fattening Houses 1,2 & 3, farrowing house and dry sow house, with associated siteworks.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5452
21 Apr 2017Conditional
The construction of an extension to the livestock wintering facilities incorporating a new slatted tank, feeding race, reordering of cubicles, PV solar panels on the new roof with all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4974
31 Mar 2017Incompleted application
The construction of an extension to the livestock wintering facilities incorporating a new slatted tank, feeding race, reordering of cubicles, PV solar panels on the new roof with all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4768
10 Oct 2016Conditional
To install PV Solar Panels on the roof of livestock building and on the gable end of Wall of the feedmill building.
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6506
7 Jan 2015Incompleted application
Geomembrane lined manure storage basin and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4010
30 Oct 2014Conditional
Construction of livestock underpass with associated access roads
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/6309
28 Oct 2014Incompleted application
Construction of a geo-membrane lined covered manure storage basin and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/6297
7 Oct 2014Incompleted application
Geomembrane lined manure storage basin and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/6156
22 Jul 2014Conditional
150kw wind turbine 40 metres high with a blade diameter of 27m, a new access roadway connecting to existing private roadway with underground ducting connecting to the existing sub-station, and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5573
4 Mar 2014Incompleted application
Erection of 150kW wind turbine 40 metres high with a blade diameter of 27 metres, a new access roadway connecting to existing private roadway with underground ducting connecting to the existing sub-station, and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4428
12 Feb 2014Incompleted application
Erect a 150kw wind turbine 40 metre high with a blade diameter of 27 metres, a new access roadway connecting to existing private roadway with underground ducting connecting to existing sub-station and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4260
23 Jan 2014Incompleted application
150kw wind turbine 40metre high with a blade diameter of 27 metre, a new access roadway connecting the existing private roadway with underground ducting connecting the existing ESB substation, and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4111
5 Nov 2013Conditional
Construction of extension to dry sow house, farrowing house, fattening houses 1, 2 & 3. The proposed development is for welfare purposes and does not increase stock numbers
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/6096
25 May 2011Conditional
Permission to alter and to construct an extension to existing milking parlour and to construct a roof over the existing collection yard
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5124
16 Jul 2010Conditional
Construction of two-storey dwellinghouse, sewage treatment plant, percolation area, driveway and new entrance onto public road
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5789
30 Jun 2010Incompleted application
Four-bedroom, two-storey dwelling house with sewage treatment plant & percolation area, drive way & new entrance onto public road
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5605
7 May 2008Conditional
Two-storey dwelling, septic tank & ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6553
15 Dec 2006Conditional
Construction of silage slab with dungstead area, extension to existing machinery shed, 2 no. slurry tanks, alterations and extension to milking parlour/dairy and extension to existing cow shed to include slatted tank, covered easy feed and straw bedded calving boxes
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13338
The 25 most recent of 27 applications.
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Turbeagh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Turbeagh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Turbeagh.
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 Turbeagh, about 1 in 10 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Turbeagh.
- 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 Turbeagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Turbeagh · Tor Beithigh
- Area
- 2,102,766 m² (210.28 ha, 519.6 acres)
- Civil parish
- Brigown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Condons and Clangibbon
- Electoral division
- Mitchelstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 5,219 people lived in 2,034 households in the Mitchelstown electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybeg, Brigown, Caherdrinny, Glenatlucky, Gortnahown, Toor, Whitebog
- Placenames
- Turbeagh 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.