Ummera

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ummera, from 521 m² to 96,438 m² (9.64 ha, 23.83 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 Ummera 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.

• 7 Aug 2020Conditional

  Construction of an extension to the side of dwelling house, installation of a new wastewater treatment system and retention of an extension to the rear of dwelling house.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5689

• 1 Jul 2020Incompleted application

  Construction of an extension to the side of dwelling house, permission for installation of a new wastewater treatment system, and permission for retention of an extension to the rear of dwelling house.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5350

• 27 Mar 2017Conditional

  To construct a dwelling house, to install a domestic waste water treatment system and to carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/174

• 22 Jul 2016Withdrawn

  To construct a dwelling house, to install a domestic waste water treatment system and to carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/469

• 30 Jun 2014Conditional

  Retention of alterations to elevations including the construction of 2no balconies to existing dwelling constructed under planning reference W/03/2501

  Retention · Cork County Council, 14/394

• 7 Feb 2014Incompleted application

  Permission for the retention of alterations to elevations including the construction of 2 no. balconies to existing dwelling constructed under planning reference W/03/2501

  Retention · Cork County Council, 14/90

• 6 Dec 2013Incompleted application

  Permission for the retention of alterations to elevations including the construction of 2no balconies to existing dwelling constructed under planning reference W/03/2501

  Retention · Cork County Council, 13/677

• 21 Oct 2013Conditional

  To alter site boundaries to that which was granted planning permission under planning reference 09/374 and to construct a vehicular entrance

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/594

• 18 Jun 2013Conditional

  Construct single and two storey extension to dwelling including alterations to elevations. Permission also sought to carry out alterations to outbuildings for use ancillary to existing dwelling including reroofing and raising of ridge heights

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/350

• 30 May 2013Incompleted application

  Proposed single & 2-storey extensions and alterations to existing house and outbuildings and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/303

• 3 Apr 2009Conditional

  Dwellinghouse, proprietary treatment unit and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/374

• 26 Feb 2009Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse with proprietary treatment unit and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/202

• 6 Feb 2009Conditional

  Install proprietary treatment unit to facilitate existing dwellinghouse and to carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/102

• 6 Feb 2009Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse, proprietary treatment unit and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/103

• 17 Jun 2008Refused

  Dwellinghouse, proprietary treatment unit and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1144

• 5 Sept 2007Refused

  Dwellinghouse, proprietary unit and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/2342

• 10 Aug 2007Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse, proprietary treatment unit and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/2143

• 7 Apr 2006Withdrawn

  Dwelling and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/593

• 29 Nov 2004Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8736

• 26 May 2003Conditional

  Dwelling

  Approval · Cork County Council, 03/2501

• 18 Dec 2002Refused

  Bungalow

  Permission · Cork County Council, 02/5661

• 12 Aug 2002New application

  Dwellinghouse

  Approval · Cork County Council, 02/3575

• 3 Jul 2002Refused

  Bungalow

  Permission · Cork County Council, 02/2860

• 19 Feb 2001Refused

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 01/768

• 19 Feb 2001Refused

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 01/766

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.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Courtmacsherry Estuary SAC 001230
• Special Protection Area: Courtmacsherry Bay SPA 004219
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Courtmacsherry Estuary 001230

Recorded monuments

• CO123-043 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In tillage, below crest of hill on S-facing slope. Heavily overgrown circular area (diam. c. 40m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.7m), stone faced in parts. External fosse (D 0.75m) to NE and NW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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

• Ummera House, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay two-storey house, having two-storey return to west end of rear (north), two and three-storey L-plan block to rear (north) with single-storey extension to side (east), built c.1820, with various later additions and alterations. Recent porch to front and recent flat-roofed canopy to side (east). Pitched slate roofs to main block. Hipped slate roof to return. Pitched slate roof with cat-slide to rear extension. Lean-to slate roof to lean-to extension to L-plan extension. Rendered eaves course with timber fascia to front elevation of main block. Over-hanging timber eaves on exposed rafters and rendered cavetto moulded cornice below eaves to return. Dressed stone eaves course to front (north) elevation of rear extension. Rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron, uPVC and aluminium rainwater goods throughout. Rendered wall to ground floor of front elevation having rusticated render quoins. Roughcast rendered walls elsewhere. Roughcast rendered rubble stone walls to rear and to side (west) elevations of return, having sections of slate-hanging to side (west) elevation. Rendered platband below eaves to front (north) elevation of rear extension. Recessed rendered plinth band throughout. Square-headed window openings throughout, having stone sills to front elevation of main block and to side (west) elevation of rear return. Rendered sills elsewhere. One-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to ground floor of front elevation, replacement timber casement windows to first floor. Six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor and nine-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to ground floor of side (west) elevation of return. Six-over-six pane timber sash windows to first floor of front (north) elevation of rear extension. Two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to ground floor of rear extension. Timber-framed bipartite windows with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and to first floor of rear extension. Replacement timber casement windows elsewhere. Segmental-headed window openings with render sills to ground floor of rear extension, having replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed door openings throughout. Timber surround on rendered plinths to interior of recent porch front elevation, having moulded render cornice and timber panelled door surmounted by overlight. Replacement glazed timber door to side (east) elevation of main block. Replacement timber panelled door to front (south) elevation of side (east) extension. Courtyard to north enclosed by double-leaf wrought-iron gates. Single-storey outbuildings along west, north and east sides of courtyard. Decorative double-leaf cast-iron gates on square-profile snecked rubble stone piers flanked by rubble stone quadrant side walls with saddle-backed concrete coping.

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 Ummera, 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 high, 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 Ummera.

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

Name

Ummera · An tIomaire

Area

647,611 m² (64.76 ha, 160.03 acres)

Civil parish

Timoleague, and its townlands

Barony

Ibane and Barryroe

Electoral division

Timoleague, the unit of the census

Census 2022

702 people lived in 249 households in the Timoleague electoral division. 68% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardmore, Burrane, Castle Upper, Killavarrig

Placenames

Ummera 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.