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Urhin

Townland in the civil parish of Kilcatherine, barony of Bear, Co. Cork; in Irish Iorthan

Area
599.8 ha
1,482 acres
Land parcels
231
registered freehold, median 3,636 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres)
Zoning
—
not in a zoned settlement
Planning
83
applications since 2010

Land parcels

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann

UrhinArdaclugginCloanAughabrackCoomInchinteskinCaherkeenCommons WestCoulaghTeernahillaneKnockoura
1,000 m
259 parcels, click one to see it.© Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0

231 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Urhin, from 23 m² to 2,407,595 m² (240.76 ha, 594.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

Zoning

Development plans, national zoning

No zone of a development plan covers Urhin 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.

Planning applications

Sites that touch the townland, newest first

The 25 most recent of 83 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

Recorded monuments

Architectural heritage

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

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
About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
Landslides
Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, moderately low (inferred), 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 Urhin.
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.

Homes sold

Property Price Register

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

The townland

Name
Urhin · Iorthan
Area
5,998,218 m² (599.82 ha, 1,482.19 acres)
Civil parish
Kilcatherine, and its townlands
Barony
Bear
Electoral division
Coulagh, the unit of the census
Census 2022
Coulagh electoral division: 582 people in 249 households; 79% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 33% were holiday homes.
Neighbouring townlands
Ardacluggin, Aughabrack, Caherkeen, Cloan, Commons West, Coom, Knockoura
Placenames
Urhin 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.