Walshtown Beg
Townland in the civil parish of Templenacarriga, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile an Bhailisigh Beag
- Area
- 373.2 ha
- 922 acres
- Land parcels
- 54
- registered freehold, median 5,381 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 37
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Walshtown Beg, from 351 m² to 616,707 m² (61.67 ha, 152.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Walshtown Beg 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
16 Dec 2025Grant with conditions
Permission for a single storey dog boarding kennel, consisting of twelve individual dog kennels, store / office, outdoor runs, screened communal play area and all associated site works at Walshtown Beg , Midleton, Co Cork ( Eircode P25 H308).
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6818
24 May 2024Conditional
Permission to construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4947
20 Oct 2022Withdrawn
Extension to existing dwelling and material change of use of part of existing dwelling for use as a granny flat and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6376
22 Jul 2022Withdrawn
Permission for extension to existing dwelling for use as a granny flat and all associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5744
13 Mar 2020Conditional
To construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4540
12 Jul 2018Conditional
Retention of sun room to side of existing dwelling.
Retention · Cork County Council, 18/5840
23 May 2018Incompleted application
Retention of sun room to side of existing dwelling
Retention · Cork County Council, 18/5323
29 Dec 2016Unconditional
Construction of a single storey detached dwelling, detached garage, wastewater treatment system, re-opening of existing vehicular entrance and all associated site works – Extension of Duration of Permission granted under Planning Reg. No. 12/4122
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 16/6970
18 Nov 2015Conditional
Construction of a wind farm of up to seven wind turbines with a maximum ground to blade tip height of up to 140m, upgrade of existing tracks and provision of new site tracks, three borrow pits, all associated drainage, construction of an electrical substation including a control building, with welfare facilities, electrical infrastructure, fencing and landscaping, 1 no. construction site compound, underground electrical cabling, underground grid connection electrical cabling, 1 no. permanent meteorological mast up to 90m in height, permanent signage, minor junction accommodation works for the proposed turbine delivery route and associated all ancillary infrastructure located at the townlands of Ballyogaha West, Peafield, Portavarrig, Oldcourt, Ballynona North, Walshtown More (West), Walshtown Beg, Shanavougha, Glenreagh, Glenawillin, Ballyreardon, Ballytrasna, Rathgire, Oldcourt East, Templenacarriga South, Knocknamouragh, Ballymacsliney, Ballyedmond and Carrigogna.
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6587
16 Jul 2014Conditional
Retention of extension to rear of dwelling and retention of garage
Retention · Cork County Council, 14/5529
31 Jan 2012Conditional
Construction of a single storey detached dwelling, detached garage, wastewater treatment system, re-opening of existing vehicular entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4122
26 Nov 2009Conditional
Two-storey dwellinghouse, septic tank and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7748
2 Mar 2009Conditional
Construction of extension to side of existing dwelling and detached domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4623
31 Oct 2008Conditional
Dwelling, detached domestic garage, septic tank & percolation areas
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9515
30 Jun 2008Refused
Dwelling, garage and septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7598
21 May 2008Conditional
Dwellinghouse, detached garage and installation of sewage treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6824
7 May 2008Incompleted application
Dwelling, double garage & sewage treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6576
14 Dec 2007Withdrawn
Dwelling, detached garage and installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/13070
12 Nov 2007Conditional
One and half storey dwellinghouse, garage and installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12302
21 Aug 2007Refused
Dwelling and detached garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10407
11 Jun 2007Incompleted application
Dwelling and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8546
2 Mar 2007Refused
Dwelling
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/5582
25 Jan 2007Conditional
Construction of American style barn with stables, easy feed area, animal handling facility, silage slab, open slurry tank, slatted channel, slatted slurry tank, dungstead, concrete works and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4426
1 Sept 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10238
13 Jul 2006Refused
Single storey dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8850
The 25 most recent of 37 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 Walshtown Beg.
Recorded monuments
- CO054-109 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on SW-facing slope. Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as semi-circular area (diam. c. 25m) abutted to E by NW-SE roadway. Levelled; no visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO054-110 Fulacht fia
Description
Recorded during construction of Cork-Dublin gas pipeline (1981-82). Site levelled; partially excavated mound c. 2m deep. (Sleeman and Verling 1987, 8) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO054-111 Enclosure
Description
Shown as roughly oval enclosure (diam. c. 30m NW-SE; c. 20m SW-NE) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO065-027 Ringfort - rath
Description
In tillage, on W-facing slope. Shown on 1904 OS 6-inch map as arc of hachures in field fence; as circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on 1936 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; field fence to N curves to respect site. No other surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO065-091 House - vernacular house
Description
Part of settlement cluster, named Walshtown, on 1842 OS 6-inch map of which little else remains. One thatched structure survives; front of 3 bays. Thatched roof to left; gabled to right with chimney; slate-roofed addition to right. Occupied. Second roofless gabled structure nearby. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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
- House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1800. Now disused. Hipped thatched roof with pitched slate roof to north bays. Rendered chimneystack with red brick coping. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, some with bars. Square-headed opening with timber panelled half-glazed door. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding to rear with single-pitched corrugated-iron roof, rendered walls and square-headed openings with timber fittings. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuildings to rear (west) having pitched slate and corrugated-iron roofs, rubble stone walls and square-headed openings. Rendered rubble stone boundary wall with square-profile piers and wrought-iron pedestrian gate to site. Rendered square-profile piers and wrought-iron double-leaf gates to yard entrance.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Walshtown Beg.
- 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 Walshtown Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Walshtown Beg · Baile an Bhailisigh Beag
- Area
- 3,731,752 m² (373.18 ha, 922.14 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templenacarriga, and its townlands
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Electoral division
- Templenacarriga, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Templenacarriga electoral division: 619 people in 204 households; 92% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballytrasna, Curraghcondon, Knockaneshane, Leadinton, Oldcourt, Riesk, Shanavougha, Walshtown More West
- Placenames
- Walshtown Beg 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.