Walshtown More West
Townland in the civil parish of Templenacarriga, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile an Bhailisigh Mór Thiar
- Area
- 228.2 ha
- 564 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 4,729 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Walshtown More West, from 365 m² to 1,026,890 m² (102.69 ha, 253.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 More West 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
4 Apr 2023Conditional
To erect 3 no. extensions. These consists of a dining room extension to the eastern gable wall and a walk-in wardrobe extension to the western gable wall of the existing single storey dwelling house. Also, a front extension consisting of a new front porch to extend the existing living room area and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4634
15 Mar 2019Conditional
The expansion of the existing maturation warehouse facility and all ancillary site development works. The proposed development includes 60 no. maturation warehouses, which will be constructed in 30 no. blocks of 2 warehouses and 3 no. ESB substations. Ancillary site development works include landscaping, tree felling, berming, fencing, settlement basin and a surface water attenuation pond. Access to the expanded maturation facility will be via the existing entrance and access road from the L3800. Emergency access will be provided via the existing gated entrance from the L7693. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) has been prepared and will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application. The proposed development is for modifications to an establishment to which the Major Accident Directive applies.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4641
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 May 2014Conditional
10 year Permission is sought for expansion of the existing maturation warehouse facility and all ancillary site development works. The proposed development includes 24 no. maturation warehouses, which will be constructed in 10 no. blocks of 2 warehouses and 1 no. block of 4 warehouses and an ESB substation. Associated landscaping and site development works consisting of tree felling, berming, fencing and a surface water attenuation pond. The proposed development also includes site development works to accommodate future maturation warehouse development and these works include tree felling, site clearance, berming & fencing. Access to the expanding maturation facility will be via the existing entrance and access road from the L3800.
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5024
22 May 2013Refused
Construction of a wind farm consisting of 11 no. turbines (each with a maximum tip height of 156.5m), a sub-station including 1no. control building and associated internal equipment, septic tank and percolation area, 3no. borrow pits, a meteorological mast, new internal access roads, upgrading of existing internal access roads, underground cables and ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4959
9 May 2013Incompleted application
Wind farm consisting of 11no. turbines (each with a maximum tip height of 156.5m), a sub-station including 1no. control building and associated internal equipment, septic tank and percolation area, 3no. borrow pits, a meteorological mast, new internal access roads, upgrading of existing internal access roads, underground cables and ancillary work
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4868
12 Mar 2012Conditional
Construction of a garage and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4455
9 Nov 2010Conditional
Construction of 40 no. maturation warehouses and all ancillary site development works and buildings. The proposed development also includes permission for the realignment and upgrade of the junction of the L3800 and R627 with ancillary landscaping and traffic calming measures at Dungourney. The proposed maturation warehouses will be constructed in 20 no. blocks of 2 warehouses. The ancillary buildings and structures will include staff facility building, sprinkler pump-house, fork lift shed, ESB substation and 2 no. water sprinler tanks. Associated landscaping and site development works are proposed, including a package sewage treatment plant and associated percolation area, sprinkler water retention pond, a surface water attenuation pond, tree felling, berming and perimeter fencing. Access to the site will be via an upgraded entrance including security barrier from the L3800 and will include a new bridge crossing of the Dungourney River
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/8418
30 Sept 2009Conditional
Construction of single storey extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7201
16 Jun 2009Conditional
Two-storey dwellinghouse, biocycle unit and percolation area
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5972
8 Jun 2009Incompleted application
Two-storey dwelling house, bio-cycle unit & percolation area
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5877
16 Mar 2004Conditional
Construction of shed fro use as garage, workshop and store
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/1757
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 More West.
Recorded monuments
- CO054-092 Standing stone
Description
In accessible due to forestry. According to local information, stone has fallen. 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
- CO054-112 Standing stone
Description
Not located due to forestry. According to local information, stone still standing. 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
- CO065-034 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on S-facing slope. Roughly circular, raised area (35.5m E-W; 32m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.4m; ext. H 2.65m), with berm on inner bank face. Bank planted with trees; entrance to N. Apple trees in interior. 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Walshtown More West.
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 More West.
- 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 More West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Walshtown More West · Baile an Bhailisigh Mór Thiar
- Area
- 2,282,303 m² (228.23 ha, 563.97 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
- Ballynona North, Glenathonacash, Glenreagh, Oldcourt, Shanavougha, Walshtown Beg, Walshtown More East, Walshtownmore
- Placenames
- Walshtown More West 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.