Willowhill
Willowhill is a townland in the civil parish of Kilpatrick, barony of Kinalea, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Cnoc na Saileach.
- Area
- 121.4 ha
- 300 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 2,342 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Willowhill, from 572 m² to 387,117 m² (38.71 ha, 95.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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
No zone of a development plan covers Willowhill 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
13 May 2022Conditional
To construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5091
29 Dec 2016Conditional
Dwellinghouse, detached garage, waste water treatment unit and temporary placing of caravan on site and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/7322
9 Nov 2016Conditional
Construction of a two storey detached dwellinghouse, installation of a packaged wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, alterations to roadside entrance incorporating a splayed entrance and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6802
26 Feb 2016Conditional
Construct a dwellinghouse, a garage for domestic purpose, install a proprietary treatment unit and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4440
27 Jan 2016Conditional
Construction of detached multi use agricultural storage building for storage of farm machinery and crops, cattle crush and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4126
10 Feb 2010Conditional
Retention of conversion of attic of existing dwelling to habitable use, velux rooflights, roadside boundary treatment and location of entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4252
4 Jan 2010Incompleted application
Retention of attic conversion to habitable use including provision of velux roof lights, together with roadside boundary treatment & entrance detail
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4001
21 Dec 2009Application finalised
Construction of dormer style dwellinghouse, detached single storey garage, domestic waste water treatment system and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7989
30 Nov 2009Incompleted application
Dormer style dwellinghouse, detached single storey garage, domestic wastewater treatment system and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7786
20 Mar 2008Conditional
Alterations, extensions and change of use of existing stone barn farm building to dwellinghouse, installation of effluent treatment system, construction of entrance walls and gates and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5552
15 Feb 2008Refused
Dormer style dwellinghouse, detached garage and installation of waste water treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4793
9 Jan 2008Incompleted application
Dormer style dwellinghouse, detached garage and installation of waste water treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4058
21 Dec 2007Withdrawn
Alterations, extension and change of use of stone barn farm building to two storey dwellinghouse and installation of effluent treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/13321
27 Nov 2006Conditional
Construction of overground steel slurry storage tank and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12706
16 Sept 2004Conditional
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/7035
6 May 2004Conditional
Alterations and ground floor and first floor extension to bungalow to include installation of dormer windows
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/3068
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 Willowhill.
Recorded monuments
- CO099-101 Fulacht fia
Description
In reclaimed tillate; spread of burnt material (10m N-S; 10m E-W). 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
- CO099-103 Ringfort - rath
Description
Shown as dotted semi-circular area on 1842 OS 6-inch map. In pasture, on S-facing slope. Ringfort (diam. c. 40m) once stood here (pers. comm. S O'Mahony). 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
Architectural heritage
- Willowhill House, house, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey with dormer attic house, built c.1780, having central breakfront bay. Recent flat-roofed extension to side (south), and various recent lean-to and flat-roofed extensions to rear (west). Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, ceramic ridge tiles, recent dormer windows, rooflights and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls having roughcast render to rear elevation. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows throughout. Venetian window arrangement with rendered sill to first floor breakfront, having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash window with fanlight to upper sash, flanked by two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed window opening with rendered sill to side (south) having replacement timber casement window. Square-headed door opening having engaged Doric columns surmounted by garland frieze and moulded cornice, flanking replacement glazed timber door, and approached by dressed limestone steps,. Rubble stone orchard walls to north-east. Two-storey pitched roofed rubble stone outbuilding to north-east. Enclosed within rubble stone boundary walls with square-profile gate piers with wrought-iron gates. Set within extensive gardens.
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 Willowhill, about 1 in 5 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 Willowhill.
- 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 Willowhill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Willowhill · Cnoc na Saileach
- Area
- 1,214,463 m² (121.45 ha, 300.1 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilpatrick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kinalea
- Electoral division
- Kilpatrick, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 557 people lived in 181 households in the Kilpatrick electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballygrissane, Commeen, Fahalea, Kilpatrick, Knockatoor, Moanroe
- Placenames
- Willowhill 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.