Woodpark
Townland in the civil parish of Ballyclogh, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork; in Irish Páirc na Coille
- Area
- 113.1 ha
- 280 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 1,605 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Woodpark, from 10 m² to 396,315 m² (39.63 ha, 97.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Woodpark 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
20 Mar 2012Conditional
Alterations and change of use of an agricultural building to use as agricultural machinery dismantling area and for storage and sale of second hand parts and all associated ancillary services
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4523
21 Nov 2011Unconditional
Completion of land reclamation consisting of importing of fill (topsoil and sub-soil) permitted under Planning Reg. No. 06/7284
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 11/6439
18 Jul 2011Conditional
Construction of a slatted unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5540
18 Mar 2008Conditional
Attic conversion and installation of 4 no. velux roof lights and retention of extension to front of dwelling and detached garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5483
17 Aug 2006Conditional
Construction of unroofed silage pit and ancillary effluent channels, unroofed dairy washings and soiled water tank, roofed slatted tank, concrete aprons, roofed feed passage and head rail, partial change of use of unroofed slurry pit to roofed feed passage, change of use of existing milking parlour and existing silage pit to cubicles, change of use of existing cubicles and silage pit to milking parlour and construction of dairy, pump house, animal collection and circulation areas with animal handling facilities
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9839
18 May 2006Conditional
Land reclamation consisting of importing of fill (topsoil and subsoil)
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7284
20 Apr 2006Incompleted application
Land reclamation consisting of fill (topsoil and subsoil) imported onto site
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6534
23 Mar 2006Incompleted application
Land reclamation
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/5790
30 Nov 2005Conditional
Demolition of dwelling and construction of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8829
12 Oct 2005Incompleted application
Demolition and construction of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7466
6 Jul 2004Refused
Demolition of dwelling and construction of dwellinghouse and treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/5141
2 Jun 2004Incompleted application
Demolition of cottage and construction of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/3937
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
Recorded monuments
- CO032-024 Ringfort - rath
Description
In tillage, atop hill. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842 and 1905 OS 6-inch maps; as hachured circular bivallate enclosure on 1936 OS 6-inch map. Circular area (internal diam. c. 29m N-S), cut off-centre to E by townland boundary running NNW-SSE. At W side of fence overgrown interior (internal dims. 11m E-W) defined by two earthen banks with intervening fosse and external fosse. Inner bank (ext. H 1.9m) heavily overgrown with internal face sloping gently down towards interior; intervening fosse (D 0.3m) waterlogged to W; outer bank (ext. H 1.4m) has sharper profile than inner bank; shallow external fosse survives to W; interior higher than outside field level. Enclosure levelled at E side of fence; traces of scarp visible to NE and E. Two levelled banks and intervening fosse visible NNW->S as cropmark in aerial photograph (GSIAP, W409), with remainder of enclosure S->NNW, on W side of townland boundary, overgrown. Possible souterrain (CO032-216---) in interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO032-122 Country house
Description
Early 19th-century 2-storey rectangular house (long axis N-S); occupied. Rendered, over brick to front, otherwise random-rubble sandstone construction; limestone quoins. Entrance front (E) of 4 bays: off-centre porch to right, sash windows with glazing bars. One-storey addition projecting from N end of front elevation, with conservatory under blocked 1st-floor window. Side elevations one bay deep; round-headed 1st-floor window on S elevation above lean-to addition. Hipped roof with projecting eaves, central chimney. Two-storey addition to rear; N end has oriel window at 1st-floor level. Walled garden to S with remains of earlier structure incorporated into external W wall which has two inverted keyhole gunloops inserted at height of c. 2.5m in N and S walls. One-storey lodge at entrance gate to S, rectangular door ope with cut-stone surround and hood moulding. According to owner, stones for lodge said to have come from nearby church (site unknown). Fragment of fireplace surround (0.46m x 0.422m) in walled garden: part of semi-elleptical arch, face decorated with blank shield of 17th-century appearance. Stone plaque (0.55m x 0.55m) with carved crucifixion scene, of 18th-century appearance, in possession of owner. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO032-188 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture, c. 12m W of stream. Grass-covered spread of burnt material (c. 15m N-S; c. 7m E-W). Recorded by Bowman (1934, 22). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO032-196 Fulacht fia
Description
In tillage. Irregular spread of burnt material (16m E-W; 14m N-S). According to local information, former extent of burnt material (diam. c. 30m) reduced by ploughing The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO032-197 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture. Grass-covered circular mound of burnt material (12m N-S; 14m E-W; H 0.4m). Old cultivation ridges join mound on E-W axis. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO032-198 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture. Grass-covered spread of burnt material (18m N-S; 14m E-W). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO032-199 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture, c. 10m W of stream (redirected). Oval grass-covered mound of burnt material (20m N-S; 11m E-W; H 0.3m). Marshy areas to N and S of mound The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO032-216 Souterrain
Description
In ringfort (CO032-024---). Bowman (1934, 23) noted that 'depressions in the interior and exterior of the fort, on the south side, indicate that entrance was by means of a souterrain'. No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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 Woodpark.
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 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 Woodpark.
- 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 Woodpark with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Woodpark · Páirc na Coille
- Area
- 1,131,371 m² (113.14 ha, 279.57 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyclogh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Electoral division
- Ballyclogh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballyclogh electoral division: 794 people in 256 households; 94% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Brittas, Dromrastill, Gearanaskagh, Gortbofinna, Kilroe, Lombardstown, Mohereen
- Placenames
- Woodpark 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.