Castlequarter

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlequarter, from 26 m² to 440,412 m² (44.04 ha, 108.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Castlequarter 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.

• 22 Nov 2021Conditional

  Construction of a 270.4m² woodworking and joinery workshop with new site entrance (existing entrance to be blocked up), all associated drainage, service connections, hard surfacing and site works to facilitate the development

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/7153

• 19 Oct 2021Incompleted application

  The construction of a 270.4m2 woodworking & joinery workshop with all associated drainage, service connections, hard surfacing and site works to facilitate the development.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6842

• 11 May 2012Conditional

  Construction of a single storey extension to the south side of the existing dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4979

• 19 Oct 2010Conditional

  Conversion of two storey stone barn to dwelling including single storey extension, wastewater treatment system, boundary walls and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/8261

• 28 Sept 2007Conditional

  One and half storey dwellinghouse, garage and installation of septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11304

• 20 Dec 2006Refused

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13572

• 26 May 2006Refused

  Two storey dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7518

• 17 Jan 2006Conditional

  One and half storey dwellinghouse (change of plan)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4147

• 10 Aug 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and double garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/5742

• 13 May 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3243

• 29 Apr 2005Incompleted application

  2 no. bungalows

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/2883

• 29 Oct 2004Refused

  Dormer dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8025

• 25 Aug 2004Conditional

  Bungalow and waste water treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/6474

• 10 Jun 2004Withdrawn

  2 no. dormer style dwellinghouses

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/4164

• 26 Aug 2003Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/4260

• 22 Apr 2003Refused

  Dwelling and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/1843

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Castlequarter.

Recorded monuments

• CO066-001003 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  On top of a sheer-sided overgrown rock outcrop (H c. 8m) of old red sandstone; skirted by Dungourney river to NW and by road to SE; the building of this 'new road' in 19th century removed part of the outcrop (Healy 1988, 130). Flattish top of outcrop (c. 12m E-W; c. 14m N-S) contains sod-coveredf oundations (max. H 1m) of apparently rectangular structure (c. 12m E-W; c. 6m N-S) to N. Towards centre some facing masonry visible (c. 2m N-S; c. 2m E-W) suggesting ground floor divided into two compartments. A castle belonging to junior branch of Barry's of Barrymore (O Murchadha 1985, 28) apparently sometimes known as 'Barry's of the Rock' (Healy 1988, 130). 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

• CO066-007 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on SE-facing slope overlooking Kiltha river. Marked on 1934 OS 6-inch map as bivallate circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m). According to local information, levelled c. 1982, during field fence clearance. 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

• CO066-026 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On W-facing slope, above small plantation. Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as circular enclosure (diam. c. 38m). 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

• CO066-027 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In tillage, atop hill. Circular area (42m N-S; 41.2m E-W) defined by two earthen banks with intervening fosse; external fosse to N. Inner bank (int. H 0.7m) and outer bank (H 0.6m) heavily overgrown. Gap in inner bank to ENE; entrance to ESE with causeway. Low rise inside bank levels off to give saucer-shaped 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

• Outbuilding, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached eight-bay two-storey outbuilding, built c. 1840, having remains of single-storey lean-to extension to south-east gable. Pitched slate roof. Rubble stone walls with red brick quoins. Square-headed window openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds and remains of timber louvered fittings. Segmental-arched door openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds. Detached five-bay two-storey house to site with gablet windows and multiple-bay single-storey extension front (north-west) elevation. Pitched artificial slate roof with red brick chimneystacks. Rendered walls with render platband and quoins. Square-headed openings with render surrounds and replacement uPVC windows. Rubble stone wall to front of house, with rendered square-profile piers and wrought-iron pedestrian gate.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Castlequarter, 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 high, 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 Castlequarter.

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.

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

Name

Castlequarter · Ceathrú an Chaisleáin

Area

1,261,354 m² (126.14 ha, 311.69 acres)

Civil parish

Dungourney, and its townlands

Barony

Barrymore

Electoral division

Dungourney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

818 people lived in 238 households in the Dungourney electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyknock, Ballymartin, Ballynacole, Couragh, Dungourney, Glebe, Glenaphuca

Placenames

Castlequarter 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.