Meenskeha West

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meenskeha West, from 551 m² to 215,212 m² (21.52 ha, 53.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Meenskeha 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.

• 2 Jul 2021Conditional

  To construct a dwelling house and garage with related site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5841

• 27 Apr 2018Conditional

  Alterations to elevations of existing dwellinghouse, partial use of existing dwelling and construction of extension to same to be used as a separate dwelling unit and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5059

• 13 Feb 2017Conditional

  Construction and operation of a Solar PV development consisting of photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames within a site area of up to 32.2ha to include two single storey electrical substation cabins, 26 single storey electrical inverter/transformer stations, battery units and storage units, CCTV cameras, access tracks, fencing and associated electrical cabling and ancillary site works and infrastructure.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4308

• 22 Oct 2013Conditional

  Retention of demolition of walls of a fire damaged dwelling house and permission for construction of a new dwellinghouse to replace the house which has been demolished, a new biocycle treatment unit and polishing filter, a bored well, a new entrance in place of the existing entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/6009

• 14 Oct 2013Incompleted application

  Retention of demolition of walls of a fire damaged dwelling house and construction of a new dwelling house to replace the house to be demolished. New biocycle treatment unit and polishing filter, bored well, new entrance in place of existing entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/5961

• 20 Sept 2013Withdrawn

  Demolition of existing fire damaged dwelling house and construction of a new dwelling house, biocycle treatment unit and polishing filter, bored well, relocation of position of existing entrance and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/5825

• 16 Feb 2012Conditional

  Demolition of existing annex to front of dwellinghouse, to construct a single storey extension to front of dwellinghouse, alterations to front and rear of dwellinghouse and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4257

• 3 Feb 2012Incompleted application

  Demolish existing annex to front, to construct a single storey extension to front, alterations to front & rear and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4151

• 17 Jul 2007Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9636

• 20 Jun 2007Conditional

  Construction of cow house with underground tank, soiled water tank, silage slab and concrete apron and conversion of existing hay barn to cubicle house and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8831

• 3 Oct 2005Refused

  Demolition of 2 no. sheds and construction of bungalow

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7144

• 30 May 2005Withdrawn

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/3703

• 13 Apr 2005Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/2319

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 Meenskeha West.

Recorded monuments

• CO030-093 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In rough grazing. Low roughly oval mound of burnt material (13m NE-SW; 6m NW-SE; H 0.25m). 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

• CO030-224 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture, c. 70m NW of spring. Grass-covered spread of burnt material. 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

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, having recent L-plan extension to rear. Hipped thatched roof with rendered chimneystack. Extension also thatched. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings having painted sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening having timber battened half-door. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding attached to south gable, having further slightly lower three-bay block to south, all having pitched corrugated-iron roofs, coursed rubble sandstone and limestone walls, addition being rendered, and square-headed timber battened doors.

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 Meenskeha West, about 1 in 10 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 Meenskeha West.

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 Meenskeha West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Meenskeha West · Mín Sceiche Thiar

Area

1,065,014 m² (106.5 ha, 263.17 acres)

Civil parish

Cullen (Millstreet Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Duhallow

Electoral division

Skagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

432 people lived in 150 households in the Skagh electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnageeha, Cleanrath, Knockacarracoosh, Knocknageeha South, Meenskeha East, Milleenylegane

Placenames

Meenskeha 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.