Hermitage

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Hermitage, from 426 m² to 395,641 m² (39.56 ha, 97.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Hermitage 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Hermitage in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Hermitage.

Recorded monuments

• CO064-047 Standing stone
  Description

  In pasture on E-facing slope. Rectangular stone (H 2.26m; 0.82m x 0.2m), long axis N-S. Packing stones exposed at base. Some striations on N edge of stone. Standing stone (CO064-048---), similar in shape and size, c. 120m to S. 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

• CO064-048 Standing stone
  Description

  In pasture, on E-facing slope. Rectangular stone (H 2.26m; 0.82m x 0.2m), long axis N-S. Packing stones exposed at base. Some striations on N side of stone. Standing stone (CO064-047---) of similar shape and size, c. 120m to N. 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

• CO064-049 Sweathouse
  Description

  Built into natural slope on steep overgrown N bank of Butlerstown river. Mentioned by Power (1923, 204) as 'clochán-like structure, now very decayed....it was roofed on the beehive principal and was furnished with fireplace and chimney'. Remains of circular stone-built structure (int. H 1.6m; diam. 3.3m; wall thickness 0.63m); lintelled fireplace in W wall; break in wall to SE may be entrance. Only indication of corbelling is short section to N comprised of two courses of oversailing masonry. 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

• The Hermitage, house, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey over basement house, built c. 1810. Comprising bay windows and uPVC porch to front (south-west) elevation and two-bay single-storey over basement lean-to to rear (north-east) elevation. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and overhanging eaves. Rubble sandstone walls, brick walls to bay windows and inscribed limestone plaque to front elevation. Square-headed openings having limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed opening having timber panelled double-leaf doors. Courtyard to north comprising east, west and south ranges. Six-bay two-storey east range having pitched slate roof with brick eaves course. Rubble sandstone walls. Square-headed window openings with timber fittings. Round-headed openings having timber battened half-doors. Round-headed carriage arches with timber battened double-leaf doors. Six-bay two-storey west range having pitched slate roof with brick eaves course. Rubble sandstone walls. Square-headed window openings with timber fittings and concrete sills. Elliptical-headed openings, some having timber battened half-doors. Square-headed door opening with overlight and timber battened door. Round-headed carriage arches having timber battened double-leaf doors. Two-bay single-storey south range having two-bay single-storey addition to east elevation. Pitched slate roofs. Rubble sandstone walls. Square-headed openings having brick block-and-start surrounds and overlights over timber battened half-doors. Elliptical-headed carriage arch to addition with single-leaf cast-iron gates. Pair of square-profile concrete piers to west having double-leaf cast-iron gates. Walled garden with rubble limestone and red brick walls to west. Three-bay single-storey former gate lodge to west having recent porch to front (west) elevation. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings having replacement uPVC windows and painted concrete sills. Cast-iron railings to site. Pair of square-profile rubble sandstone piers to west with carved limestone piers and replacement double-leaf cast-iron gates.

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 Hermitage, 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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Hermitage.

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

Name

Hermitage · Eirmeatáiste

Area

403,759 m² (40.38 ha, 99.77 acres)

Civil parish

Templeusque, and its townlands

Barony

Barrymore

Electoral division

Riverstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

822 people lived in 276 households in the Riverstown electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brookhill, Brooklodge, Butlerstown Little, Killydonoghoe, Riverstown

Placenames

Hermitage 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.