Rathculleen

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathculleen, from 65 m² to 333,007 m² (33.3 ha, 82.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Rathculleen 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 May 2026Grant with conditions

  Permission for dwellinghouse, domestic garage, site entrance, sewerage system and all associated works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1362

• 9 Jan 2026Grant with conditions

  Permission for single storey extension to side of existing two storey dwelling, internal and external alterations to existing dwelling and all associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0025

• 8 Dec 2025Invalid - prepare letters

  Permission for single storey extension to side of existing two storey dwelling, internal and external alterations to existing dwelling and all associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6707

• 4 Sept 2025Grant with conditions

  Permission for a dwelling house, an effluent treatment system and associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5790

• 12 Apr 2024Conditional

  Permission for a) alterations to existing single storey office building including a new single storey extension, amendments to elevations, including new window and door openings, new roof finish and modifications to internal layout, b) new signage to existing office building and carpark, c) amendments to adjacent storage shed, including a new roof, amendments to elevations, and layout changes to include a new changing area, shower room, chemical storage and cold storage, d) proposed new detached farm machinery shed, e)alterations to existing car parking layout and existing vehicular entrance, f) improvement works to access road adjacent to office building including widening of entrance from public road, g) all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4625

• 25 Jan 2021Conditional

  The construction of a rear extension and alterations to an existing dwelling house and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4136

• 11 Sept 2020Conditional

  To construct a detached dwellinghouse, detached garage and septic tank along with all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5973

• 25 Apr 2019Conditional

  Retention of existing domestic garage and permission for demolition of rear annex, construction of new rear single storey extension, canopy, new bay window extensions to south and east elevations of existing dwelling and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5034

• 25 Mar 2019Incompleted application

  To retain existing domestic garage, demolish existing rear annexe, construct new rear single storey extension, alterations to south and east elevations of existing dwelling and all associated site work.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4712

• 4 Jun 2015Conditional

  Retention of dwellinghouse and attached garage as constructed and installation of septic tank, amended site boundary and associated site works (amendments to permission granted under Planning Ref. No. 988/77 for the dwelling and Planning Ref. No. 04/9476 for the garage)

  Retention · Cork County Council, 15/5168

• 21 May 2015Incompleted application

  Retention of dwelling and attached garage as constructed and installation of septic tank, amended site boundary and associated site works (amendments to permission granted under Planning Ref. No.988/77 for dwelling and 04/9476 for garage)

  Retention · Cork County Council, 15/5058

• 19 May 2014Conditional

  Extension to rear of existing dwellinghouse

  Retention · Cork County Council, 14/5033

• 21 Jan 2014Conditional

  Construction of new vehicular entrance gates to existing dwelling with associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4095

• 11 Jun 2007Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8538

• 20 Oct 2006Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 06/11605

• 29 May 2006Conditional

  Construction of garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7568

• 27 Mar 2006Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/5857

• 21 Feb 2005Conditional

  Extension to horticultural buidling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/954

• 21 Dec 2004Conditional

  Construction of domestic garage attached to existing house

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/9476

• 31 May 2004Conditional

  Bungalow

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/3880

• 16 Feb 2004Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/863

• 16 Oct 2003Conditional

  Bungalow

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/5160

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 Rathculleen.

Recorded monuments

• CO084-052 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture. According to local information, (Hartnett 1939, 249), site of fort, levelled long ago. 'Faintest traces .... discernible' giving diameter of 'approximately 200 feet'; 'during tillage operations (circa 1937) ....large quantities of vitrified stone' found in interior while immediately outside fort to S and SE 'was found a rich black deposit, which was subsequently used as "top-dressing" for the adjacent fields' (ibid., 249-50). No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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 Rathculleen.

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 Rathculleen, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Rathculleen · Ráth Choillín

Area

911,629 m² (91.16 ha, 225.27 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbonane, and its townlands

Barony

Muskerry East

Electoral division

Kilbonane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,344 people lived in 415 households in the Kilbonane electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloghduff, Curragheenbrien, Garranes, Knockawaddra, Moneen, Parkmore

Placenames

Rathculleen 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.