Riverstown
Riverstown is a townland in the civil parish of Templeusque, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Baile Roisín.
Parcel 2163588
- Area
- 1,108 m²
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 179 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Riverstown
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 24.5 ha
- 60 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 2,231 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- City Hinterland
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Riverstown, from 307 m² to 122,919 m² (12.29 ha, 30.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5City Hinterland (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028 Variation No. 3 (NPF Implementation), Cork City · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
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 May 2020Unconditional
Construction of single storey extension to south side of existing dwelling, alterations to existing elevations and associated site works. Extension of Duration of Permission granted under planning reference: 15/04740
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 20/5005
13 Oct 2015Unconditional
Partial demolition of dwelling house and construction of new two storey extension along with site and ancillary works - Extension of duration of permission granted under planning ref: 10/6277
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 15/6277
14 Apr 2015Conditional
Construction of single storey extension to south side of existing dwelling, alterations to existing elevations and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4740
18 Mar 2015Incompleted application
To extend over one storey to the south of our dwelling, this proposed development will also include minor associated site ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4522
10 Sept 2010Conditional
Partial demolition of dwellinghouse and construction of new two storey extension along with site and ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/6277
6 Aug 2010Incompleted application
Demolition of existing two-storey portion of existing dwelling and construction of new two-storey extension and ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5985
21 Jun 2005Conditional
Dwelling
Approval · Cork County Council, 05/4349
11 May 2005Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 05/3194
20 Dec 2004Refused
Dwellinghouse and efluent treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/9365
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Riverstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Riverstown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Riverstown.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Riverstown, 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 high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Riverstown.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Riverstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Riverstown · Baile Roisín
- Area
- 244,683 m² (24.47 ha, 60.46 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
- Brooklodge, Hermitage, Killydonoghoe
- Placenames
- Riverstown 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.