Tooreen More West

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tooreen More West, from 301 m² to 213,178 m² (21.32 ha, 52.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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.

• G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 19 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 22 Dec 2004Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/9496

• 5 Oct 2004Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/7504

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 Tooreen More West.

Recorded monuments

• CO115-008 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  On S slopes of Slieve Miskish Mountains. Drawing by Somerville (UCC) shows cairn. Site not located. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO115-010001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In rough grazing broken by rock outcrop, atop natural rise. Arc (C 14m) formed by dry stone walling (H 1.5m; Wth 1.2m). Adjoining external face of arc are two conjoined subrectangular enclosures (6.4m N-S x 7.5m E-W: 8.3m N-S x 10m E-W). Souterrain (CO115-01002-) in interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO115-010002 Souterrain
  Description

  On hillside c. 10m S of cashel (CO115-01001-); investigated 1932 (NMI). Two earth-cut chambers at right angles to each other. Drain covered with flagstones extends from S end chamber 2; original entrance chamber 1. Chamber 1: L 2.52m; Wth 1.5m. Chamber 2: L 2.74m; Wth 1.3m (McCarthy 1977, 316-317). No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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 Tooreen More West.

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 Tooreen More West, about 1 in 20 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 Tooreen More 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 Tooreen More West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Tooreen More West · An Tuar Mór Thiar

Area

679,041 m² (67.9 ha, 167.79 acres)

Civil parish

Killaconenagh, and its townlands

Barony

Bear

Electoral division

Killaconenagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,613 people lived in 685 households in the Killaconenagh electoral division. 62% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Crumpane, Derreenataggart Commons, Derreenataggart East, Tooreen More East

Placenames

Tooreen More 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.