Gunpoint
Gunpoint is a townland in the civil parish of Skull, barony of Carbery West (West Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Rinn Ard.
Parcel 2180456
- Area
- 9,079 m² (0.91 ha, 2.24 acres)
- Buildings
- 5 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 288 m².
- Zoning
- G3 Greenbelt1 (Cork County Development Plan 2022) The objective
- Townland
- Gunpoint
Planning applications on this parcel
25 Aug 2006Withdrawn
Construction of a dwellinghouse and all associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1715
29 May 2006Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse and all associated site development works
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/987
3 Mar 2000Refused
Demolition of outbuildings & construction of dwelling & garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/1159
30 Jul 1999New application
Demolition of outbuilding & construction of dormer dwelling & domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 99/4185
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Roaringwater Bay and Islands SAC 000101
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Roaringwater Bay And Islands 000101
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
- The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of this parcel.
- 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 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
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
- 56.9 ha
- 141 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 5,578 m² (0.56 ha, 1.38 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 20
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gunpoint, from 816 m² to 99,640 m² (9.96 ha, 24.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 3 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
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 24 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
30 Jun 2023Conditional
Retention of a detached boathouse (ancillary in use to existing dwellinghouse) and all associated site works
Retention · Cork County Council, 23/358
8 Jun 2022Conditional
Alterations to elevations to existing dwelling (changes of design from that previously granted under planning registered No. W/96/1406)
Retention · Cork County Council, 22/385
13 May 2022Incompleted application
Alterations to elevations to existing dwelling (Changes of design from that previously granted under Planning Registered No. W/96/1406)
Retention · Cork County Council, 22/326
20 Aug 2021Conditional
Permission for (a) demolition of existing farm buildings (b) construction of a dwellinghouse (c) installation of a waste water treatment system (d) all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/579
7 Mar 2013Conditional
Alterations and extensions to dwelling house, demolition of outhouse and construction of replacement waste water treatment system and associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/132
13 Feb 2013Incompleted application
Alterations and extensions to dwelling house, demolition of outhouse and construction of replacement septic tank drainage system and associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/81
7 Feb 2013Incompleted application
Alterations and extensions to dwelling house, demolition of outhouse and construction of replacement septic tank drainage system and associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/65
26 May 2009Refused
Dwelling, garage and provision of waste water treatment unit
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 09/608
6 Apr 2009Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse and provision of waste water treatment unit
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 09/380
19 Feb 2007Conditional
Erection of slatted house
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/448
25 Aug 2006Withdrawn
Construction of a dwellinghouse and all associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1715
29 May 2006Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse and all associated site development works
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/987
9 May 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3111
21 Jan 2005Conditional
Extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/243
27 Sept 2004Incompleted application
Extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/7307
21 Jul 2003Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/3620
14 Jun 2002Refused
Dwellinghouse (change of plan)
Permission · Cork County Council, 02/2510
3 Mar 2000Refused
Demolition of outbuildings & construction of dwelling & garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/1159
30 Jul 1999New application
Demolition of outbuilding & construction of dormer dwelling & domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 99/4185
11 Jun 1999Conditional
Construction of conservatory extension & retention & completion of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 99/3163
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Roaringwater Bay and Islands SAC 000101
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Roaringwater Bay And Islands 000101
Recorded monuments
- CO148-028 Standing stone
Description
In pasture atop hill. 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 Gunpoint.
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 Gunpoint, 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gunpoint.
- 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 Gunpoint with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Gunpoint · An Rinn Ard
- Area
- 568,740 m² (56.87 ha, 140.54 acres)
- Civil parish
- Skull, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery West (West Division)
- Electoral division
- Lowertown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 244 people lived in 102 households in the Lowertown electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 26% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybrack
- Placenames
- Gunpoint 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.