Tonafora

218 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tonafora, from 3 m² to 126,794 m² (12.68 ha, 31.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Existing residential)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 216 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 15 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M4Existing Mixed/General Business/Industrial Uses (Built up area)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Green Infrastructure (Open space, park)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Green Infrastructure (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Greenbelt2 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

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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 Tonafora.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tonafora.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1920–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1930, with box bay windows to front (north) elevation flanking entrance, having single pitched roof canopy spanning both bays to create porch. Lean-to single-storey addition to rear (south) elevation. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and uPVC rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls with plat bands and roughcast render panels to first floor. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills. Tripartite windows to front elevation with one-over-one timber sliding sash windows. One-over-one timber sliding sash windows to sides (east/west) of box bays. Timber casement windows to rear elevation. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door, sidelights and overlight. Rubble stone wall to front with rendered gate piers and replacement wrought-iron gate.

• Laurel House, house, 1920–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1930, with two-bay two-storey extension to rear. Hipped artificial slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and uPVC rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, tripartite timber windows with one-over-one timber sliding sash windows to front (north). One-over-one timber sliding sash windows to rear (south). Square-headed door opening having timber glazed door with stained glass margin lights and sidelights.

• Dunmanway Model National School, model school, 1845–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached irregular-plan model school and master’s residence, dated 1848, now in use as primary school and private house. Comprising six-bay two-storey block having projecting gabled bays flanking recessed three-bay entrance block with gablets. Single-storey wings attached to side (south-west) and rear (east). Single-storey linking block to north-east, leading to two-storey former master’s block. Pitched slate roofs with cast-iron rainwater goods, ashlar sandstone chimneystacks and rendered chimneystacks to former master’s house. Rendered walls with ashlar sandstone quoins, carved plaques to south-western gabled bay, and name and date plaque over entrance. Square-headed window openings with chamfered ashlar sandstone sills and surrounds, having one-over-one and two-over-two timber sliding sash windows, set in single, paired and tripled arrangements. Some timber casement windows. Tudor arch door opening with ashlar sandstone surround and timber battened door having wrought-iron strap hinges. Square-headed openings with ashlar sandstone surrounds to sides and rear, having timber battened doors. Some replacement fittings to windows and doors. Rubble stone boundary walls with ashlar limestone gate piers.

• Post box, 1920–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, c.1930, with P&T emblem in relief, set into rubble stone boundary wall.

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 Tonafora, about 1 in 10 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. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Tonafora · Tóin an Phóire

Area

703,761 m² (70.38 ha, 173.9 acres)

Civil parish

Fanlobbus, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery East (West Division)

Electoral division

Dunmanway South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,557 people lived in 587 households in the Dunmanway South electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Dunmanway South, Kilbarry, Maugh, Maulashangarry, Mohona, Underhill

Placenames

Tonafora 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.