Vicarstown

68 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Vicarstown, from 69 m² to 569,471 m² (56.95 ha, 140.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Vicarstown 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.

• 24 Sept 2026Awaiting technical validation

  Permission to construct a single storey dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/2482

• 13 Nov 2025Grant with conditions

  Permission to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6456

• 23 Oct 2025Awaiting validation sro

  Permission to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6271

• 16 Jun 2022Conditional

  Permission for the construction of a two storey dwelling house, new vehicular entrance and driveway, wastewater treatment plant and polishing filter as well as all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5401

• 10 Aug 2021Conditional

  The construction of a 1 no. two storey house and single storey shed, alterations of existing ditch line along public road to make way for new entrance pillars and gate to site, new percolation area and waste water treatment system and all associated site and landscape works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6207

• 24 Mar 2021Conditional

  The construction of a detached domestic garage and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4737

• 16 Mar 2021Conditional

  The construction of a detached, two-storey, 4-bed, dwellinghouse, as well as associated, on-site, wastewater treatment system, a bored well, new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4681

• 15 Mar 2021Withdrawn

  The construction of a two-storey dwellinghouse and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4659

• 21 Dec 2020Conditional

  Permission for new dormer style dwelling, domestic garage, sewerage system and all associated works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6926

• 25 Mar 2020Withdrawn

  The construction of a detached, two-storey 4-bed, dwelling house, as well as associated, on-site, wastewater treatment system, a bored well, new site entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4620

• 20 Mar 2020Conditional

  To construct a new dwelling house and domestic garage served by septic tank and percolation area.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4577

• 18 Sept 2019Conditional

  To demolish existing dwellinghouse and to construct 2 no. dwellinghouses and 2 no. detached garages with related site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6283

• 1 Nov 2018Conditional

  Permission for revised site boundary, silage pit and dungstead (revised location and specifications from that granted under Planning Reference Number 16/4260 ) and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6885

• 29 Aug 2017Conditional

  Construction of a detached dwellinghouse, detached garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6243

• 4 Aug 2017Incompleted application

  The construction of a new detached dwelling house, detached garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6036

• 18 Aug 2016Conditional

  (i) Demolition of existing conservatory located to rear (north) of dwelling and (2) Construction of a single storey extension to rear (north) of existing dwellinghouse and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6067

• 18 Mar 2016Conditional

  Alterations, one and a half storey extension to side of existing single storey dwellinghouse, raising of existing roof on part of dwelling to provide 1st floor living accommodation, installation of rooflights, wastewater treatment system along with associated site works and services

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4623

• 10 Feb 2016Conditional

  (a) Construction of 2 no. silage pits, tyre store and dung store, (b) slatted tank to cater for silage pit runoff, and (c) underground rain harvesting tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4260

• 4 Nov 2015Incompleted application

  Construction of an extension to existing dwellinghouse and alterations to existing elevations and all associated works (change of design to that permitted under Planning Reg. No. 15/5102)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6470

• 27 May 2015Conditional

  Construction of an extension to existing dwelling house, alterations to existing elevations and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5102

• 28 Apr 2015Incompleted application

  Construction of an extension to existing dwellinghouse and all associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4873

• 12 Mar 2014Withdrawn

  Demolition of existing conservatory and construction of a two-storey extension to rear of dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4511

• 17 Jun 2013Conditional

  Construct a 2-storey dwelling, garage, septic tank with percolation area upgrade existing entrance and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/5142

• 5 Sept 2011Conditional

  Construction of a cattle underpass on public road and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5909

• 20 Dec 2010Conditional

  Construction of dry storage shed and cow shed complete with cubicles and underground slurry tank, construction of shed to cover existing slatted tank and feeding passage and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/8745

The 25 most recent of 54 applications.

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 Vicarstown.

Recorded monuments

• CO062-098 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on SW-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 38m) on 1842, 1904 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps; external fosse (N->SE) and entrance to NW shown on 1937 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; worn earthen bank (H 1m) survives incorporated into field fence system NNE->SE. Hartnett (1939, 291) recorded double rampart surviving to E and SE, elsewhere banks 'smoothed out as a result of tillage within the fort'; entrance was to W. 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

• CO062-106 Standing stone
  Description

  Not shown on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps. Marked on 1937 OS 6-inch map as single standing stone. Removed. Garden of modern house now on site of stone. 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

• CO062-241 Kiln - lime
  Description

  Roadside, built into slope. Front elevation (H 4.95m; Wth 5.7m) N-facing; relieving arch over lintelled recess (H 2.16m; Wth 2.05m; D 2m). Funnel (diam. 2.2m) partially filled with rubble. Trackway around side of kiln to funnel area. 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 Vicarstown.

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 Vicarstown, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Vicarstown · Baile an Bhiocáire

Area

2,219,073 m² (221.91 ha, 548.34 acres)

Civil parish

Matehy, and its townlands

Barony

Muskerry East

Electoral division

Matehy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,518 people lived in 495 households in the Matehy electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyshoneen, Callas, Cloghroe, Gilcagh, Gortdonaghmore, Kilclogh, Knocknamarriff

Placenames

Vicarstown 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.