Land parcel 2231425

Area

59 m²

Buildings

No building touches it.

Zoning

R2 Sustainable Residential Neighbourhoods (Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028 Variation No. 3 (NPF Implementation)) The objective

Townland

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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

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 2 recorded monuments.

• CO073-049001 Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castle
  Description

  On top of a sheer limestone cliff-face, overlooking Lee river to N, on W side of renovated early 17th-century fortified house (CO073-049002-). N and W walls of rectangular structure (c. 13m N-S; c. 10m E-W), possibly of 13th century date, stand to 1st floor level; lintelled window ope in W wall at ground level, now blocked; large broken central window ope in N wall at 1st floor level. Later corner tower (c. 3m square), probably 15th/16th century, built onto NW corner of structure. This has wicker-centred vault over ground floor; at 1st floor level are remains of two gun loops, but there were probably more. In recent times remains adapted as part of landscaped garden, including building of staircase at S end of W wall to give access to top of corner tower. In 1989 N half of structure demolished by Cork County Council following collapse of cliff-face below onto roadway. Local tradition attributes the founding of this castle to the Mac Carthys, it later passed to the Barretts (Coleman 1910, 4-8; Healy 1988, 35-6). See Excavations 2002, 64-5. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO073-049002 House - fortified house
  Description

  On top of a sheer limestone cliff-face, overlooking Lee river to N. Early 17th-century fortified house, ruined in 1640s and extensively renovated in 1850s. When Windele (1910, 252) saw house in early 1840s walls stood to near full height but 'roof, floor and stairs' were gone, as were stone window frames. House now 4-bay, 3-storey with attic, gabled roof with subsidiary gables atop centre of N and S walls. Original features include corner bartizans on SW and NE corners, at 2nd floor level; hood moulding over window opes and string courses between storeys. Built by Barret family; 19th-century restoration done by architectural firm of Deane and Woodward for Hoare family; house still a private residence (Coleman 1910,4-8; Bence-Jones 1978, 59; Healy 1988, 35-6). Immediately to W are remains of earlier castle (CO073-049001-). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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 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 Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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.