Cashel
Cashel is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmacabea, barony of Carbery East (West Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Caiseal.
Parcel 2263267
- Area
- 102,044 m² (10.2 ha, 25.22 acres)
- Buildings
- 4 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,279 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Cashel
Planning applications on this parcel
18 Jun 2025Conditional permission
Construct a cattle house with slatted slurry tank, soiled water holding tank and carry out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/338
6 Jul 2021Refused
Construct a calf house with slatted slurry tank and carry out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/469
27 Jan 2021Refused
Construct a calf house and carry out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/44
13 Sept 2002Conditional
Construction of silage slab, effluent holding tanks, 2 no. cowshed extensions, milking parlour & a meal bin
Permission · Cork County Council, 02/4073
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
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 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
- 181.1 ha
- 447 acres
- Land parcels
- 36
- registered freehold, median 33,082 m² (3.31 ha, 8.17 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 24
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cashel, from 284 m² to 268,246 m² (26.82 ha, 66.29 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cashel 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
13 Apr 2026Refused
Permission for Retention of unit in use for short term let. Permission to replace an existing wastewater system and install a new wastewater system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/0924
18 Jun 2025Conditional permission
Construct a cattle house with slatted slurry tank, soiled water holding tank and carry out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/338
23 Dec 2021Conditional
a) 12 No. warehouses for the maturation of whiskey, (3 No. blocks of 3 warehouses, 1 No. double warehouse block and 1 No. single warehouse), each Warehouse has a total ground floor area of circa 1,530m² with an overall total floor area of 18,360m² and an overall height of 11.45m. The Warehouses will be single storey in nature. b) Single storey Service Building with a ground floor area of circa 124.5m² (c) New 9m wide x 3m high planted embankment to perimeter of bonded Warehouse site (d) New 3m high security fence and security access gates to perimeter of bounded Warehouse site (e) New 540 cum fire-fighting tank (f) New sprinkler fire-fighting tank (g) New fire water retention tank (h) Demolition of existing unhabitable farmhouse and outbuildings (i) New internal road network and associated staff parking areas (j) Associated site excavations and recontouring works (k) Ancillary boundary treatments and access road enhancement (l) All associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/905
6 Jul 2021Refused
Construct a calf house with slatted slurry tank and carry out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/469
2 Jul 2021Incompleted application
a) 8 no. Twin Bay Warehouses for the maturation of whiskey, each Warehouse has a total ground floor area of circa 1,530 m2 with an overall total floor area of 24,480 m2 and an overall height of 11.45m. The warehouses will be single storey in nature. b) Single storey Service Building with a ground floor area of circa 124.5m2. c) New 9m wide x 3m high planted embankment to perimeter of bonded Warehouse site. d) New 3m high security fence and security access gates to perimeter of bounded Warehouse site. e) New 540 cum fire-fighting tank. f) New sprinkler fire-fighting tank, g) New fire water retention tank. h) Demolition of existing unhabitable farmhouse and outbuildings. i) New internal road network and associated staff parking areas. j) Associated site excavations and recontouriing works. k) Ancillary boundary treatments and access road enhancement, l) All associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/458
27 Jan 2021Refused
Construct a calf house and carry out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/44
1 Mar 2012Conditional
(1) Demolition of an existing single-storey derelict stone barn (32m2)(Previously granted permission for conversion into ancillary living accommodation, Planning Ref: 11/534, now structurally unstable) and the reconstruction of said ancillary living accommodation on existing footprint (32m2), with identical floor and roof levels, and window and door openings. (2) The demolition of an existing single and 2 storey derelict barn (191.5m2) and the construction of a new two-storey replacement barn (259.5m2) comprising of garage, tractor store, workshop, hay store, 1 no. stable and utility room with toilet connecting to proposed waste water treatment system granted under Planning Ref. No. 11/534 and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/129
24 Feb 2012Incompleted application
Permission for (1) demolition of an existing single-storey derelict stone barn (32m2) (previously granted permission for conversion into ancillary living accommodation, planning reference no. 11/534, now structurally unstable) and the reconstruction of said ancillary living accommodation on existing footprint (32m2), with identical floor and roof levels, and window and door openings. (2) demolition of an existing single and two storey derelict barn (191.5m2) and the construction of a new two-storey replacement barn (259.5m2) comprising of garage, tractor store, workshop, hay store, 1 no. stable and utility room with toilet connecting to proposed waste water treatment system granted under Planning Ref. No. 11/534 and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/116
2 Sept 2011Conditional
The demolition of an existing two-storey derelict dwelling (71.9m2) and the construction of a new two-storey detached replacement dwelling (260m2), conversion of existing two-storey barn to extended living accommodationn/granny flat (70m2) with new single storey porch/sunroom (6m2) and bathroom (8m2) extensions and the renovation of an existing single-storey cow shed into ancillary living accommodation (32m2), with new waste water treatment system, modifications to 3 no. existing entrances and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/534
28 May 2010Conditional
Permission for the alteration of road boundary fence including construction of new agricultural entrance and roadside drainage augmentation, construction of reinforced concrete retaining wall adjacent to road boundary and the construction of an extension to an existing cattle house and the construction of a steel framed shed to cover 1) the extension to the cattle house and the existing roofed cattle house (allowing for removal of existing old roof) and 2) existing open silos, and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/379
1 Dec 2008Conditional
Dwellinghouse and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/2116
7 Aug 2008Conditional
Construction of a dormer dwelling, detached garage, detached ancillary store, sewage treatment unit and percolation area, new entrance and all other associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1463
16 Nov 2006Refused
New house, domestic garage and installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/2406
2 Feb 2006Conditional
2no. cattle houses & concrete aprons
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/120
28 Jul 2005Refused
Construction of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/5420
4 Jun 2003Conditional
Dwelling and domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/2717
28 May 2003Conditional
Retention of alterations and extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/2539
11 Nov 2002Conditional
Retention of dwelling (alterations to house type & layout)
Permission · Cork County Council, 02/4955
6 Nov 2002Refused
Dwelling and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 02/4892
13 Sept 2002Conditional
Construction of silage slab, effluent holding tanks, 2 no. cowshed extensions, milking parlour & a meal bin
Permission · Cork County Council, 02/4073
15 Dec 2000Conditional
Construction of new entrance gate & driveway to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/7575
22 Mar 2000Conditional
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/1611
7 Jan 2000Conditional
Demolition of ruined dwellinghouse & construction of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/62
15 Jan 1999Conditional
Demolition of farm building & construction of two storey extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 99/115
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cashel.
Recorded monuments
- CO134-092 Mound
Description
On steep slope, near summit of knoll. Roughly circular mound of earth and stone (H 1.05m; 7m E-W; 5.6m N-S). Used as dump for field stones in recent times. (CMMS). 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 Cashel.
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 Cashel, 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 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 Cashel.
- 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 Cashel with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Cashel · An Caiseal
- Area
- 1,810,954 m² (181.1 ha, 447.5 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmacabea, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery East (West Division)
- Electoral division
- Cloonkeen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 386 people lived in 139 households in the Cloonkeen electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Benduff, Dungannon, Dunscullib, Gortroe, Reanascreena South, Reavilleen, Tullig
- Placenames
- Cashel 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.