Castlekevin

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlekevin, from 118 m² to 253,585 m² (25.36 ha, 62.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Castlekevin 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.

• 20 Jan 2025Conditional

  Permission to construct a straw storage shed and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4049

• 12 Oct 2018Conditional

  To construct a dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6701

• 17 Jan 2018Conditional

  Construction of straw storage shed.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4108

• 19 Dec 2017Incompleted application

  Construction of straw storage shed.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/7340

• 24 Mar 2017Conditional

  Retention of dwelling, domestic garage to rear of dwelling and 2 no. domestic entrances and Permission to upgrade percolation area

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4704

• 21 Feb 2017Incompleted application

  Retention of a dwelling, domestic garage to rear of dwelling and two number domestic entrances.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 17/4380

• 22 Jun 2016Conditional

  To construct new dwelling house.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/5538

• 11 Aug 2015Conditional

  Construction of two habitable rooms in an attic conversion at existing dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5781

• 7 Jul 2011Conditional

  Retention of gazebo, minor alterations to elevations of dwellinghouse and alterations to vehicular entrance

  Retention · Cork County Council, 11/5462

• 21 Jun 2011Incompleted application

  Retention of gazebo, minor alterations to elevations and alterations to vehicular entrance

  Retention · Cork County Council, 11/5344

• 15 Jun 2009Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and detached garage and installation of treatment system

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5960

• 16 Apr 2008Conditional

  Construction of domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6098

• 21 Dec 2007Conditional

  Dwelling and installation of septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/13392

• 16 Feb 2007Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 07/5154

• 19 Dec 2006Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13487

• 11 Aug 2006Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9705

• 11 May 2006Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/7078

• 9 Mar 2005Refused

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1397

• 17 Feb 2004Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/893

• 12 Feb 2004Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/792

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 Castlekevin.

Recorded monuments

• CO025-093001 Country house
  Description

  Ornate 3-storey 19th-century castellated house, on site of and possibly incorporating part of earlier castle (14297). Entrance front (S) has central block with embattled parapet, flanked by taller 4-storey semicircular embattled towers with fake machicolations, upper windows blocked. Central 1-storey embattled porch of ashlar limestone with tall corner turrets. Double sash windows of various sizes throughout front elevation with switchline tracery with block and start limestone surround and hood mouldings. Front portion of W elevation blank with embattled parapet and false machicolations; slim tall embattled tower at N end. East elevation of 4 storeys; irregular fenestration, upper-floor windows blocked. Embattled parapet has short machicolation at S end, and central turret-like machicolation. Date stone at N end of parapet wall inscribed "1613/T/W/I". Long 3-storey rear elevation with irregular fenestration; roughly central is 3-storey, 5-sided projection. Hipped roof with central valley; chimneys off-centre, on rear wall and on E end wall. Present house 'rebuilt' (Lewis 1837, vol. 2, 389) c. 1830s by E. Badham Thornhill; designed by architect named Flood (Bence-Jones 1978, 71). Castle (14297) shown here on Down Survey (1655-6) barony map. Some of internal dividing walls of present house are c. 1m thick, suggesting house incorporates parts of earlier structure. On top of a high wall at back of house is carved human head (known as Cromwell's Head): facial features indistinct but wearing hear covering, neck ribbed. Farm buildings to NE. Partially blocked pointed door ope in field wall to W- keystone inscribed with date "1831". The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO025-093002 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  No visible surface trace of castle; site now occupied by 19th-century country house (14870) which may incorporate part of earlier structure. Stone inserted on E wall of present house inscribed "1613/T/W/I". Human head carved in stone and now set in enclosing wall near house may have come from castle. Several Roches 'of Castlekiffyn' were pardoned in 1583 (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 2, 103), and Down Survey (1655-6) barony map shows a castle here; forfeited during Cromwellian wars and granted to Thornhill (ibid., 104). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO025-093003 Architectural fragment
  Description

  This architectural fragment consists of a carved stone head and was referred to in the 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork - vol. 4 North Cork' (2000, 14297) under the entry (no. 14297) for an unclassified castle (CO025-093002-). The reference to the carved head in the entry reads: 'Human head carved in stone and now set in enclosing wall near house may have come from castle.' The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO025-094 Cist
  Description

  Grove White (1905-25, vol. 2, 105) refers to 'an old mound of earth in the field opposite the stable yard gate [of Castle Kevin]'. Mound was opened to reveal 'a very old coffin containing a human skeleton. It was that of a very tall man, the coffin was much too small for it, and it was evident that the body had been forced into it, the legs being bent.' According to Doody (1986, Cork No. 19), probably a short cist. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO025-095 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In demesne of Castle Kevin. Indicated as circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) planted with trees on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured circular raised area (diam. c. 25m) on 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; no visible surface trace of site. Circular enclosure visible as cropmark of fosse in aerial photograph (CASAP) with concentric cropmark of narrower outer fosse. Circular enclosure (CO025-164----) in same field c. 70m to NW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO025-096 Kiln - lime
  Description

  In quarry. Random-rubble limestone walls encase earthen core. Front elevation (H c. 7m; Wth 5.6m) faces S; arched recess (H 2.3m; Wth 2.5m; D c. 2.9m), corbelled stones to rear with stoking hole, ope at base. Partially infilled brick-lined funnel (diam. 2m). Ground to rear recently disturbed. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO025-164 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level tillage, on top of a slight rise. The S-N arc formed by the cropmark of a fosse is visible on an aerial photograph (CASAP, SMR file). At ground level, an arc (C c. 20m) S-W is visible as a barely perceptible low rise. A levelled rath (CO025-095----) lies c. 90m to the SSE. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

• CO025-171 Cave
  Description

  On 27 August 1934 the team that excavated the Killavullen caves at Ballymacmoy conducted investigations at 'Killura cave, 11/2 miles [2.4km] NW of Killavullen' (unpublished records, NMI). No caves are indicated on the various editions of the OS 6-inch maps, sheets 25 and 26, in Killuragh townland which is approximately 1.5 miles to the NW of Killavullen. However, a cave is indicated on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map (sheet 25) in the neighbouring townland of Castlekevin, c. 80m N of the boundary of Killuragh townland. It is quite likely that this cave in Castlekevin was the one that was investigated in 1934 and that the townland was mistakenly referred to as 'Killura'. No written records survive of the investigation but three human bones that were found in the cave - fragments of a cranium, humerus and metacarpal, representing one adult - are located in the NMI. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

• CO025-218 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage, cropmark of circular-shaped area (diam. c. 40m) defined by a ditch visible on Apple Maps imagery. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère See attached image Date of upload/revision: 30 March 2022

Architectural heritage

• Castle Kevin, gates/railings/walls, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Entrance gate, built c. 1835, comprising rendered crenellated sweep walls with carved limestone copings, having square-profile dressed limestone inner and outer piers with plinths and carved caps with moulded cornices, decorative cast-iron double-leaf gates, and with wrought-iron triangular arch over entranceway, with wrought-lettering. Rubble boundary walls to north and south.

• Castle Kevin, farmyard complex, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  U-plan two-storey farmyard complex, built c. 1835, comprising seven-bay north range with central breakfront, three-bay block to west and four-bay block to east, with pitched slate roofs, brick chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings to first floor with timber fittings and cut-stone sills. Square-headed openings to ground floor with timber doors, those to east block having paned overlights. Four-centred-arched opening to central block with recessed surround. West block has flight of steps to first floor doorway at south end. Further complex to east with four-bay single-storey block to east and six-bay single-storey block to north. East block comprising pitched slate roof, rubble limestone walls with arcaded south bays having elliptical arches with dressed limestone voussoirs, square-headed opening with metal door. North block comprising pitched slate roof, rubble limestone walls, elliptical-arched vehicular entrances with red brick voussoirs and surrounds and square-headed openings with red brick surrounds. Four-bay single-storey block to south with pitched slate roof, rubble limestone walls, four-centred-arched doorways with timber doors and cut limestone voussoirs. Entrance gateway to east with cut limestone square-profile piers having ball finials and decorative wrought-iron double-leaf gates.

• Doneraile Park, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway to south-east corner of Doneraile Park, built c.1830. Comprises cut limestone piers having moulded plinths and cornices, with ball finials and having rebates to gateway opening with scroll detail. Recent double-leaf sheet metal gate. Gateway set into rubble limestone boundary walls. Avenue from gateway formerly crossed now-ruined bridge. Pier in River Awbeg is of coursed dressed limestone with V-cutwater to west, upstream, side.

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 Castlekevin, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Castlekevin · Caisleán Caoimhín

Area

1,556,455 m² (155.65 ha, 384.61 acres)

Civil parish

Clenor, and its townlands

Barony

Fermoy

Electoral division

Clenor, the unit of the census

Census 2022

373 people lived in 129 households in the Clenor electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annakisha South, Ballygarrane, Grandy, Kilcanway, Killuragh, Powerstown

Placenames

Castlekevin 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.