Rathpeacon

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathpeacon, from 58 m² to 314,962 m² (31.5 ha, 77.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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.

• P5City Hinterland (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028 Variation No. 3 (NPF Implementation), Cork City · 26 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 12 Apr 2024Conditional

  Permission for the following: (1) The construction of a granny flat unit ancillary to existing dwelling. (2) To block up existing site entrance serving existing dwelling and to construct a new site entrance to serve same dwelling and (3) To replace existing septic tank serving existing dwelling and to install a new septic tank and percolation area to serve existing dwelling and new granny flat and all associated site works and services.

  Permission · Cork City Council, 2442849

• 15 Mar 2022Conditional

  Permission for development at their dwelling house to include for the following; namely, proposed refurbishment of existing cottage to include demolition of existing annex at north east facing side, new single storey extension to cottage at south west facing side, change in window and door configuration at front north west facing elevation, new single storey and storey and half type extension to rear of cottage and all associated site works including removal of existing redundant septic tank, installation of new treatment unit with pump and new on site percolation area.

  Permission · Cork City Council, 2240932

• 23 Aug 2021Refused

  Permission for construction of a new detached single storey dwelling, a new vehicular entrance, a new bio-filtration waste water treatment unit, a new portable well, a detached garage with store area, boundary treatment and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork City Council, 2140445

• 9 Apr 2021Conditional

  Permission to extend and alter her existing dwelling house which includes the conversion of the existing detached garage to living accommodation and the connection of this detached garage to the existing dwelling house by means of new single storey link extension and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork City Council, 2140067

• 4 Aug 2020Refused

  Permission for construction of a new detached single storey dwelling, a new vehicular entrance, a new bio-filtration waste water treatment unit, a new potable well, a detached garage with store area, boundary treatment and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork City Council, 2039446

• 29 Jun 2020Conditional

  To construct a 2-storey extension to the side and rear of existing dwelling and all associated ancillary site development works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5325

• 2 May 2018Refused

  Construction of a detached single storey dwelling, a new vehicular entrance, a new bio-filtration waste water treatment unit, a new potable well, a detached garage with store area, boundary treatment and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork City Council, 185110

• 25 Jan 2018Conditional

  Retention of existing single-storey extension to side of existing house, relocation of chimney and minor alterations to previously granted single-storey extension to front of existing house, including increased ridge height, associated elevational changes and site works

  Retention · Cork City Council, 184189

• 22 Apr 2016Conditional

  Alterations and extension to existing dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4922

• 11 Apr 2012Conditional

  Retention of dwellinghouse as built and adjoining granny flat

  Retention · Cork County Council, 12/4702

• 26 May 2011Refused

  Construction of storey and a half style dwellinghouse, waste water treatment system with ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5139

• 8 Apr 2010Conditional

  Construction of a 20m monopole to carry 3 no. antennae, 1no. dish together with associated equipment, cabinets, fencing & new access track at Kelleher's farm, to form part of the third generation (3G) telecommunications network for Meteor Mobile Communications Ltd.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4824

• 13 Feb 2009Conditional

  Extensions/modifications and first floor extension to existing single storey dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4441

• 24 Oct 2008Conditional

  Two-storey dwelling,garage and wastewater treatment unit

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 08/9428

• 30 Jul 2008Refused

  Raising levels of poor agricultural land with surplus construction materials i.e inert soil/rock and topsoil

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/8162

• 9 Jul 2008Refused

  Dwellinghouse and wastewater treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7774

• 2 Jun 2006Conditional

  Retention of vehicular entrance, septic tank and percolation area and domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7776

• 5 May 2006Incompleted application

  Retention of entrance, domestic garage and installation of septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6910

• 13 Jun 2005Conditional

  Alterations, installation of bay window and velux rooflight and retention of existing ground floor and first floor extensions to dwelling and detached domestic garage/store

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4130

• 29 Jan 2004Conditional

  Alterations, raising of roof, porch and dormer extension to dwelling and detached domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/417

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 Rathpeacon.

Recorded monuments

• CO063-055 Standing stone
  Description

  In pasture, on W-facing slope. No visible surface trace. 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

• Bridge, 1845–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch rusticated limestone railway bridge, built c. 1850, carrying road over Cork-Dublin railroad. Rock-faced rusticated walls with cut stone string courses and copings to parapet walls. Elliptical arch with rock-faced rusticated voussoirs and ashlar soffit.

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 Rathpeacon, 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 Rathpeacon.

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

Name

Rathpeacon · Ráth Phéacáin

Area

411,613 m² (41.16 ha, 101.71 acres)

Civil parish

Whitechurch, and its townlands

Barony

Cork

Electoral division

Whitechurch, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,050 people lived in 646 households in the Whitechurch electoral division. 89% 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

Monard

Placenames

Rathpeacon 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.