Murrahin North

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Murrahin North, from 881 m² to 391,412 m² (39.14 ha, 96.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Murrahin North 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Murrahin North 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 the townland of Murrahin North.

Recorded monuments

• CO140-019 Stone row
  Description

  In level pasture, atop ridge. Row of three stones, one of which is prostrate. Two upright stones are aligned ENE-WSW. W stone is a massive slab 1.15m L, 0.3m T and 2.9m H. E stone, 1.2m from the last, is split in two pieces; it is 0.7m L, c. 0.5m T and 0.7m H. Third stone lies beside it to N; it is 2.75m by 0.4m by at least 0.55m T. It seems likely that it formed part of the row. (O Nualláin 1988, 237, no. 54; Roberts 1988, Ch. 4, no. 1) 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

• CO140-020 Burial ground
  Description

  In pasture. Subrectangular area enclosed by rough stone wall. Many grave markers noted. 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

• CO140-062 Standing stone
  Description

  In rough pasture, on a mainly gorse-covered W-facing slope overlooking undulating countryside as far as Mount Gabriel to the W. This standing stone (1.2m x 0.4m; H 0.95m) is roughly rectangular in plan and is orientated NE-SW. A quartz vein runs through the SE face of the stone. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

• CO140-064 Standing stone
  Description

  In pasture, in a NE-SW hollow on the crest of a NW-SE ridge. This standing stone (1.4m x 0.35m; H 2.45m) is rectangular in plan and is orientated NE-SW. The stone leans slightly to the NW and its upper portion narrows towards the top. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Murrahin North.

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 Murrahin North, 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 Murrahin North.

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

Name

Murrahin North · Maigh Raithin Thuaidh

Area

865,124 m² (86.51 ha, 213.78 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcoe, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery West (West Division)

Electoral division

Kilcoe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

447 people lived in 178 households in the Kilcoe electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corravoley, Lissaclarig West, Lissydonnell, Murrahin, Murrahin South

Placenames

Murrahin North 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.