Highfield

71 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Highfield, from 18 m² to 525,950 m² (52.59 ha, 129.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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.

• G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 15 Sept 2023Conditional

  Permission for retention of change of use of existing stone outbuilding to use as an Art Studio including retention of alterations to elevations and for Permission for retention of extension to stone outbuilding for use as a boathouse/outbuilding and associated elevational changes

  Retention · Cork County Council, 23/519

• 25 Nov 2022Conditional

  Permission for retention of extension to house, at variance with the design previously approved under planning ref. 18/00818

  Retention · Cork County Council, 22/720

• 28 Dec 2018Conditional

  Retain and complete two storey extension to rear of existing dwelling and retention of increased eaves and ridge height to roof of existing dwelling together with retention of demolition works on two lean-to-side annexes of existing dwelling, permission to construct new lean-to-side annex, construction of new site entrance, installation of new domestic effluent treatment plant, including all site development works to facilitate the foregoing works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/818

• 5 Nov 2018Incompleted application

  To retain and complete two storey extension to rear of existing dwelling and retention of increased eaves and ridge height to roof of existing dwelling together with retention of demolition works on two lean-to side annexes of existing dwelling as well as permission to construct new lean-to side annex, construction of new site entrance as well as installation of new domestic effluent treatment plant, including all site development works to facilitate the foregoing works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/648

• 12 Oct 2018Incompleted application

  Permission to retain and complete two storey extension to rear of existing dwelling and retention of increased eaves and ridge height to roof of existing dwelling together with retention of demolition works on two lean-to side annexes of existing dwelling as well as permission to construct new lean-to side annex, construction of new site entrance as well as installation of new domestic effluent treatment plant, including all site development works to facilitate the foregoing works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/606

• 11 Jun 2018Incompleted application

  Permission for retention and permission to complete the refurbishment and extension works to an existing dwelling house, consisting of new roof (raised ridge height), new render to dwelling and a new two storey rear extensions - retention of existing septic tank and site works

  Retention · Cork County Council, 18/334

• 20 Dec 2017Conditional

  Demolition of a dwelling house and part of farm building and for construction of a replacement dwelling house including the incorporation and change of use of an existing farm building into the new dwelling along with the installation of a new replacement waste water treatment system and for all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/805

• 14 Oct 2016Conditional

  Permission for construction of dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment system and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/631

• 15 Jun 2015Conditional

  Construction of alterations and extensions to dwelling house and for all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/323

• 20 Mar 2015Incompleted application

  Permission for retention of construction works carried out to refurbish existing agricultural outhouse for storage and all associated site works

  Retention · Cork County Council, 15/144

• 12 Mar 2014Unconditional

  Dwelling and installation of mini treatment plant system

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 14/183

• 12 Aug 2013Conditional

  Construct a dwelling house and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/470

• 26 Jul 2013Incompleted application

  Construct a dwelling house and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/447

• 24 Apr 2013Incompleted application

  Construct a dwelling house and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/240

• 23 Nov 2010Conditional

  Retention of re-orientation of dwellinghouse and alterations to elevations as granted under planning reg. no. 06/2035

  Retention · Cork County Council, 10/812

• 23 Apr 2010Withdrawn

  Substitution of house plans and alterations to site plan granted previously under application reg. no. 06/2035

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/283

• 4 Apr 2008Conditional

  Dwelling and installation of mini treatment plant system

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/602

• 29 Feb 2008Incompleted application

  Dwelling and installation of mini treatment plant system

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/377

• 31 Jan 2008Incompleted application

  Dwelling and installation of mini treatment plant system

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/174

• 14 Jun 2007Refused

  Dwelling and installation of mini treatment plant system

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1569

• 13 Oct 2006Conditional

  Two storey dwellinghouse, domestic garage, site entrance, septic tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/2128

• 5 Oct 2006Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/2035

• 26 May 2005Conditional

  Renovations and extension to dwellinghouse and installation of septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3608

• 15 Nov 2004Withdrawn

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8430

• 29 Jul 2002Conditional

  Installation of septic tank and percolation area to serve existing dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 02/3365

The 25 most recent of 29 applications.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Hyne Nature Reserve and Environs SAC 000097
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Hyne Nature Reserve And Environs 000097

Recorded monuments

• CO150-008 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Roadside to N of Lough Hyne. Stone covered well at base of and set into semicircular enclosing wall (max. H 1.15m). Enclosing wall painted white with statue-filled niches and other holy objects embedded in wall. Area in front of well has spread of white quartz pebbles measuring 5m x 4m. To S, rectangular area enclosed by stones wall, stone built altar at N end. Decorated hawthorn tree behind well. Still in holy use. (Roberts 1988). 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 Highfield.

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 Highfield, 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 Highfield.

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.

• Highfield, Newtownshandrum7 sales

Name

Highfield · An Gort Ard

Area

2,339,542 m² (233.95 ha, 578.11 acres)

Civil parish

Creagh, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery West (East Division)

Electoral division

Skibbereen Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,400 people lived in 484 households in the Skibbereen Rural electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardagh North, Ballyoughtera, Creagh, Munnig North, Munnig South, Oldcourt, Pookeen, Rathmore

Placenames

Highfield 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.