Foherlagh

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Foherlagh, from 4 m² to 239,396 m² (23.94 ha, 59.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Foherlagh 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.

• 3 Feb 2026Grant with conditions

  Permission for refurbishment, alteration & extension to existing dwelling including raising the existing roof height, new layout and refurbishment and change of use of an adjacent ruin to extended living space of the dwelling including link extension. Permission for a detached car port, existing entrance sight line/ boundary wall improvements and associated site works. Permission for retention is also sought for demolished conservatory (previously attached to house), Domestic Waste Water Treatment System (DWWTS) and a mobile home (for the duration to complete the proposed works to the existing dwelling).

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0213

• 1 Dec 2025Invalid - case closed

  Refurbishment, alteration & extension to existing dwelling including raising existing roof height, new layout and refurbishment and change of use of an adjacent ruin to extended living space of the dwelling including link extension. Permission for a detached car port, existing entrance sight line / boundary wall improvements and associated site works. Permission for retention is also sought for demolished conservatory (previously attached to house), Domestic waste water treatment system (DMMTS) and a mobile home (for the duration to complete the proposed works to the existing dwelling).

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6632

• 28 Oct 2025Invalid - prepare letters

  Refurbishment, alteration and extension to existing dwelling. Including raising the existing roof, new layout, and extension into existing stone ruin. Together with proposed detached car port, existing entrance sight line/boundary wall improvements and associated site works. Retention for demolished conservatory (previously attached to house), replacement Domestic Waste Water Treatment System (DWWTS) and mobile home accommodation. Temporary permission for mobile home accommodation, until completion of dwelling works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6331

• 8 Sept 2022Conditional

  Permission for retention of 1) single storey conservatory extension to south side of dwelling house, 2) window on southern facade of dwelling house, 3) pergola extension to north of dwelling house, 4) extension to garage and all associated site development works

  Retention · Cork County Council, 22/564

• 5 Mar 2021Conditional

  Retention of alterations and single storey extension to dwelling and retention of stable complex to include stable block, timber shed, container, dung stead and associated site development works

  Retention · Cork County Council, 21/160

• 8 Nov 2013Unconditional

  Alterations and two extensions to existing dwelling house

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 13/623

• 21 Oct 2013Conditional

  Permission for the construction of a dwelling house and domestic garage including all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/595

• 1 Aug 2008Conditional

  Exensions and alterations to existing dwellinghouse and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1439

• 11 Jul 2008Incompleted application

  Extensions and alterations to existing dwellinghouse and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1302

• 23 Feb 2007Conditional

  Construct cattle house with slatted slurry tank, concrete apron and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/489

• 13 Dec 2006Conditional

  Construct sheep house, concrete aprons and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/2698

• 10 Apr 2006Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Approval · Cork County Council, 06/620

• 9 Feb 2006Conditional

  2 no. extensions to dwelling plus a detached garage-utility-potting shed

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/174

• 16 Feb 2001Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 01/712

• 31 Jan 2001Conditional

  Dwelling & domestic garage

  Approval · Cork County Council, 01/346

• 21 Jun 2000Conditional

  Dwelling & domestic garage

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 00/3751

• 23 Mar 2000Conditional

  Dwellinghouse & garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 00/1636

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 Foherlagh.

Recorded monuments

• CO141-004 Standing stone - pair
  Description

  Occupying prominent hill top position. Stones, aligned ENE-WSW, stand 1.8m apart; overall length 4.4m. NE stone is 1.4m L, 0.4m T and 2.05m H. SW stone leans markedly to N. It is 1.3m L, 0.3m T and 2.05m H. (O Nualláin 1988, 248, no. 142; Roberts 1988, Ch. 3, no. 27) 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

• CO141-005 Standing stone
  Description

  In bogland on E-facing slope. Rectangular stone aligned N-S (H 1.5m; 0.85m x 0.25m). Two other smaller stones just to N (H c. 0.5m). 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 Foherlagh.

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 Foherlagh, 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 the townland of Foherlagh.

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

Name

Foherlagh · Fotharlach

Area

858,539 m² (85.85 ha, 212.15 acres)

Civil parish

Aghadown, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery West (East Division)

Electoral division

Aghadown North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

299 people lived in 115 households in the Aghadown North electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Lyre, Munnane, Prohoness, Rahine, Toormore

Placenames

Foherlagh 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.