Mealisheen

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mealisheen, from 87 m² to 121,951 m² (12.2 ha, 30.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Mealisheen 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.

• 14 Apr 2025Conditional

  Permission for alterations and extension to existing dwelling & to install a wastewater treatment plant all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/201

• 17 Aug 2023Conditional

  Permission to construct sunroom extension to existing dwelling. Permission is also sought to retain conversion of attic space to habitable space; permission to retain alterations to fenestrations and minor alterations from those granted in planning ref. 18/243 also to existing dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/467

• 17 Nov 2021Conditional

  Permission to construct agricultural building for the storage of farm machinery and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/795

• 26 Mar 2020Conditional

  Construct dwelling, install waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/173

• 27 Apr 2018Conditional

  To construct dwelling, domestic garage, to install waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/243

• 7 Oct 2016Conditional

  Construction of 2 no. 250m³ concrete reservoirs, a kiosk, associated ancillary works and the demolition of the 6 no. existing water treatment filter tanks.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/621

• 2 Jun 2016Incompleted application

  Construction of 2no. 250m³ concrete reservoirs, a kiosk and associated ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/342

• 17 Nov 2006Conditional

  Convert existing attic area to living accommodation and install 2no. velux windows to front and 3no. rear elevations and install window to first floor side elevation

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/2427

• 10 Jun 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4086

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 Mealisheen.

Recorded monuments

• CO133-062 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In rough grazing broken by rock outcrop, atop ridge. Circular area (20.5m N-S; 20.2m E-W) enclosed by collapsed, grass-covered, stone bank to E, S and W (H 0.8m; Wth 4.2m); scarp to N. Interior truncated on N side by stone field fence running E-W. 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 Mealisheen.

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 Mealisheen, 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 Mealisheen.

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

Name

Mealisheen · Maoilisín

Area

241,484 m² (24.15 ha, 59.67 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacabea, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery West (East Division)

Electoral division

Knockskagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

555 people lived in 222 households in the Knockskagh electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinlough, Cappanabohy, Gurteenaduige, Kilmacabea

Placenames

Mealisheen 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.