Mountain Common

113 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountain Common, from 13 m² to 52,404 m² (5.24 ha, 12.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 50 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 27 Apr 2026Grant with conditions

  Permission for the construction of a new dwellinghouse and domestic garage, new entrance, wastewater treatment system and sauna together with all other ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1074

• 22 Apr 2026Grant with conditions

  Permission for the following: (i) retention of single storey extension to dwelling house and installation of dormer window to rear, (ii) permission for construction of detached domestic garage/office, and (iii) all associated site works

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/1020

• 26 Mar 2026Invalid - case closed

  Construction of a new dwellinghouse and domestic garage, new entrance, wastewater treatment system and sauna together with all other ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0758

• 30 Jan 2026Grant with conditions

  Decommissioning of existing septic tank system and installation of waste water treatment system and associated site development works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0183

• 21 Nov 2025Grant with conditions

  Construction of 4 no. detached dwelling houses, installation of individual wastewater treatment systems to service same and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6557

• 12 Sept 2025Conditional permission

  Construction of a single storey dwellinghouse, domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, waste water treatment system, and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5887

• 8 Sept 2025Grant with conditions

  The construction of an all-weather playing pitch / ball alley with perimeter fencing floodlighting and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5820

• 13 Aug 2025Incompleted application

  Construction of an all-weather playing pitch / ball alley with perimeter fencing, floodlighting and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/459

• 31 Jul 2025Conditional permission

  To construct extensions to dwelling, to construct detached home office and to replace existing septic tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/429

• 3 Jul 2025Incompleted application

  To construct extensions to dwelling and to construct detached home office and to replace existing septic tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/369

• 12 Jun 2025Incompleted application

  Permission to construct extensions to dwelling, permission to construct home office and permission to replace existing septic tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/322

• 6 Jun 2025Conditional

  Retain single storey extension to side of existing dwelling

  Retention · Cork County Council, 25/307

• 16 Jan 2025Conditional

  Construct extension to school comprising of two classrooms, kitchen and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/7

• 1 Nov 2024Conditional

  Retention of elevational changes as constructed to dwelling previously granted under planning no. 296/94 and for retention of site layout and all associated site development works

  Retention · Cork County Council, 24/599

• 19 Jul 2024Conditional

  Permission for Retention of alterations and Change of Use of existing outbuilding No. 2. to use as a dwelling, Permission to demolish said dwelling and to construct a new larger dwelling partly on the footprint of the demolished building and incorporating outbuilding No 1. Permission is also sought for the installation of 2 new waste water treatment units to serve the proposed dwelling and the existing adjacent dwelling, for a new site entrance, for the subdivision of the site to create two individual properties and for all associated siteworks

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/392

• 1 Jul 2024Conditional

  Permission is sought for demolition, extension and alteration works to the existing dwelling house comprising of demolishing the single storey flat roof accommodation to the east of the 2 storey dwelling in provision of a new single storey flat and pitched gable roof extension with roof lights, to the side and rear accommodating new living and sleeping quarters. A new c.33sqm pitched gable roof shed with rooflights to the north of the site and provision of 2 no. carparking spaces to the southeast of the site with vehicle access off the adjoining road. Alterations to the existing 2 storey cottage comprising of a change in ground floor finish floor level, front entrance door, removal and installation of new stairs, new and widening of openings to the east facing elevation and the installation of 2 no. rooflights to the rear pitch; including new waste water treatment system and pump, all hard and soft landscaping and ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/354

• 26 Jun 2024Conditional

  Permission for retention and completion of dwelling house and associated site works (at variance to dwelling house previously approved under planning references 21/00363 and 23/00011

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/342

• 5 Jun 2024Incompleted application

  Permission is sought for demolition, extension and alteration works to the existing dwelling house comprising of demolishing the single storey flat roof accommodation to the east of the 2 storey dwelling in provision of a new single storey flat and pitched gable roof extension with roof lights, to the side and rear accommodating new living and sleeping quarters. A new c.33sqm pitched gable roof shed with rooflights to the north of the site and provision of 2 no. carparking spaces to the southeast of the site with vehicle access off the adjoining road. Alterations to the existing 2 storey cottage comprising of a change in ground floor finish floor level, front entrance door, removal and installation of new stairs, new and widening of openings to the east facing elevation and the installation of 2 no. rooflights to the rear pitch; including new waste water treatment system and pump, all hard and soft landscaping and ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/291

• 18 Oct 2023Refused

  Construction of a dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/585

• 13 Oct 2023Conditional

  Permission to demolish existing milking parlour, dairy and plant room, permission to construct a milking parlour, dairy, plant room, roofed cattle holding yard, two no. underground soiled water storage tanks, milk silo, rainwater harvesting tank and relocate existing feed storage bin, permission to raise the roof height of existing cattle holding yard and carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/569

• 28 Sept 2023Incompleted application

  Construction of a dwelling house and associated siteworks

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/542

• 21 Sept 2023Conditional

  Permission for the construction of an extension and alterations to the existing dwelling house, and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/531

• 23 May 2023Conditional

  Planning Permission for the retention of alterations to a garage used as habitable accommodation, (Previously permitted under Planning Ref. No. 09/685), Permission for change of use of this structure to a dwelling house and Permission for construction of an extension to this dwelling house. The removal of an existing septic tank, and the installation of a new septic tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/273

• 23 Mar 2023Conditional

  Modifications and extensions to the existing dwelling house and garage, namely; A) Removal of all existing single-storey extensions to front, rear, and sides of existing dwelling (Totaling 49.39 Sq.m. / 531.63 Sq. Ft. Floor Space) B) Construction of a 68.93 Sq.m. / 741.95 Sq. Ft. Single-storey extension to front, rear and side (West-facing elevation ) of existing dwelling, C) Alterations to existing dwelling elevations, D) Conversion of existing 18.57 Sq.m. / 199.88 Sq. ft. Garage space to habitable space, E) Removal of existing garage roof and construction of new flat roof with associated 0.89m overall increase in roof height, F) Alterations to existing garage elevations, G) Upgrading of an existing site entrance, and H) All Ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/163

• 18 Jan 2023Conditional

  Development will consist of revised site levels and revised finished floor level of dwelling house as permitted under planning Ref. No. 21/00363

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/11

The 25 most recent of over 100 applications.

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 Mountain Common.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mountain Common.

Architectural heritage

• St James' Roman Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding T-plan double-height Roman Catholic church, dated 1832, comprising four-bay nave, recent gable-fronted single-storey porch to front (north-east), single-bay transepts to sides (north-west, south-east) and later two-bay single-storey sacristy to rear (south-west). Central gable to rear elevation accommodating chancel. Pitched slate roofs throughout, having dressed limestone bellcote with cross finial to front, timber clad eaves and cast-iron rainwater goods throughout. Replacement timber bargeboards to gables. Roughcast rendered walls with rendered plinth and plinth band throughout, having rendered platbands below eaves. Raised mosaic dedication plaque within rendered surround to side (south-east) elevation displaying build date. Pointed arch window openings with rendered sills and surrounds to nave, transepts and porch, having lead-lined stained glass windows. Oculus window openings to gables of nave and transepts, having rendered surrounds and lead-lined stained glass windows. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills to sacristy, having timber casement windows. Square-headed door openings throughout, having rendered surrounds and replacement single and double-leaf battened timber doors. Kingpost trussed timber roof to interior, timber balcony to south-east transept accessed via timber staircase. White marble altar to chancel with grey marble panels, red marble colonettes and crocheted lantern with cross finial. Fluted torus reredos panel to rear wall having camber-headed canopy with panelled soffit and quatrefoil floral motif to archivolt. Rubble stone enclosing wall with solider coping. Square-profile tooled limestone gate piers to south-east, having ashlar limestone coping with ball finials and double-leaf cast-iron gates.

• Telephone box, 1940–1960 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding square-profile moulded concrete telephone box, c.1950, now disused. Painted walls, moulded concrete cap and plinth, with fixed small pane glazed panels and glazed timber door.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, comprising three-bay single-pile block with single-storey addition to side (south), later two-bay double-pile block to side (north) with shop display window to front (west) elevation and corner (north-west) sited door opening. Two-bay two-storey lean-to extension and single-storey corrugated-iron lean-to additions rear (east). Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, eaves courses and gable copings to farmhouse, having cast-iron and uPVC rainwater goods. Pitched slate roof with rendered eaves to side (south) addition, corrugated-iron roofs to rear extension with rendered gable copings and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls throughout having render quoins to front elevations, rendered stop chamfer to corner (north-west) entrance. Corrugated-iron sheet walls to rear single-storey extensions, having concrete plinths. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills throughout, having moulded render block-and-start surrounds and voussoirs to ground floor front elevation openings of three-bay block and to side (south) elevation of double-pile block. One-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows throughout front and side (north, south) elevations, two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to rear elevation. Square-headed shopfront display window to front elevation of double-pile block, having moulded render surround, sill and cornice with timber-framed six-pane display window. Square-headed door openings throughout, having rendered surrounds. Glazed timber door to front elevation of three-bay block. Timber panelled door to corner (north-west) beneath rendered stop chamfered canopy. Timber panel door to corrugated-iron addition to rear. Associated outbuilding to north within concrete paved yard. Pitched corrugated-iron roof and roughcast rendered walls, having square-headed door openings. Located within own grounds set back from road, having rendered enclosing wall with square-profile gate piers carrying recent steel gates.

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 Mountain Common, 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 Mountain Common.

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

Name

Mountain Common · An Sliabh Coiteann

Area

1,309,362 m² (130.94 ha, 323.55 acres)

Civil parish

Ardfield, and its townlands

Barony

Ibane and Barryroe

Electoral division

Ardfield, the unit of the census

Census 2022

838 people lived in 287 households in the Ardfield electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyluck, Balteenbrack, Brittas South, Brownstown, Caher, Caherlarhig, Carhoo, Clooncunnig, Dairies, Duneen, Dunnycove, Garrymore

Placenames

Mountain Common 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.