Oldcourt West

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oldcourt West, from 6 m² to 430,910 m² (43.09 ha, 106.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Oldcourt West 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.

• 18 Nov 2020Unconditional

  Completion of 10 no. dwellings and associated site works and services as permitted under planning reg. no. 05/5538 (permission for residential development) and for construction of 20 no. houses and associated site works and services as permitted under planning reg. no. 05/5538 (minor change in design of all dwellings by the addition of solar panels) - Extension of duration of permission granted under planning reference: 14/6442

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 20/6560

• 23 Jun 2020Refused

  Completion of 10 no. dwellings and associated site works and services as permitted under planning reg. no. 05/5538 (permission for residential development) and for construction of 20 no. houses and associated site works and services as permitted under planning reg. no. 05/5538 (minor change in design of all dwellings by the addition of solar panels). Extension of duration of permission granted under planning reference: 14/06442.

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 20/5284

• 22 Mar 2017Conditional

  The development will consist of a single dwelling house, installation of wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, private well, site entrance and all ancillary works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4684

• 10 Feb 2016Conditional

  The development will consist of a single dwellinghouse, installation of a waste water treatment unit and percolation area, private well, site entrance and all ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4263

• 12 Nov 2015Incompleted application

  A single dwellinghouse, installation of a wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, private well, site entrance and all ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6546

• 17 Nov 2014Conditional

  Completion of 10 no. dwellings and associated site works and services as permitted under planning reg. no. 05/5538 (permission for residential development) and for construction of 21 no. houses and associated site works and services as permitted under planning reg. no. 05/5538 (minor change in design of all dwellings by the addition of solar panels)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/6442

• 31 Oct 2014Incompleted application

  Construction of 31 no. dwellinghouses and associated site works (alterations to house type permitted under Planning Ref. No. 05/5538 to include for solar panels)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/6328

• 4 Jan 2007Conditional

  One and half storey extension and renovations to existing cottage, new vehicular entrance and installation of septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4060

• 3 Aug 2006Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9494

• 13 Jul 2006Conditional

  One and half storey dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8839

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 Oldcourt West.

Recorded monuments

• CO065-018001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough grazing, on WNW-facing slope. Levelled; circular area (diam. c. 36m) defined by low undulations. Associated with souterrain (CO065-01802-). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO065-018002 Souterrain
  Description

  In ringfort (CO065-01801-). Mentioned by Power (1917, 197). No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO065-019001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on NNW-facing slope. Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m). Levelled; low undulations in field. Associated with souterrain (CO065-01902-). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO065-019002 Souterrain
  Description

  In ringfort (CO065-01901-). Mentioned by Power (1917, 197). No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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

• Kiln, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding rubble stone lime kiln, built c. 1800, now disused. Round-headed arch to west elevation with cut stone voussoirs.

• Bridge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch rubble stone bridge, built c. 1820, carrying road over Owennacurra River. Rubble stone walls. V-cutwaters to south elevation.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, with recent flat-roofed extension to rear (south). Pitched artificial slate roof with roughcast rendered chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings with smooth render surrounds having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed opening with timber panelled half-glazed door. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding to rear with pitched corrugated-iron roof, rubble-stone walls and square-headed openings. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding to west with pitched corrugated-iron roof, rendered walls and square-headed openings with timber battened half-doors. Four-bay single-storey range of outbuildings to yard to front with pitched corrugated-iron roofs, rubble stone walls and square-headed openings.

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 Oldcourt West, 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 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 Oldcourt West.

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

Name

Oldcourt West · An tSeanchúirt Thiar

Area

484,819 m² (48.48 ha, 119.8 acres)

Civil parish

Templenacarriga, and its townlands

Barony

Barrymore

Electoral division

Templenacarriga, the unit of the census

Census 2022

619 people lived in 204 households in the Templenacarriga electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Curraghcondon, Leadinton, Lisgoold East, Lisgoold North, Oldcourt East, Templenacarriga North

Placenames

Oldcourt West 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.