Planning Permission Ireland

Planning register

Clonakilty

Planning applications inside the Clonakilty, Co. Cork settlement, as recorded on the statutory register. The area is the CSO’s Census 2022 urban boundary.

Applications
782
County
Cork

What the data shows

The planning register for Clonakilty contains 782 total applications, with a 90% grant rate among the 639 applications that have been granted, refused, or part-granted since 1900. Within this history, 576 applications were granted, 60 were refused, and 3 were part-granted, with the most common development types being extensions at 19%, new dwellings at 16%, commercial developments at 12%, and changes of use at 12%. Recent activity shows 38 applications lodged in 2023, 38 in 2024, and 35 in 2025, with recent granted examples including a new free standing canopy over ambulance vehicle bays, a single storey dining room extension, and an overflow car park consisting of 28 car parking spaces.

An automated reading of the figures on this page. Every statement reflects the register data shown above; it is not advice or a prediction.

Planning intelligence

Grant rate

90%

of 639 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 1900.

Granted
576
Refused
60
Part granted, part refused
3
Invalid
1
No decision recorded
142

Historical outcomes from the statutory register. Not a prediction for any individual application.

What’s being built

Extension
19%
New dwelling
16%
Commercial
12%
Change of use
12%
Retention
11%
Alterations
11%

Grant rate by category

How each kind of application has been decided in Clonakilty, 2016–2026.

CategoryGrantedDecidedNationally
Extension100%5195%
New dwelling93%4682%
Retention94%3290%

“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded. Categories with fewer than 30 decided applications are not listed, because a rate over a handful of applications would not mean anything.

Appeals to An Bord Pleanála

20%

of 49 decided appeals changed the council’s decision, 1900–2025.

Permissions refused on appeal
16% of 31
Decision upheld
15
Upheld, conditions varied
24

10 of 49 decided appeals reversed the council either way. Withdrawn and invalid appeals are excluded, because nothing was decided. Appeals are self-selected — only decisions someone chose to challenge appear here — so this is a record of appealed cases, not a measure of the council’s decisions overall.

Activity over time

Applications lodged, by year

Grant rate, by year of decision

Recently lodged in Clonakilty

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Contains Irish Public Sector Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Settlement boundary: CSO Census 2022 urban areas (Tailte Éireann). Always confirm against the relevant authority’s official register.