Observation pack · Cork County Council

Silver Pail Dairy, Dublin Road, Carrignagroghera, Fermoy, Co. Cork, P61 TN28

To construct a single storey extension, for ice cream manufacturing use, to the north side of the existing manufacturing building, and ancillary site works.

Observations close 4 Nov 2026 10 days left

5 weeks from receipt (received 30 Sept 2026) · s.34 Planning and Development Act 2000 · art. 29 Regulations 2001 · fee €20 · council decision due 24 Nov 2026

The application

Reference: 26/2531 · full record
Authority: Cork County Council
Type: Permission
Status: Awaiting Recommendation
Applicant: not published by the national dataset — see the council register
Units: —
Floor area: —
Site area: 2.68 ha
Received: 30 Sept 2026
We first saw it: 21 Oct 2026, 02:10
Decision due: 24 Nov 2026
Decision: not yet decided

The national dataset truncates descriptions (80 characters for DLR, 70 for Fingal) and omits the applicant. The full description and the drawings are on the council register linked in step 1.

How to submit an observation

Read the file on the council register.Drawings, planning statement and site notices are at https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=26/2531.
Write your observation.Quote 26/2531 at the top, give your name and the address the authority should reply to, and confine it to planning matters — zoning objective, height, overlooking, traffic, drainage, heritage. What you say here is what you can later appeal on.
Pay the €20 fee.Every submission needs it; without it the observation is invalid and is returned. Cork County Council takes it online with the submission or at the counter.
Submit before 4 Nov 2026.Online through the register above, or in writing to the Planning Department, Cork County Council. The test is the date the authority receives it, not the date you post it.
Keep the acknowledgement.The council's receipt is your proof of a valid observation — see below.

Statutory basis. Section 34(1) of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) requires a planning authority to consider any submission or observation made to it in accordance with the Regulations. Article 29 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 (as amended) sets the window: a submission or observation must be received by the authority within five weeks beginning on the date of receipt of the application, and must be accompanied by the prescribed fee of €20. A submission received after the window, or without the fee, is invalid and the authority must return it.

After you submit: keep the acknowledgement. Under the 2024 Act it secures your right to appeal — only the applicant and a person who made a valid observation may bring the council's decision to An Coimisiún Pleanála, within four weeks of the decision. Making a valid observation is also what buys a right of appeal: under s.37(1) of the 2000 Act, only the applicant and a person who made a valid submission or observation to the planning authority may appeal the decision to An Coimisiún Pleanála (within four weeks of the decision). Missing the five-week window closes both doors.

What the site is zoned

Code	Objective	Plan	In force
C2.1 Economic development and employment	Business and General Employment: Promote the development of New Business and General Employment Areas as the primary locations for the development of employment uses such as light industry, wholesale and non-retail trading uses, carshowrooms and small/medium scale manufacturing/repairs/	cork county development plan 2022	6 Jun 2022 → 5 Jun 2028
C6 Waterfront	Business and General Employment: Promote the development of New Business and General Employment Areas as the primary locations for the development of employment uses such as light industry, wholesale and non-retail trading uses, carshowrooms and small/medium scale manufacturing/repairs/	cork county development plan 2022	6 Jun 2022 → 5 Jun 2028
M4 Major town centre	Existing Mixed/General Business/Industrial Uses: Facilitate development that supports in general the employment uses of the Existing Mixed/General Business/ Industrial Areas.	cork county development plan 2022	6 Jun 2022 → 5 Jun 2028
R2 Existing residential	Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses: The scale of new residential and mixed residential developments within the Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses within the settlement network should normally respect the pattern and grain of existing urban development in the surrounding	cork county development plan 2022	6 Jun 2022 → 5 Jun 2028
R2 Existing residential	Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses: The scale of new residential and mixed residential developments within the Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses within the settlement network should normally respect the pattern and grain of existing urban development in the surrounding	cork county development plan 2022	6 Jun 2022 → 5 Jun 2028

An application that accords with the zoning objective is hard to resist on principle; one that does not may be a material contravention, which the council can only grant by the s.34(6) procedure with its own notice and window.

Source: Cork County Council development plan zoning · fetched 27 Sept 2026, 19:37

Source	Licence	Fetched	Link
Cork County Council development plan zoning	—	27 Sept 2026, 19:37	open

Designations on or near the site

NIAH-recorded building × 5
hospital/infirmary · store/warehouse · Nelligan's Funeral Home
Recorded monument × 3
Hospital · R131651 · R179325

Nearby precedents within 500 m, last 5 years

Decisions

Reference	Decision	Decided	Units	Distance	Description
26/1436	Grant with conditions	2 Sept 2026	—	402 m	Fermoy GAA intend to apply for Permission, For development of this site at: Fermoy GAA, Fitzgerald Park, Carrignagroghera (townland), Fermoy, Co Cork. The development consists of:
26/0728	Grant with conditions	6 Jul 2026	—	326 m	Planning permission for a change of use on ground floor from existing residential use to a Hair and Beauty salon, external signage, external alterations to front façade, internal alterations and all associated site works
25/6309	Grant with conditions	6 May 2026	—	128 m	Permission for change of use of existing coal store which is a Protected Structure to a funeral home and associated site works.
26/0369	Grant with conditions	10 Apr 2026	—	466 m	Permission for Retention of single storey extension as constructed to rear of existing dwelling house.
25/5773	Grant with conditions	16 Jan 2026	—	462 m	Permission for the following Large Scale Residential Development (LRD) consisting of the construction of 302 no. residential units, 1 no. creche, 2 no. ESB substations and all associated development works including footpath/cycle path extensions and road improvement works along the R639. Permission for internal connections, crossings, footpaths and cycle paths, car and bicycle parking, drainage, fencing and boundary treatments, bicycle and bin stores, lighting and landscaping/amenity areas. Permission for the demolition of walls currently traversing the site as well as removal of vegetation and scrub and the repurposing of a redundant bund. Access to the proposed development is provided to the west of the site [constituting a relocation of the existing access to the site] on the Dublin Road (R639). A Natura Impact Statement is submitted to the Planning Authority with this application. The application may be inspected online at the following website set up by the applicant: www.ballynamonalrd.ie
25/4985	Conditional permission	11 Aug 2025	—	290 m	Permission for retention of the subdivision of existing dwelling house into 2 no. dwelling houses and associated works
24/5342	Conditional	30 Apr 2025	—	32 m	Permission to construct single storey vehicle valeting building.
25/4330	Conditional permission	24 Apr 2025	—	280 m	Permission for the construction of a new clubhouse and all associated site development works including car and bicycle parking, new standing areas and landscaping. The proposed development is within the curtilage of the protected structure (RPS no. 02227)

Appeals

ACP case	Type	Outcome	Decided	Distance
501349	—	Granted	27 Aug 2026	128 m
320959	—	Granted with conditions	6 Feb 2025	179 m
310524	—	Granted with conditions	16 Nov 2021	454 m

If neighbours here have appealed before and lost, the inspector's report on that case is the single most useful thing to read.

What has happened on this file

30 Sept 2026 New application · observations close 4 Nov 2026

Generated from the Planning Register store; nothing was fetched live for this page. Source: national planning dataset, fetched 21 Oct 2026, 02:10. Not legal advice — confirm the deadline with Cork County Council before relying on it.