Cummeen
Townland in the civil parish of Dromdaleague, barony of Carbery West (East Division), Co. Cork; in Irish An Coimín
- Area
- 177.1 ha
- 438 acres
- Land parcels
- 2
- registered freehold, median 863,117 m² (86.31 ha, 213.28 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cummeen, from 2,200 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres) to 1,724,034 m² (172.4 ha, 426.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cummeen 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
4 Apr 2018Refused
4 no. (four) electricity generating wind turbines with maximum tip height of 125 metres, an Electrical compound, Sub-Station Building, 4 no. (four) car parking spaces and all associated site roads and site works. The planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/176
12 Mar 2018Incompleted application
4 no. (four) electricity generating wind turbines with maximum tip height of 125 metres, an Electrical compound, Sub-Station Building, 4 no. (four) car parking spaces and all associated site roads and site works. The planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/130
13 Oct 2003Refused
Extension to dwelling,replace flat roof with pitched roof & retention of office extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/5104
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cummeen.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cummeen.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cummeen.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cummeen.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cummeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Cummeen · An Coimín
- Area
- 1,770,678 m² (177.07 ha, 437.54 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dromdaleague, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery West (East Division)
- Electoral division
- Dromdaleague North, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dromdaleague North electoral division: 297 people in 102 households; 79% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cullenagh, Derreenacrinnig East, Garranes North, Leitry Upper, Pookeen
- Placenames
- Cummeen 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.