Dawstown
Townland in the civil parish of Matehy, barony of Muskerry East, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile na Cágaí
- Area
- 138.2 ha
- 342 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 122,940 m² (12.29 ha, 30.38 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dawstown, from 1,647 m² to 238,179 m² (23.82 ha, 58.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Dawstown 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
25 Aug 2026Invalid - case closed
Permission to decommission existing septic tank, and install a new waste water treatment unit to serve existing dwelling house and to construct a domestic storage garage and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/2214
23 Sept 2011Unconditional
Completion of two storey dwellinghouse and garage as permitted under planning reg 07/8183
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 11/6041
12 May 2011Incompleted application
Completion of two storey dwellinghouse and garage as permitted under planning Reg 07/8183
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 11/5016
15 Oct 2010Unconditional
Completion of 2 storey detached dwelling granted under 06/5474
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 10/8225
28 May 2007Conditional
Two storey dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8183
6 Oct 2006Conditional
Construction of new agricultural entrance and retention of agricultural entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11250
11 Aug 2006Conditional
Demolition of existing cubicle shed and construction of American Barn stable and shed consisting of slatted cattle house and hay/straw store
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9698
11 Aug 2006Incompleted application
Construction of agricultural and retention of existing agricultural entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9696
13 Mar 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse (change of house type and layout)
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/5474
26 Oct 2005Application finalised
Demolition of dwelling and construction of dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7838
19 Apr 2005Refused
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2509
9 Jun 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/4138
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 Dawstown.
Recorded monuments
- CO062-144 Fulacht fia
Description
In tillage, on S bank of stream. Shown on 1937 OS 6-inch map as mound. No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dawstown.
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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dawstown.
- 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 Dawstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Dawstown · Baile na Cágaí
- Area
- 1,382,490 m² (138.25 ha, 341.62 acres)
- Civil parish
- Matehy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry East
- Electoral division
- Matehy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Matehy electoral division: 1,518 people in 495 households; 90% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyfadeen Beg, Courtbrack, Dawstown, Loughane East, Loughane West, Newcastle
- Placenames
- Dawstown 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.