Doonavanig

78 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doonavanig, from 37 m² to 417,142 m² (41.71 ha, 103.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Doonavanig 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.

• 7 Nov 2025Grant with conditions

  Permission for retention of Domestic Garage

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/6409

• 22 Nov 2024Conditional

  Permission to construct a new dwelling house

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6209

• 19 Apr 2024Refused

  Permission to construct a new dwelling house

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4675

• 24 May 2019Conditional

  Retention of an existing 15m high support mast with 3 no. 3m high radio aerials (these extended above the height of the mast to a total height of 18m) for use by Emergency Services (Garda, Ambulance, Fire Brigade) together with associated equipment, cable gantry, fencing and equipment cabinet for the National Digital Radio Service.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 19/5321

• 29 Nov 2018Conditional

  Cattle shed with underground slurry storage tank and baled silage storage slab.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/7122

• 15 Nov 2018Conditional

  Construction of a single dwelling house, a detached domestic garage with first floor storage space, a site entrance, the installation of a waste water treatment unit and associated soil polishing filter, the installation of a connection to public mains water, and all ancillary works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6995

• 12 Oct 2017Conditional

  Extensions and changes to elevations of existing dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6665

• 1 May 2014Unconditional

  2no. dormer type dwellings together with individual waste water treatment systems & ancillary site works. Extension of duration to Permission granted under Planning Ref. No. 09/6040

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 14/4889

• 21 Feb 2013Conditional

  Retention of dwelling as constructed, waste water treatment unit and raising of site levels, and permission for sand polishing filter percolation area and domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4286

• 30 Mar 2012Withdrawn

  Construction of dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage, new entrance to serve existing neighbouring dwelling, proprietary treatment unit, percolation area, connect to public watermains, replacement of existing neighbouring septic tank with proprietary treatment unit and percolation area with associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4625

• 24 Feb 2010Refused

  Dwelling house, domestic well, wastewater treatment unit & percolation area, alterations to existing entrance & ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4394

• 6 Jul 2009Refused

  Dwellinghouse, domestic well, waste water treatment unit and percolation area, alterations to existing entrance and all ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6240

• 22 Jun 2009Conditional

  2no. dormer type dwellings together with individual waste water treatment systems & ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6040

• 8 Jun 2009Conditional

  The attachment of 1no. 0.3m dish & 1no. 0.6m dish to the permitted support pole (the support pole has a total height of 18m) for use by the Emergency Services (Garda, Ambulance & Fire Brigade) for a new National Digital rRadio Service

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5870

• 5 Feb 2009Refused

  Dwellinghouse, installation of wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, alterations to existing entrance, domestic well and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4346

• 27 May 2008Refused

  Construction of 5 no. chalets with individual waste water treatment systems, hard suface play area, amenity recreation area and ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6950

• 7 May 2008Incompleted application

  5no. chalets together with individual wastewater treatment systems, hard surface play area, amenity recreation area and all ancillary site works ( change of site layout plan & decrease in density from that previously submitted under planning ref. no. 01/3043)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6592

• 3 Dec 2007Refused

  Construction of 15m support pole to carry 3 no. radio aerials for use by Emergency Services, associated equipment, fencing, access track and entrance for new National Digital Radio Service

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12812

• 26 Jan 2007Conditional

  Bungalow and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4525

• 14 Dec 2006Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 06/13329

• 28 Nov 2005Conditional

  Hay shed

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8748

• 24 Oct 2005Incompleted application

  Hay Shed

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7749

• 31 Mar 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/1999

• 18 Feb 2004Conditional

  Dwelling, domestic garage & waste water treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/947

• 23 Dec 2003Conditional

  Extensions to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/6897

The 25 most recent of 26 applications.

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 Doonavanig.

Recorded monuments

• CO099-055 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 43m) on 1934 OS 6-inch map, truncated by laneway to S. Levelled; 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

• Robert's Cove House, house, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached formerly U-plan three-bay two-storey house, built c.1860, having gable-fronted projecting end bays to rear (north) flanking gable-fronted breakfront with recent lean-to addition. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, eaves and gable copings, having cast-iron and uPVC rainwater goods. Rendered walls having rendered plinth, square-headed cast-iron vents to plinth. Diminishing square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills, having six-over-six pane and six-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows to front and side (east, west) elevations. Replacement timber casement and uPVC casement windows to rear elevations. Round-headed window opening with stone sill to rear breakfront, having six-over-three-pane timber sliding sash window with fanlight to upper sash. Square-headed door opening within recent timber doorcase to front elevation, having panelled reveals, scroll corbel capped pilasters surmounted by open-bedded pediment. Timber panelled door having cast-iron door furniture with single inscribed glass panel. Surmounted by spoked fanlight, having stepped approach and tooled limestone threshold. Complex of farmyard buildings to north surrounding square-plan yard. Single-storey two- and three-bay outbuildings having pitched slate roofs with uPVC rainwater goods. Rubble limestone walls. Square-headed window openings, now blocked by timber panels. Square-headed door openings having timber lintels and replacement single and double-leaf timber battened doors and double-leaf sliding doors on steel rails.

• Quay/wharf, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Section of rubble limestone quay wall, built c.1820, lining Robert's Cove. Walls comprising partially rendered limestone rubble and roughly coursed limestone blocks with render copings and square-headed drainage openings to road level. Quay incorporates single-span road bridge to northern wall, having camber-headed opening with limestone voussoirs and rendered soffit. Rubble limestone walls and parapet, having limestone coping.

• Sign post, 1930–1950 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron road sign, erected c.1940, comprising rectangular sign with rounded edges mounted on circular profile pole. Raised text and harp motif to sign.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, moderately low (inferred), 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 Doonavanig.

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.

No address of the register names Doonavanig with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Doonavanig · Dún an Mhanaigh

Area

2,101,835 m² (210.18 ha, 519.37 acres)

Civil parish

Tracton, and its townlands

Barony

Kinalea

Electoral division

Farranbrien, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Farranbrien electoral division: 532 people in 194 households; 84% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinvarrig, Britfieldstown, Kilbeg, Ringabella

Placenames

Doonavanig 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.