Doonour
Doonour is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcrohane, barony of Carbery West (West Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Dún Uabhair.
- Area
- 99.2 ha
- 245 acres
- Land parcels
- 51
- registered freehold, median 3,039 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 17
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doonour, from 29 m² to 496,511 m² (49.65 ha, 122.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Doonour 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
28 Nov 2017Conditional
To construct a new detached dwelling house, installation of a waste water treatment plant and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/744
27 Sept 2017Conditional
Permission for (i) retention of installation of 3 no. rooflights, (ii) retention of removal of 2 no. windows, (iii) permission for installation of new rooflight and (iv) permission for construction of single storey sunroom extension
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/633
27 Jul 2012Conditional
Permission to renovate ruinous dwelling for short term letting use including the following works: (i) demolition of existing attached outbuilding and annex, (ii) part demolition of ruinous outbuilding, (iii) fenestration changes, construction of chimney and construction of external access stair, (iv) construction of new extension, (v) installation of new septic tank system and (vi) all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/490
13 Jul 2012Incompleted application
The following works to existing dwelling house: (i) change of use to short-term holiday letting, (ii) demolition of existing attached outbuilding and annex, (iii) part demolition of ruinous building, (iv) fenestration changes, construction of chimney and construction of external access stair, (v) construction of new extension, (vi) installation of new septic tank system and (vii) all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/454
26 Apr 2012Unconditional
Renovation of existing dwelling house to include re-roofing of building, installation of windows, construction of extension and installation of mini treatment system in lieu of existing septic tank system
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 12/278
27 Jul 2011Unconditional
Construction of a dwelling house and all associated site works
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 11/465
21 Jan 2011Unconditional
Constuction of dwelling and installation of mini treatment plant system
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 11/27
2 Jul 2007Conditional
Renovation of existing dwellinghouse to include re-roofing of building, installation of windows, construction of extension and installation of mini-treatment system in lieu of existing septic tank system
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1783
9 Mar 2007Refused
Dwellinghouse and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/658
22 May 2006Conditional
Construction of detached domestic garage.
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/936
28 Apr 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/763
27 Mar 2006Conditional
Dwelling and installation of mini-treatment plant system
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/522
6 Feb 2006Withdrawn
Dwelling & installation of mini-treatment plant system
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/147
2 Jul 2002Conditional
Construction of detached double garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 02/2845
20 Feb 2001Refused
Dwelling & waste water treatment system
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 01/798
4 Oct 1999Conditional
Alterations, ground floor & first floor extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 99/5373
30 Apr 1999Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 99/2225
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Sheep's Head SAC 000102
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Sheep's Head 000102
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Doonour.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Doonour.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Doonour, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Doonour.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Doonour with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Doonour · Dún Uabhair
- Area
- 991,526 m² (99.15 ha, 245.01 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcrohane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery West (West Division)
- Electoral division
- Glanlough, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 221 people lived in 90 households in the Glanlough electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 30% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Foilakilly, Gouladoo, Knockeens, Maulnaskehy
- Placenames
- Doonour 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.