Dower

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dower, from 1,821 m² to 375,453 m² (37.55 ha, 92.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• P1Agriculture
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 6 Jul 2022Conditional

  Construction of a calf house, a slatted unit and associated works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5587

• 15 Oct 2021Conditional

  Construction of a dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter and associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6819

• 21 Sept 2021Conditional

  Construction of a dwelling, wastewater treatment unit, percolation area and associated works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6579

• 27 Aug 2021Incompleted application

  Construction of a dwelling, wastewater treatment unit, percolation area and associated works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6373

• 16 Mar 2017Refused

  209 unit residential development, consisting of 9 no. 2 bed terraced units, 12 no. 3 bed terraced units, 90 no. 3 bed semi-detached units, 78 no. 4 bed semi-detached units and 20 no. detached units, a crèche facility (508sq.m) with 2 no. first floor office units (152sq.m), 660sq.m total building area, 2 no. pedestrian links into the existing Gortnahomna More residential estate, main street entrance pillars, wing walls, a kick-about pitch, multi-use games area, 4 no. Local Play Areas, open space areas, site landscaping and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4624

• 9 Feb 2017Incompleted application

  209 unit residential development, consisting of 9 no. 2 bed terraced units, 12 no. 3 bed terraced units, 90 no. 3 bed semi-detached units, 78 no. 4 bed semi-detached units, 20 no. detached units/15 no of which are private serviced sites, Créche facility (508m2) with 2 no first floor office units (152m2), 660m2 total building area, 2 no pedestrian links into the existing Gortnahomna More residential estate, main site entrance pillars, wing walls, landscaping and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4269

• 25 Jun 2015Conditional

  Construction of an animal house, silage slab, concrete apron and associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5365

• 7 Feb 2014Unconditional

  To construct a bungalow, double domestic garage, installation of septic tank and ancillary works, extension of duration of permission granted under planning reg no. 09/5949

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 14/4229

• 22 Sept 2009Refused

  Storey and a half dwelling with single storey sunroom, detached double garage, effluent treatment plant & all associated site development works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7115

• 15 Jun 2009Conditional

  Bungalow, double domestic garage, installation of septic tank and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5949

• 9 May 2007Conditional

  Extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7643

• 15 Mar 2007Conditional

  Residential development of 200 no. dwellinghouses comprising of 27 no. four bed detached units, 18 no. four bed detached units with garages, 44 no. four bed semi-detached units, 12 no. four bed semi-detached units with garages, 68 no. three bed semi-detached units, 15 no. two bed terraced units and 16 no. three bed terraced units, 1 no. creche, double dressing rooms and 2 no. sports pitches and all associated works to include roads, services, landscaping, boundary walls, underground attenuation tanks and widening of N25 to provide right-turning lanes

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6114

• 8 Dec 2006Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and garage (change of layout)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13076

• 10 Nov 2006Incompleted application

  Residential development - 173 no. dwellinghouses, 27 dwellinghouses with garages( total 200 ) 1 no. creche, 2 no. sports pitches and 1 no. multi use games area and associated site works and services including attenuation tanks

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12152

• 14 Jul 2006Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and garage (Change of layout)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8922

• 2 Jun 2006Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7781

• 15 May 2006Conditional

  Construction of granny flat extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7175

• 16 Mar 2006Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/5609

• 15 Dec 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/9320

• 6 Aug 2003Conditional

  Bungalow

  Approval · Cork County Council, 03/3917

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 Dower.

Recorded monuments

• CO077-055 Kiln - lime
  Description

  Built against rock outcrop. Front (Wth 6.35m) has arched recess (H 2m; Wth 3m; D 2.2m). Stone-lined funnel (diam. 1.93m); lean-to covers area in front of recess. 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

• CO077-088 Country house
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1700–1740 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1720, having two-bay two-storey extension to west side of rear (north) elevation, with parallel pitched slate roof forming M-profile west elevation, and being hipped at east end. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered end chimneystacks. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings throughout, with timber sliding sash windows, two-over-two pane to first floor front and rear elevations, three-over-three pane to ground floor rear elevation, replacement uPVC windows to ground floor front elevation, replacement timber casement window to west elevation and timber battened door with plain overlight. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding attached to east gable, having pitched corrugated-iron roof, rendered walls and square-headed opening with timber battened door. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding with lean-to corrugated metal roof and rendered walls attached to rear (north) elevation. Outbuildings to west of house comprising roofless multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding with rubble stone external staircase, flanked by single-bay single-storey outbuilding with pitched corrugated-iron roof to south gable and single-bay single-storey outbuilding with pitched slate roof to north gable. Rubble stone walls and square-headed openings with dressed limestone voussoirs. Rubble stone curved entrance walls and square-profile piers with double-leaf wrought-iron gates.

• House, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey house, built c. 1820, having single-bay return to west end of front (north) elevation and two-bay extension to east end of rear (south) elevation, both with pitched artificial slate roofs. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystack. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings throughout, two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to front elevation, replacement timber casement windows to rear elevation, uPVC windows and door to extension, uPVC door to front elevation. Roofless remains of two-bay two-storey outbuilding to west of site to rear, having rubble stone walls and square-headed openings, with single-bay single-storey outbuilding attached to south gable having pitched corrugated-iron roof, rendered walls and square-headed openings. Two-bay single-storey range to east of site to rear with pitched slate and corrugated-iron roofs, rubble stone walls with buttress to east elevation, and square-headed openings with timber battened fittings. Grey brick curved entrance walls and square-profile piers with wrought-iron double-leaf gates.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1506 (ZIP).

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 Dower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Dower · Dobhar

Area

1,218,630 m² (121.86 ha, 301.13 acres)

Civil parish

Mogeely, and its townlands

Barony

Imokilly

Electoral division

Ightermurragh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ightermurragh electoral division: 3,052 people in 1,085 households; 74% of households own their home; 61% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bridgefield, Carewswood, Clasharinka, Gortnahomna More, Ightermurragh, Kilbeg, Knockane

Placenames

Dower 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.