# Dower, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Mogeely, barony of Imokilly, Co. Cork; in Irish Dobhar. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,218,630 m² (121.86 ha, 301.13 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,685 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P1 Agriculture, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 20 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Mogeely, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/mogeely.md - Barony: Imokilly - Electoral division: Ightermurragh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/12373 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 42322 - Centre: latitude 51.907627, longitude -8.03319 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dower, from 1,821 m² to 375,453 m² (37.55 ha, 92.78 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2128964: 375,453 m² (37.55 ha, 92.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2128964.md - Parcel 2336741: 323,905 m² (32.39 ha, 80.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2336741.md - Parcel 2128963: 136,419 m² (13.64 ha, 33.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2128963.md - Parcel 5158198: 119,400 m² (11.94 ha, 29.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5158198.md - Parcel 2336739: 93,358 m² (9.34 ha, 23.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2336739.md - Parcel 5317676: 84,979 m² (8.5 ha, 21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5317676.md - Parcel 2336744: 37,329 m² (3.73 ha, 9.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2336744.md - Parcel 4837979: 8,593 m² (0.86 ha, 2.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4837979.md - Parcel 4823319: 5,916 m² (0.59 ha, 1.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4823319.md - Parcel 2336743: 4,583 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2336743.md - Parcel 3123499: 3,685 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3123499.md - Parcel 2128957: 3,250 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2128957.md - Parcel 2336742: 3,023 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2336742.md - Parcel 3123500: 2,843 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3123500.md - Parcel 5890477: 2,833 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5890477.md - Parcel 2128959: 2,647 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2128959.md - Parcel 2336740: 2,264 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2336740.md - Parcel 2128962: 2,170 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2128962.md - Parcel 2128960: 2,164 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2128960.md - Parcel 2128958: 1,999 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2128958.md - Parcel 2128961: 1,821 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2128961.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - P1 Agriculture: Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.corkcoco.ie/sites/default/files/2022-06/volume-4-south-cork.pdf ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 20 applications, newest first. - 6 Jul 2022, Cork County Council 22/5587: Conditional. Permission. Construction of a calf house, a slatted unit and associated works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=22/5587 - 15 Oct 2021, Cork County Council 21/6819: Conditional. Permission. Construction of a dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter and associated works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=21/6819 - 21 Sept 2021, Cork County Council 21/6579: Conditional. Permission. Construction of a dwelling, wastewater treatment unit, percolation area and associated works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=21/6579 - 27 Aug 2021, Cork County Council 21/6373: Incompleted application. Permission. Construction of a dwelling, wastewater treatment unit, percolation area and associated works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=21/6373 - 16 Mar 2017, Cork County Council 17/4624: Refused. Permission. 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. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=17/4624 - 9 Feb 2017, Cork County Council 17/4269: Incompleted application. Permission. 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.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=17/4269 - 25 Jun 2015, Cork County Council 15/5365: Conditional. Permission. Construction of an animal house, silage slab, concrete apron and associated works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=15/5365 - 7 Feb 2014, Cork County Council 14/4229: Unconditional. Extension of duration. 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. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=14/4229 - 22 Sept 2009, Cork County Council 09/7115: Refused. Permission. Storey and a half dwelling with single storey sunroom, detached double garage, effluent treatment plant & all associated site development works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=09/7115 - 15 Jun 2009, Cork County Council 09/5949: Conditional. Permission. Bungalow, double domestic garage, installation of septic tank and ancillary works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=09/5949 - 9 May 2007, Cork County Council 07/7643: Conditional. Permission. Extension to dwelling. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/7643 - 15 Mar 2007, Cork County Council 07/6114: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/6114 - 8 Dec 2006, Cork County Council 06/13076: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse and garage (change of layout). File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/13076 - 10 Nov 2006, Cork County Council 06/12152: Incompleted application. Permission. 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. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/12152 - 14 Jul 2006, Cork County Council 06/8922: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse and garage (Change of layout). File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/8922 - 2 Jun 2006, Cork County Council 06/7781: Incompleted application. Permission. Dwellinghouse and garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/7781 - 15 May 2006, Cork County Council 06/7175: Conditional. Permission. Construction of granny flat extension to dwelling. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/7175 - 16 Mar 2006, Cork County Council 06/5609: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse and garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/5609 - 15 Dec 2005, Cork County Council 05/9320: Conditional. Outline permission. Dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=05/9320 - 6 Aug 2003, Cork County Council 03/3917: Conditional. Approval. Bungalow. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=03/3917 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Dower. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CO077-055: Kiln - lime, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO077-055----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO077-088----. 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. 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - House, 1700–1740, Regional interest, registry number 20907712, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CO®no=20907712. 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, registry number 20907713, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CO®no=20907713. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1506.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cork/dower.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/dower.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/dower.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Dower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork: https://everytownland.com/cork.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Bridgefield: https://everytownland.com/cork/bridgefield.md - Carewswood: https://everytownland.com/cork/carewswood.md - Clasharinka: https://everytownland.com/cork/clasharinka.md - Gortnahomna More: https://everytownland.com/cork/gortnahomna-more.md - Ightermurragh: https://everytownland.com/cork/ightermurragh.md - Kilbeg: https://everytownland.com/cork/kilbeg-43301.md - Knockane: https://everytownland.com/cork/knockane-43665.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cork/dower - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/dower