Dreenagh East
Townland in the civil parish of Buttevant, barony of Orrery and Kilmore, Co. Cork; in Irish Draighneach Thoir
- Area
- 93.9 ha
- 232 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 43,993 m² (4.4 ha, 10.87 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dreenagh East, from 457 m² to 304,124 m² (30.41 ha, 75.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
1 Aug 2025Conditional permission
Permission to construct a new dwelling house
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5554
26 May 2022Conditional
Construct a dwelling house
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5215
2 Mar 2020Conditional
Construction of cubicle house with feeding passage and slatted tank.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4437
13 Dec 2019Conditional
To demolish 2 No. chimneys to southern elevation and rear projection to northern elevation all to existing dwelling house, also existing detached domestic garage/store. Permission to (a) construct a new single storey extension to northern and western elevations of existing dwelling house, (b) construct a new detached domestic garage including office, (c) construct a new vehicular entrance, (d) install a new septic tank and polishing filter, and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6976
30 Mar 2012Conditional
Construction of garage to side of dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4628
24 Jul 2009Conditional
Construction of new reinforced concrete effluent holding tank covered with slatted concrete slabs within an existing farm building and all associated works. The effluent holding tank will be located in the ground underneath the floor level of the existing building which is used for the keeping of livestock and there will be two access points to the effluent tank on either side outside of the building for the purpose of agitating and emptying.
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6481
12 Nov 2003Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/5900
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 Dreenagh East.
Recorded monuments
- CO016-186 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on gentle NE-facing slope. Circular area (30m SE-NW) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.5m) with external fosse (D 0.5m). Break in bank to E (Wth c. 2m), SSW (Wth 2.7m) and WNW (Wth 2.9m). Fosse waterlogged; pond (not depicted on 1842 OS 6-inch map) has formed on NE side, extending beyond area of fosse. Interior partially overgrown with bushes; waterlogging in S half. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO016-188 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on gentle E-facing slope. Circular area (28m NNE-SSW; 27.2m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.5m; ext. H 1.4m); external fosse (D 1.5m). Bank overgrown with deciduous trees; entrance (Wth 1.6m) to E. Fosse flat bottomed; shallower to S due to slippage; wide causeway outside entrance. Interior partially overgrown. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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 Dreenagh East.
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 10 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dreenagh East.
- 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 Dreenagh East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Dreenagh East · Draighneach Thoir
- Area
- 938,974 m² (93.9 ha, 232.03 acres)
- Civil parish
- Buttevant, and its townlands
- Barony
- Orrery and Kilmore
- Electoral division
- Templemary, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Templemary electoral division: 344 people in 129 households; 94% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardskeagh, Boherascrub West, Dreenagh West, Farrancotter, Lisgriffin, Templemary
- Placenames
- Dreenagh East 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.