Drom
Townland in the civil parish of Kilfaughnabeg, barony of Carbery East (West Division), Co. Cork; in Irish An Drom
- Area
- 86.2 ha
- 213 acres
- Land parcels
- 108
- registered freehold, median 1,480 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 53
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
108 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drom, from 14 m² to 106,041 m² (10.6 ha, 26.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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
No zone of a development plan covers Drom 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
7 Aug 2026Invalid - case closed
Planning permission for alterations and extensions to existing dwelling house, including demolition of rear extension and construction of two storey extensions.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/2100
13 Aug 2024Conditional
Permission for the following works: (i) change of use from hairdressing salon and shop (previous planning reference No. W/765/86) to country market retail store/café on upper ground floor and kitchen / service area at lower ground floor level, (ii) construction of 2no. extensions to building, (iii) construction of raised external seating area to front, (iv) replacement of roof to include solar panels and 2 no. roof lights, (v) fenestration changes, (vi) new signage on each gable wall, and (vii) all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/441
19 Jan 2024Conditional
Erection of domestic store / amenity room to rear of dwelling and associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/17
16 Nov 2023Conditional
Permission for the following works: (i) Change of use from hairdressing salon and shop (previous planning reference No. W/765/86) to country market retail store on upper ground floor and café at lower ground floor level, (ii) construction of 2 no. extensions to building, (iii) construction of raised external seating area to front, (iv) replacement of roof to include solar panels and 2 no. roof lights, (v) fenestration changes, (vi) new signage on each gable wall, and (vii) all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/648
26 Oct 2023Incompleted application
Permission for the following works: (i) Change of use from hairdressing salon and shop (previous planning reference No. W/765/86) to country market retail store on upper ground floor and cafe at lower ground floor level, (ii) construction of 2 no. extensions to building, (iii) construction of raised external seating area to front, (iv) replacement of roof to include solar panels and 2 no. roof lights, (v) fenestration changes, (vi) new signage on each gable wall, and (vii) all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/607
16 Jun 2023Conditional
Permission for (1) demolition of existing shop, storage shed, and fuel pumps, (2) construction of a new service station comprising of the following: shop outlet, delicatessen restaurant and seating area, food preparation area, off-licence, stores, cold room, toilets, car-parking, 4 no. new fuel pumps, lighting and backlit totem sign, (3) modification of existing canopy, including the addition of signage (4) decommissioning of 1 no. existing fuel storage tank and construction of a new fuel storage tank (5) construction of a temporary service container to continue function of existing shop and fuel pump forecourt, to remain in place until the construction of the proposed service station has been completed, together with all other ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/326
12 Dec 2022Conditional
To construct dwelling and detached garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/756
5 Oct 2022Withdrawn
Permission to change plans of dwelling from those submitted in Planning Ref. No. 14/532
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/621
3 Nov 2021Conditional
Construct a storage shed for the purposes of storing vintage cars, vintage tractors and firewood, all of the aforementioned for own use, and carry out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/756
24 Jun 2021Conditional
Single storey extension to side and rear of existing dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/438
14 Jun 2021Incompleted application
Construct a domestic storage shed and carry out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/404
17 May 2021Incompleted application
Single Storey extension to side and rear of existing dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/320
6 May 2021Conditional
Farmyard development consisting of demolition of existing cubicle house and erection of new slatted cubicle / calf house and machinery storage shed
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/290
2 Jul 2019Unconditional
Construct dwelling, domestic garage,. Install sewage treatment system and all associated site works
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 19/439
7 May 2019Conditional
Construct dwelling and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/297
7 Jul 2017Conditional
Construct dwelling, domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/445
26 Jun 2017Incompleted application
Construct dwelling, domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/397
27 Jul 2015Conditional
Farmyard development consisting of erection of extension to existing slatted house and associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/432
8 May 2015Unconditional
Construct new vehicular access to front of existing dwelling and new pedestrian access to side of existing dwelling
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 15/242
12 Sept 2014Conditional
Construct dwelling, domestic garage, install sewage treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/532
3 Apr 2012Conditional
Construction of a dwelling house and associated siteworks
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/220
12 Mar 2012Incompleted application
Construction of a dwelling house and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/149
9 Apr 2010Conditional
Construct new vehicular access to front of existing dwelling and new pedestrian access to side of existing dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/244
13 Nov 2009Conditional
Construction of dwellinghouse and associated site works including domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/2094
23 Oct 2009Incompleted application
Construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/2027
The 25 most recent of 53 applications.
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 Drom.
Recorded monuments
- CO142-019 Corn store
Description
On W shore line of coastal inlet just S of Leap. Dilapidated 3-storey structure; Z in plan; built into slope. Original roof removed; external walls once weatherslated. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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 Drom.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, 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 Drom.
- 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 Drom with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Drom · An Drom
- Area
- 861,893 m² (86.19 ha, 212.98 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilfaughnabeg, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery East (West Division)
- Electoral division
- Kilfaughnabeg, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilfaughnabeg electoral division: 615 people in 236 households; 67% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 30% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghatubrid Beg, Aghatubrid More, Cloonties, Kilmacabea, Maulagow
- Placenames
- Drom 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.