Dromanarrigle
Dromanarrigle is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmeen (Kanturk Ra), barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Drom an Aragail.
- Area
- 191.1 ha
- 472 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 21,131 m² (2.11 ha, 5.22 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 24
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromanarrigle, from 239 m² to 510,325 m² (51.03 ha, 126.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Dromanarrigle 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
21 Jul 2026Grant with conditions
Permission to construct a livestock underpass with effluent tank and ancillary works on a public road. The above development to be carried out with all associated ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1936
6 Aug 2024Conditional
Permission for the decommissioning and removal of the existing septic tank and the installation of a new waste-water treatment unit and percolation area to service the existing dwelling house along with all ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5484
9 Jul 2024Conditional
Permission to construct a new dwelling house and domestic garage served by mechanical aeration unit and soil polishing filter
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5296
18 Dec 2020Conditional
To construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6902
14 Oct 2020Conditional
(1)the retention of converted attic into a habitable living space, (2) the retention of alterations to elevations to those permitted under Planning Reference No. 08/9644, (3) the retention of dormer window to rear and (4) all ancillary works in an existing dwelling.
Retention · Cork County Council, 20/6241
25 Sept 2020Conditional
(1) retention of existing extension to dwelling and (2) all associated site works.
Retention · Cork County Council, 20/6097
10 Sept 2020Incompleted application
(1) The retention of the conversion of the attic into a habitable living space, (2) the retention of alterations to elevations to those permitted under planning reference number 08/9644 and (3) all ancillary works.
Retention · Cork County Council, 20/5961
3 Jul 2020Conditional
To construct a dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5377
31 Oct 2013Withdrawn
(1) Retention of stables including toilet, exercise/training area, internal farm tracks, proprietary foul water treatment system, polishing filter, and (2) permission for construction of equine sheds to include loose housing pens with paddocks, stables with fodder/machinery store, covered dungstead with holding tank, hardstanding area, horse training ring area with sand surface and realignment of existing farm entrance to improve sight lines on the public roadway and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/6072
19 Jun 2012Conditional
Construction of a beef house with slatted tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5333
11 Apr 2012Unconditional
One and half storey dwellinghouse and garage, extension of duration to permission granted under planning reg 07/9578
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 12/4708
11 Oct 2011Conditional
Construction of a dwellinghouse with domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, private bored well and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/6175
24 Jan 2011Conditional
Construction of a single storey extension consisting of a dining room and play room to east side of existing two storey dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/4088
11 Nov 2008Conditional
Dwelling, entrance, septic tank and percolation area
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9644
14 Oct 2008Conditional
Retention of domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9268
20 Dec 2007Conditional
Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/13233
13 Jul 2007Conditional
One and half storey dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9578
22 Sept 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10825
27 Jul 2006Incompleted application
Construction of dwellinghouse and all associated site works
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 06/9281
20 Jul 2006Conditional
Extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9050
19 Jun 2006Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 06/8177
28 Apr 2006Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 06/6757
12 Oct 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/7459
15 Sept 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/6689
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: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
Recorded monuments
- CO022-089 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on NNW-facing slope. Depicted as hachured roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map . Levelled; circular area (31.5m NNE-SSW) defined by slight rise SSW->WSW and W->E; faint trace of external depression to NW and N. 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
- CO022-090 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Bivallate circular enclosure visible in aerial photograph (CASAP) as differential growth pattern showing inner bank and two concentric fosses. Circular area (24m E-W) defined by low rise (int. H 0.05m; ext. H 0.2m); second low rise 8m beyond first visible to S for c. 16m. 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
- CO022-091 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on S-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; rise visible in area of site. 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
- CO022-092 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on S-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps; arc of hachured to W possibly shows inner bank on 1904 OS 6-inch map; W portion hachured showing two banks and remainder enclosed by broken line on 1937 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; circular area (c. 31m NNE-SSW) defined by low rise (int. H 0.3m) SSW->NNE; intervening fosse; outer bank survives as second low rise (H 0.2m) N->NW; external fosse visible as faint depression N->SSW. According to local information, last remaining portion of ringfort levelled c. 1979. Banks of bivallate circular enclosure visible as shadow site in aerial photograph (CASAP). Recorded by Bowman (1934, 484) as double-ramparted fort (diam. c. 27yd) on D. Hickey's land; 'about one-quarter of each rampart now stands'; fosse c. 14ft wide. 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
- CO022-093001 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture, c. 22m NW of spring. Mound of burnt material (13m N-S; 8.5m E-W; H 0.8m). According to local information, mound ploughed regularly. Second fulacht fiadh (10743) c. 50m to E. 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
- CO022-093002 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture, immediately W of spring. Grass-covered spread of burnt material surrounds spring. Second fulacht fiadh (10742) c. 50m to W. 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
- CO022-094 Enclosure
Description
In rough pasture, atop knoll, c. 200m SW of River Dalua. Hachured as circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; indicated as circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m) on 1904 OS 6-inch map. Circular area (15m N-S; 14.2m E-W) enclosed by low earthen bank (int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.3m) with shallow external fosse (D 0.1m). Break (Wth c. 1.4m) in bank to NW. Interior incorporates top of knoll and is higher than surrounding area; surface uneven; depression (c. 4m E-W; 3m N-S; D c. 0.2m) inside bank to SW. According to local information, used as sheep pen in the past. 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
- CO022-095 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture, on S side of dried-up stream bed. Overgrown, roughly circular mound of burnt material (diam. 12m; H c. 0.65m). Extending from S side is grass-covered horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt material (11.8m E-W; 8.7m N-S; H 0.4m); opening (Wth 4m) faces S. 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
- CO022-277 Country house
Description
Abandoned 2-storey house, probably 18th-century in date. Rendered, random-rubble sandstone construction. Entrance front (E) of 5 bays, central rectangular door ope with rectangular fanlight. Two large sash windows, with brick dressing, on either side of door; five slim sash windows with shallow reveals on 1st floor. Central rectangular stairway window on rear elevation with lean-to addition at S end. Side elevation 1-bay deep. Roof gable-ended, brick chimney atop gables. Central internal hall with rooms on either side, room to N has fireplace in W wall, room to S has fireplace in SW corner. Overgrown walled garden adjacent. 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 Dromanarrigle.
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 Dromanarrigle, 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 Dromanarrigle.
- 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 Dromanarrigle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Dromanarrigle · Drom an Aragail
- Area
- 1,910,586 m² (191.06 ha, 472.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmeen (Kanturk Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Electoral division
- Ballyhoolahan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 295 people lived in 102 households in the Ballyhoolahan electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghaneenagh, Ballyhoolahan Middle, Ballyhoolahan West, Castlemacauliffe, Gortearagh, Island, Killasseragh
- Placenames
- Dromanarrigle 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.