Dromaneen

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromaneen, from 255 m² to 700,749 m² (70.07 ha, 173.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 18 Jun 2024Conditional

  Permission to construct a dwelling, domestic garage and all associated site works and services.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5138

• 25 Oct 2017Conditional

  To construct a dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6766

• 17 Aug 2011Conditional

  Construction of dwelling, detached domestic garage and installation of a treatment unit and sand polishing filter

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5749

• 14 May 2008Refused

  Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6715

• 24 Aug 2007Refused

  Construction of helicopter storage hanger and office, entrance, septic tank, fuel storage tank, lined pond and ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10506

• 30 Jul 2007Incompleted application

  Construction of helicopter storage hanger and office, entrance, septic tank and fuel storage tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9945

• 16 Feb 2007Conditional

  Construction of open slurry tank and associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5126

• 24 Jan 2007Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and garage/stables

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4390

• 13 Jan 2006Refused

  One and half storey dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4107

• 8 Oct 2003Conditional

  Dwellinghouse, garage and sewage treatment plant

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/5025

• 12 Aug 2003Conditional

  Domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/4034

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170

Recorded monuments

• CO032-093 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, atop hillock. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 34m), at E side of quarry, on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; slight scarp remains to N and E. Quarry filled in, slight depression remains. Fosse visible as cropmark in aerial photograph (GSIAP, W378). Recorded by Bowman (1934, 588) as levelled single-ramparted fort (diam. c. 41yd) on D. Ryan's land. 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

• CO032-094 House - vernacular house
  Description

  At end of lane to W of road. Indicated on 1842 OS 6-inch map, and named 'Keal'. Front (S) of 5 bays, central door, windows in end walls; attic window in W end wall. Hipped roof with thatch; central chimney. Off-centre hipped projection to rear, also thatched. Later 2-storey addition at W end of rear. 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

• CO032-095001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 28m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; arc (diam. c. 33m) formed by low rise NNE->SSW. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 588) as levelled, single-ramparted fort (diam. c. 39yd) on J. Curtin's land. Possible standing stone (CO032-09502-) c. 18m to S in same field. 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

• CO032-095002 Standing stone
  Description

  Bowman (1934, 588) recorded standing stone c. 18m S of ringfort (12439); 'Part was broken off, remaining portion 1ft 10 in high, by 9ft 7 in girth'. No surface trace survives. 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

• CO032-096 Kiln - lime
  Description

  Built against rock face in quarry. Random-rubble sandstone walls encase earthen core. Front elevation (H c. 4.75m) faces N; lintelled recess (H 2.6m; Wth 2.45m; D c. 1.5m), corbelled to rear, rear collapsed and infilled with core material. Partially collapsed funnel (diam. c. 2.14m), upper 3m brick-lined, lower portion infilled but appears to be stone lined. 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

• CO032-097001 Bawn
  Description

  On rising pastureland to the S of Dromaneen fortified house (CO032-097002-). The house and bawn complex was built by the O'Callaghans (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 3, 61), and is said to have been constructed in the early 17th century on the site of an earlier castle (Smith 1750, vol. 1, 300). The bawn was described in 1897 as being 'of about six acres, which was all paved over up to recent times' (Grove White ibid., 64). It is the only example of the bawn of a fortified house to have survived intact in Co. Cork, and is one of the largest in Ireland (Heritage Castles of County Cork 2017, 43). The bawn's large trapezoidal area (c. 1.85 ha; c. 180m SW-NE; c. 200m SE-NW) is enclosed by limestone walls (H up to c. 4m); this runs c. 30m due E from the gateway passage on the E side of structure 3, to the NE corner tower; it then turns S for c. 175m to the site of the former SE corner tower, with semi-circular projection at mid-point; it then runs W for c. 120m to the SW corner tower, this line of wall is obscured by ruined farm buildings built against its outside face; the wall then runs NW for c. 310m with a semi-circular projection at mid-point; at this point the walls end at cliff face c. 115m SW of structure 2. The S end of the E bawn wall (L c. 20m) fell during a storm in the winter of 1997/98. The SE corner tower contained a 'columbarium' (Jones 1907, 84-85); the tower stood until 1906 when it was demolished for 'the wrought stones'; Jones (ibid.) describes it as a circular tower (diam. 17ft, H 271/2ft, wall T 2ft 4in) with a door into the bawn, 13 tiers of nests (7in square; 8in deep), haphazardly placed, and with embrasures in the S and E walls; the corner tower at Carriganass Castle (CO106-001----) in West Cork has similar nesting boxes. The two surviving towers stand to one storey and are rubble-filled (int. diam. variable, 4.6m-5.4m), with gunloops along the outer circumference. Semi-circular projections mid-way along the E and W wall are similarly rubble filled and pierced with gun loops. 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. See also Heritage Castles of County Cork (Heritage Unit of Cork County Council, 2017): https://www.corkcoco.ie/sites/default/files/2022-10/heritage_castles_of_county_cork_2017.pdf See attached photograph CO032-097001-_01: Aerial view of bawn from SW. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 and 19 May 2023 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 27A/1934). References: 1. Grove White J. 1905-25 Historical and Topographical Notes, Etc., on Buttevant, Castletownroche, Doneraile, Mallow, and Places in Their Vicinity. Collected by Colonel J.G. White. [With Illustrations.]. 4 volumes. Cork. Guy&Co. 2. Smith, C. 1750 (New Edition 1815) The ancient and present state of the County and City of Cork, 2 vols. Cork. Guy and Co. Ltd. 3. Jones, A.H. 1907 The Dromineen columbarium. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 13, 84-5.

• CO032-097002 House - fortified house
  Description

  Atop a cliff edge, overlooking the Blackwater River to the N. This complex of ruined buildings with a large trapezoidal bawn (CO032-097001-; c. 180m SW-NE; c. 200m SE-NW) on rising ground to the S consists of a rectangular house (structure 1), with an addition built against the W end of the S wall (structure 2), and another rectangular building (structure 3) c. 14m to the E of the house; linking these are a series of low enclosing walls, including an entrance gateway c. 20m to the E of structure 3. This was the fortified house of the O'Callaghans (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 3, 61), and is said to have been constructed in the early 17th century on the site of an earlier castle (Smith 1750, vol. 1, 300). The MacDonagh MacCarthys were the O'Callaghans' overlords, and were supportive of English settlement in the region after the suppression of the late 16th-century rebellions - both families held onto their lands and invested in the construction of fortified houses, the O'Callaghan in Dromaneen, the MacCarthys in Kanturk: 'it can be no coincidence that both houses were built around the same time, each with nearly identical Renaissance-style doors, which may well have been carved by the same mason' (Heritage Castles of County Cork 2017, 136). The bawn was described in 1897 as being 'of about six acres, which was all paved over up to recent times' (Grove White ibid., 64). The complex was extensively repaired and partially rebuilt in by the OPW in the 1940s. Structure 1: the main house (20.2m E-W; 9.5m N-S) is 3-storey with attic, between high gables topped by rectangular chimney stacks. It is entered through the ground, 1st and 2nd floor through doors positioned E-of-centre in the S wall; the access was probably from a stairs tower which no longer survives. Only fragments of these doors survive. The ground and 1st floors are divided internally by a stone wall into a main chamber (11.8m E-W; 7.65m N-S) to the W and a smaller chamber (7m N-S; 4m E-W) to the E; the latter has a basement entered down steps in the NE corner of the main ground-floor chamber. The N wall, which overlooks the river, has symmetrical fenestration with three large windows on each floor; these have three or four light divisions separated by mullions. The windows at the W end are in a projecting bay, with inverted-keyhole gun loop in either side of the bay at ground-floor level, and a side light at 1st-floor level. The W gable has two windows for each floor, and an attic fireplace. The E gable has a fireplace and windows on each floor. The S wall has a central fireplace on the ground and 1st floor, both much ruined; a tall ope to the W of the 1st-floor fireplace, much repaired, is probably the doorway to structure 2. The house had wooden floors throughout, indicated by the large joist sockets between levels. Atop the N wall are four evenly spaced box machicolations; there is also a box machicolation at the E end of the S wall. A string course on the N and S walls incorporate hood mouldings over the 2nd-floor windows. Structure 2: Attached to the W end of the S wall of structure 1 is a rectangular extension (13.28m N-S; 7m E-W) of two storeys with attic. The W wall (in line with the W wall of structure 1) has a central fireplace on the ground floor with a domed bread oven on the S side; on the N side are two single-light windows, one with a three-centred arch. Most of the 1st floor is missing but at the N end is a window with two lights divided by a mullion. The S gable has windows at each floor level. Only a fragment of the W wall survives. At the SW corner of the structure is a square flanking tower (4.5m N-S; 4.6m E-W; internally 3m x 3m), entered on each level by a doorway from structure 2, and from outside by a ground-floor door in the N wall with round-arch and yett-hole in the W jamb. The ground floor has a small rectangular gun loop in the E, S and W walls; upper floors are lit by single-light windows. Structure 3: this is a rectangular gable-ended structure (18.75m NE-SW; 7m SE-NW), of two storeys with attic, extending SW from the cliff edge. There is a rebuilt ground-floor doorway at the N end of the NW wall; a blocked doorway at the N end of the SE wall guarded by box machicolation overhead; three damaged ground-floor opes in the SE wall - two probably windows, the most southerly one with a drawbar socket, probably a doorway; a damaged window with a decaying wooden lintel at the S end of the NW wall; and two blocked doors to the N, one with a wooden lintel. There is a window with a wooden lintel on the 1st floor in the NN wall; a recently repaired fireplace at the N end of the NW wall; and a chimney flue at the S end of the SE wall, the fireplace missing. A thick wall (T 1.75m), of which little now stands, linked the S end of the NW wall of structure 3 to the mid-point in the E wall of structure 2; a thinner wall (T 0.75m) along the top of the cliff links the NE corner of structure 1 to the N end of the NW wall of structure 3, thus creating an inner courtyard. The entry to this area was through a wide doorway in the former wall immediately W of its junction with structure 3; the door surround has a semi-elliptical arch surmounted by an entablature with frieze and cornice, similar in style to the door and fireplace at Kanturk (CO023-120----), and fireplace in Monkstown Castle (CO087-028----) inscribed with date of 1636; the door also has yett holes at the apex and on the E side. The cliff-top wall continues E of structure 3 (L 18m), then turns to S (L 6m); at this point are the remains of a gateway passage (Wth c. 2.7m), which probably gave entry to the outer courtyard on the E side of structure 3 with an extension W to structure 2, where part of the boundary wall survives running E from the SE corner of structure 2. The bawn's trapezoidal area (c. 1.85 ha) is enclosed by limestone walls, up to c. 4m H; this runs c. 30m due E from the gateway passage on the E side of structure 3, to the NE corner tower; it then turns S for c. 175m to the site of the former SE corner tower, with semi-circular projection at mid-point; it then runs W for c. 120m to the SW corner tower, this line of wall is obscured by ruined farm buildings built against its outside face; the wall then runs NW for c. 310m with a semi-circular projection at mid-point; at this point the walls end at cliff face c. 115m SW of structure 2. The S end of the E bawn wall (L c. 20m) fell during a storm in the winter of 1997/98. The SE corner tower contained a 'columbarium' (Jones 1907, 84-85); the tower stood until 1906 when it was demolished for 'the wrought stones'; Jones (ibid.) describes it as a circular tower (diam. 17ft, H 271/2ft, wall T 2ft 4in) with a door into the bawn, 13 tiers of nests (7in square; 8in deep), haphazardly placed, and with embrasures in the S and E walls; the corner tower at Carriganass Castle (CO106-001----) in West Cork has similar nesting boxes. The two surviving towers stand to one storey and are rubble-filled (int. diam. variable, 4.6m-5.4m), with gunloops along the outer circumference. Semi-circular projections mid-way along the E and W wall are similarly rubble filled and pierced with gun loops. This is a National Monument in State Guardianship (no. 339) 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. See also Heritage Castles of County Cork (Heritage Unit of Cork County Council, 2017): https://www.corkcoco.ie/sites/default/files/2022-10/heritage_castles_of_county_cork_2017.pdf See attached photographs CO032-097002-_01: Aerial view of complex, from S. CO032-097002-_02: Exterior of structure 1, from SE. CO032-097002-_03: View of castle complex from S. CO032-097002-_04: Exterior of structure 2, from SW. CO032-097002-_05: Exterior view of structures 1 and 2, from S. CO032-097002-_

• CO032-098 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In gently rolling pasture. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured slightly oval enclosure on 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; oval area (41.6m NNE-SSW; 29.7m ESE-WNW) defined by earthen bank (int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1.6m) NE->S; low undulation elsewhere. Slight depression to W outside line of levelled bank may be remains of fosse. Surviving bank incorporated into field fence system; rubble and tree roots dumped on surface. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 588) as single-ramparted fort (diam. c. 31yd; bank H c. 6ft) in E. O'Keeffe'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

• CO032-204 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture. Oval mound of burnt material (8m E-W; 8.4m N-S; H 0.2m); truncated by drain on S and E sides; burnt material (D 0.6m) visible in section in drain. Marshy area c. 40m to NE. 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

• CO032-232 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In grounds of sugarbeet factory. Indicated as arc of field fence (S->NNW) on 1842, 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps; field fence (E-W) crosses site just N of centre. Aerial photograph (CUCAP, ATD85, July 1967), shows arc of field fence, possibly remains of bank, and cropmark of fosse (NNW->SSE) which appears to be external to projected line of bank. Faint arc of non-concentric inner fosse roughly E->S. Possibly remains of ringfort (diam c. 60m). No visible surface trace; area now covered by settlement lagoons. 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

• CO032-233 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of fosse of enclosure (diam. c. 30m) comprising straight E and S sides with rounded SE corner and curved W and N sides, visible in aerial photograph (CUCAP; ATD84, July 1967). 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

• Keal Cottage, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached T-plan five-bay single-storey vernacular house with attic to east end, built c. 1820, and having three-bay two-storey former house to east end of rear elevation. Hipped thatched roof, with painted rendered chimneystack. Rendered coursed rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, having pseudo-four-centered upper sashes to front (west) elevation and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to rear. Main house has square-headed replacement timber door with overlight. Former house has pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack having terracotta chimney pots, rendered walls and square-headed window openings, boarded to first floor and having replacement uPVC and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to ground floor, and square-headed timber battened door. Outbuildings to north and east, with pitched corrugated-iron roofs, painted rendered walls and square-headed openings with timber louvered windows and timber battened door. East outbuilding has elliptical-headed opening with replacement metal gate. Corrugated-iron cow sheds and barns to north. Rendered boundary walls to yard with rendered copings terminating in square plan rendered square plan piers with double-leaf wrought-iron gates. Square-headed pedestrian gate opening to rendered boundary wall south of house, with square-plan rendered piers with spherical copings and wrought-iron gates. Rendered square plan piers to road entrance with aediculated triangular copings, set in curved entrance having rendered boundary walls terminating in similar inner piers, with decorative 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

At the centre of the townland of Dromaneen, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_890 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Dromaneen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Dromaneen · An Dromainnín

Area

3,193,231 m² (319.32 ha, 789.06 acres)

Civil parish

Kilshannig, and its townlands

Barony

Duhallow

Electoral division

Kilshannig, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,140 people lived in 399 households in the Kilshannig electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynafeaha, Gortnagross, Knockansweeny, Knocknamona, Longueville, Mohereen, Newberry, Smithfield

Placenames

Dromaneen 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.