Dromasta
Dromasta is a townland in the civil parish of Dromdaleague, barony of Carbery West (East Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Drom Osta.
- Area
- 179.6 ha
- 444 acres
- Land parcels
- 66
- registered freehold, median 2,489 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 33
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromasta, from 58 m² to 376,798 m² (37.68 ha, 93.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Dromasta 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
19 Mar 2025Conditional
Construct a machinery storage shed and carry out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/138
2 Dec 2021Conditional
Construct dwelling, detached garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/837
22 Oct 2021Conditional
Permission for retention of design alteration of detached domestic garage permitted under planning ref. no. 17/78
Retention · Cork County Council, 21/728
10 Mar 2020Conditional
Construct a cattle house with slatted slurry tank and carry out associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/133
30 Jul 2019Conditional
Permission to demolish existing old dwelling house, permission to construct a milking parlour, dairy, plant room, store room, roofed cattle holding yard and carry out associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/507
25 Feb 2019Conditional
To demolish existing cattle house, to construct a larger replacement cattle house with slatted slurry tank, construct a roofed cattle holding yard with slatted slurry tank and carry out associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/125
10 Feb 2017Conditional
Permission to construct detached garage and permission to replace existing septic tank with proprietary treatment unit and filtration area
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/78
5 Nov 2010Unconditional
Dwelling house
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 10/760
3 Sept 2010Conditional
Extension to dwelling house
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/612
20 Nov 2008Conditional
Construct cattle house over existing slatted slurry tanks, incorporating cubicle house, milking parlour, dairy, plant room, calving house, construct silage slab, concrete apron, dry yard, cattle crush, soiled water tank and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/2065
30 Oct 2008Conditional
Demolition of outbuildings and construction of 2no. dwellinghouses and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1948
20 Oct 2008Incompleted application
Demolition of outbuildings and construction of 2no. dwellinghouses and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1880
4 Oct 2007Conditional
Construct cattle house with slatted slurry tanks and feeding passage, 2no. concrete aprons, concrete cow path and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/2574
23 Aug 2006Conditional
Construct a cattle house with slatted slurry tanks, soiled water tank, walled silo, concrete aprons and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1697
22 Mar 2006Conditional
36no. dwellinghouses and all associated site works; 3 phases as follows: Phase 1: 12no. houses, phase 2: 14no. houses and phase 3: 10no. houses
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/486
27 Jan 2006Withdrawn
Residential development consisting of 36no. dwellings, installation of mini-treatment waste water system for connection to mains sewer & all associated site works. 3 phases as follows: Phase 1 of 13no. houses for occupation after December 2006, Phase 2 of 11no. houses for occupation after December 2007, Phase 3 of 12no. houses for occupation after December 2008
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/86
3 Jan 2006Incompleted application
Residential Development consisting of 36no. dwellings, installation fo mini-treatment waste water system for connection to mains sewer & all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/2
16 Sept 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6756
16 Sept 2005Conditional
Demolition of ruined dwellinghouse and construction of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6753
5 Sept 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6405
18 Aug 2005Withdrawn
41 no. dwellinghouses, two and half storey apartment block consisting of 5 no. apartments, installation of treatment plant, 2 no. entrances, ancillary parking and site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/5958
18 Jul 2005Conditional
Extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/5167
4 Jul 2005Incompleted application
41 no. dwellinghouses, 5 no. apartments, treatment plant, 2 no. entrances, parking and site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4746
22 Nov 2004Conditional
Construction of two silage clamps and extension to cubicle house/calf house
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8613
2 Jul 2004Conditional
Demolition of dwellinghouse and construction of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/5024
The 25 most recent of 33 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 Dromasta.
Recorded monuments
- CO119-080 Standing stone - pair
Description
In rolling pasture, incorporated in field fence. Stones, aligned NE-SW, stand 1.6m apart; overall length 3.7m. NE stone is 0.8m L, 0.6m T and 1.45mH. SW stone is 1.25m L, 0.8m T and 1m H. (O Nualláin 1988, 247, no. 130) 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
- House, 1930–1940 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey house with verandah and bay windows flanking front door, built c.1935. Recent lean-to extension to rear (north). Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystack, timber eaves course, corbels and cast-iron and uPVC rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed openings having timber casement windows and concrete sills. Square-headed door opening with timber glazed door, overlight and sidelights. Timber chamfered columns with cornice, frieze and brackets to verandah, enclosed by timber railings and accessed by rendered steps. Rendered boundary walls with wrought-iron gates (south).
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 Dromasta, 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 Dromasta.
- 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 Dromasta with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Dromasta · Drom Osta
- Area
- 1,795,938 m² (179.59 ha, 443.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dromdaleague, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery West (East Division)
- Electoral division
- Dromdaleague South, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 636 people lived in 218 households in the Dromdaleague South electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Dromdaleague, Garranes South, Gurteeniher, Inchingerig, Knockane, Moyny East, Moyny Lower
- Placenames
- Dromasta 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.