Dromataniheen
Townland in the civil parish of Durrus, barony of Carbery West (West Division), Co. Cork; in Irish Drom an tSionnaichín
- Area
- 39.7 ha
- 98 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 8,752 m² (0.88 ha, 2.16 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromataniheen, from 208 m² to 155,189 m² (15.52 ha, 38.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Dromataniheen 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
3 May 2019Conditional
Construction of detached dwelling, detached domestic garage, installation of mini-treatment plant and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/299
12 Dec 2016Conditional
Construct a cattle house with slatted slurry tank, calf house, concrete apron and carry out associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/762
1 Apr 2015Conditional
A) Permission for Retention for the following: (i) As constructed site works to bring the training pitch to formation level, (ii) As constructed 3m wide gravel public amenity walkway to the perimeter of the training pitch with outdoor exercise equipment, (iii) As constructed hardcore hardstanding area to the south of the training pitch, (iv) As constructed site entrance permitted under Planning Reference No 08/98. B) Planning permission for the following: (i) Completion of the training pitch to include 7m high goal posts, 10m high ball catch netting, 2no. dugouts and 1.2m high pitch permimeter fencing, (ii) Construction of a new playing pitch to include 7m high goal posts, 10m high ball catch netting, 2no. dugouts and 1.2m high pitch perimeter fencing, (iii) Construction of new 2 storey Clubhouse Building with changing rooms, store/plant rooms, public toilets, gymnasium, meeting room and installation of a wastewater treatment system and associated polishing filter, (iv) Construction of a new hardstanding car park and access road, (v) Construction of a new 3m wide public amenity walkway to connect to existing walkway (vi) All other associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/171
22 Jan 2008Conditional
(1) Construct new Gaelic Football Pitch and hard-standing area and (2) Construct new vehicular entrance off R591 and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/98
20 Dec 2007Incompleted application
Construct new Gaelic Football Pitch and hard-standing area; construct new vehicular entrance off R591 and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/3162
22 Dec 1999Conditional
Alterations, ground floor & dormer extension to bungalow & retention of existing alterations & extension & site layout
Permission · Cork County Council, 99/7119
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 Dromataniheen.
Recorded monuments
- CO131-003 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on SW shoulder of NE-SW ridge. Circular raised area (39.1m N-S; 41m E-W) enclosed by steep scarp crowned by low earthen bank (H 0.6m); second earthen bank SSE->NW (H 2.15m); low NW->SE; separated from inner bank by waterlogged fosse (D 2.15m). Shallow outer fosse to S. Overgrown entrance (Wth 6.2m) to SE. 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
- CO131-072 Burnt mound
Description
An archaeological assessment, undertaken in August 2015 in advance of the construction of a sporting facility, revealed a spread of blackened burnt material and fragmented stone in a test tench. The spread measured 17m east-west by 10m north-south and the burnt material rose to form a slight mound approximately 0.4m high at the northeastern end of the trench. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 23 December 2015
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dromataniheen.
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 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 Dromataniheen.
- 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 Dromataniheen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Dromataniheen · Drom an tSionnaichín
- Area
- 397,497 m² (39.75 ha, 98.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Durrus, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery West (West Division)
- Electoral division
- Durrus West, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Durrus West electoral division: 690 people in 295 households; 73% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 17% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycommane, Carrigboy, Crottees, Rusheenaniska
- Placenames
- Dromataniheen 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.