Drombofinny
Drombofinny is a townland in the civil parish of Desertserges, barony of Carbery East (East Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Drom Bó Finne.
- Area
- 34.9 ha
- 86 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 4,497 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 17
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drombofinny, from 59 m² to 187,486 m² (18.75 ha, 46.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Drombofinny 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
24 Apr 2026Grant with conditions
Construction of a livestock building with cubicles and underground slurry storage tanks and all associated siteworks.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1054
17 Jul 2012Conditional
Construction of extension to slatted cubicle house
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5566
12 Apr 2010Conditional
Demolition of existing dwellinghouse and construction of dwellinghouse with attached carport and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4847
25 May 2009Conditional
Demolition of remains of dwelling ruin and construction of dwellinghouse with associated site works including wastewater treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5693
5 May 2009Incompleted application
Demolition of remains of existing dwelling ruin and construction of dwellinghouse and associated site works including wastewater treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5418
23 Dec 2008Conditional
Demolition of dwellinghouse and construction of dwellinghouse and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/10369
13 Aug 2008Refused
Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/8379
28 Jul 2008Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/8178
6 May 2008Conditional
Demolition of existing disused outhouses & construction of new calving house consisting of calving bay,calving pens,straw storage,feeding passage,underground slurry storage tank and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6527
28 Mar 2008Conditional
Construction of detached building incorporating granny flat and garage ancillary to main dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5718
13 Jun 2007Refused
2 no. dwellinghouses
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/8620
31 Mar 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse and garage with loft
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/5997
2 Sept 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6378
15 Jun 2005Conditional
Alterations and extensions to dwellinghouse and construction of detached garage with loft and relocation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4177
10 Jun 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/4184
11 Feb 2004Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/747
24 Jan 2003Refused
Dwelling
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 03/239
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 Drombofinny.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drombofinny.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drombofinny.
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 Drombofinny, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drombofinny.
- 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 Drombofinny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Drombofinny · Drom Bó Finne
- Area
- 349,447 m² (34.94 ha, 86.35 acres)
- Civil parish
- Desertserges, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery East (East Division)
- Electoral division
- Boulteen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 695 people lived in 237 households in the Boulteen electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghyohil Beg, Aghyohil More, Boulteen, Breaghna, Garranelahan, Kilrush
- Placenames
- Drombofinny 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.