Dromderaown
Dromderaown is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcaskan, barony of Bear, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Drom idir Dhá Abhainn.
- Area
- 35.1 ha
- 87 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 1,898 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromderaown, from 301 m² to 241,853 m² (24.19 ha, 59.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Dromderaown 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
11 Feb 2022Conditional
Permission for detached domestic garage with games room to first floor and for all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/74
18 Jun 2020Conditional
Permission for retention for the following; Dwelling house as built, and revised, site boundaries (Alterations to that as granted under Pl. Ref. No. 06/386) for detached domestic garage, for omission of percolation area from sewerage treatment plant within site and for direct connection to mains sewer and for all associated site works
Retention · Cork County Council, 20/304
1 Apr 2015Conditional
Construction of a new single storey porch to the front of an existing single storey dwelling and permission for retention of a single storey extension to the side of existing single storey dwelling together with alterations to existing dwelling and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/170
12 Mar 2015Incompleted application
Permission is sought for a developmet comprising of the construction of a new porch to the front of an existing single storey dwelling and permission for retention of a single storey extension to the side of existing single storey dwelling together with alterations to existing dwelling and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/130
9 Oct 2009Refused
Dwellinghouse and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/1079
16 May 2008Refused
Dwelling house and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/907
21 May 2007Withdrawn
Dwelling, installation of mini-treatment plant system
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1340
6 Nov 2006Refused
Dwelling and installation of mini-treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/2331
10 Mar 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse, installation of mini-treatment plant and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/386
20 Apr 2004Conditional
Installation of 4 no. rooflights to rear, extensions to dwelling and retention of alterations to front elevation
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/2619
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: Glengarriff Harbour and Woodland SAC 000090
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Dromderaown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dromderaown.
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 Dromderaown, 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dromderaown.
- 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 Dromderaown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Dromderaown · Drom idir Dhá Abhainn
- Area
- 351,491 m² (35.15 ha, 86.86 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcaskan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bear
- Electoral division
- Kilcaskan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 895 people lived in 373 households in the Kilcaskan electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 27% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Currakeal, Derreenathirigy, Gortroe Lower, Gortroe Upper, Reenmeen East, Rossnashunsoge
- Placenames
- Dromderaown 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.