# Dromkeal, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Skull, barony of Carbery West (West Division), Co. Cork; in Irish An Drom Caol. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 686,863 m² (68.69 ha, 169.73 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 166,262 m² (16.63 ha, 41.08 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Skull, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/skull.md - Barony: Carbery West (West Division) - Electoral division: Ballybane, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Ballybane electoral division: 289 people in 133 households; 87% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/13357 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 42433 - Centre: latitude 51.586214, longitude -9.454302 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromkeal, from 164,945 m² (16.49 ha, 40.76 acres) to 256,658 m² (25.67 ha, 63.42 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2335814: 256,658 m² (25.67 ha, 63.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2335814.md - Parcel 5177767: 166,262 m² (16.63 ha, 41.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5177767.md - Parcel 2147354: 164,945 m² (16.49 ha, 40.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2147354.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Dromkeal in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 8 applications, newest first. - 28 Sept 2020, Cork County Council 20/530: Conditional. Permission. Permission for extension of farm complex to include demolition of existing shed and construction of milking parlour, dairy, calf house, slatted house and associated site development works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=20/530 - 9 Jul 2019, Cork County Council 19/464: Conditional. Permission. Erection of dwelling and all associated site development works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=19/464 - 15 Feb 2019, Cork County Council 19/103: Withdrawn. Permission. To erect a dwelling and all associated site development works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=19/103 - 11 Oct 2006, Cork County Council 06/2094: Conditional. Permission. Construction of dwellinghouse and all associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/2094 - 23 May 2006, Cork County Council 06/951: Refused. Permission. Dwellinghouse and associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/951 - 10 Apr 2006, Cork County Council 06/621: Conditional. Permission. Extension of farm complex including open silo and slatted house. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/621 - 2 Aug 2005, Cork County Council 05/5516: Withdrawn. Permission. Construction of dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=05/5516 - 22 Feb 2002, Cork County Council 02/764: Refused. Outline permission. 2 no. dwellings. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=02/764 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Dromkeal. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Dromkeal. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dromkeal. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 Dromkeal. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cork/dromkeal-42433.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/dromkeal-42433.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/dromkeal-42433.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Dromkeal with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork: https://everytownland.com/cork.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Bawnaknockane: https://everytownland.com/cork/bawnaknockane.md - Bawnshanaclogh: https://everytownland.com/cork/bawnshanaclogh.md - Coolcaha: https://everytownland.com/cork/coolcaha.md - Derreennaclogh: https://everytownland.com/cork/derreennaclogh.md - Gortnagrough: https://everytownland.com/cork/gortnagrough.md - Sparrograda: https://everytownland.com/cork/sparrograda.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cork/dromkeal-42433 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/dromkeal-42433