Dromkeen

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromkeen, from 17 m² to 567,931 m² (56.79 ha, 140.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 13 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 26 Mar 2026Grant with conditions

  Permission for alterations and single storey extension to side and front of dwelling house and cosntruction of a detached domestic garage.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0776

• 21 Apr 2023Conditional

  The proposed development will comprise continuance of use of the existing sand & gravel pit and the existing ancillary facilities including the processing plant (screening, crushing and washing), the fuel storage tanks, the closed circuit water management system, vehicle parking area, ancillary buildings and the existing entrance - all permitted under planning ref. no. 08/5851 (ABP No. PL04/232776); continuance of use of existing concrete plant, block production, block storage yard and associated ancillary facilities/buildings - all permitted under planning ref. no. 15/04602; extension of existing sand and gravel pit over an extraction area of c. 5.5 hectares to a level of c. 8.5 metres Ordnance Datum; and restoration of the overall pit area to agricultural grazing and natural habitat uses; all within a planning application area of c. 26.9 hectares. Permission is sought for fifteen years plus two years for final restoration (total duration of seventeen years). The planning application will be accompanied by the Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR).

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4780

• 13 Apr 2023Conditional permission

  (A) Construction of shed for storage of farm machinery, (B) Construction of silage slab, retaining walls and concrete apron to front for storage of baled silage, (C) Construction of roof over existing dung stead together with all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4697

• 20 Dec 2022Conditional permission

  (1) Retention of Eastern gable addition to bungalow incorporating study, lobby & recessed porch. (2) Retention of North facing pitched roof over front of bungalow in lieu of flat roof previously granted under Planning Reg. No. 2015/76. (3) Retention of Agricultural Shed for storage of Hay & Straw together with garden store, coal & logs store & toilet, located at rear of bungalow and complete with all associated site works.

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 22/6803

• 17 Nov 2022Incompleted application

  (1) Retention of Eastern gable addition to bungalow incorporating study, lobby & recessed porch. (2) Retention of North facing pitched roof over front of bungalow in lieu of flat roof previously granted under Planning Reg. No. 2015/76. (3) Retention of Agricultural Shed for storage of Hay & Straw together with garden store, coal & logs store & toilet, located at rear of bungalow and complete with all associated site works.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 22/6569

• 16 Jun 2022Conditional permission

  Permission for retention of site works (including installation of septic tank and percolation area) of dwelling permitted under expired permission 16/4034 and for permission for construction of dwelling on same and all associated site works. Permission for retention of domestic garage (as constructed) permitted under 16/4034 and Permission for retention of the conversion of said domestic garage to a dwelling.

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 22/5391

• 19 Apr 2022Conditional

  Alterations and extensions to dwelling house including alterations to front elevation, construction of extensions to side and rear, construction of first floor extension and construction of detached domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4876

• 22 Oct 2021Conditional

  The construction of a two storey dwelling house, detached garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6886

• 20 Aug 2018Conditional

  Construction of a detached dwelling, garage, along with associated site works and to be serviced by a wastewater treatment system.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6191

• 11 Apr 2018Conditional

  Construction of auxiliary concrete apron, retaining walls and soiled water storage tank for storage of baled silage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4893

• 26 May 2017Conditional

  The construction of a dwellinghouse and garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5306

• 14 Mar 2017Conditional

  The construction of a new 2,200pe waste water treatment plant. The development will consist of an administration building and ESB substation, inlet works, rotating biological contactors, final settlement tanks, pump stations, sludge thickener, storm tank, primary settlement tanks, outfall flume, outfall structure, flow distribution chambers, chemical dosing unit/storage area, access road, 2.4m high boundary security fence and access gate, landscaping, and all associated site development and site excavation works above and below ground.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4595

• 26 Apr 2016Conditional

  Import up to 100,000 tonnes of dredging spoil from the Bandon River, generated by the Bandon Flood Relief Scheme over a 2 year works period, into Dromkeen Quarry, for use in the restoration of a worked out area in the south-east of the quarry site as an amendment to the restoration scheme already permitted under the terms and conditions of planning permission 08/8581 / PL04.232776. This application will be accompanied by an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4951

• 8 Apr 2016Incompleted application

  Import of up to 1000,000 tonnes of dredging spoil from the Bandon River, generated by the Bandon Flood Relief Scheme over a 2 year works period, into Dromkeen Quarry, for use in the restoration of a worked out area in the south-east of the quarry site as an amendment to the restoration scheme already permitted under the terms and conditions of planning permission 08/8581 / PL04.232776. This application will be accompanied by an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4785

• 15 Mar 2016Conditional

  Construction of cubicle house and slatted tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4594

• 14 Jan 2016Conditional

  Construction of dwellinghouse and domestic garage along with all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4034

• 15 Dec 2015Conditional

  Construction of extension (shed/slatted tank) to west end of existing shed, to increase area of existing silage yard and retention of extension (shed/slatted tank) to east end of existing shed

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6846

• 27 Mar 2015Conditional

  Decommissioning of an existing concrete manufacturing plant, the construction of a new replacement concrete manufacturing plant, to include block production, a block storage yard and associated control room/staff facilities building, all to be located in the north-western section of the quarry site, plus the construction of a garage to the west of the existing quarry workshop and including provision of a new internal access road

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4602

• 5 Dec 2014Unconditional

  Dwelling, detached domestic garage, septic tank and associated site works, extension of duration to permission granted under Planning Ref. No. 09/7223

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 14/6607

• 11 Mar 2013Conditional

  Agricultural shed for storage of farm machinery and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4407

• 24 May 2011Conditional

  Modifications and construction of two storey extension to dwelling, modifications to adjacent domestic outbuilding, installation of septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5118

• 29 Apr 2011Incompleted application

  Modifications to existing dwellinghouse, construction of two-storey extension to said dwelling, modifications to adjacent outbuilding and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/4924

• 1 Jul 2010Conditional

  Dwelling house, detached domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area, site entrance & all ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5618

• 2 Oct 2009Conditional

  Dwelling, detached domestic garage, septic tank and associated site works

  Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 09/7223

• 14 Sept 2009Incompleted application

  Dwelling house, detached garage & all associated site works including septic tank

  Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 09/7029

The 25 most recent of 44 applications.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bandon Valley Above Inishannon 001740

Recorded monuments

• CO111-007 Burial ground
  Description

  Not shown on 1st or 2nd eds of O.S. maps. In pasture. Area inaccessible due to heavy overgrowth. 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

• CO111-008 Cliff-edge fort
  Description

  At end of gravel spur overlooking W bank of Bandon River. Roughly oval area (30.7m E-W; 23m N-S) enclosed by deep fosse (D 3.7m) and counterscarp bank (H 0.6m) S->NE; by sheer cliff face NE->S. Interior split-level; W half 2.4m higher. 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, 1930–1950 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding three-bay two-storey house, built c.1940, having paired canted bay windows with linking porch canopy to front (south-east) and single-bay two-storey return to rear (north-west). Hipped slate roofs having pitched slate roof to return with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rain water goods. Hipped lean-to slate roof to canopy. Rendered walls with plinth, having roughcast rendered wall and rendered sill band to first floor of front (south-east) elevation. Square-headed window openings with render sills throughout, having raised rendered surrounds to first floor of front elevation. One-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows in single and bipartite arrangements. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber panelled door and overlight to front elevation, flanked by fixed timber-framed sidelights. Square-headed door openings with rendered stepped approaches to rear and side (south-west) elevation, having timber battened doors. Located within own grounds with U-plan farmyard to north-west. Rusticated concrete block enclosing wall and piers with render block coping and double-leaf wrought-iron gates.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, moderately low (inferred), 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 Dromkeen.

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.

• Dromkeen, Innishannon5 sales

Name

Dromkeen · Drom Caoin

Area

2,733,762 m² (273.38 ha, 675.53 acres)

Civil parish

Inishannon, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery East (East Division)

Electoral division

Inishannon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Inishannon electoral division: 2,094 people in 721 households; 81% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnaclug, Ballylangley, Ballymountain, Carrigcannon, Curranure, Farranagow, Knockroe

Placenames

Dromkeen 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.