Dromlough

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromlough, from 218 m² to 328,642 m² (32.86 ha, 81.21 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Dromlough 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.

• 19 Nov 2009Withdrawn

  Construction of dwellinghouse, garage, new vehicular entrance, installation of a small treatment plant and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/2112

• 23 Oct 2009Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse, garage, new vehicular entrance, installation of a small treatment plant and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/2025

• 20 Dec 2000Refused

  Dwelling & garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 00/7718

• 29 Aug 2000Refused

  Dwelling House

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 00/5248

• 16 Aug 2000New application

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 00/4999

• 16 Aug 2000New application

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 00/5000

• 12 May 1999Conditional

  Dwellinghouse with garage & conservatory

  Permission · Cork County Council, 99/2439

• 3 Mar 1999Conditional

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 99/1003

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Dromlough.

Recorded monuments

• CO093-046 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In rough grazing 54m E of Caha River. Circular area (6.7m N-S; 6.6m E-W) enclosed by fosse (D 0.45m) with external earthen bank (H 0.40m). Entrance (Wth c.1m) with causeway across fosse at SE. Interior level with small depression (diam. 1m; D 0.25m) in SE quadrant. Natural platform adjoins bank from SE->SSE. 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

• CO093-047 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, atop crest of hillock. Circular area (23m N-S; 23.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen stone-faced bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 2m). Large slabs, set on edge, act as external facing. Bank, to W and N, incorporated into field fence system and topped by stone wall. 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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dromlough.

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

At the centre of the townland of Dromlough, about 1 in 5 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 high, 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 Dromlough.

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.

No address of the register names Dromlough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Dromlough · Drom Locha

Area

1,007,487 m² (100.75 ha, 248.96 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmichael, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery East (West Division)

Electoral division

Coolmountain, the unit of the census

Census 2022

435 people lived in 156 households in the Coolmountain electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cooranig, Crushterra, Dromdeegy, Farrannahineeny, Inchincurka, Knockariblihane

Placenames

Dromlough 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.