Dromrahan

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromrahan, from 66 m² to 338,824 m² (33.88 ha, 83.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Dromrahan 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.

• 8 Jul 2022Conditional

  (1) Permission for retention of existing 2-storey extension to the rear of existing dwelling (2) Permission to decommission existing septic tank and percolation area serving existing dwelling and to replace same with a new secondary wastewater treatment system and tertiary filter and all associated site works and services.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5609

• 12 Apr 2022Conditional permission

  Permission to construct dwelling, domestic garage and to block up an entrance to an existing dwelling and to replace same with a new shared entrance to serve both dwellings and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4786

• 4 Jun 2021Conditional

  A new agricultural building to be used as a store in association with existing farmyard and a new double vehicular entrance to serve the existing farmyard and the existing adjacent dwelling on site.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5572

• 15 Nov 2016Conditional

  Construction of dwellinghouse, domestic garage, car port, entrance, installation of septic tank and percolation area. and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6850

• 4 Oct 2013Unconditional

  Demolition of dwelling and construction of a dwelling, domestic garage and associated site work - Extension of duration of permission granted under Planning Reg. No. 08/5742

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 13/5912

• 24 Jan 2012Conditional

  Construction of a detached garage with related site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4083

• 28 Jun 2011Conditional

  Construction of a dwelling, domestic garage and all associated services

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5400

• 21 Jun 2010Conditional

  Construction of domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5520

• 31 Mar 2008Conditional

  Demolition and construction of dwellinghouse and construction of garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5742

• 14 Jan 2008Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and installation of wastewater treatment unit

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 08/4147

• 8 Jan 2008Conditional

  Dwellinghouse, detached garage and installation of wastewater treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4050

• 15 Sept 2006Conditional

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10641

• 17 Nov 2005Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8442

• 29 Jan 2004Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 04/422

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170

Recorded monuments

• CO033-051 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In reclaimed land, c. 150m SW of Rahan church and graveyard (14418,14575). No visible surface trace; according to local information, drained during reclamation. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO033-052001 Church
  Description

  East-of-centre in graveyard (14575). Ruin of rectangular church (c. 18m E-W; c. 8m N-S), largely reduced to sod-covered foundations. Lower courses of E gable stand, ivy-covered; S wall has one standing portion in centre of E half (L 3m; H 1.2m), with collapsing external face held together by ivy. Interior covered with burial plots. Remains of parish church of Rahan, reported 'in ruins' in 1615, abandoned by 1694 (Brady 1863, vol. 2, 83); C of I parish church moved to new location (14700) at beginning of 19th century. Described as one of chief churches of Tuath Muighi Finne in Crichad an Chaoilli (Power 1932, 30). A church here listed in Papal Taxation of 1292 (Brady ibid.). Possible holy well (14042) c. 160m to SW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO033-052002 Graveyard
  Description

  In demesne of Drumrahan House, immediately N of millrace. Subrectangular graveyard (c. 60m max. WSW-ENE; c. 32m NNW-SSE) enclosed by earthen bank to S and W, stone wall to N, stone-faced earthen bank to E, all overgrown with trees or shrubs. Ruin of parish church of Rahan (14418) off-centre to E. On 1842 OS 6-inch map, graveyard is larger (c. 68m x 35m) with church at centre; appears to have been truncated to E and S by building of millrace and structures associated with Drumrahan House. In use; oldest headstone noted dated 1772, numerous low uninscribed gravemarkers; Brady (1863, vol. 2, 368) noted inscription on headstone here with date of 1667. Interior of church used for burial. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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 Dromrahan.

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 Dromrahan, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1030 (ZIP).

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 Dromrahan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Dromrahan · Drom Raithin

Area

915,788 m² (91.58 ha, 226.3 acres)

Civil parish

Rahan, and its townlands

Barony

Fermoy

Electoral division

Rahan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

926 people lived in 320 households in the Rahan electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymacmoy, Carrig Demesne, Kilcanway, Rahan, Rockforest East

Placenames

Dromrahan 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.