Dromsarane
Townland in the civil parish of Ballyoughtera, barony of Imokilly, Co. Cork; in Irish Drom Sáráin
- Area
- 62.9 ha
- 156 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 3,632 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 29
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromsarane, from 879 m² to 212,437 m² (21.24 ha, 52.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Dromsarane 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
17 Oct 2025Grant with conditions
Permission for the construction of a new two-storey detached dwelling house with a detached domestic garage, the installation of a bored well, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new vehicular entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6207
25 Oct 2024Conditional
Permission for the construction of a dwelling, wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter, new site entrance, well and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6034
5 Jan 2022Conditional
Construction of a dwelling, wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter, new site entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4004
22 May 2020Conditional permission
Retention of alterations to residential site boundary and site area, along with retention of detached domestic double garage, and additional domestic site entrance.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 20/5024
27 Apr 2020Incompleted application
Retention of alterations to residential site boundary and site area, along with retention of detached domestic double garage, and additional domestic site entrance.
Retention · Cork County Council, 20/4854
1 Oct 2018Conditional
1). Retention of storage buildings for storage of machinery used in conjunction with agricultural contracting business and occasional storage of grain and straw (Class 4) 2). Retention of agricultural buildings (Class 3) and 3). Retention of raised/filled ground area to northwest of site (Class 6) and associated site works.
Retention · Cork County Council, 18/6567
29 May 2018Incompleted application
Retention of agricultural storage buildings, raised/filled ground area to northwest of agricultural buildings and associated site works.
Retention · Cork County Council, 18/5393
13 Apr 2018Incompleted application
Retention of agricultural storage buildings, raised/filled ground area to northwest of agricultural buildings and associated site works.
Retention · Cork County Council, 18/4913
10 Oct 2017Incompleted application
Retention of agricultural storage buildings and associated site works as constructed.
Retention · Cork County Council, 17/6639
18 Apr 2016Conditional
Erect a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, an on-site sewage treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4856
18 Apr 2011Withdrawn
Two storey dwelling, garage, site entrance, bored well, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/4799
25 Mar 2011Incompleted application
Two storey dwelling, garage, site entrance, bored well, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/4600
19 Mar 2010Conditional
Amendment to planning permission ref. no. 08/8202 to include replacement of attached garage to side of dwelling with detached garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4625
24 Feb 2010Incompleted application
Alterations to permitted development planning ref.no. 08/8202 to include replacement of permitted attached garage to side of dwelling with detached garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4392
12 Aug 2008Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/8359
31 Jul 2008Conditional
Single storey garage extension and single storey conservatory extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/8202
11 Dec 2007Refused
Dwelling, garage and sewage treatment unit
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/12998
2 Mar 2007Conditional
Conversion of attic to living space and construction of sunroom extension to dwelling and construction of garage with attic store
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5583
13 Feb 2007Conditional
Dwelling and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4999
17 Aug 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse (change of layout)
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9853
21 Jun 2006Refused
Single storey dwellinghouse and garage
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/8260
30 Jun 2005Conditional
Extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4610
20 Jun 2005Refused
Construction of dormer dwelling
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/4296
15 Jun 2005Conditional
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4182
19 May 2005Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/3395
The 25 most recent of 29 applications.
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Dromsarane.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Dromsarane.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dromsarane.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- 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 Dromsarane.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Dromsarane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Dromsarane · Drom Sáráin
- Area
- 629,389 m² (62.94 ha, 155.53 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyoughtera, and its townlands
- Barony
- Imokilly
- Electoral division
- Castlemartyr, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castlemartyr electoral division: 1,060 people in 344 households; 87% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barnabrow, Glennageare West, Kilbree, Meelshane, Sheanliss
- Placenames
- Dromsarane 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.