Dromskarragh More

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromskarragh More, from 170 m² to 267,218 m² (26.72 ha, 66.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Dromskarragh More 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.

• 20 Oct 2023Conditional

  A) Construct a storey and a half extension with a single storey flat roof link style extension to the side of the existing dwelling. B) Renovate the existing dwelling and to allow for elevational changes C) Decommission the existing septic tank and install a new tertiary treatment system and infiltration area. D)Alterations to roadside boundary. E) All associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6126

• 14 Aug 2023Conditional

  The development will consist of; a) Renovations to existing dwelling house and extension to rear of existing dwelling house, b) demolition of existing defective roofs and replace same with new, c) demolition of structurally defective rear and gable wall, d) alterations to all elevations including revised window and door locations, e) remove existing mobile home, f) retain existing front projection to existing dwelling house, along with all ancillary site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5659

• 26 Jun 2023Incompleted application

  (A) Renovations to existing dwelling house and extension to rear of existing dwelling house. (B) Demolition of existing defective roofs and replace same with new. (C) Demolition of structurally defective rear and gable wall. (D) Alterations to all elevations including revised window and door locations, (E) Remove existing mobile home. (F) Retain existing front projection to existing dwelling house, along with all ancillary site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5302

• 20 Mar 2018Conditional

  Construct a new dwelling house, attached garage, install a waste water treatment unit & soil polishing filter and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4668

• 20 Oct 2017Withdrawn

  Construct a dwellinghouse, attached garage, install a wastewater treatment unit and soil polishing filter and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6726

• 8 Mar 2011Conditional

  Construction of a dormer style dwellinghouse and domestic garage, installation of a proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/4453

• 7 Feb 2007Conditional

  Modifications and extension to existing silo base with ancillary effluent tank, ancillary concrete and silo base retaining walls

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4810

• 8 Apr 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse with domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2191

• 7 Feb 2005Conditional

  Extension of cattle shed and construction of slatted tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/621

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

• CO021-160 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In garden, on S side of house. Circular area (10m E-W; 9.4m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.55m). Extension to house interferes with bank on N side. Ope (Wth 1m) in bank to SSW. Noted by Bowman (1934, 466) as 'Tumulus...levelled...outer fence c. 2ft high, diam. 33ft'. 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

• CO029-016 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In pasture, on W-facing slope c. 110m N of cairn (11803) and ring barrow (11844). Circular area (11m N-S; 13m E-W) enclosed by fosse with external bank (ext. H 0.1m; int. H 0.35m). 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

• CO029-017001 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  In level pasture, overlooking stream valley to S. Circular cairn (diam. 12m; max. H 1.3m; min. H 0.65m) with dip in centre where stones have been removed. Ring-barrow (11844) c. 30m to E. Possibly 'levelled tumulus' in M. Cronin's referred to by Bowman (1934, 466). 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

• CO029-017002 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In pasture, on S-facing slope c. 40m E of cairn (11803) and c. 110m S of ring-barrow (11843). Almost levelled circular area (6.9m N-S; 6.5m E-W) enclosed by fosse with external bank (int. H 0.65m; ext. H 0.75m). Stone (H 0.3m; 0.4m x 0.15m) set radially into bank to N. 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

• CO029-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on S-facing slope, on edge of sharp fall down to stream bed. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (c. 45m N-S) on 1842, 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps; S bank reduced to scarp on 1938 OS 6-inch map. Roughly circular area (48m E-W; 42.5m N-S) defined by earthen bank (int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1m) W->E; levelled elsewhere, visible as low rise. Bank overgrown with briars and gorse. Interior under pasture. 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

• CO029-019001 Kiln - lime
  Description

  In pasture on a S-facing slope, a stream along field boundary to the S. Low earthen mound (L 6m; Wth 5m; H c. 0.30m) of clay and stones, indicated as a limekiln on the six-inch first edition OS map.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Dromskarragh More, about 1 in 10 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 Dromskarragh More.

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

Name

Dromskarragh More · Drom Scarbhach Mór

Area

1,140,857 m² (114.09 ha, 281.91 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmeen (Kanturk Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Duhallow

Electoral division

Boherboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

753 people lived in 308 households in the Boherboy electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Doonasleen North, Dromskarragh Beg, Knockeenacurrig East, Knockeenacurrig West, Knockeenadallane, Urraghilmore (East), Urraghilmore (West)

Placenames

Dromskarragh More 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.