Dromskehy
Dromskehy is a townland in the civil parish of Dromtarriff, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Drom Sceiche.
- Area
- 172 ha
- 425 acres
- Land parcels
- 43
- registered freehold, median 3,302 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 29
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromskehy, from 205 m² to 276,536 m² (27.65 ha, 68.33 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Dromskehy 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
21 Sept 2026Awaiting admin validation
Retention of existing Biosecurity Area and permission to construct; 1) Poultry House and Egg Store, 2), Soiled Water Tank, 3) Vertical Feed Bins, 4) Manure Shed, 5) Biosecurity Area, 6) Rainwater Harvesting Tank, to be carried out in conjunction with all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/2459
15 Jun 2026Invalid - case closed
Retention of existing Biosecurity area and Permission to construct; 1) Poultry house and egg store, 2) Soiled water tank, 3) Vertical feeding bins, 4) Manure shed, 5)Biosecurity area, 6) Rainwater harvesting tank, to be carried out in conjunction with all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1593
22 Sept 2023Conditional
Permission for construction of a livestock underpass, effluent holding tank and all associated sitework
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5913
1 Dec 2021Refused
Construction of a livestock underpass, effluent holding tank and all associated siteworks.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/7242
19 May 2021Conditional
Construction of 2 no. livestock underpasses, effluent holding tanks and all associated siteworks.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5367
18 Sept 2020Conditional
(a) To construct a new slatted livestock house. Proposed slatted livestock house to incorporate easy feed, cubicles, scrapers and associated underground slurry storage tank with external agitation point and ancillary concrete. (b) To construct a new walled silage slab and 2 no. concrete aprons and ancillary concrete.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6031
28 Nov 2017Conditional
To construct 1) 2 Poultry Houses, 2) Slatted and Soiled Water Tanks, 3) Extension to farm roadway, to be carried out in conjunction with all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/7086
25 Oct 2017Incompleted application
Permission to construct 1) 2 poultry houses, 2) slatted and soiled water tanks, 3) installation of 2 vertical feed bins, 4) extension to farm roadway, to be carried out in conjunction with all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6767
6 Jul 2016Conditional
To demolish two existing dwellings, and to construct a storey and a half style dwelling, garage, entrance, wastewater treatment plant and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/5675
28 May 2014Unconditional
Demolition of existing habitable dwelling & construction of new dwelling incorporating a granny flat & proprietary wastewater treatment unit & raised soil polishing filter, extension of duration to permission granted under Planning Ref. No. 09/4737
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 14/5127
26 Jun 2009Conditional
Dairy, milking parlour, effluent tank, dairy unit with slatted tanks, silage base and calf house
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6094
10 Mar 2009Conditional
Demolition of existing habitable dwelling & construction of new dwelling incorporating a granny flat & proprietary wastewater treatment unit & raised soil polishing filter
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4737
12 Sept 2007Conditional
Retention of domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10932
26 Jun 2007Incompleted application
Retention of a domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9012
17 May 2007Incompleted application
Retention of domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7868
20 Mar 2007Conditional
Demolition of dwellinghouse and construction of dwellinghouse and domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6218
20 Feb 2007Incompleted application
Demolition of existing farm dwelling and construction of new dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5237
27 Oct 2006Conditional
One and half storey dwellinghouse and garage/carport
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11834
16 Aug 2006Conditional
Construction of dwelling
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/9793
7 Jul 2006Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/8693
17 May 2006Withdrawn
Demolition of dwellinghouse and construction of dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7262
4 Apr 2006Incompleted application
Demolition of dwellinghouse and construction of dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6071
21 Oct 2005Conditional
Retention of bay window to front of dwelling, two velux windows to rear of dwelling and the change of colour of the facia, soffits, gutters and down pipes on dwelling from white to black
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7726
19 Sept 2005Conditional
Construction of extension and retention of domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6776
30 Mar 2005Withdrawn
Extension to rear of domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1945
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 Dromskehy.
Recorded monuments
- CO030-061 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular raised area (diam. c. 30m) on 1937 OS 6-inch map. Circular area (diam. 32m) defined by low rise (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.4m) with shallow external fosse (D 0.1m). Remains of cultivation ridges cross enclosure on N-S axis. 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 Dromskehy.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Dromskehy, 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 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 Dromskehy.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Dromskehy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Dromskehy · Drom Sceiche
- Area
- 1,719,549 m² (171.95 ha, 424.91 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dromtarriff, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Electoral division
- Rosnalee, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 380 people lived in 146 households in the Rosnalee electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Dromagh, Dromahoe, Drominagh North, Drominagh South, Island-Dahill, Killinane, Lisnacon
- Placenames
- Dromskehy 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.