Dromsligo
Townland in the civil parish of Mallow, barony of Fermoy, Co. Cork; in Irish Drom Sligeach
- Area
- 184.7 ha
- 456 acres
- Land parcels
- 55
- registered freehold, median 2,356 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 40
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromsligo, from 31 m² to 396,307 m² (39.63 ha, 97.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 68 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
25 Jun 2026Awaiting f.i. response
FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE COMPRISING A 24 METRE HIGH LATTICE TOWER CARRYING ANTENNAS, DISHES AND ASSOCIATED TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT, TOGETHER WITH GROUND LEVEL EQUIPMENT CABINETS, FENCING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1702
15 May 2026Invalid - case closed
FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE COMPRISING A 24 METRE HIGH LATTICE TOWER CARRYING ANTENNAS, DISHES AND ASSOCIATED TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT, TOGETHER WITH GROUND LEVEL EQUIPMENT CABINETS, FENCING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1286
30 Dec 2025Grant with conditions
Permission to widen existing vehicular access, construct a domestic garage in the rear garden of existing dwelling and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6983
19 Jan 2023Conditional
Proposed construction of 1 no. detached kenneling structure which incorporates 20 no. kennels, 2 no. treatment rooms, laundry room, kitchen, 2 no. storage rooms, accessible WC & reception area together with the proposed connections to existing services and all ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4049
13 Jan 2022Conditional
Permission to construct a domestic garage / store for use ancillary to the dwelling.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4038
18 Jun 2021Conditional
1) Construction of an extension to an existing dwelling 2) Installation of a percolation area to serve an existing septic tank. 3) Retention of the existing septic tank.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5694
12 May 2021Conditional
To construct a dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5286
23 Dec 2019Conditional
A 30.1m multi-user free standing lattice structure carrying telecommunications equipment including antennas, RRUs and dishes, together with associated exchange cabinets fencing and all associated site development works. The development will provide for wireless data and broadband services.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/7102
6 Jun 2018Conditional
Construction of an extension to an existing agricultural building. The use of the existing building is for housing cattle, the extension will also be used for housing cattle.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5463
1 May 2018Incompleted application
Construction of an extension to an existing agricultural building
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5074
8 Dec 2015Conditional
Construction of an extension to an existing milking parlour in addition to the construction of an uncovered below ground cattle slurry storage tank. Change of use of an existing building from that of agricultural machinery storage to one containing cattle cubicles and construction of an extension to the building subject to the proposed change of use.
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6780
28 Aug 2014Conditional
Extension to an existing dwelling and associated site works, and construction of a wider entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5823
6 Aug 2014Incompleted application
Extension to an existing dwelling and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5680
20 Feb 2013Conditional
Construction of carport to side of existing dwelling and permission for retention of domestic garage/store as constructed to rear of the site
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4275
27 Feb 2012Conditional
Retention of domestic garage, two vehicular entrances and revised site boundaries as constructed (alterations from that granted under planning permission 02/3917)
Retention · Cork County Council, 12/4329
21 Oct 2010Conditional
Retention of alterations to site boundaries from those permitted under Planning Reg. No. 95/0817
Retention · Cork County Council, 10/8272
20 Aug 2009Conditional
Dwelling, domestic garage and septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6763
13 May 2009Incompleted application
Dwelling, domestic garage & septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5537
16 Apr 2008Application finalised
Dwellinghouse and septic tank
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 08/6099
5 Mar 2008Conditional
Construction of storage shed, change of use of underground soiled water tank to uncovered slatted slurry tank and increase in depth of tank to 2.44m
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5222
18 Jan 2008Refused
Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of wastewater treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4220
2 Jan 2008Conditional
Demolition of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4005
2 Jan 2008Refused
Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of septic tank
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 08/4004
19 Dec 2007Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse, domestic garage and installation of waste water treatment plant
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/13204
14 Nov 2007Incompleted application
Demolition and construction of dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/12368
The 25 most recent of 40 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 Dromsligo.
Recorded monuments
- CO025-080 Country house
Description
Overgrown and partially collapsed, early 19th-century, 1-storey house. Entrance front (S) of 3 bays, central wide round-headed door ope; small rectangular window opes. Rear elevation partially collapsed, no features visible on side elevations, lean-to addition onto E end. Rectangular in plan, divided internally into two rooms. Large room (int. 8.9m E-W; 6.9m N-S) to E accessed directly from front door; smaller room (int. 3.1m E-W; 5.2m N-S) to W with door ope in N and S wall, wide brick-arched fireplace in W end wall with remains of brick-domed bread oven (1.1m x 0.7m) adjacent. Hipped roof no longer survives. One-storey vernacular house short distance to N: 2-bay, gable-ended, rectangular in plan (long axis N-S); addition to W and N sides. 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 Dromsligo.
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 10 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_919 (ZIP).
- 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
- Dromsligo, Mallow6 sales
The townland
- Name
- Dromsligo · Drom Sligeach
- Area
- 1,846,852 m² (184.69 ha, 456.37 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mallow, and its townlands
- Barony
- Fermoy
- Electoral division
- Mallow Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Mallow Rural electoral division: 5,045 people in 1,684 households; 62% of households own their home; 53% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ashgrove, Baltydaniel West, Cloghlucas South, Curraghanearla, Dromdowney Upper, Killagrohan, Lodge
- Placenames
- Dromsligo 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.