Dromtarriff

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromtarriff, from 764 m² to 193,821 m² (19.38 ha, 47.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Dromtarriff 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.

• 10 Oct 2007Conditional

  Dwelling and septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11555

• 25 Jul 2007Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/9858

• 14 Jun 2007Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/8701

• 15 Mar 2007Conditional

  Construction of shed to include easey feed, slatted housing, loose housing and underground effluent tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6062

• 23 Nov 2006Withdrawn

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12622

• 8 Jun 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3994

• 31 Aug 2004Withdrawn

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/6631

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Dromtarriff.

Recorded monuments

• CO031-034 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Named 'holy well' on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps. In pasture, c. 200m to SE of Dromtarriff church and graveyard (14419,14576). Circular stone-covered and lined well (diam. 1.05m); opening on SE side with four steps down. Tree 3m to W has coins inserted in trunk and rags tied to branches; Bowman (1934, 349) noted three trees with large mound of stones at base of one. Rounds paid on May 6th (Ó Nunáin, 1975, 56). Large circular area around well recently enclosed by stone-built wall with gate to S; area inside wall partially paved. Known locally as 'St Iníon Buí's holy well'. According to Ó Ríordáin (1986, 33), Iníon Buí was sister of St Latiaran (see 14026) and St Lasair. According to Bowman (1934, 349), known locally as Dromtarriffe well; 'rounds also on 29th, 30th and 31st May and on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays throughout the year'. Said to have special cure for sore eyes (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 3, 87; photograph opp. 89). 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 Images provided by and copyright of Amanda Clarke 2016-2022 https://holywellscorkandkerry.com/

• CO031-035001 Graveyard
  Description

  On E side of road; square graveyard (c. 70m N-S; c. 70m E-W) enclosed by stone wall; entered by gate from road to E. Ruin of parish church of Dromtarriff (14419) off-centre to S. In use; earliest headstone noted dated 1777. The 1842 OS 6-inch map depicts graveyard as smaller (c. 55m WSW-ENE; c. 35m NNW-SSE) and polygonal in shape. Holy well (13982) c. 200m 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

• CO031-035002 Church
  Description

  South-of-centre in graveyard (14576). Ruinous rectangular church (int. 25m E-W; int. 7.78m N-S), built of sandstone rubble; densely overgrown. East gable missing. South wall (H c. 3m) has wall press at E end; window with single ogee-headed light, in splayed embrasure under segmental arch, towards E end; ruinous doorway (Wth 1.45m) W of centre, embrasure covered by segmental arch. North wall (H c. 3m) featureless apart from narrow gap (Wth 0.5m) towards W end, possibly location of second window mentioned by Windele (Bowman 1934, 346), although he locates it on S wall. West gable (H c. 6m) appears featureless, though densely overgrown. Remains of parish church of Dromtarriff, said to have been burnt by Lord Broghill's troops in 1652 (Lewis 1837, vol. 1, 509). A church here listed in Papal Taxation of 1291 (Hickson 1891, 46). 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

• CO031-094 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture. Oval mound of burnt material (16m N-S; 14m E-W; H 0.3m). Recorded by Bowman (1934, 346) who noted that 'the surface stones have been removed'. 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 Dromtarriff.

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 Dromtarriff, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dromtarriff.

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

Name

Dromtarriff · Drom Tairbh

Area

618,130 m² (61.81 ha, 152.74 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, Dysert, Kippagh, Rossglass

Placenames

Dromtarriff 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.