Drough

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drough, from 378 m² to 314,124 m² (31.41 ha, 77.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 14 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 22 Dec 2011Conditional

  Permission for (a) alterations and extension to the rear/side of dwelling (b) replacing of flat roof on side elevation with hipped roof & (c) replacing existing roof tiles to dwellling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/6696

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 Drough.

Recorded monuments

• CO019-015 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture, immediately E of stream. Irregular mound of burnt material (19m N-S; 8m E-W; H 1m). 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

• CO019-016 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On rock outcrop, c. 200m N of Funshion River. Fragmentary remains of tower consisting of N wall (L 6.2m) with return of W wall (L 6.61m) and E wall (L c. 1.3m); clad with ivy (Cotter 1994, 102). Slight external base batter on W wall; NW corner stands to c. 8m H, NE to c. 2m. Part of garderobe outlet survives near ground level at extreme N end of E wall. Sill and part of E jamb of blocked window light in N wall. Rebuilding evident at N end of W wall. Spiral stairs, steps now missing, begin at 1st-floor level in NW corner, outer wall of staircase collapsed. Castle of a branch of the Condons (Nicholls 1993, 187). 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

• CO019-151 Kiln - lime
  Description

  Mid/late 19th-century lime kiln, built between rock outcropping, in quarry immediately W of Carriganoura Castle (14361). Front wall (H c. 6m; Wth c. 12m) faces S; arched recess (H 2.28m; Wth 2.67m; D 3.72m) with cut-stone voussoirs, sloping slabs at rear, iron surround around ope (H 0.3m; Wth 0.55m) at base. Brick-lined funnel (diam. 2.55m). Partially removed ramp approaches rear from E. 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

• Killee Bridge, bridge, 1770–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch limestone road bridge over Funshion River, built c. 1780. Coursed rubble stone walls with curved rendered copings and peck-dressed plinth. Round arches with tooled limestone voussoirs and V-cutwaters. Angled stone copings to apporach walls having rectangular stone projections at regular intervals. Tooled stone plaque to east wall.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Drough.

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.

No address of the register names Drough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Drough · Darúch

Area

967,813 m² (96.78 ha, 239.15 acres)

Civil parish

Marshalstown, and its townlands

Barony

Condons and Clangibbon

Electoral division

Kilgullane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilgullane electoral division: 159 people in 56 households; 91% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Booladurragha, Broomhill, Cloonkilla, Killaclug West, Killee, Knockagarry

Placenames

Drough 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.