Drumaclarig
Drumaclarig is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcaskan, barony of Bear, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Drom an Chláraigh.
- Area
- 47.2 ha
- 117 acres
- Land parcels
- 6
- registered freehold, median 6,211 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumaclarig, from 2,573 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres) to 178,881 m² (17.89 ha, 44.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Drumaclarig 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
23 Jun 2016Conditional
Permission for (i) retention of extension to dwelling, (ii) retention of detached dwelling unit/granny flat ancillary in use to main house and (iii) all associated site works
Retention · Cork County Council, 16/395
20 Sept 2013Conditional
Construction of a new single storey extension to the front elevation of the existing two storey detached dwelling, and a new window to the existing south-west gable at ground floor, including all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/538
9 Aug 2007Conditional
Demolish 2no. existing steel footbridges, construct 2no. 1.3m wide galvanised steel footbridges with concrete walkway; construct disabled access ramp and steps; extend existing stone guard walls to 0.875m high over Glengarriff river
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/2126
19 Jun 2007Incompleted application
Demolish 2no. existing steel footbridges, construct 2no. 1.3m wide galvanised steel footbridges with concrete walkway; construct disabled access ramp and steps; extend existing stone guard walls to 0.875m high over Glengarriff river
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1616
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Glengarriff Harbour and Woodland SAC 000090
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Glengarriff Harbour And Woodland 000090
Recorded monuments
- CO090-030001 Enclosure
Description
On a terrace on a tree-covered NW-facing slope within Glengarriff National Park. A circular area (diam. 8.5m) is defined by a scarp (H 0.4m) faced with stones W-NE and elsewhere by faint traces of a low bank (Wth c. 1m; H c. 0.1m). The level interior is covered with forest debris. Holly and oak trees are growing within and around the enclosure. A second enclosure (CO090-030002-) is c. 20m to the SSE. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009
- CO090-030002 Enclosure
Description
On a terrace on a tree-covered NW-facing slope within Glengarriff National Park. A circular area (diam. 9m) is defined by the intermittent remains of a low bank (Wth 1.1m; H 0.15m). The level interior, covered with forest debris, is raised (H 1m) at NW and cut into the upslope (D 0.2m) at SE to compensate for the slope. Holly and oak trees are growing within and around the enclosure. A second enclosure (CO090-030001-) is c. 20m to the NNW. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009
- CO090-031 Enclosure
Description
On a terrace on the tree-covered W-facing slopes of a N-S ridge within Glengarriff National Park. A circular area (diam. 9m) is defined by a low bank (Wth 1m; H 0.2m). The level interior is covered with forest debris and trees are growing within and around the enclosure. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Architectural heritage
- Glengarriff Nature Reserve, gate lodge, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey former gate lodge, built c.1800, with central projecting bay and recent rear (north) extensions. Oversailing hipped slate roof with red brick chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Plain pediment to projecting bay. Exposed rubble stone walls. Square-headed openings with paired Tudor arch fixed pane windows, concrete sills and label mouldings. Round-headed door opening with timber panelled door having decorative Tudor Revival detailing and fanlight, flanked by panelled pilasters with moulded cornice above. Terracotta tiles to porch. Enclosed by timber fencing and gate.
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 Drumaclarig, about 1 in 5 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 Drumaclarig.
- 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 Drumaclarig with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Drumaclarig · Drom an Chláraigh
- Area
- 472,205 m² (47.22 ha, 116.68 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcaskan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bear
- Electoral division
- Kilcaskan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 895 people lived in 373 households in the Kilcaskan electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 27% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cappyaughna, Carrigrour, Coorannel, Derreenagarig, Esknamucky
- Placenames
- Drumaclarig 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.