Dunkereen

68 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dunkereen, from 68 m² to 420,203 m² (42.02 ha, 103.83 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Dunkereen 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.

• 11 Apr 2025Conditional

  Permission for works to existing house to comprise construction of single storey extension to south elevation, modification to existing elevations and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4669

• 8 May 2024Conditional

  Permission for : 1) Retention of ground floor & first floor extensions consisting of new roof, dormer windows and rooflights and for, 2) Internal alterations consisting of ground floor extension to kitchen/living area, ground & first floor extension to incorporate new utility room & enlarged master bedroom and for new entrance porch and a new dormer window and all ancillary site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4832

• 13 Dec 2022Conditional

  The construction of a one and a half storey domestic garage to side of existing dwelling house

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6749

• 11 Nov 2022Incompleted application

  The construction of a one and a half-storey domestic garage to side of existing dwelling house

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6527

• 7 Oct 2021Conditional

  Permission for retention of existing open cubicle beds, four no. scraper passages and two no. feeding passages, Permission to construct (a) a roof over said existing open cubicle beds, scraper passages and feeding passages (b) a slatted soiled water tank, (c) a calf house with slatted slurry tank, (d) increase the height of the existing overground slurry storage tank, (e) construct a roof over said existing overground slurry storage tank, (f) complete existing earth walled bund and carry out all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6720

• 24 Feb 2021Conditional

  Construction of a shed; restoration of existing shed to include restoration of walls and construction of roof for the storage of goods and for the loading and unloading of goods in connection with transportation and distribution business; and ancillary site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4455

• 25 Jan 2021Incompleted application

  Construction of a shed, restoration of an existing shed building, and ancillary site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4139

• 27 Jan 2020Unconditional

  Construction of dwelling, domestic garage and associated site works. Extension of Duration of permission granted under planning reference 15/05322.

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 20/4114

• 22 May 2018Conditional

  Retention of a single storey extension to living accommodation and permission for the installation of a proprietary treatment unit and soil polishing filter at Hazelville, an existing residential care unit.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5305

• 16 Apr 2018Incompleted application

  Retention of a single storey extension to living accommodation at Hazelville, an existing residential care unit

  Retention · Cork County Council, 18/4929

• 19 Apr 2017Withdrawn

  Retention of single storey extension to living accommodation at Hazleville, an existing residential care unit

  Retention · Cork County Council, 17/4930

• 19 Apr 2017Conditional

  Retention of 3 single storey buildings, ancillary to the residential care facility: Building 1 for use as a residential care apartment, laundry and boiler house; Building 2 for use as a residential care staff office and Building 3 for use as a residential care multi-sensory room, pottery with stores and boiler house

  Retention · Cork County Council, 17/4931

• 18 Jun 2015Conditional

  Construction of dwelling, domestic garage and associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5322

• 19 Aug 2014Refused

  Development of a part-single and part-two storey dwellinghouse, stand alone garage, wastewater treatment unit and associated percolation area, new site entrance and associated site development works above and below ground

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5760

• 29 Sept 2008Conditional

  Alterations and extensions to dwelling to include construction of dormer extension, two-storey extensions to both ends, porch to front, and installation of sewerage treatment unit to replace existing septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9081

• 19 Jun 2008Conditional

  Dwellinghouse, garage & septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7379

• 10 Mar 2008Conditional

  Single storey extensions to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5303

• 1 Mar 2007Conditional

  Dwelling and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5547

• 8 Sept 2006Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/10425

• 11 Jul 2006Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8794

• 7 Jun 2006Conditional

  One and half storey dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7888

• 15 Jul 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/5056

• 16 Jun 2005Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4196

• 3 Mar 2005Conditional

  2 storey extension and alterations to dwellinghouse and construction of new vehicular entrance

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1248

• 27 Jan 2005Conditional

  Extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/307

The 25 most recent of 27 applications.

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 Dunkereen.

Recorded monuments

• CO097-030 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m), adjacent to Deanesfort House. Levelled; no visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO097-032 Burial ground
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• CO097-066 Country house
  Description

  Late 18th century 2-storey house. Entrance front (W) of 3 bays; central doorway flanked by side lights; 3-sided ground floor bay windows. Hipped roof; 2 off-centre chimneys on back wall. Additions to rear. Farm buildings around courtyard to rear. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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

• Dunkereen House, house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1880, having full-height bowed end-bays to front (south-east) having single-storey canted bay windows flanking recent glazed porch. Canted bay window to side (north-east) elevation and recent single-storey lean-to addition to rear (north-west). Hipped slate roof with timber clad overhanging eaves, rendered chimneystacks and uPVC rainwater goods. Rendered walls throughout having rendered plinth band. Camber-headed window openings with limestone sills to first floor of front elevation, having margined one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills elsewhere having margined one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed stairwell window opening with limestone sill to side (north-east) elevation, having stained glass margined one-over pane timber sliding sash window with fanlight to upper sash. Elliptical-headed door opening to interior of recent porch, having replacement glazed timber door with side panels and overlight. Splayed rubble limestone walls with square-profile gate piers to entrance.

• Railway station, 1845–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay single-storey former railway station, built c.1850, having gable-fronted projecting bay and canopy to front (south-east). Later return to rear (north-west) and remains of historic lean-to addition to side (north-east). Pitched slate roofs having looped terracotta ridge crestings, red brick chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods and timber bargeboards with finials to gables. Perspex roofs to lean-to and canopy, supported on cast-iron brackets. Flemish bond red brick walls having chamfered limestone sill course, rubble stone plinth to rear elevation. Camber-headed window openings within stepped red brick surrounds with chamfered reveals. Rendered internal surrounds to south-western openings of front elevation. One-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and uPVC casement windows. Square-headed window openings with stone sills to return, having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Camber-headed door openings with stepped red brick and rendered surrounds with chamfered reveals, red brick voussoirs, timber battened doors and replacement uPVC door. Sited on rubble limestone platform having moulded render coping.

• Gate lodge, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey with dormer attic former gate lodge, built c.1840, having gable-fronted porch and gabled half dormer windows to front (east). Now in use as private house. Pitched slate roof with looped terracotta ridge crestings and fleur-de-lis finials to gables, red brick chimneystack, recent rooflight and uPVC rainwater goods. Carved timber bargeboards to dormer windows. Pebbled-dash walls having render plinth band and raised render quoins. Rendered wall to rear (west) elevation. Square-headed window openings with render sills throughout having rendered block-and-start surrounds and uPVC casement windows. Square-headed door opening to porch having rendered block-and-start surround and replacement glazed timber door. Roughcast and rendered enclosing walls with rendered copings, having square-profile gate piers and cast-iron pedestrian gate.

• Dunkereen Cottage, country house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1800, having bay window additions to ground floor. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding to south elevation. Hipped slate roof having rendered chimneystacks. Exposed rubble stone walls. Square-headed openings having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor. One-over-one and two-over-two timber sliding sash windows to bay windows. Round-headed door opening having timber panelled door with fanlight, flanked by sidelights, and having recent canopy addition. Pitched slate roof, rubble stone walls and timber matchboard door with carriage arch to attached outbuilding.

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 Dunkereen, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Dunkereen · Dún Céirín

Area

1,836,712 m² (183.67 ha, 453.86 acres)

Civil parish

Inishannon, and its townlands

Barony

Kinalea

Electoral division

Ballymurphy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

994 people lived in 309 households in the Ballymurphy electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh More, Barna, Crosses, Garryhankard, Lissagroom, Lissanisky

Placenames

Dunkereen 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.