Dunmanus East
Townland in the civil parish of Skull, barony of Carbery West (West Division), Co. Cork; in Irish Dún Mánais Thoir
- Area
- 221.6 ha
- 548 acres
- Land parcels
- 99
- registered freehold, median 5,269 m² (0.53 ha, 1.3 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 28
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
99 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dunmanus East, from 78 m² to 521,453 m² (52.15 ha, 128.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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
No zone of a development plan covers Dunmanus East 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
19 Dec 2023Conditional
Construct a bovine loose house and carry out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/731
12 Jul 2023Conditional
Construct a cattle underpass under public road, concrete approach ramps, soiled water holding tank and carry out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/384
20 Jan 2021Conditional
Permission for retention of existing cattle house with slatted slurry tank, permission to demolish existing milking parlour, dairy, plant rooms and calf house, permission to construct a milking parlour, dairy, office, plant room, two no. roofed cattle holding yards, slatted soiled water tank, earth walled bund to existing overground slurry storage tank and carry out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/29
11 Dec 2020Conditional
Permission for retention of existing cattle house with four no. slatted slurry tanks, permission to construct an extension to said cattle house, permission to construct four no. slatted slurry tanks and carry out all associated site works (alterations to plan granted under planning ref no. 18/00358)
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/726
20 Jun 2018Conditional
Phased construction of a cattle house with four no. slatted slurry tanks and carry out associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/358
21 Mar 2017Conditional
Dwellinghouse, garage and associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/163
6 Dec 2013Conditional
Extensions and alterations to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/680
8 Sept 2008Refused
Dwellinghouse, domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1632
18 Aug 2008Incompleted application
Dwelling house and a domestic garage along with all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1527
1 May 2008Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse, domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/799
8 Feb 2008Incompleted application
Bedroom extension together with utility room and conservatory
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/237
7 Dec 2007Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse, domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/3041
30 May 2007Conditional
Demolish 1no. existing agricultural building and construct new slatted cattle house with underground effluent storage tanks along with all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1416
18 May 2007Conditional
Construction of a dwelling , domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1301
19 May 2006Conditional
Slatted house to replace existing open slurry tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/923
17 Feb 2006Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage & associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/244
4 Nov 2004Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse, agricultural shed and retention of mobile home for storage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8173
15 Sept 2004Conditional
Construction of dwelling, domestic garage, treatment unit and irrigation area
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/7002
20 Aug 2004Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/6354
23 Dec 2003Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/6896
13 Oct 2003Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/5101
18 Mar 2003Conditional
Dwelling
Approval · Cork County Council, 03/1173
13 Jun 2001Conditional
Dwellinghouse & garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/3415
17 Jan 2001Conditional
Retention of alterations to elevations of dwelling & change of use of detached domestic garage to domestic workshop/store
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/159
15 Jan 2001Refused
Dormer bungalow & garage
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 01/132
The 25 most recent of 28 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 Dunmanus East.
Recorded monuments
- CO139-016 Standing stone
Description
In rough grazing on N-facing slope. Irregular stone aligned ENE-WSW (H 2.2m; 1.4m x 0.2m). Stone leans heavily to NNW and is resting against a similar size half-buried stone. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO139-017001 Enclosure
Description
In floodplain, on S side of inner Dunmanus Harbour. Circular area (17m N-S; 16m E-W) enclosed by eroded earthen bank (H 0.4m). Interior level with signs of flooding. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO139-017002 Boulder-burial
Description
In swampy field, overrun by high tides, just S of mount of river which flows into Dunmanus Harbour. Subrectangular flat-topped boulder (2.4m x 1.9m; T 0.9m) resting above three support stones. (O Nualláin 1978, 94, no. 28; Roberts 1988, Ch. 4, no. 42) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO139-018 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, atop hillock. Circular area (40m N-S; 42m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (max. ext. H 3.4m); external fosse (D 1.6m); counterscarp bank (H 1.2m) SSE->WSW, continues as low foundations topped by stone field fence WSW->N. Bank stone faced internally to NE and E; entrance to E (Wth 4m) with causeway; cattle gap to WSW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO139-019 Fulacht fia
Description
Irregular mound (diam. 8m N-S; H 2.3m) in low-lying boggy ground. Burnt material visible under grass cover. Possible trough areas to N and E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO139-068 Cairn - unclassified
Description
In rough pasture, on the crest of an E-W rocky ridge with extensive views S to the Fastnet Rock and N to Dunmanus Bay. A roughly circular cairn (1.45m N-S; 1.3m E-W; H 0.6m), cone-shaped in elevation, is built on bedrock and contains of a mixture of medium-sized stones. Some of the cairn has been rebuilt or added to in more recent times. According to local information, this cairn has been in existence as long as older people can remember. This information, together with its location and the rounded weather-beaten nature of many of the stones, suggests that this is an ancient cairn. 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dunmanus East.
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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dunmanus East.
- 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
No address of the register names Dunmanus East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Dunmanus East · Dún Mánais Thoir
- Area
- 2,215,667 m² (221.57 ha, 547.5 acres)
- Civil parish
- Skull, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery West (West Division)
- Electoral division
- Dunmanus, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dunmanus electoral division: 251 people in 99 households; 88% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 28% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barnatonicane, Dunmanus West, Gorttyowen, Knockeens, Lissacaha (North), Toormore
- Placenames
- Dunmanus East 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.