Durah

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Durah, from 204 m² to 244,883 m² (24.49 ha, 60.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Durah 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.

• 9 Oct 2006Conditional

  Bungalow and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11281

• 30 Jun 2005Refused

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/4638

• 27 May 2005Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/3662

• 30 Sept 2003Conditional

  Alterations and extension to dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/4871

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 Durah.

Recorded monuments

• CO098-049 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on level ground. Circular area (42.8m N-S; 42.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.5m); external fosse (D 1.1m) NNE->SE. Entrance to SSE. 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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Durah.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Durah · Dúráth

Area

586,510 m² (58.65 ha, 144.93 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymartle, and its townlands

Barony

Kinalea

Electoral division

Ballymartle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballymartle electoral division: 1,409 people in 453 households; 79% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintober, Carhoo North, Carhoo South, Dooneen North, Dooneen South, Shanavally

Placenames

Durah 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.