Kildrum
Townland in the civil parish of Brigown, barony of Condons and Clangibbon, Co. Cork; in Irish Cill Droma
- Area
- 165.6 ha
- 409 acres
- Land parcels
- 40
- registered freehold, median 4,442 m² (0.44 ha, 1.1 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 24
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kildrum, from 128 m² to 323,969 m² (32.4 ha, 80.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 65 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
28 Nov 2024Conditional permission
Permission for the construction of a two-storey dwelling, septic tank and percolation area, bored well, entrance, and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6250
20 May 2024Conditional
Permission to demolish existing boiler house to the rear of their house, erect an extension to the side of their house, interior alterations, alter the location of the windows and doors to their house, convert part of the existing attic for storage/home office use, install a new effluent treatment system to site assessors detail and erect a garage, for private domestic use and all ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4903
8 May 2019Conditional
A new dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area, new entrance to replace the existing entrance, new farm access laneway, the change of use of the existing farm house to storage ancillary to the use of the new dwelling house and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5159
27 Mar 2019Incompleted application
A new dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area, new entrance to replace the existing entrance, the change of use of the existing farm house to dry storage ancillary to the use of the new dwelling house and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4751
15 Sept 2017Withdrawn
Dwelling along with associated access road and driveway, waste water treatment system, domestic garage, site and ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6385
28 Aug 2017Incompleted application
Construct a dwelling along with associated access road and driveway, waste water treatment system, domestic garage, site and ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6223
19 Apr 2016Refused
Construction of detached dwelling along with associated road entrance, driveway, waste water treatment system, detached domestic garage/store house, site and ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4864
4 Apr 2012Conditional
Construction of a two storey dwelling, domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area and ancillary sitework. The site is within the curtilage of a protected structure R.P.S. No. 01343, Robinsons Farmhouse 19th Century
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4651
16 Mar 2012Conditional
Demolition of existing dwelling and construction of new bungalow, sewerage treatment system and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4512
5 Mar 2012Incompleted application
Demolition of existing dwelling and construction of new bungalow, sewerage treatment system and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4396
23 Aug 2011Withdrawn
Construction of a two storey dwelling, domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area and ancillary siteworks
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5807
3 Jun 2011Conditional
Construction of a farm building to contain (a) a slatted tank (b) a milking parlour (c) a dairy (d) a cubicle house and (e) an easy feed area and an overground 5.67m high slurry tank (capacity 220,000 galloon)
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5215
4 Jun 2010Refused
Construction of farm building to contain (a) slatted tank, (b) milking parlour, (c) dairy, (d) cubicle house and (e) an easy feed area and an overground 5.67m high slurry tank (capacity 229,609 gallons)
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5393
21 Apr 2010Conditional
Two-storey dwelling house, domestic garage, effluent treaatment system & ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4953
10 Mar 2010Conditional
Construction of silage slab with concrete apron and installation of an underground covered 36 cubic metre silage effluent tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4552
22 Dec 2008Conditional
Alterations and construction of single storey extension to rear of bungalow, raising of roof to provide attic accommodation with 1 no. dormer window and 2 no. velux windows to front, 4no. velux windows to rear, bay window to side, new biocycle unit and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/10279
23 Apr 2008Conditional
Dormer type domestic garage (including domestic storage area)
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6264
2 Apr 2008Conditional
Retention of relocated entrance to farm and dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5806
1 Oct 2007Incompleted application
Construction of agricultural entrance to farmyard and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11343
29 Aug 2007Incompleted application
Construction of entrance gate to farmyard
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10603
8 Nov 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12092
30 Mar 2006Conditional
Alterations and extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/5985
25 Nov 2003Conditional
Dwelling, garage and waste water treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/5956
29 May 2003Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 03/2592
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 Kildrum.
Recorded monuments
- CO011-002002 Souterrain
Description
Roughly 10m NE of moated site (CO020-002001-). No visible surface trace. Second souterrain (CO020-002002-) c. 40m to SW. 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
- CO020-002001 Moated site
Description
In level pasture. Trapezoidal area (66m NE-SW; 65m NW-SE) defined by earthen bank (int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1.3m) on NW, E and SSE sides, and by scarp on WSW side; external fosse (D 0.7m) surviving on E, SSE and WSW sides. Gateway at SW end of SSE bank and at N corner. Fosse wet and boggy to E and WSW, flooded to SSE. Interior recently ploughed; from inside centre of NW bank low linear bank extends SE to centre and terminates in irregularly shaped mound of soil, different in colour to bank soil; at centre is extensive spread of black soil, raised slightly above interior level. North angle of interior enclosed by L-shaped feature visible as soilmark. Depression (diam. 3m; D 0.75m) inside E bank. Souterrain (13279) in NW bank; second souterrain (13278) c. 10m to NE. 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
- CO020-002002 Souterrain
Description
Represented on the OS 6-inch map as being in N bank of moated site (CO020-00201-). No visible surface trace. There is a second souterrain recorded on the OS 6-inch map (CO011-002002-) c. 40 m to the NE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). Date of revision: 10 August 2009
- CO020-023 Mill - unclassified
Description
On Gradoge Stream, c. 200m S of early ecclesiastical enclosure (13880). Millrace survives as earth-cut channel (L c. 50m) parallel to N side of stream but divided from it by large earthen bank (H c. 6m). Landowner remembers large millstone (diam. c. 6ft; 1ft thick) with hole in centre, on S bank of stream; this area has been reclaimed and planted with trees. 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
- CO020-025 Ecclesiastical enclosure
Description
In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Roughly oval area (136m E-W; 130m N-S), defined by steep scarp (H 1.1m) ESE->SW with barely perceptible external fosse, by earthen bank SW->W with internal and external fosse, by almost levelled earthen bank W->NW with external fosse and by modern fence and trees NW->NNE, with curve in disused roadway to E which may respect line of enclosure. Outer earthen bank (H 0.8m; Wth c. 1.2m) W->NW, stone faced in parts. Bank to SW and outer bank to NW incorporated into field boundary system. According to local information, church located here. 'Ceall Droma', named in Crichad an Chaoilli, is equated by Power (1932, 81) with the present 'Kildrum, where a famous church was founded by St. Abban...indicated by a large double-ramparted and circular entrenchment crowning the most conspicuous elevation of the townland, on Robinson's farm...[the] holy city here was called Cill na Marbhán of which the fame rested largely on its attached cemetery...'. Possible mill site (15236) to S of enclosure, in field adjoining stream. 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kildrum.
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 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 Kildrum.
- 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 Kildrum with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Kildrum · Cill Droma
- Area
- 1,656,198 m² (165.62 ha, 409.26 acres)
- Civil parish
- Brigown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Condons and Clangibbon
- Electoral division
- Mitchelstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Mitchelstown electoral division: 5,219 people in 2,034 households; 66% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardglare, Ballynabrock, Corracunna, Garryleagh, Kilshanny, Knocknamuck, Pollardstown
- Placenames
- Kildrum 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.