Prohus
Prohus is a townland in the civil parish of Dromtarriff, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Pruchas.
- Area
- 127.2 ha
- 314 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 41,656 m² (4.17 ha, 10.29 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Prohus, from 1,762 m² to 446,688 m² (44.67 ha, 110.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Prohus 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
12 Dec 2006Conditional
Construction of slatted house with underground tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13214
26 May 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7538
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: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
Recorded monuments
- CO039-021002 Kiln - lime
Description
Lime kiln survives but inaccessible due to overgrowth. Indicated on 1904 OS 6-inch map adjacent to reservoir with pump house and chimney. Pump house and chimney no longer survive. 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 Prohus.
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 Prohus, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Prohus.
- 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 Prohus with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Prohus · Pruchas
- Area
- 1,272,091 m² (127.21 ha, 314.34 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dromtarriff, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Electoral division
- Rathcool, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 563 people lived in 201 households in the Rathcool electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinkeen, Garrane South, Killetragh, Knockcahill, Laght, Rathcool
- Placenames
- Prohus 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.