Drishane

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drishane, from 482 m² to 98,559 m² (9.86 ha, 24.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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 Drishane 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.

• 6 May 2011Conditional

  Alterations & extensions to side & rear of dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/270

• 28 Mar 2008Withdrawn

  Construct single storey extension and renovation of existing gate lodge, provision of waste water treatment unit and all associated development works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/563

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 Drishane.

Recorded monuments

• CO142-075 Standing stone
  Description

  At foot of SSW-facing slope. Site not located due to heavy overgrowth. 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

• CO142-098 Cupmarked stone
  Description

  On top of a steep slope, overlooking Castlehaven Harbour to S. Finlay (1973, 110-111) describes a 'rectangle movable boulder, 115cm x 88cm and 30cm thick' decorated with eighteen cup-marks including a group of three which are conjoined and a pair, also conjoined'. 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

• CO151-017 Standing stone
  Description

  In pasture overlooking sea to S. Subrectangular stone aligned NW-SE (H 1.65m; 0.95m x 0.3m). 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

• CO151-018 Cupmarked stone
  Description

  In pasture, overlooking Castlehaven Harbour. Large stone (L 2.9m; 2.55m x 0.53m) with twelve cupmarks (max. diam. 0.09m) on its upper surface. The stone rests on another large stone which is in turn supported by smaller pad stones. Mentioned by Borlase (1897, 43) as 'dolmen'. 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

Architectural heritage

• Drishane House, country house, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay two-storey country house, built c.1790. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks having clayware pots and cast-iron rainwater goods. Slate hanging to walls. Square-headed openings with limestone sills and timber sliding sash windows, in six-over-six arrangement to first floor and nine-over-six to ground floor. Round-headed door opening with engaged columns flanking timber glazed double leaf doors and sidelights, with fanlight above. Ranges of buildings attached to rear.

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 Drishane, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Drishane · An Driseán

Area

360,664 m² (36.07 ha, 89.12 acres)

Civil parish

Castlehaven, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery West (East Division)

Electoral division

Castlehaven North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

817 people lived in 315 households in the Castlehaven North electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castletownsend, Farrandau, Knockdrum

Placenames

Drishane 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.