Dromleena

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromleena, from 116 m² to 595,890 m² (59.59 ha, 147.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 50 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Green Infrastructure (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 12 Sept 2025Grant with conditions

  A) Installation of a pre-fab unit which contains a toilets for Sunday Children Park Runs, store for equipment with event and office for use during occasional race days for entries with associated site works and parking B) Permission for the installation of a new septic tank and percolation area C) Alterations to the front elevation of existing shed

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5891

• 3 Sept 2025Invalid - case closed

  Planning Permission for A) installation of a pre-fab unit which contains toilets for Sunday Children Park Runs, store for equipment with event and office for use during occasional race days for entries with associated site works and parking B) Permission for the installation of a new septic tank and percolation area c) Alterations to the front elevation of existing shed

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/501

• 1 Aug 2025Incompleted application

  Permission for A) installation of a pre-fab unit which contains toilets, store and office with associated site works and parking B) Permission for the installation of a new septic tank and percolation area C) Alterations to the front elevation of existing shed

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/439

• 30 May 2019Conditional

  Construction of a proposed dwelling house, garage, car-port, and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/364

• 13 Aug 2018Conditional

  Construct a dwelling house and carry out associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/477

• 12 Mar 2018Refused

  To comprise of 2 no. (two) electricity generating wind turbines with maximum tip height of 130 metres, an Electrical Compound, Sub-Station Building, 4 no. (four) car parking spaces and all associated site roads and site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/128

• 29 Jan 2018Incompleted application

  To comprise of 2 no. electricity generating wind turbines with maximum tip height of 130 metres, an Electrical Compund, Sub-Station Building, 4 no. car parking spaces and all associated site roads and site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/43

• 20 Dec 2017Incompleted application

  Development of a wind farm consisting of 2 electrical generating wind turbines max height of 130m with electrical compound and sub-station building with parking for four vehicles, associated site roads and hardstands, 75m high permanent meteorological mast, under ground cabling and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/807

• 14 May 2015Refused

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 15/256

• 14 Feb 2014Conditional

  Expansion of pig herd to a 270 sow integrated pig unit comprising the construction of 1no. loose dry sow house, 1no. farrowing house, 1no. stage one weaner pig house, 1no. stage two weaner pig house and 1no. finisher pig house and associated works in order to comply with animal welfare and nitrates legislation

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/108

• 20 Jan 2014Incompleted application

  The expansion of an existing integrated sow herd to 270 by construction of additional pig buildings

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/35

• 11 Jun 2013Conditional

  Retention of rear extension to dwelling and proprietary treatment unit and filtration area

  Retention · Cork County Council, 13/324

• 29 Mar 2012Conditional

  Construct dwelling and detached garage and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/201

• 20 Mar 2012Incompleted application

  Construct dwelling and detached garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/171

• 13 Mar 2012Incompleted application

  Construct dwelling and detached garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/154

• 21 Aug 2009Conditional

  Dwellinghouse, domestic garage, installation of waste water treatment plant unit and associated site works

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 09/945

• 28 Jan 2009Conditional

  Ten year permission to erect 11no. Wind Turbines on single site, of which 5no. wind turbines with ancillary hardstand and assembley areas are in townland of Dromleena, 3no. wind turbines with ancillary hardstand and assembley areas and 1no. borrow pit are in townland of Inchanadreen, 3no. wind turbines with ancillary hardstand and assembley areas and 1no. electrical substation are in townland of Derrynasafagh; install underground fibre optic and electrical cables and ancillary works in townlands of Dromleena, Inchanadreen and Derrynasafagh, Dunmanway, Co. Cork; Install underground fibre optic and electrical cables and ancillary works along public road to 110kV Electrical Substation 1km east of Dunmanway town adjacent to the R586 and all ancillary associate site works including internal roadways and wheelwash facilites. This planning application will be accompanied by an EIS

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/63

• 23 Dec 2008Incompleted application

  Ten year permission to erect 11no. Wind Turbines on single site, of which 5no. wind turbines with ancillary hardstand and assembley areas are in townland of Dromleena, 3no. wind turbines with ancillary hardstand and assembley area and 1no. borrow pit are in townland of Inchanadreen, 3no. wind turbines with ancillary hardstand and assembley area and 1no. electrical substation are in townland of Derrynasafagh; install underground fibre optic and electrical cables and ancillary works in townlands of Dromleena, Inchanadreen and Derrynasafagh, Dunmanway, Co. Cork; Install underground fibre optic and electrical cables and ancillary works along public road to 110kV Electrical Substation 1km east of Dunmanway town adjacent to R586 and all ancillary associate site works including internal roadways and wheelwash facilites

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/2255

• 9 Sept 2008Conditional

  Erect 50m monopole wind speed and direction measuring mast

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1647

• 14 Aug 2008Incompleted application

  Erect 50m monopole wind speed and direction measuring mast

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1507

• 14 Apr 2008Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/668

• 14 Feb 2008Conditional

  Construction of finishing pig accommoadation (480 places) with slatted slurry tankand overground feed storage bin and associated works in order to comply with nitrates and animal welfare legislation

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/263

• 21 Jan 2008Incompleted application

  Construction of finisher pig accommodation (480 places) and assoociated site works in order to comply with nitrates and animal welfare regulations for existing pig herd

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/92

• 5 Dec 2007Incompleted application

  Construction of 1no. finishing pig house (480 places) and associated works in order to comply with nitrates and animal welfare regulations for existing pig herd

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/3040

• 23 Feb 2007Conditional

  Construct geo-membrane lined cattle out wintering pad with silage pit, geo-membrane lined slurry holding lagoon, concrete feeding passage, concrete apron and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/487

The 25 most recent of 35 applications.

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 Dromleena.

Recorded monuments

• CO107-031 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on SSE-facing slope. Roughly circular area (diam. c. 35m) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.9m) NNW->SE; scarp (H 1.4m) to S and W. Low bank to N, topped by stone wall. Bank and scarp stone faced in parts. Interior raised on S side to compensate for hillslope; S half crossed by cultivation ridges on NW-SE axis. 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

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

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 Dromleena, 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 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 Dromleena.

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

Name

Dromleena · Drom Líne

Area

2,813,695 m² (281.37 ha, 695.28 acres)

Civil parish

Fanlobbus, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery East (West Division)

Electoral division

Dunmanway North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,264 people lived in 496 households in the Dunmanway North electoral division. 69% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrigskullihy, Cloontiquirk, Derrynasafagh, Dunmanway North, Dunmanway South, Inch East, Inchanadreen, Kilbarry

Placenames

Dromleena 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.