Dromdoneen

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromdoneen, from 44 m² to 184,905 m² (18.49 ha, 45.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 6 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 25 Mar 2004Conditional

  Erection of a 38kv overhead line from Glanta windfarm in Dromourneen to the 110kv ESB station in Ballylicky

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/1990

• 29 Oct 1999New application

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 99/5874

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 Dromdoneen.

Recorded monuments

• CO105-039 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, atop drumlin, overlooking the heavily wooded Mealagh River valley to E. Circular area (34.7m N-S; 33.8m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.6m). Bank stone faced on outside and incorporated into field fence system to W. (Myler 1998, 14, no. 1) 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: 24 January 2013

• CO105-040 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In grassland, on N-facing slope, W of Mealagh River. Marked as circular enclosure on OS 6-inch map (1842). Bank (H 1.6m) W->E; otherwise levelled. Myler (1998, 14) records that 'It is now just about visible as a low circular ridge measuring about 25 yards in diameter. There is a well or drain visible in the north facing slope some distance beneath this site which could possibily be an indication of a sourterrain feature connected with this fort.' 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: 23 January 2012

• CO105-041 Cliff-edge fort
  Description

  In tillage, on edge of steep incline dropping down to Mealagh river. D-shaped area (41m NE-SW; 22m NW-SE), enclosed by earthen bank (H 2.2m) SSW->N; scarp (H 2.55m) NNW-NE; steep drop NE-SSW. Interior slopes down to SW. Myler (1998, 14) records that the 'earthen bank is disturbed by roots and erosion' and he also records 'a possible entrance at the eastern corner of the fort'. 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: 24 January 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Dromdoneen.

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

Name

Dromdoneen · Drom an Dúinín

Area

243,832 m² (24.38 ha, 60.25 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmocomoge, and its townlands

Barony

Bantry

Electoral division

Bantry Rural, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Drombrow, Dromdoneen East, Dromdoneen West, Inchiclogh

Placenames

Dromdoneen 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.