Dannanstown

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dannanstown, from 1,470 m² to 196,273 m² (19.63 ha, 48.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Dannanstown 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.

• 17 Apr 2007Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7088

• 9 Feb 2005Conditional

  Dwelling and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/666

• 28 Jan 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/361

• 14 Dec 2004Withdrawn

  Dwellinghouse, Garage & Effluent treatment system

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/9169

• 22 Sept 2004Withdrawn

  Dwelling and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/7176

• 31 Mar 2004Withdrawn

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/2115

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Awbeg Valley (Below Doneraile) 000074

Recorded monuments

• CO026-009 Mill - corn
  Description

  On NE bank of Awbeg River; built against sheer rock face. Overgrown shell of 6-storey rectangular mill (19.9m NE-SW; 14.9m NW-SE); SW elevation double-gable-ended, 4-bay; SE elevation of 6 bays. Window opes stone arched. NW elevation partially collapsed. Millrace, taken by weir from river, delivers almost immediately into wheel-pit; water still flows in race. Wheel-pit alongside SW wall built for undershot waterwheel, but now contains inward-flowing turbine installed in 1950s (21kw generator adjacent). Mill built in 1820s by Messers Quayle and Richard Welstead on site of smaller mill and leased by John Furlong in 1835, worked by H. H. Smith until 1887 (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 3, 11-12). Named 'Flour Mill' on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Closed in 1900 and machinery scrapped to help fund Boer War (Power 1990, 50). Canning factory built nearby in 1950s by James Elliott who installed turbine to generate electricity for factory; factory (concrete shell survives) closed in 1965 (Power ibid.). 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

• CO026-010 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  In pasture, on crest of hill. Grove White (1905-25, vol. 3, 12) noted 'small cairn' said to be burial place of 'old Downan...killed [by mistake] by a chain shot in the old wars'. Levelled; spread of fulacht fiadh material (10701) noted in area of site. 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

• CO026-011 Castle - tower house
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope, c. 300m E of Awbeg River. Rectangular tower (10.5m N-S; 9m E-W) surviving only to two storeys. Wide, high door (Wth 2.36m; c. 3.5m H) in S wall clearly an insertion; no evidence of original entrance. Ground-floor chamber (8.15m N-S; 5.73m E-W) floored with concrete and used as cattle shed. Blocked double-splayed window N of centre in W wall, light missing; similar window N of centre in E wall has narrow lintelled light. Central door in E wall, now partially blocked, originally led to base of narrow mural stairs rising in E wall to 2nd-floor level; breach in outer wall at base of stairs. No evidence survives of ceiling over ground floor or of access to 1st floor. Single chamber on 1st floor covered by rounded vault (long axis N-S) with traces of plank centring; lit by lintelled window, now blocked, in N wall. Mural stairs in E wall reach 2nd-floor level in SE corner of tower, then turn to W for one step, above which does not survive. Floor over vault covered in concrete, walls at this level survive to only c. 0.5m high. Slight base batter on N, E and W walls; no batter on S wall, which is less than half thickness of other walls, and is probably completely rebuilt. Little known of site's history; 'Dowanestowne' included in a grant of land by the crown to David Lord Roche in 1611 (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 3, 11). 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

• CO026-012 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture. Circular area (35m E-W; 34m N-S) enclosed by uniform earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.9m); external fosse (D 0.3m). Entrance (Wth 3.5m) to NE. Interior planted with coniferous 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

• CO026-131 Country house
  Description

  Roofless 2-storey house c. 50m E of tower house (14358). Random-rubble limestone construction. Rectangular in plan (17.1m NE-SW; 6.8m SE-NW; wall thickness 0.62m), extended by 4.36m at SW end by similar addition. Gable-ended; SW gable no longer survives. Steeply pitched NE gable with chimney of 17th-century appearance, chimneys project internally. NE gable elevation has two narrow lintelled opes at ground floor with slightly larger lintelled opes at 1st floor. NW elevation of 6 bays; rough stone-arched ground floor window opes; 1st-floor windows immediately under eaves may have been lintelled; top of arches visible at ground floor level at NE end are probably top of ope into former basement level. Off-centre door ope damaged due to widening, remains of arch visible; old photograph (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 3, opp. 11) shows it as partially damaged narrow camber-headed door ope, no windows occur at first floor level over door or adjacent window to right. SE elevation masked behind modern sheds; stone-arched door ope at SW end and off-centre stone-arched window ope overhead just under eaves, inserted door ope at NE end. Access to interior difficult. Grove White (1905-25, vol. 3, 13) refers to house containing 'cellar, oven, kitchen and three rooms on ground floor and rooms overhead'; may be house referred to by Smith (1750, vol. 1, 388) as property of Mr Welstead. 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

• CO026-134 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture, on or close to site of cairn (11802). Grass-covered spread of burnt material (c. 20m N-S; c. 15m E-W). 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

• Dannanstown House, mill manager's house, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement former mill manager's house, built c. 1835, now in use as private house. Hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves and painted rendered chimneystacks. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with painted stone sills. Round-headed window opening to rear having spoked fanlight to nine-over-nine pane timber sliding sash window. Round-headed entrance doorway with decorative spoked fanlight and timber panelled door with flanking timber Doric-style engaged columns with plinth blocks. Five-bay two-storey outbuilding to north, having pitched slate roof, painted roughcast rendered walls, square-headed window openings with timber fittings and segmental-arched vehicular entrances with timber battened double-leaf doors. Pair of square-profile rendered piers to road entrance, with decorative double-leaf cast-iron gates set into rendered walls terminating in pair of piers. Remains of flour mill to north.

• Mill (water), 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached double-pile four-bay six-storey flour mill, built c. 1820, now in disuse and roofless. Concrete-walled single-bay single-storey extension to west elevation. Chimneystack to south gable of west elevation. Coursed rubble limestone masonry walls with camber-arched window and door openings having roughly dressed voussoirs and some openings having brick voussoirs. Mill race and wheel pit to site, with remains of cast-iron machinery and metal sluice.

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 Dannanstown, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Dannanstown · Baile an Donnánaigh

Area

730,028 m² (73 ha, 180.39 acres)

Civil parish

Templeroan, and its townlands

Barony

Fermoy

Electoral division

Shanballymore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

662 people lived in 238 households in the Shanballymore electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardleag, Ballyellis, Ballygriggan, Carrigleagh, Shanballymore Lower

Placenames

Dannanstown 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.