Dooneen

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dooneen, from 416 m² to 183,491 m² (18.35 ha, 45.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Dooneen 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.

• 23 Sept 2025Invalid - case closed

  10 year planning permission for the construction of, and a 40 year operation and subsequent decommissioning of, a development consisting of a 118-hectare solar farm, Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) and underground grid connection route (red line boundary). The solar farm comprises of four separate land parcels divided by local roads. The underground cable route comprises public roads L7634, L7635, L7637, L7633, L7631, L7604, L7609, L7610, L3617 and R626 to connect to Knockraha 220kV substation & Lysaghtstown 110kV substation. The proposed solar farm and Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) will consist of a series of ground mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) panels, mounted on steel support structures and in some areas on concrete shoes to protect possible underground archaeological features, together with electrical transformation enclosures, underground cabling, 3 no. HDDs, 3 no. temporary construction compounds, 1no. storage container, battery units, a synchronous condenser, the use of existing farm access tracks, existing site entrances, 1 no. new maintenance entrance connecting to an existing private access track ,inverters, CCTV poles and cameras, deer type security/boundary fencing, palisade fencing, landscaping and biodiversity measures and all associated ancillary development works, for the purpose of generating and storing renewable energy electricity and transmitting it in the townlands of Condonstown, Pigeonhill, Aghaduff, Ballynabrannagh East, Ballynabrannagh West, Ballyvatta, Lysaghtstown, Ballinbrittig, Ballyleary, Ballynakilla, Cloneen, Garranes, Lackenbehy, Dooneen and Woodstock, Co.Cork. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared in respect of the planning application. The proposed development is covered by the provision of the Renewable Energy Directive III (directive2023/2024).

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6005

• 24 Aug 2023Conditional permission

  Construct a new dwelling house, new dual entrance, install a new wastewater treatment system and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5692

• 21 Aug 2023Conditional

  Construct a new dwelling house, new dual entrance, install a new wastewater treatment system and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5693

• 7 Apr 2022Conditional

  Permission for retention of extensions to dwelling and associated site work

  Retention · Cork County Council, 22/4777

• 31 Jan 2022Conditional

  To construct a dwelling house incorporating all necessary ancillary and site development works, landscaping, bored well, wastewater treatment system and new entrance to current guidelines.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4170

• 8 Nov 2021Withdrawn

  Construct a new dwelling house incorporating all necessary ancillary site development works, landscaping, bored well, waste water treatment system and entrance to current guidelines, adjacent to famiy home Silverstone House

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/7018

• 22 Mar 2017Conditional

  Construction of a 2-storey side extension to house including modifications/alterations to the elevations of the existing building and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4690

• 9 Apr 2015Refused

  Construction of dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4697

• 16 Jan 2014Withdrawn

  Permission for (a) Construction of 1no. agricultural building to include milking parlour, dairy and associated rooms, livestock handling facilities and straw bedded livestock housing, (b) covering of existing unroofed slurry tank with slatted flooring for waiting yard for milking parlour, (c) Construction of soiled water/parlour washings tank, (d) erection of meal bin and 1no. water storage tank, along with associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4066

• 17 Sept 2009Conditional

  Retention of domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7075

• 6 Nov 2008Conditional

  Construction of one-and-a-half storey dwelling, domestic garage and sewage treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9586

• 17 May 2007Conditional

  Dwelling (change of plan)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7910

• 11 May 2007Refused

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7702

• 16 Apr 2007Conditional

  Single storey extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7048

• 26 May 2006Conditional

  Demolition of dwelling and construction of dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7543

• 26 May 2006Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7527

• 5 May 2006Withdrawn

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6931

• 15 Mar 2006Conditional

  Dwelling

  Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 06/5579

• 16 Feb 2006Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 06/4852

• 10 Oct 2005Withdrawn

  Split level dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7396

• 30 Sept 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/7131

• 8 Sept 2005Incompleted application

  Split level dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6491

• 22 Aug 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6018

• 11 Jul 2005Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4935

• 26 Nov 2004Refused

  Dwelling and wastewater treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8684

The 25 most recent of 31 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 Dooneen.

Recorded monuments

• CO064-108 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In tillage on N-facing slope. Large spread of burnt material noted. Power (1917, 20) notes flints found in 'some quantity' beside fulacht fiadh in this townland. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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 Dooneen.

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 Dooneen, 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 Dooneen.

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

Name

Dooneen · An Dúinín

Area

747,379 m² (74.74 ha, 184.68 acres)

Civil parish

Ballycurrany, and its townlands

Barony

Barrymore

Electoral division

Lisgoold, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,113 people lived in 343 households in the Lisgoold electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 51% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynakilla, Clash East, Clash West, Garranes, Knockakeen, Leamlara

Placenames

Dooneen 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.