Dooneen Lower

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dooneen Lower, from 75 m² to 262,584 m² (26.26 ha, 64.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Lower 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.

• 5 Dec 2025Grant with conditions

  Permission for the demolition of the remains of an existing shed, the construction of a new shed for use as domestic storage and recreational space, and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6679

• 28 Feb 2025Conditional

  Permission for the construction of a new side and rear extension to existing house, with minor elevation and height alterations and refurbishments to the existing house. Alterations and internal refurbishment including the addition of toilet area of the existing stone barn for use as domestic storage and recreational space and construction of a single storey art studio (Private Use) attached to existing stone barn, new vehicular entrance and car park turning area, new biofiltration treatment unit and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4335

• 7 Feb 2025Incompleted application

  Permission for the construction of a new side and rear extension to existing house, with minor elevation and height alterations and refurbishments to the existing house, new vehicular entrance, new biofiltration unit and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4162

• 16 Oct 2023Conditional

  Permission the construction of a new detached dwelling house, detached garage and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6087

• 14 Apr 2023Incompleted application

  The construction of 6 glamping pods, 1 communal kitchen area, car parking area and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4722

• 16 Dec 2021Incompleted application

  Construction of a new front, side and rear extension to existing house, with minor alterations and refurbishment of the existing house. Alterations and internal refurbishment, including the addition of toilet area, of the existing stone barn, for use as domestic storage and recreational use and the construction of a single storey art studio (private use), attached to existing stone barn, the construction of a detached garage, new vehicular entrance, new bio filtration treatment unit and all associated site works. (Change of plans granted under planning ref no. 15/4649) - Extension of Duration to Permission granted under Planning Ref. No. 17/5363.

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 21/7382

• 2 Jul 2021Withdrawn

  The construction of 6 glamping pods, 1 communal kitchen area, 1 communal social area, car parking area and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5833

• 1 Jun 2017Conditional

  Construction of a new front, side and rear extension to existing house, with minor alterations and refurbishment of the existing house. Alterations and internal refurbishment, including the addition of toilet area, of the existing stone barn, for use as domestic storage and recreational use and the construction of a single storey art studio (private use), attached to existing stone barn, the construction of a detached garage, new vehicular entrance, new bio filtration treatment unit and all associated site works. (Change of plans granted under planning ref no. 15/4649).

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5363

• 11 May 2017Incompleted application

  Construction of a new front, side and rear extension to existing house, with minor alterations and refurbishment of the existing house. Alterations and internal refurbishment, including the addition of toilet area, of the existing stone barn, for use as domestic storage and recreational use and the construction of a single storey art studio (private use), attached to existing stone barn, the construction of a detached garage, new vehicular entrance, new bio filtration treatment unit and all associated site works. (Change of plans to planning ref no. 15/4649)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5148

• 18 Apr 2017Incompleted application

  Construction of a new front, side and rear extension to existing house, with minor alterations and refurbishment of the existing house. Alterations and internal refurbishment, including the addition of toilet area, of the existing stone barn, for use as domestic storage and recreational use and the construction of a single storey art studio (private use), attached to existing stone barn, the construction of a detached garage, new vehicular entrance, new bio filtration treatment unit and all associated site works. (Change of plans to Planning Ref No. 14/6672).

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4922

• 2 Apr 2015Conditional

  Construction of new front, side and rear extension to existing house, with minor alterations and refurbishment of the existing stone barn for use as domestic storage and recreational use and construction of a single storey art studio (for private use), attached to existing stone barn. Construction of a detached garage, new vehicular entrance, new bio filtration treatment unit and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4649

• 10 Mar 2015Incompleted application

  Construction of a new front, side and rear extension to existing house with minor alterations and refurbishment of the existing house. Alterations and internal refurbishment, including the addition of toilet area of the existing stone barn for use as domestic storage and recreational use and the construction of a single storey art studio attached to existing stone barn, the construction of a detached garage, new vehicular entrance, new bio filtration treatment unit and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4461

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 Lower.

Recorded monuments

• CO124-040 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as subcircular enclosure (c. 40m SW-NE; c. 40m NNW-SSE); abutted to S by E-W field fence. Levelled; low rise traces line of bank. Cropmark (CUCAP, BGP 60) shows circular enclosure, truncated on S side by field boundary. 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 Lower.

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 Lower, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Dooneen Lower · An Dúinín Íochtarach

Area

657,051 m² (65.71 ha, 162.36 acres)

Civil parish

Kilroan, and its townlands

Barony

Courceys

Electoral division

Ballymackean, the unit of the census

Census 2022

398 people lived in 138 households in the Ballymackean electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Crohane, Dooneen Upper, Kilcolman, Killowny

Placenames

Dooneen Lower 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.