Castledrum

141 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castledrum, from 18 m² to 322,538 m² (32.25 ha, 79.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Castledrum 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.

• 1 May 2026Conditional

  to construct a side extension to the existing dwelling comprising of 117sq.m floor area including alternations to the existing dwelling house and all associated site works in accordance with plans and particulars.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2677

• 12 Nov 2025Conditional

  Planning Permission to a) construct a new dwelling, b) install a septic tank and percolation area, c) construct a vehicular site entrance and d) construct all associated site works at Castledrum, Castlemaine, Co. Kerry

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2561046

• 27 Aug 2025Conditional

  COSTRUCT A COMMUNITY PLAYGROUND INCLUDING ASSSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 25223

• 18 Jul 2025Conditional

  The development will consist of Retention Permission to a) retain elevational changes as constructed to existing dwelling house b) retain existing garage as constructed c) retain existing dwelling house and garage within revised site boundaries.

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2560622

• 19 Jun 2025Conditional

  (a) retain existing garage/shed 60.23sq.m floor area, (b) Permission to construct a side extension to the existing dwelling comprising of 65.45sq.m floor area, (c) Permission for alterations to the existing dwelling house and all associated site works in accordance with plans and particulars submitted

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 25162

• 29 Oct 2024Conditional

  Planning Permission to a) construct a new dwelling, b) install a mechanical treatment unit and polishing filter, c) construct a vehicular site entrance and d) construct all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460842

• 15 Dec 2023Conditional

  Planning Permission to construct a a Single Storey Extension to Castledrum National School, consisting of a mainstream classroom, a single classroom special education needs unit and associated facilities, a new vehicular entrance with associated on site parking facilities and all associated site services all at Castledrum National School, Castledrum, Keel, Castlemaine, Co. Kerry V93DF79

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2360416

• 28 Feb 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCT (A) A NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH PV SOLAR PANELS ON THE ROOF (B) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23217

• 11 Aug 2021Conditional

  BUILD A PRIVATE TWO STOREY EXTENSION AT REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING, TO BUILD A PRIVATE GARAGE AND ALSO TO DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALL A NEW TREATMENT UNIT

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21919

• 23 Dec 2020N/a

  CONSTRUCT AN ECO GLAMPING SITE TO CONSIST OF (A) ERECT 10 NO ACCOMMODATION LODGES FOR THE PURPOSE OF SHORT TERM "GLAMPING HOLIDAYS" (B) PROVIDE 10 NO. HARD STANDS FOR SHORT TERM PARKING OF MOTOR HOME/CAMPER VANS (C) CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY RECEPTION BUILDING TO CONSIST OF, A RECEPTION AREA, A TOILET/SHOWER AREA AND A COMMUNAL KITCHEN (D) TO CONSTRUCT A MAINTENANCE SHED/STORE (E) TO CONSTRUCT A MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT & POLISHING FILTER (F) TO PROVIDE ON SITE SERVICE ROADS, PARKING AREAS, FOOTPATHS, LOW LEVEL LIGHTING, ON SITE SIGNAGE (G) TO CONSTRUCT ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, TO INCLUDE, BIN STORAGE, A PLAY GROUND, A POLY TUNNELL/PLANTING AREA

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 201280

• 24 Jul 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A NEW EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING SCHOOL INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 19792

• 27 Mar 2019Conditional

  BUILD A PRIVATE SINGLE STOREY DWELLING AND GARAGE SERVED WITH PACKAGED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19312

• 27 Nov 2018Conditional

  (A) CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE WITH AN ON SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM COMPRISING OF A MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT, INTERMITTENT FILTER AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER (B) PLACE A CARAVAN ON SITE TO USE AND RESIDE IN FOR THE DURATION OF THE BUILDING OF THE PROPOSED DWELLING HOUSE AND (C) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 181155

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: Castlemaine Harbour SAC 000343
• Special Protection Area: Castlemaine Harbour SPA 004029
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Castlemaine Harbour 000343

Recorded monuments

• KE046-007 Standing stone
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• KE046-008 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Site of Castle Drum in the townland of Castledrum (Caisleán na Dromann/castle of the ridge), in the parish of Kilgarrylander, barony of Trughanacmy. In 1586 a royal pardon was granted to 'Donell m’Teig M’Donoghe, of Castledrom' (Fiant No. 4871; Nicholls 1994). Two years later Queen Elizabeth granted to 'Donell O Moriertie and Owen O Moriertie, sons to Donell O Moriertie, of Casteldromy' a lease of land which included 'two several moieties of a rent of £15 1s called strahenmarte, payable out of his lands by their father to the traitor Gerald, late earl of Desmond. Recites that Donell the father held Castelldromy [Castledrum] containing 4 ploughlands, Killemardusak 3 pl., Ballegarveighe and Ballemaldwenick 2pl. and 6 acres in Ambroselands called Enohmambrosick, co. Kerry, of the earl, by the rent and services of' (Fiant No. 5265). In 1601 a royal pardon was issued to 'Donell M’donell of Castledrome, Murtagh M’Donell, his son' (Fiant No. 6494). In 1643 the deposition of Arthur Blenerhasset (TCD MS 828, fols 199r-200v) stated that 'donnell mc Moriertagh of Castle-drum' on the 'second of february in the yeere of our lord God 1641 or therabouts' was one of the 'undernamed persons gentlemen & freehoulders of the said County in a rebellious & hostill maner with collors flyeing came to beseidge the Towne & Castle of Traly [Tralee]'. Castle site described in 1841 as follows; 'About three quarters of a mile to the east of this church [Kilgarrylander KE046-021----] stood the Castle of Castle Drum said to have been erected by the Moriarty's. Nothing remains of it now but a heap of rubbish overgrown with grass. Tradition says that it was taken by Cromwell and given to one of the Moriarty's' (O'Donovan 1983, 72). According to Coleman (1909, 154) the Moriarty Castle was demolished in the wars of 1641. Smith (1756, 153) recorded that 'the ruins of Castle-Drum built by the Morarities; so called by the Irish, but rather, as others say, by an English family called Murrie, by an heiress of whom the ancestor of all the Fitz-Geralds got their possessions in Kerry. This castle was demolished in the wars of 1641'. The 1641 deposition of Edward Vauclier (TCD MS 828, fols 284r-285v) stated that 'Captain Donnell mc Moriarthe of Castle drum gentleman' had 'possest himselfe of his best house in Treley [Tralee] & certane other tenement belonging to the house'. The 1641 deposition of Stephen Love (TCD MS 828, 125r) stated that 'donogh McCormack his son of the same gentleman donnell mcMortagh alias Mornertagh of Castledrum' took part in the 1641 Siege of Tralee Castle. Castle site described in 2000 as in pasture on a slight SE facing slope overlooking River Groin running NW-SE to W side of castle site. No surface remains of castle site. According to owner of Keel House c. 1.5km to the SW of the site of Castle Drum, a lot of the stone was taken from the castle and built into the walls, gate posts and house pillars throughout the townland (SMR File). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 May 2022

• KE047-021001 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• KE047-021002 Standing stone
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Gobnait's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1860–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cruciform-plan double-height Gothic Revival Roman Catholic church, built c. 1875, comprising four-bay double-height nave, single-bay double-height transepts to north and to south elevations with entrance bays to west elevations, single-bay double-height chancel to east gable end and two-bay single-storey lean-to advanced sacristy projection to north-east corner. Pitched artificial slate roofs with overhanging eaves and verges. Exposed sandstone rubble walls with batter at base and having alternating limestone and sandstone quoins. Lancets with grey limestone surrounds and red sandstone relieving arches. West window lancets set in projecting bay. Triple-light east window with limestone tracery having trefoil over. Limestone door surrounds to timber double-leaf doors having leaded overlights. Cruciform-plan interior with a shallow chancel, exposed scissor trusses on limestone corbels and west gallery on timber posts. Chancel remodelled retaining part of altar rail, carved marble altar and tabernacle. Graveyard to site with various cut-stone grave markers, c. 1875-present. Gateway, built c. 1875, to south comprising pair of rendered piers with wrought-iron gates and railings. Rendered wall to road.

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 high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_76 (ZIP).

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.

• Castledrum, Castlemaine6 sales

Name

Castledrum · Caisleán na Dromann

Area

2,864,919 m² (286.49 ha, 707.94 acres)

Civil parish

Kilgarrylander, and its townlands

Barony

Trughanacmy

Electoral division

Boolteens, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Boolteens electoral division: 504 people in 175 households; 85% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardcanaght, Boolteens West, Gortaneden, Lassaboy, Ross

Placenames

Castledrum 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.