Doonamontane

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doonamontane, from 213 m² to 100,005 m² (10 ha, 24.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Doonamontane 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.

• 28 Jun 2021Conditional

  ALTER AND CHANGE USE OF EXISTING DWELLING TO DOMESTIC GARAGE AND DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK. PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY REPLACEMENT DWELLING AND NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE , AND FOR THE INSTALLATION OF A MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT , INTERMITTENT FILTER AND POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21716

• 8 Jun 2021Conditional

  TO RETAIN CHANGE OF USE OF THE ROOF SPACE TO LIVING ACCOMMODATION WITH ASSOCIATED VELUX ROOF WINDOWS AND PLANNING PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION AT OUR DWELLING

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21617

• 7 Dec 2018Conditional

  (I) SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO BOTH SIDES OF EXISTING BUNGALOW AND (II) INSTALLATION OF ROOF-LIGHTS TO FRONT AND REAR ELEAVATIONS OF EXISTING BUNGALOW

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 181204

• 30 Nov 2018Refused

  ERECT A BUNGALOW WITH A SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, ALSO TO PROVIDE AN ACCESS DRIVE TO SAME AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO HIS SITE ALL

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 181182

• 23 Oct 2018N/a

  ERECT A BUNGALOW WITH A SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, ALSO TO PROVIDE AN ACCESS DRIVE TO SAME AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO HIS SITE ALL

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 181020

• 10 Apr 2017Conditional

  (A) RETAIN EXISTING SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, WITH ATTIC ACCOMMODATION AS BUILT, SERVED BY EXISTING SEPTIC TANK PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND (B) RETAIN EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE / BOILER ROOM AS BUILT, ALL WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 17320

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 Doonamontane.

Recorded monuments

• KE014-017 Linear earthwork
  Description

  The Red Ditch. The possible starting point of this earthwork is situated N of Cahercarbery (More) promontory fort (KE013-001----). It is marked on the 1840-41 and 1916 OS maps as 'Track of Red Ditch'. It is better known as the 'Claí Rua', phonetically called 'Cleeroo'. Many accounts have been written on the Claí Rua, but though there are few precise details, a number of traditional accounts survive. This linear earthwork would appear to have been first noticed by Smith in 1756. It can be traced running up Triskmore Mountain in a NW-SE direction (section 1 on drawing). It then disappears for some 3700m before re-appearing on the E summit of Maulin Mountain, where it can again be traced. It is also marked on OS 6-inch map 14. It runs through the N sector of the townlands of Dromatoor, Doonamontane, Knockane and Dirtane (section 2 on drawing). From this point it is difficult to trace. According to Smith (1756), the ditch runs towards the Cashen river, re-appears at the other side, crosses Knockanure Mountain and continues into Co. Limerick. Westropp (1909) attests to its forming the S mear of Glenlea and continuing in a SE direction by an old path in Booleenshare. Beyond this there is a concentration of ringforts. Possibly the earthwork is connected in some way to this concentration and might even have been the cause of the build-up of ringforts at this location. Both Smith and Westropp state that the Claí Rua runs into Co. Limerick and may be connected with the Claí Dubh na Rátha (the black ditch of the rath) near Charleville, Co. Cork. Today, the Claí Rua survives as a shallow ditch with a low bank to the SW. The bank is 1.7m wide and .4m high. The ditch, which was originally flat bottomed, is .7m wide and .3m below the surrounding land. It is difficult to ascertain the function of these linear earthworks as very little work has been done on them to date. The most well known earthwork of this type is the Black Pig's Dyke, the ancient boundary fortification of the Ulaidh in Ulster. The Claí Rua could have had more than one function and according to O'Conchuir (1987), this linear earthwork may represent the limit of the Uí Bhriain advance against their Irish neighbours, perhaps the Ciarraighe. According to local people, the Claí Rua was a roadway which was used by the peasantry to bring their produce to the markets in Co. Limerick. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 1113. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 October 2013

• KE014-110 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Depicted on the 1841-42 OS 6-inch map as a possible cairn and named 'Curravarra'. At this position on the 1916 OS 6-inch map is a small circular feature similar to a hut site with a diameter of c. 10m. On the 1916 OS 6-inch map, the name 'Curravarra' is attached to another possible cairn (KE014-018----) which lies c. 500m to the ENE. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne Date of upload: 19 December 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Doonamontane, 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 high, 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 Doonamontane.

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.

• Doonamontane, Ballyheigue6 sales

Name

Doonamontane

Area

1,124,342 m² (112.43 ha, 277.83 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyheige, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmaurice

Electoral division

Ballyheige, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,446 people lived in 570 households in the Ballyheige electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyheige, Dromatoor, Glandahalin East, Knockane, Tiershanaghan

Placenames

Doonamontane 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.