Dooneen
Dooneen is a townland in the civil parish of Castleisland, barony of Trughanacmy, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is An Dúinín.
- Area
- 354.2 ha
- 875 acres
- Land parcels
- 113
- registered freehold, median 2,514 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
113 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dooneen, from 56 m² to 448,176 m² (44.82 ha, 110.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 61 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
13 Aug 2026N/a
(A) RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE AND SHED, (B) PLANNING PERMISSION TO DECOMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALL A PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AT DOONEEN, CASTLEISLAND, CO. KERRY, V92 Y6P2.
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2660756
28 May 2026Conditional
to construct a two storey extension to the side of the existing dwellinghouse and the installation of a new wastewater treatment system to replace the existing septic tank system and associated site development works
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2689
25 Nov 2025N/a
construct a single storey extension to the side of existing dwelling house and associated site development works
Permission · Kerry County Council, 25280
15 Feb 2023Conditional
(A) ALTER AND CONSTRUCT PART SINGLE STOREY/PART TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO EXISTING SINGLE STOREY DWELLING; (B) CHANGE OF USE OF PART OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE INTO A GRANNY FLAT; (C) ELEVATION CHANGES AND INTERNAL ALTERATION TO EXISTING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23142
22 Feb 2022Conditional
CHANGE USE OF WAREHOUSE TO FACTORY FOR THE GRANULATION OF PLASTIC INTO PELLETS, TO INSTALL AN OFFICE AND CANTEEN PREFABRICATED BUILDING AND TO INSTALL AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT TANK AND POLISHING TANK.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 22190
20 Oct 2021Conditional
RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE AND EXISTING OUT BUILDINGS INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AS CONSTRUCTED ALL WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES. FULL PLANNNG PERMISSION TO CONNECT THE EXISTING WASTEWATER TYREATMENT UNIT TO A NEW SAND POLISHING FILTER
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211196
2 Sept 2020Conditional
RETAIN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20786
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
The National Parks and Wildlife Service did not answer.
Recorded monuments
The Sites and Monuments Record did not answer.
Architectural heritage
The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage did not answer.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- The EPA radon map did not answer.
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_258 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Dooneen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Dooneen · An Dúinín
- Area
- 3,541,694 m² (354.17 ha, 875.17 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castleisland, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Electoral division
- Castleisland, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 3,392 people lived in 1,351 households in the Castleisland electoral division. 69% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ahaneboy, Anglore, Crag, Fahaduff, Glanshearoon, Knockaunatee, Mullaghmarky, Tullagubbeen
- 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.