Drombane

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drombane, from 362 m² to 219,512 m² (21.95 ha, 54.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Drombane 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Drombane in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Drombane.

Recorded monuments

• KE102-019001 Church
  Description

  In the SE half of an ecclesiastical enclosure (KE102-019003-). This church is not visible at ground level. It is indicated on the 1844 OS 6-inch map as 'Drombane Church (in ruins)' and on the 1895 OS 6-inch map as 'Drombane Church (site of)'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

• KE102-019002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In an ecclesiastical enclosure (KE102-019003-). Numerous low uninscribed grave-markers, orientated N-S, are evident in the NW half of the ecclesiastical enclosure. Some graves are evident as low grass-covered mounds. According to Dennehy (1997, 158), the majority of the grave-markers contain veins of quartz. Dennehy (ibid.) also noted an 'unusual box-like construction of boulders' in the NE quadrant of the burial ground. The area was last used as a burial ground for unbaptised infants one hundred years ago (ibid.). A souterrain (KE102-019004-) occurs within the burial ground and there is a church site (KE102-019001-) in the SE half of the ecclesiastical enclosure. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

• KE102-019003 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on a hillock with commanding views in all directions over the valley of the Dromoghty River. An elevated roughly oval area (46m E-W; 36m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 2.1m) SWW and NNWN and elsewhere by a scarp (H 1.7m). The scarp is faced EW with a stone wall which appears to be of recent construction. A distinct inward curve in the scarp at SW suggests that part of this area may have been damaged or removed. Field-clearance rubble is piled against the scarp face WNNW and NSW. This rubble also spills into the interior at irregular intervals. A children's burial ground (KE102-019002-) and a souterrain (KE102-019004-) occupy the NW half, where the uneven ground surface is partially obscured by overgrowth. The church site (KE102-019001-) is in the SE half, where coniferous trees and scrub obscure the uneven surface. Stones are evident on the surface intermittently, especially in the SE half. A circular (diam. 3.4m) arrangement of large stones on the surface at NE appears to be a recent addition. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

• KE102-019004 Souterrain
  Description

  In the NW quadrant of an ecclesiastical enclosure (KE102-019003-) and within a children's burial ground (KE102-019002-). A downsloping grassy passage (L 2.5m; Wth 2m) S-N leads to a collapsed opening (D 1.6m) where the earth-cut sides and the curved roof of the souterrain are evident. A concave depression (diam. 1.2m; D 0.6m) to the E of the opening is probably the result of a collapse within the souterrain. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Drombane, 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, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Drombane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Drombane · An Drom Bán

Area

928,734 m² (92.87 ha, 229.5 acres)

Civil parish

Tuosist, and its townlands

Barony

Glanarought

Electoral division

Dawros, the unit of the census

Census 2022

611 people lived in 226 households in the Dawros electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynafullia, Coolanarroo, Cummeen, Derrysallagh, Derryvorahig, Inchicloon

Placenames

Drombane 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.