Dromcahan East

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromcahan East, from 921 m² to 315,800 m² (31.58 ha, 78.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Dromcahan East 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.

• 25 Mar 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20292

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 Dromcahan East.

Recorded monuments

• KE093-005 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on the crest of a low E-W ridge overlooking the valley of the Roughty River to the S. A raised circular area (diam. c. 25m) defined by a low earthen bank (Wth 1.9m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.25m) SSW-S and by a scarp S-SSW. Drystone facing evident on the external face of the bank N-W appears to be recent. An external fosse (Wth 1.1m; D 0.2m) is evident W-NE. There is a possible entrance (Wth 2m) at E. The interior is densely covered with overgrowth. The E arc of the bank, where it is skirted by a N-S road, is also densely covered with overgrowth. Field boundaries abut the rath at N and S. 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 Dromcahan East.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

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

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Dromcahan East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Dromcahan East · Drom Ceachan Thoir

Area

1,272,644 m² (127.26 ha, 314.48 acres)

Civil parish

Kenmare, and its townlands

Barony

Glanarought

Electoral division

Kenmare, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kenmare electoral division: 3,520 people in 1,321 households; 57% of households own their home; 52% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 25% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Dromcahan West, Gortagass, Inchimore, Kilpatrick, Rossboy, Tullig

Placenames

Dromcahan East 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.