Dromcunnia

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromcunnia, from 28 m² to 232,023 m² (23.2 ha, 57.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 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 Dromcunnia 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.

• 30 Apr 2025Conditional

  Erecting of Garden Shed

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560358

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: Kenmare River SAC 002158
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Kenmare River Islands 000363

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Dromcunnia.

Architectural heritage

• Dromquinna Manor, country house, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached irregular-plan eleven-bay two-storey Jacobean Revival style country house with dormer attic, built c. 1890, designed by J.F. Fuller. Comprising four-bay two-storey main block with single-bay two-storey gabled advanced bay to left and three-bay two-storey projecting entrance block to right with single-bay two-storey gabled breakfront having single-bay single-storey limestone ashlar advanced open porch to right ground floor. Seven-bay two-storey wing to north with two-bay two-storey gabled central bay. Five-bay two-storey garden front with dormer attic to west elevation of main block with three-bay two-storey flat-roofed advanced central bay and single-bay two-storey gabled recessed end bays having two-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting bay to north-west corner. Extended to east in late twentieth century with five-bay two-storey wing to accommodate use as hotel. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, overhanging eaves, cast-iron profiled gutters and downpipes with decorative fixings, decorated hoppers and tall grouped chimneystacks. Painted rendered walls with render cornice above ground floor openings, ashlar quoins, ashlar parapet coping and finials to garden front and decorative render panels to gabled bays. Limestone lintels, sills, mullions and reveals to timber multiple paned casements. Many windows replaced in uPVC. Limestone Jacobean style doorcase with ball finials. Recessed porch with mosaic tiling. Retaining interior features. Detached three-bay single-storey gable-fronted timber-clad pavilion over stilts, built c. 1890, to north with open veranda to east, four-bay side elevations and flight of steps to entrance. Detached eleven-bay two-storey stable complex, built c. 1890, to north-west on a U-shaped plan comprising five-bay two-storey main block with pair of three-bay two-storey projecting wings at right angles to south having three-bay single-storey range with half-dormer attic to east, renovated to accommodate use as hotel accommodation. Detached three-bay single-storey outbuilding, built c. 1890, to south. Detached three-bay single-storey timber-clad former boathouse, built c. 1890, to south comprising single-bay double-height gable-fronted central block with round-headed window openings and single-bay single-storey lean-to end bays having five-bay side elevations, extensively renovated to accommodate use as restaurant. Cast-concrete pier, built c. 1990, to south possibly incorporating fabric of earlier pier, built c. 1890. Freestanding three-bay single-storey timber-clad pavilion block, built in late twentieth century, on a square plan with round-headed openings, open timber veranda to circumference and three pyramidal roofs. Detached two-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c. 1890, to north on an L-shaped plan retaining some original fenestration comprising single-bay single-storey gabled projecting bay to left with single-storey box bay window, two-bay side elevations having single-bay single-storey porch to south-west and single-bay single-storey parallel bay to south east. Attached two-bay single-storey lean-to outbuilding to south. Gateway, built c. 1890, to north comprising four limestone ashlar piers with cast-iron railings.

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 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 Dromcunnia.

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

Name

Dromcunnia · Drom Coinne

Area

424,541 m² (42.45 ha, 104.91 acres)

Civil parish

Templenoe, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkerron South

Electoral division

Greenane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Greenane electoral division: 226 people in 89 households; 82% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 42% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Lacka, Reen, Rossacoosane

Placenames

Dromcunnia 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.