# Dromdoory, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Knockane, barony of Dunkerron North, Co. Kerry; in Irish Drom Dúire. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 664,405 m² (66.44 ha, 164.18 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in it, median 427,399 m² (42.74 ha, 105.61 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Knockane, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/knockane.md - Barony: Dunkerron North - Electoral division: Curraghbeg, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 187 people lived in 68 households in the Curraghbeg electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/22195 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 71163 - Centre: latitude 52.016729, longitude -9.872991 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Dromdoory, from 427,399 m² (42.74 ha, 105.61 acres) to 427,399 m² (42.74 ha, 105.61 acres); 3 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1208884: 427,399 m² (42.74 ha, 105.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1208884.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Dromdoory in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 3 Dec 2021, Kerry County Council 211391: Refused. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY RETIREMENT HOME AND TO INSTALL A WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT TO SERVE SAME ADJACENT TO HIS FARM BUILDINGS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/211391/0 - 11 Jun 2021, Kerry County Council 21635: Conditional. Permission. DEVELOPMENT ALONG A 4.6KM LONG SECTION OF AN EXISTING 20KV OVERHEAD ELECTRICITY LINE (REFERRED TO AS "THE GLENCAR LINE") LOCATED BETWEEN STRUCTURES 143 TO 196 INCLUSINVE. THE DEVELOPMENT CONSISTS OF REFURBISHMENT AND UPGRADING WORKS INCLUDING (WHERE NECESSARY) REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING POLES, AND THE PROVISION OF 2 NO. NEW POLES, ALONG THE EXISTING OVERHEAD ELECTRICITY LINE. REPLACEMENT POLES WILL BE CONSTRUCTED AT, OR IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO THE EXISTING STRUCTURES THAT THEY WILL REPLACE. REPLACEMENT AND NEW POLES WILL HAVE A MAXIMUM HEIGHT OF 12M ABOVE GROUND; AND BE SIMILAR IN APPEARANCE TO EXISTING POLES. ADDITIONAL UPGRADE WORKS WILL INCLUDE: INSTALLATION OF STAYS; REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING EQUIPMENT E.G. HEADGEAR, INSTALLATION OF ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT; INSTALLATION OF A NEW 3 PHASE CONDUCTOR ALONG THE FULL LENGTH OF THE LINE; AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY WORKS INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF TEMPORARY ACCESSWAYS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) WILL BE SUBMITTED WITH THIS APPLICATION. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/21635/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC, site code 000365, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000365 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment, site code 000365 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KE072-024: Metalworking site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE072-024----. In pasture, on the W-facing slope of a hillock near the E bank of the Caragh River. The remains of this iron-working site consist of the ruins of a 17th-century blast furnace. The furnace is a square structure (7.2m N-S; 7m E-W) built into the slope. Part of a random rubble wall (T 1.5m; H c. 5m) stands at W while the N and E walls are in ruins. At S the remains of a casting arch is indicated by a splayed opening (Wth 4.4m; L 2m; H 2m) with traces of voussoirs at its W side. Vitrified stones, slag, a block (1.25m x 0.15m x 0.15m) of cast-iron and a U-shaped piece of cast iron lie on the ground nearby to the S. Traces of a ramp, which provided access to the top of the furnace, are visible on the higher ground to the E. Ruins of miners' houses lie c. 50m to the S. The Blackstones Iron Works was in operation for over eighty years between c. 1670 and 1754 (McCracken 1971, 166). 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Blackstones Bridge, bridge, 1800–1820, Regional interest, registry number 21307201, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KE®no=21307201. Four-arch rubble stone road bridge over river, built c. 1810, with V-cutwaters and stringcourse to parapet. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Dromdoory, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dromdoory. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kerry/dromdoory.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/dromdoory.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/dromdoory.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Dromdoory with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry: https://everytownland.com/kerry.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Cappamore: https://everytownland.com/kerry/cappamore-70568.md - Cappyantanvally: https://everytownland.com/kerry/cappyantanvally.md - Dromstabla: https://everytownland.com/kerry/dromstabla.md - Lickeen: https://everytownland.com/kerry/lickeen.md - Lyranes Lower: https://everytownland.com/kerry/lyranes-lower.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kerry/dromdoory - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kerry/dromdoory