# Dromhumper, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Killarney, barony of Magunihy, Co. Kerry; in Irish Drom Thiompair.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 635,647 m² (63.56 ha, 157.07 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,932 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Killarney, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/killarney.md
- Barony: Magunihy
- Electoral division: Killarney Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Killarney Rural electoral division: 7,735 people in 2,446 households; 71% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/23524
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 71167
- Centre: latitude 52.051274, longitude -9.472815 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromhumper, from 157 m² to 154,086 m² (15.41 ha, 38.08 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 5677951: 154,086 m² (15.41 ha, 38.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5677951.md
- Parcel 1152104: 124,052 m² (12.41 ha, 30.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1152104.md
- Parcel 1197364: 119,807 m² (11.98 ha, 29.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1197364.md
- Parcel 1138208: 92,148 m² (9.21 ha, 22.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1138208.md
- Parcel 1225725: 56,732 m² (5.67 ha, 14.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1225725.md
- Parcel 2569788: 42,264 m² (4.23 ha, 10.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2569788.md
- Parcel 1237499: 20,865 m² (2.09 ha, 5.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1237499.md
- Parcel 1236550: 3,903 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1236550.md
- Parcel 1231531: 3,152 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1231531.md
- Parcel 1214248: 2,932 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1214248.md
- Parcel 2727258: 2,525 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2727258.md
- Parcel 1223909: 2,408 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1223909.md
- Parcel 1158067: 2,287 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1158067.md
- Parcel 1226455: 2,244 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1226455.md
- Parcel 1160342: 2,216 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1160342.md
- Parcel 5725200: 2,100 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5725200.md
- Parcel 2727257: 1,764 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2727257.md
- Parcel 5725208: 242 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5725208.md
- Parcel 1193138: 157 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1193138.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Dromhumper 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)

6 applications, newest first.

- 10 Jul 2026, Kerry County Council 2660651: Refused. Permission. to change the use of and convert agricultural barn to use as a dwelling, add a first floor within the existing structure, carry out alterations to the elevations including the addition of new external entrances , windows and finishes, construct a waster water treatment unit and polishing filter, carry out all associated site works to existing agricultural barn. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660651/0
- 22 Jul 2024, Kerry County Council 2460485: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Additions and alterations, including elevations changes and all associated services and site works to the existing dwelling house. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460485/0
- 21 Feb 2022, Kerry County Council 22186: Conditional. Permission. RENOVATE, CHANGE OF USE AND EXTENSION OF AN EXISTING OUTBUILDING TO A HOLIDAY HOME, INSTALLATION OF A REVISED PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREAMTENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER IN LIEU OF THAT GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF 19/854, AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/22186/0
- 25 Nov 2020, Kerry County Council 201140: N/a. Permission. CHANGE THE USE OF AN EXISTING AGRICULTURAL BUILDING TO USE AS A DWELLING, ADD A FIRST FLOOR WITHIN THE EXISTING STRUCTURE, CARRY OUT ALTERATIONS TO THE ELEVATIONS INCLUDING THE ADDITION OF NEW EXTERNAL ENTRANCES, WINDOWS AND FINISHES , CONSTRUCT A WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT AND POLSIHING FILTER , CARRY OUT ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO EXISTING AGRICULTURAL BUILDING/SHED. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/201140/0
- 14 Oct 2020, Kerry County Council 20968: Conditional. Permission. A)REINSTATEMENT OF INTERMEDIATE FLOORS, ROOF, DOORS AND WINDOWS, STAIRS, RAINWATER GOODS, AND ASSOCIATED REMEDIAL REPAIRS AT THE AREA KNOWN AS MERVYN'S TOWER, B) REMOVAL OF RUBBLE STONE/MASONRY FROM BLOCKED WINDOW AND DOOR OPENINGS THROUGHOUT THE BUILDING AND FITTING OF TEMPORARY SECURITY GRILLS IN LIEU. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/20968/0
- 13 Aug 2019, Kerry County Council 19854: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. RENOVATION AND CHANGE OF USE OF AN EXISTING CARRIAGE HOUSE TO A HOLIDAY HOME INCLUDING: NEW ADJACENT CANOPY AND STORE, NEW ENTRANCE GATES AND PIERS AT EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE, INSTALLATION OF PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTERS, BORED WELL AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. A PROTECTED STRUCTURE RPS REF: 66-4. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/19854/0

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## 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)

- KE066-083: Country house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE066-083----. On wooded elevated ground on the SE outskirts of Killarney. The ruins of an extensive castellated house built of random rubble, rendered and painted to resemble ashlar. It has a complex ground plan with numerous projecting towers. The main doorway is flanked by towers in the N wall. The large window opes have mullions and tracery and hood-moulding. The house was built by John Coltsman between 1809 and 1815 (Bary 1994, 115). The enclosed farmyard is c. 400m to the SE and an ornamental tower (KE066-136----) is c. 300m to the NW. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011
- KE066-136: Gate lodge, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE066-136----. Built into a steep slope on the N side of a road overlooking the River Flesk to the N. A two-storey castellated tower, octagonal in plan, over a square basement (int. 3.08m x 3.03m). Built of random rubble with some brick, rendered over and incised to resemble ashlar. Pointed door ope in the S wall with rectangular window opes on either side and a single first floor window over the door; ope surrounds of cut limestone with hood-mouldings. Fireplace in the NW corner of the basement and a stove flue in the N wall of the first floor. Associated yard and storage structures at basement level. Named 'Gate Lodge' on the 1846 OS 6-inch map near the avenue to Flesk Castle (KE066-132---) c. 300m to the SE. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 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)

- Flesk Castle, country house, 1805–1820, Regional interest, registry number 21306604, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KE&regno=21306604. Detached ten-bay two-, three- and four-storey Georgian Gothic style country house, built 1809-1815, on an irregular T-shaped plan about a courtyard. Designed by amateur architect and owner John Coltsman. Entrance front comprising three-bay two-storey canted entrance bay, single-bay three-storey flanking tower to south on a square plan, three-bay two-storey end pavilion block to south possibly originally a chapel, single-bay three-storey flanking bay to north, three-bay four-storey engaged tower on a circular plan and single-bay three-storey end bay to north with single-bay two-storey flat-roofed projecting bay to east, all with battlemented roof parapets. Five-bay side elevations and three-bay two-storey return to rear to west with single-bay four-storey terminating tower to west on an octagonal plan. In use pre-1945, dismantled, c. 1950 and now ruinous. Castellated and machicolated parapets on limestone corbels. Square and diagonal rendered chimneystacks. Lined-and-ruled rendered rubble stone walls. Turret west of main entrance has individual "ashlar blocks" picked out in different colours. Limestone ashlar to entrance bay, now partly removed. Generally squared-headed openings with limestone tracery, timber frames and hood mouldings. Entrance flanked by cruciform niches and having round-headed niches in splayed bays. A multiple paned timber casement survives on west front. Section of rubble stone-built boundary wall to courtyard with lancet arch integral carriage arch having wrought-iron gates, single-bay three-storey turret folly on a square plan and battlemented parapet. Two raised terraces to west of house separated by sunken road. Large courtyard to east with high rubble walls and entered through arched gateway with wrought-iron gates. Remains of serpentine lime avenue.
- Flesk Castle, gate lodge, 1809–1830, Regional interest, registry number 21306605, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KE&regno=21306605. Freestanding single-bay two-stage over basement gate lodge, extant 1830, on an octagonal plan. Now in ruins. Ivy-covered rusticated roughcast-faced coursed rubble stone walls on overgrown plinth with "Cavetto" cornice supporting rendered, ruled and lined Irish battlemented parapet having cut-limestone chamfered coping. Tudor-headed central door opening with overgrown threshold, quatrefoil-detailed margined tooled cut-limestone doorcase having chamfered reveals with hood moulding on label stops. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and margined tooled cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings. Interior in ruins. Set back from line of road at entrance to grounds of Flesk Castle. NOTE: Attributed to John Coltsman (1748-1835) who also self-designed Flesk Castle (1809-15) and illustrated in the foreground of a lithograph titled "Coltsman's Castle Co. Cork [sic]" (1830) by Fisher, Son and Company (fl. 1821-48) of London based on a drawing by William Henry Bartlett (1809-54) as engraved by Henry Winkles (1801-60) [NLI ET A470].

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: 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: Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, moderately low (inferred), low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_239, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_239.zip (ZIP).
- 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/dromhumper.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/dromhumper.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/dromhumper.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Dromhumper 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)

- Ballycasheen: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballycasheen.md
- Clash: https://everytownland.com/kerry/clash-70647.md
- Faghbane: https://everytownland.com/kerry/faghbane.md
- Lissyviggeen: https://everytownland.com/kerry/lissyviggeen.md
- Sheheree: https://everytownland.com/kerry/sheheree.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.

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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.

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