Dromhumper

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromhumper, from 157 m² to 154,086 m² (15.41 ha, 38.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Dromhumper 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.

• 10 Jul 2026Refused

  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

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660651

• 22 Jul 2024Conditional

  Additions and alterations, including elevations changes and all associated services and site works to the existing dwelling house

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460485

• 21 Feb 2022Conditional

  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

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 22186

• 25 Nov 2020N/a

  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

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 201140

• 14 Oct 2020Conditional

  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

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 20968

• 13 Aug 2019Conditional

  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

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19854

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: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365

Recorded monuments

• KE066-083 Country house
  Description

  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
  Description

  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

Architectural heritage

• Flesk Castle, country house, 1805–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  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
  Description

  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].

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, 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 (ZIP).

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

Name

Dromhumper · Drom Thiompair

Area

635,647 m² (63.56 ha, 157.07 acres)

Civil parish

Killarney, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Killarney Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycasheen, Clash, Faghbane, Lissyviggeen, Sheheree

Placenames

Dromhumper 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.