Dromnycolman
Dromnycolman is a townland in the civil parish of Kilgarvan, barony of Glanarought, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is Dromainn Uí Cholmáin.
- Area
- 152.5 ha
- 377 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 13,582 m² (1.36 ha, 3.36 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromnycolman, from 1,762 m² to 315,727 m² (31.57 ha, 78.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Dromnycolman 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Dromnycolman in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Kilgarvan Wood 001787
Recorded monuments
- KE094-067001 Cairn - unclassified
Description
In rough pasture, on the N edge of an undulating ridge, overlooking the valley of the Roughty River. A roughly oval cairn (3.3m E-W; 2.5m N-S; H 0.65m) comprising stones of various shapes and sizes. The stones are mainly local sandstones; one stone has quartz veins. The cairn is partly obscured by a dense growth of gorse and the outer perimeter has been damaged. A standing stone (KE094-067002-) at the centre of the cairn is supported by cairn material. 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
- KE094-067002 Standing stone
Description
In the centre of a cairn (KE094-067001-). This standing stone (0.48m x 0.17m; H 1.05m) is orientated ENE-WSW and leans slightly to the SW. It is supported by stones from the cairn (H 0.65m). 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 Dromnycolman.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Dromnycolman, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dromnycolman.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Dromnycolman with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Dromnycolman · Dromainn Uí Cholmáin
- Area
- 1,525,392 m² (152.54 ha, 376.93 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilgarvan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Glanarought
- Electoral division
- Glanlough, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 158 people lived in 58 households in the Glanlough electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Churchground, Gortloughera, Gortnaboul, Kilbunow
- Placenames
- Dromnycolman 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.