Dromore

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromore, from 39 m² to 243,067 m² (24.31 ha, 60.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Dromore 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.

• 8 Nov 2023Conditional

  The development consists of (a) permission to demolish the sunroom on the western side of the house and the projecting and dormer windows at the southern side of the house, (b) permission to construct an extension on the western side of the house, (c) permission to construct an extension on the eastern side of the house, (d) permission to make elevational changes to the house and (e) permission for all associated site works to facilitate this development.

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2360293

• 19 Jul 2019Conditional

  (A) RETAIN ELEVATIONAL CHANGES MADE TO THE DWELLING HOUSE, (B) RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN THE SITE ENTRANCE AS CONSTRUCTED, (C) PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH THE EXISTING SUNROOM, CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO THE DWELLING HOUSE AND MAKE ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO THE DWELLING HOUSE AND (D) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE ON THE EASTERN SIDE OF THE HOUSE WITH A WALL CONTAINING DOUBLE DOORS CONNECTING THE GARAGE TO THE DWELLING HOUSE

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19765

• 24 Jan 2019Conditional

  A) RETAIN ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, TO RETAIN EXISTING SHED AS CONSTRUCTED AND TO RETAIN EXISTING TIMBER SHED AS CONSTRUCTED, B) FULL PLANNING PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE, A NEW GREENHOUSE AND TO CARRY OUT A CHANGE OF ROOF LIGHTS DESIGNED TO THE FRONT ELEVATION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 1939

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: Old Domestic Building, Dromore Wood SAC 000353
• Special Area of Conservation: Kenmare River SAC 002158
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Old Domestic Building, Dromore Wood 000353
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Kenmare River Islands 000363

Recorded monuments

• KE092-030 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Toberagrahig/Tobar an Ghrathaigh: Located in sloping woodland on the N shore of Kenmare Bay, this is a rock-cut hemispherical hollow, .4m in diameter. It is locally regarded as a holy well and curative powers are attributed to its waters. The OSNB recorded that rounds were made here on Saturdays (Templeno, 46), while the IFC Schools' Collection indicated that it was visited on Good Friday. See attached colour photographs courtesy of Amanda Clarke. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1067. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

• KE092-033 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Cappanacush Castle / Ceapaigh na Coise: This poorly preserved tower house is situated in a forestry plantation close to the N shore of Kenmare Bay, c. 7km W of Kenmare. It is associated with a branch of the O'Sullivans known as the Sliocht Mac Crath (Butler 1925, 47), and is noted in RIA MS 24 K 43 as having been built by Cor, grandson of Macarius O'Sullivan More. This personage has been identified as Conchur O'Sullivan, whose floruit was before c. 1450 (6 Ciobhain 1985, lxx). The castle stands on a large outcrop of rock on a low ridge. Its surviving remains consist only of the S wall, which stands to almost full height, and the attached E and W returns. The wall is 10.5m in length, 1.85m in thickness and displays a base batter returned to a height of 2.3m. The structure is of limestone and is built of roughly coursed split stone laid in a heavy gravel mortar with marine shell inclusions. The roughly dressed quoins are alternately face-bedded. The surviving features on the internal face of the ivy-clad S wall indicate that the castle was five storeys in height, with vaults roofing the first and third floor levels. Scant remains of the first floor vault survive on the S side of the ground floor, where it commences. The first floor of the castle was accommodated beneath this on beams, the sockets for two of which are preserved in the W wall close to the SW angle. A small rectangular loop, set in a broad embrasure with a lintelled rear arch, occurs in the S wall at ground floor level, and the S ingoing of another rectangular window embrasure is preserved in the W wall. A drawbar channel for securing a wooden shutter survives in the latter. The second floor level was lit by a narrow loop of which only the W jamb remains, set in a rectangular lintelled embrasure in the S wall, and by a window with moulded jambs set in a rectangular embrasure in the W wall, of which only the S jamb and ingoing survive. The floor of the third chamber was carried on a series of timber beams, some of the closely set sockets for which are preserved in the S wall. It was roofed by a vault the remains of which survive at S. Midway along the S wall are the well-preserved remains of a pointed loop of dressed chamfered stone, which is set in a large rectangular embrasure with a segmental rear arch. On the E side of this embrasure are the ivy-clad remains of a large fireplace with a dressed lintel, while to its W, close to the SW angle, is a wall-cupboard. The S ingoing of a window embrasure, the rear arch of which was raised on wicker-centring, remains in the W wall at this level. The uppermost floor was carried on scarcements, only portions of which survive. Midway along the S wall is preserved the lower portion of a narrow ope and to its W is a wider window set in a lintelled embrasure. A defaced window, of which only the S jamb remains, occurs in the W wall at this level. A line of vertical facing in the SE angle of the castle may represent the chute of a garderobe which existed at third floor level. Little of the castle is preserved above the upper levels of the fourth floor. The remains of a single merlon and of the alure, drained by projecting dripstones, of which two are visible at W, are preserved near the SW angle. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1107. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013

• KE101-001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  This severely disturbed site, no longer in use by the late nineteenth century, is located in a forestry plantation on a SW slope overlooking the Blackwater river. The unenclosed burial area measures 20.7m N-S x 20.3m E-W. Trees have recently been planted within it. The site is bisected by a fire-prevention trench and a modern track skirts it at SW. It is otherwise covered in a layer of dense vegetation, which largely obscures the N-S rows of upright grave-markers which occur throughout the site. The site is recorded in the OSNB as an 'old small fort which is a noted place for burying children' (Templeno, 45). It does not display any ringfort-type features, but an opening to a souterrain is located externally at SW. This measures 1.1m wide x .55m high and leads into an earth-tunnelled passage which extends to NE and measures .7m high and 1.2m wide. A depression, centrally located in the site's interior, may indicate its further extension in this direction. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 999. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

• KE101-001001 Souterrain
  Description

  This severely disturbed site (KE101-001----), no longer in use by the late nineteenth century, is located in a forestry plantation on a SW slope overlooking the Blackwater river. The unenclosed burial area measures 20.7m N-S x 20.3m E-W. Trees have recently been planted within it. The site is bisected by a fire-prevention trench and a modern track skirts it at SW. It is otherwise covered in a layer of dense vegetation, which largely obscures the N-S rows of upright grave-markers which occur throughout the site. The site is recorded in the OSNB as an 'old small fort which is a noted place for burying children' (Templeno, 45). It does not display any ringfort-type features, but an opening to a souterrain is located externally at SW. This measures 1.1m wide x .55m high and leads into an earth-tunnelled passage which extends to NE and measures .7m high and 1.2m wide. A depression, centrally located in the site's interior, may indicate its further extension in this direction. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 999. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

• KE101-001002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  This severely disturbed site (KE101-001----), no longer in use by the late nineteenth century, is located in a forestry plantation on a SW slope overlooking the Blackwater river. The unenclosed burial area measures 20.7m N-S x 20.3m E-W. Trees have recently been planted within it. The site is bisected by a fire-prevention trench and a modern track skirts it at SW. It is otherwise covered in a layer of dense vegetation, which largely obscures the N-S rows of upright grave-markers which occur throughout the site. The site is recorded in the OSNB as an 'old small fort which is a noted place for burying children' (Templeno, 45). It does not display any ringfort-type features, but an opening to a souterrain is located externally at SW. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 999. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

Architectural heritage

• Blackwater Bridge, bridge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-arch rubble stone road bridge over river, built c. 1820, with pedestrian refuge to south and having rubble stone parapets with stone on edge copings.

• Templenoe Church, church/chapel, 1815–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding double-height Board of First Fruits former Church of Ireland church, dated 1816, with three-bay nave, single-bay single-storey gabled projecting chapel to north-west, single-bay single-storey gabled vestry projection to north-east, and single-bay four-stage entrance tower to west gable end. Renovated and extended, c. 1880, with single-bay double-height lower chancel added to east gable end. Renovated and extended in 1993, with single-bay single-storey projecting bay added to north-east corner to accommodate use as restaurant. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge comb, gable copings and carved springers. Corner pinnacles and pyramidal roof to tower. Roughcast rendered rubble stone walls with projecting eaves band. Exposed rubble facing to north additions. Pointed arch openings with limestone sills, timber "Y" tracery and timber sliding sash windows. uPVC windows to upper stage of tower. Replacement timber double leaf boarded door with overpanel. Limestone step now incorporated in concrete ramp. Plaster stripped from walls to interior. Retaining pointed chancel arch, coloured glass leaded panels to east window and pine wainscoting. Pulpit reused at west end. Gallery added to west end with timber stairs. Graveyard to site with various cut-stone grave markers, c. 1820-1975. Gateway, built c. 1820, to north comprising pair of limestone ashlar piers with wrought-iron gates.

• Dromore Castle, gate lodge, 1835–1845 · National interest
  Description

  Detached single-bay two-storey sandstone-built Gothic Revival style gate lodge, built c. 1840, with single-storey canted oriel window to first floor, battlemented roof parapet and single-bay two-storey advanced corner turret to north-west on a square plan with battlemented roof parapet. Now ruinous. Lancets to turret with ogival heads, paired and triple lancets to rear with stone mullions. Limestone spiral staircase, plastered walls and timber boarded ceiling to interior. Attached gateway, built c. 1840, to east, comprising pair of sandstone ashlar piers with lancet arch carriage arch to centre having hood moulding over and pedestrian gateway to east comprising lancet arch door opening with block-and-start archivolt. Set back from road and flanked by rubble walls.

• Dromore Castle, folly, 1835–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-bay four-storey sandstone-built folly tower, built c. 1845, now ruinous. Pointed arches to windows having ashlar surrounds at first floor. Square-headed door opening. Set within demesne.

• Dromore Castle, country house, 1830–1840 · National interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-, three- and four-storey over basement Gothic Revival style country house, built 1831-1838. Designed by Thomas and Kearns Deane, extended by Benjamin Woodward. Entrance front to north comprising three-bay two-storey recessed central block with single-bay three-storey projecting entrance tower to centre having machicolations, single-bay single-storey limestone ashlar projecting porch to ground floor having octagonal corner turrets and single-bay two-storey advanced end bays. Two-bay two-storey side elevations with single-bay two-storey canted projecting bay to east side elevation, single-bay four-storey tower to west side elevation on a circular plan having single-bay four-storey turret to north on a circular plan. Six-bay two-storey over raised basement garden front to south with base batter and single-bay double-height advanced tower to centre, single-bay two-storey flanking bay to left, single-bay three-storey engaged turret to right on a square plan, two-bay two-storey end bay to left and single-bay two-storey end bay to right having single-storey limestone ashlar box bay window to ground floor. Renovated in 1998. Castellated limestone parapets to roof with corner turrets having machicolations. Ruled-and-lined Roman cement rendered walls with string courses, plinth course and rendered battered base. Square-headed openings with limestone sills, chamfered reveals, render hood mouldings and timber windows with decorative glazing patterns. Lancets to towers. Retaining interior features. Stable complex, built c. 1835, to north-west about a courtyard comprising: Detached six-bay two-storey range retaining original fenestration with two-bay single-storey lean-to projecting bay to centre. Detached six-bay two-storey range, renovated to accommodate residential use. Section of rubble stone-built walled garden to north-west with series of lancet arch openings.

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, 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 Dromore.

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

Name

Dromore · An Drom Mór

Area

2,137,796 m² (213.78 ha, 528.26 acres)

Civil parish

Templenoe, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkerron South

Electoral division

Dromore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dromore electoral division: 308 people in 120 households; 87% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 18% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappanacush East, Cappanacush West, Capparoe, Derreenafoyle, Dromore Old, Greenane, Lackeen

Placenames

Dromore 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.