Dromore Old

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromore Old, from 624 m² to 288,330 m² (28.83 ha, 71.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Dromore Old 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.

• 15 Jul 2026Conditional

  (a) Demolish the existing bathroom, hallway and W.C. to the side of the existing dwelling house (b) Construct a new extension to the side of the existing dwelling house at ground and first floor levels, (c) Make alterations to the existing dwelling house to include alterations to doors and windows, (d) Decommission the existing septic tank and install a new mechanical wastewater treatment unit, tertiary module and percolation bed and all other associated site works

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660667

• 30 Jan 2026Conditional

  The development consists of the retention of five existing shed structures located on the site for storage and agricultural use

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2660062

• 12 Dec 2025N/a

  Retention permission is sought for five existing detached sheds on site for domestic storage and agricultural use. The sheds are single-storey timber/steel-framed structures located on the applicant’s private property and are not attached to the main dwelling.

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2561164

• 4 May 2018Conditional

  (A) RETAIN THE DWELLING HOUSE AS CONSTRUCTED, (B) RETAIN THE SITE ENTRANCE AS CONSTRUCED AND (C) RETAIN THE DWELLING HOUSE, PUMP HOUSE AND THE SITE ENTRANCE WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18413

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: Blackwater River (Kerry) SAC 002173

Recorded monuments

• KE092-018 Hut site
  Description

  No visible trace survives of the sheepfold marked on the second edition of the OS map. It was located on a low rise in rough grazing land, a short distance E of the Blackwater river. 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. 1437. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dromore Old.

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

At the centre of the townland of Dromore Old, about 1 in 10 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 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 Dromore Old.

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.

No address of the register names Dromore Old with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Dromore Old · An Seandrom Mór

Area

1,998,367 m² (199.84 ha, 493.81 acres)

Civil parish

Templenoe, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkerron South

Electoral division

Dromore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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

Neighbouring townlands

Coomnakilla North, Coomnakilla South, Derreenafoyle, Dromore, Lackeen, Maulcallee, Reacashlagh

Placenames

Dromore Old 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.