Dromultan
Dromultan is a townland in the civil parish of Killeentierna, barony of Trughanacmy, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is Drom Ultáin.
- Area
- 341.3 ha
- 843 acres
- Land parcels
- 129
- registered freehold, median 6,649 m² (0.66 ha, 1.64 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
129 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromultan, from 101 m² to 279,143 m² (27.91 ha, 68.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Dromultan 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
6 Jul 2026N/a
retention planning permission to retain domestic shed at Dromultan, Currow, Killarney, Co. Kerry
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2660623
12 Feb 2025Conditional
retention permission to retain (a) existing dwelling on site (b) existing workshop on site (c) to retain existing garage which is being used as a self contained private single bedroom unit, all within revised boundaries
Retention, 2 homes · Kerry County Council, 2560076
20 Jan 2025Refused
retention planning permission to retain partially constructed domestic shed and planning permission to complete construction of domestic shed at Dromultan, Currow, Killarney, Co. Kerry
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2560015
2 Dec 2024N/a
retention planning permission to retain domestic garage/shed as constructed at Dromultan, Currow, Killarney, Co. Kerry
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2460936
17 Jul 2023Conditional
THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN EASY FEED CATTLE SHED FOR OVER WINTERING CATTLE COMPLETE WITH EASY FEED BARRIERS AND UNDERGROUND SLURRY STORAGE EFFLUENT TANK, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY CONCRETE AND SITE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 23812
31 Mar 2021Conditional
I) RETAIN SUN LOUNGE TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE II) RETAIN DOMESTIC GARAGE, III)TO RETAIN WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, AND IV) TO RETAIN VEHICULAR ENTRANCE
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21339
3 Jul 2019Conditional
(A) CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (B) ELEVATION ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, AND ALL SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19695
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
- Natural Heritage Area: Anna More Bog NHA 000333
Recorded monuments
- KE049-001 Ringfort - rath
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- KE049-002 Fulacht fia
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- KE049-002001 Fulacht fia
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- KE049-008 Fulacht fia
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- KE049-009 Souterrain
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- KE049-010 Enclosure
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- KE049-036 Fulacht fia
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- KE049-115 Fulacht fia
Description
In rough rushy land on gentle N facing slope overlooking town of Castleisland to N. Large mound of burnt material (c. 20m N-S a 14m E-W x H c. 1.7m) covered in scrub and thorn bushes making detailed examination very difficult. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 21 April 2022
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dromultan.
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 Dromultan, 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 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 Dromultan.
- 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 Dromultan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Dromultan · Drom Ultáin
- Area
- 3,413,262 m² (341.33 ha, 843.44 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killeentierna, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Electoral division
- Killeentierna, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 872 people lived in 331 households in the Killeentierna electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Anna More, Ballybeg, Coolnageragh, Dromultan, Ranaleen, Shanawillen
- Placenames
- Dromultan 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.