Dunloe Lower

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dunloe Lower, from 295 m² to 341,026 m² (34.1 ha, 84.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Dunloe Lower 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.

• 11 Aug 2026N/a

  Planning permission is sought for development comprising: • The phased development of staff accommodation lodges in two connected three-storey blocks arranged around a central courtyard area, comprising: - Phase A development of 60 no. staff accommodation rooms and 6 no. common room areas; and - Optional Phase B development of a further 18 no. staff accommodation rooms in an extension to one of the blocks. • Roof-mounted photovoltaic panels and green roof systems on the proposed accommodation lodge buildings. • Construction of a single-storey gym building with attached bicycle and bin storage facilities. • Staff car parking facilities and associated internal vehicular and pedestrian connections to existing parking area, including provision for fire tender access. • Landscaping works including localised ground reprofiling, hard and soft landscaping works. • Lighting provision. • Localised connections to existing wastewater and water supply and provision of surface water drainage including soakaway area. • All associated site development works.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660744

• 1 Jul 2026Conditional

  Retention Permission to retain existing temporary works already carried out, consisting of the removal of a timber fence, removal of flagpoles, erection of a mobile site cabin and installation of a localised hardcore surface and Permission to construct a temporary site entrance on the L4040 Road in the same location consisting of the removal of existing Heras fencing, laying of a new temporary tarmacadam surface locally, and erection of new temporary site hoarding and entrance gate. The combined retained existing works and proposed new works will constitute a temporary entrance to facilitate development previously granted permission under a separate application (Ref. 2460988). The hotel entrance configuration will be reinstated to its original condition upon completion of the permitted hotel development

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2660604

• 17 Dec 2024Conditional

  The development will consist of a) demolition of the existing bedroom wing of the hotel (comprising of two blocks), the spa / leisure and banqueting wing and connecting circulation space all at the main hotel building and demolition of an existing stable block, b) construction of new hotel accommodation comprising of a five-storey over part basement bedroom wing containing 97 no. guest rooms; a new two-storey (basement/lower ground floor and ground floor) over part undercroft spa / leisure and banqueting wing (including internal and external swimming pools); a single storey over basement link connecting new spa / leisure and banqueting wing to existing reception building; a two-storey over basement circulation / leisure / services area at the rear of the existing reception building, connecting to the new bedroom wing; a new first floor restaurant and kitchen on an existing first floor terrace area of the existing reception building; and local alterations to the existing reception building to facilitate the interface of the new built elements, c) the provision of photovoltaic solar panels on the roof of the existing reception building, d) the placement of communications antennae on the proposed new bedroom wing, e) revisions to an existing fire tender access route, f) landscaping works including localised ground reprofiling, hard and soft landscaping and amenity lighting, g) localised connections and new works to site surface water, wastewater and water supply infrastructure, and h) all associated site development works. All on a site of approx. 5.076ha.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2460988

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: Castlemaine Harbour SAC 000343

Recorded monuments

• KE065-080 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Not marked on the OS maps, this site was known locally as a burial ground for children and is noted as a cillín in the IFC Schools' Collection. It was located in the grounds of Dunloe Castle Hotel, c. 50m NW of the tower house (KE065-103----), and was levelled during the 1960s. 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. 1046. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

• KE065-103 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Dunloe Castle / Caisleán Dhún Ló: The building of a Castle at Dun Loich in 1215 by Maurice FitzGerald is recorded in a number of sources (O hlnnse 1947, 91). following the defeat of the Geraldines at the battle of Callan in 1261 it was 'demolished and burned' by the MacCarthys (AI). It seems to have been refortified soon afterwards, for in 1280 it was reported to have been 'evacuated by its guards through fear of Desmumu and MacCartagh, and it was burned after they had departed' (AI). The existing ruins at Dunloe, however, are those of a later tower house associated with the O'Sullivan Mores (Butler 1925, 47). 'Dun Loich on the River Leamhain' is noted as having been demolished by the Earl of Ormond in 1570 (AFM), but it appears to have been reoccupied by the O'Sullivans. One Daniel O’Sullivan of Dunloe represented Kerry in Parliament in 1613 (Smith 1756, 298). It was forfeited in 1656, and subsequently was acquired by Sir William Petty (King 1931, 130). In the late 1600s it became the property of the O'Mahony family, one of whom altered and renovated it in the 1820s. A pencil sketch of the renovated title by Westropp, dated 1891, is preserved in RIA MS 3 A 46. It is now, once again, in ruins. The tower house stands in the landscaped grounds of Dunloe Hotel on the N end of an elevated ridge which directly overlooks a bend of the River Laune at E. It appears to have been of rectangular plan originally, measuring 10.9m N-S x 8.05m E-W. The N and S walls average 1.8m in basal thickness. Undressed quoins, alternately face-bedded, are visible at the upper levels of the building. Most of the internal and external wall-faces have been obscured by early nineteenth-century plaster and render. The positions of the surviving original features suggest that the castle has four storeys; the much restored roof level has a machicolation and a bartizan. During the nineteenth-century renovations the E wall appears to have been completely rebuilt and partly set back from its original course, most of the windows were replaced by ogee-headed examples in brickwork, and a pointed doorway was inserted in the S wall at first floor level. The remains of some of the timber floors and wall-shutterings of the restored building survive in situ, but access to the upper floors is not possible. Traces of the blocked-up original entrance to the ground floor of the tower house are visible in the internal wall-face at N; these comprise its W jamb and a portion of an arch of pitched slabs. The ground floor is subdivided by an inserted cross-wall. The first floor was laid on wall-plates supported on rough corbels in the N and S walls. A greatly modified window embrasure occurs at the W end of the N wall at this level; externally it was fitted with a hood moulding, traces of which remain. In the W ingoing of its embrasure is the entrance to a mural passage and stair which may have given access to the second floor level. In the S wall at first floor level the remains of a cut limestone fireplace are preserved. Now blocked with red brick, its lintel features a moulded edge and the face of its surviving jamb, at E, is decorated with a simple, tightly coiled spiral. The mural stairway at W, lit by a splayed lintelled loop, is interrupted at second floor level by an inserted fireplace. Its lintel and surviving jamb are of cut and chamfered limestone. There are remains of a second, similar fireplace at third floor level, also in the W wall. The ivy-covered roof-level of the tower house appears to have been extensively renovated but a number of original features are preserved. These include some projecting dripstones at N and S and a series of simple merlons on the parapet at N, S and W; the remaining merlons are of concrete. A machicolation, obscured by ivy, occurs midway along the W parapet and a bartizan, supported on pointed limestone corbels, occurs at the SW angle. A stretch of the parapet oversails the wall at S, close to the bartizan. A number of architectural fragments of cut limestone lie on the steps which ascend to the nineteenth-century doorway at S. These include three chamfered sills from two-light windows and two chamfered window jambs. All bear sinkings for bars. About 30m to SW of the tower house, in dense overgrowth, is a short stretch of what may have been a bawn wall. It stands to an average height of 2.2m and displays evidence of modern repair. 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. 1109. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013

• KE065-103001 Architectural fragment
  Description

  Dunloe Castle / Caisleán Dhún Ló: The building of a Castle at Dun Loich in 1215 by Maurice FitzGerald is recorded in a number of sources (O hlnnse 1947, 91). following the defeat of the Geraldines at the battle of Callan in 1261 it was 'demolished and burned' by the MacCarthys (AI). It seems to have been refortified soon afterwards, for in 1280 it was reported to have been 'evacuated by its guards through fear of Desmumu and MacCartagh, and it was burned after they had departed' (AI). The existing ruins at Dunloe, however, are those of a later tower house associated with the O'Sullivan Mores (Butler 1925, 47). 'Dun Loich on the River Leamhain' is noted as having been demolished by the Earl of Ormond in 1570 (AFM), but it appears to have been reoccupied by the O'Sullivans. One Daniel O’Sullivan of Dunloe represented Kerry in Parliament in 1613 (Smith 1756, 298). It was forfeited in 1656, and subsequently was acquired by Sir William Petty (King 1931, 130). In the late 1600s it became the property of the O'Mahony family, one of whom altered and renovated it in the 1820s. A pencil sketch of the renovated title by Westropp, dated 1891, is preserved in RIA MS 3 A 46. It is now, once again, in ruins. The tower house stands in the landscaped grounds of Dunloe Hotel on the N end of an elevated ridge which directly overlooks a bend of the River Laune at E. During the nineteenth-century renovations the E wall appears to have been completely rebuilt and partly set back from its original course, most of the windows were replaced by ogee-headed examples in brickwork, and a pointed doorway was inserted in the S wall at first floor level. The remains of some of the timber floors and wall-shutterings of the restored building survive in situ, but access to the upper floors is not possible. A number of architectural fragments of cut limestone lie on the steps which ascend to the nineteenth-century doorway at S. These include three chamfered sills (KE065-103001-, KE065-103002- & KE065-103003-) from two-light windows and two chamfered window jambs. All bear sinkings for bars. 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. 1109. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013

• KE065-103002 Architectural fragment
  Description

  Dunloe Castle / Caisleán Dhún Ló: The building of a Castle at Dun Loich in 1215 by Maurice FitzGerald is recorded in a number of sources (O hlnnse 1947, 91). following the defeat of the Geraldines at the battle of Callan in 1261 it was 'demolished and burned' by the MacCarthys (AI). It seems to have been refortified soon afterwards, for in 1280 it was reported to have been 'evacuated by its guards through fear of Desmumu and MacCartagh, and it was burned after they had departed' (AI). The existing ruins at Dunloe, however, are those of a later tower house associated with the O'Sullivan Mores (Butler 1925, 47). 'Dun Loich on the River Leamhain' is noted as having been demolished by the Earl of Ormond in 1570 (AFM), but it appears to have been reoccupied by the O'Sullivans. One Daniel O’Sullivan of Dunloe represented Kerry in Parliament in 1613 (Smith 1756, 298). It was forfeited in 1656, and subsequently was acquired by Sir William Petty (King 1931, 130). In the late 1600s it became the property of the O'Mahony family, one of whom altered and renovated it in the 1820s. A pencil sketch of the renovated title by Westropp, dated 1891, is preserved in RIA MS 3 A 46. It is now, once again, in ruins. The tower house stands in the landscaped grounds of Dunloe Hotel on the N end of an elevated ridge which directly overlooks a bend of the River Laune at E. During the nineteenth-century renovations the E wall appears to have been completely rebuilt and partly set back from its original course, most of the windows were replaced by ogee-headed examples in brickwork, and a pointed doorway was inserted in the S wall at first floor level. The remains of some of the timber floors and wall-shutterings of the restored building survive in situ, but access to the upper floors is not possible. A number of architectural fragments of cut limestone lie on the steps which ascend to the nineteenth-century doorway at S. These include three chamfered sills (KE065-103001-, KE065-103002- & KE065-103003-) from two-light windows and two chamfered window jambs. All bear sinkings for bars. 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. 1109. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013

• KE065-103003 Architectural fragment
  Description

  Dunloe Castle / Caisleán Dhún Ló: The building of a Castle at Dun Loich in 1215 by Maurice FitzGerald is recorded in a number of sources (O hlnnse 1947, 91). following the defeat of the Geraldines at the battle of Callan in 1261 it was 'demolished and burned' by the MacCarthys (AI). It seems to have been refortified soon afterwards, for in 1280 it was reported to have been 'evacuated by its guards through fear of Desmumu and MacCartagh, and it was burned after they had departed' (AI). The existing ruins at Dunloe, however, are those of a later tower house associated with the O'Sullivan Mores (Butler 1925, 47). 'Dun Loich on the River Leamhain' is noted as having been demolished by the Earl of Ormond in 1570 (AFM), but it appears to have been reoccupied by the O'Sullivans. One Daniel O’Sullivan of Dunloe represented Kerry in Parliament in 1613 (Smith 1756, 298). It was forfeited in 1656, and subsequently was acquired by Sir William Petty (King 1931, 130). In the late 1600s it became the property of the O'Mahony family, one of whom altered and renovated it in the 1820s. A pencil sketch of the renovated title by Westropp, dated 1891, is preserved in RIA MS 3 A 46. It is now, once again, in ruins. The tower house stands in the landscaped grounds of Dunloe Hotel on the N end of an elevated ridge which directly overlooks a bend of the River Laune at E. During the nineteenth-century renovations the E wall appears to have been completely rebuilt and partly set back from its original course, most of the windows were replaced by ogee-headed examples in brickwork, and a pointed doorway was inserted in the S wall at first floor level. The remains of some of the timber floors and wall-shutterings of the restored building survive in situ, but access to the upper floors is not possible. A number of architectural fragments of cut limestone lie on the steps which ascend to the nineteenth-century doorway at S. These include three chamfered sills (KE065-103001-, KE065-103002- & KE065-103003-) from two-light windows and two chamfered window jambs. All bear sinkings for bars. 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. 1109. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013

• KE065-103004 Architectural fragment
  Description

  Dunloe Castle / Caisleán Dhún Ló: The building of a Castle at Dun Loich in 1215 by Maurice FitzGerald is recorded in a number of sources (O hlnnse 1947, 91). following the defeat of the Geraldines at the battle of Callan in 1261 it was 'demolished and burned' by the MacCarthys (AI). It seems to have been refortified soon afterwards, for in 1280 it was reported to have been 'evacuated by its guards through fear of Desmumu and MacCartagh, and it was burned after they had departed' (AI). The existing ruins at Dunloe, however, are those of a later tower house associated with the O'Sullivan Mores (Butler 1925, 47). 'Dun Loich on the River Leamhain' is noted as having been demolished by the Earl of Ormond in 1570 (AFM), but it appears to have been reoccupied by the O'Sullivans. One Daniel O’Sullivan of Dunloe represented Kerry in Parliament in 1613 (Smith 1756, 298). It was forfeited in 1656, and subsequently was acquired by Sir William Petty (King 1931, 130). In the late 1600s it became the property of the O'Mahony family, one of whom altered and renovated it in the 1820s. A pencil sketch of the renovated title by Westropp, dated 1891, is preserved in RIA MS 3 A 46. It is now, once again, in ruins. The tower house stands in the landscaped grounds of Dunloe Hotel on the N end of an elevated ridge which directly overlooks a bend of the River Laune at E. During the nineteenth-century renovations the E wall appears to have been completely rebuilt and partly set back from its original course, most of the windows were replaced by ogee-headed examples in brickwork, and a pointed doorway was inserted in the S wall at first floor level. The remains of some of the timber floors and wall-shutterings of the restored building survive in situ, but access to the upper floors is not possible. A number of architectural fragments of cut limestone lie on the steps which ascend to the nineteenth-century doorway at S. These include three chamfered sills (KE065-103001-, KE065-103002- & KE065-103003-) from two-light windows and two chamfered window jambs (KE065-103004- & KE065-103005-). All bear sinkings for bars. 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. 1109. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013

• KE065-103005 Architectural fragment
  Description

  Dunloe Castle / Caisleán Dhún Ló: The building of a Castle at Dun Loich in 1215 by Maurice FitzGerald is recorded in a number of sources (O hlnnse 1947, 91). following the defeat of the Geraldines at the battle of Callan in 1261 it was 'demolished and burned' by the MacCarthys (AI). It seems to have been refortified soon afterwards, for in 1280 it was reported to have been 'evacuated by its guards through fear of Desmumu and MacCartagh, and it was burned after they had departed' (AI). The existing ruins at Dunloe, however, are those of a later tower house associated with the O'Sullivan Mores (Butler 1925, 47). 'Dun Loich on the River Leamhain' is noted as having been demolished by the Earl of Ormond in 1570 (AFM), but it appears to have been reoccupied by the O'Sullivans. One Daniel O’Sullivan of Dunloe represented Kerry in Parliament in 1613 (Smith 1756, 298). It was forfeited in 1656, and subsequently was acquired by Sir William Petty (King 1931, 130). In the late 1600s it became the property of the O'Mahony family, one of whom altered and renovated it in the 1820s. A pencil sketch of the renovated title by Westropp, dated 1891, is preserved in RIA MS 3 A 46. It is now, once again, in ruins. The tower house stands in the landscaped grounds of Dunloe Hotel on the N end of an elevated ridge which directly overlooks a bend of the River Laune at E. During the nineteenth-century renovations the E wall appears to have been completely rebuilt and partly set back from its original course, most of the windows were replaced by ogee-headed examples in brickwork, and a pointed doorway was inserted in the S wall at first floor level. The remains of some of the timber floors and wall-shutterings of the restored building survive in situ, but access to the upper floors is not possible. A number of architectural fragments of cut limestone lie on the steps which ascend to the nineteenth-century doorway at S. These include three chamfered sills (KE065-103001-, KE065-103002- & KE065-103003-) from two-light windows and two chamfered window jambs (KE065-103004- & KE065-103005-). All bear sinkings for bars. 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. 1109. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013

• KE065-103006 Bawn
  Description

  Dunloe Castle / Caisleán Dhún Ló: The building of a Castle (KE065-103----) at Dun Loich in 1215 by Maurice FitzGerald is recorded in a number of sources (O hlnnse 1947, 91). following the defeat of the Geraldines at the battle of Callan in 1261 it was 'demolished and burned' by the MacCarthys (AI). It seems to have been refortified soon afterwards, for in 1280 it was reported to have been 'evacuated by its guards through fear of Desmumu and MacCartagh, and it was burned after they had departed' (AI). The existing ruins at Dunloe, however, are those of a later tower house associated with the O'Sullivan Mores (Butler 1925, 47). 'Dun Loich on the River Leamhain' is noted as having been demolished by the Earl of Ormond in 1570 (AFM), but it appears to have been reoccupied by the O'Sullivans. One Daniel O’Sullivan of Dunloe represented Kerry in Parliament in 1613 (Smith 1756, 298). It was forfeited in 1656, and subsequently was acquired by Sir William Petty (King 1931, 130). In the late 1600s it became the property of the O'Mahony family, one of whom altered and renovated it in the 1820s. A pencil sketch of the renovated title by Westropp, dated 1891, is preserved in RIA MS 3 A 46. The tower house stands in the landscaped grounds of Dunloe Hotel on the N end of an elevated ridge which directly overlooks a bend of the River Laune at E. About 30m to SW of the tower house, in dense overgrowth, is a short stretch of what may have been a bawn wall. It stands to an average height of 2.2m and displays evidence of modern repair. 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. 1109. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dunloe Lower.

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 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 Dunloe Lower.

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

Name

Dunloe Lower · Dún Lóich Íochtarach

Area

628,229 m² (62.82 ha, 155.24 acres)

Civil parish

Knockane, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkerron North

Electoral division

Dunloe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunloe electoral division: 862 people in 324 households; 85% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolmagort, Dunloe Upper, Gortreagh, Grenagh, Tomies West

Placenames

Dunloe Lower 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.