Drumnamahane

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumnamahane, from 472 m² to 410,835 m² (41.08 ha, 101.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Drumnamahane 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.

• 2 Jul 2026Conditional

  construction of livestock shed incorporating underground effluent storage tanks, Retention Permission for store shed, Retention Permission for extension to existing livestock shed and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2685

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Scohaboy Bog NHA 000937

Recorded monuments

• TN010-011 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on the N face of a low E-W ridge in flat pasture. A large circular area (diam. 41m N-S) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2m; ext. H 1.5-3m) which has been reduced to a scarp in places. No entrance feature or fosse visible. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN010-018001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated on natural rock outcrop on flat poorly drained pasture with extensive views. In 1591, Moreghe O’Kennedy of Dromnemehan (Drumnamahane), chief of his nation, relinquished his claims to the Earl of Ormond on ‘all his right and interest in the lordship manor, castle etc., of the territory called Aghemcthomas and the parish of Askean, and also in all his lands and hereditaments in the castles, towns and fields of Dromnenrye (Dromineer), Ballyartely (Ballyartella), Dromnemehan (Drumnamahane) and Uskean (Uskane)’ (Curtis 1943, 47). Described in the Civil Survey (1654-56) as, 'Uppon the s[ai]d lands of Dromenemehane is a demolished Castle and fower cottages wthout any improvem[en]t' (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 327-8). In 1640 the Countess of Ormond and Stephen McEgan of Lisleigh who are described as Irish Papists and are listed as proprietors of the lands of Drumnamahane (ibid.). A tall rectangular tower (ext. dims. 10.4m N-S; 13.2m E-W; wall T 1.9m) surviving four storeys high built with roughly coursed limestone rubble with base-batter. Two angle towers project from the E face of the tower and the main doorway (now destroyed) was in the centre of the recessed E wall. Both the NE and SE angle towers contain small barrel-vaulted chambers accessed from the main chamber at each level. The main doorway gives access to a lobby with mural stairs in the SE angle, running through the thickness of the S wall, and a guardroom in the NE angle. Directly W is the main chamber which has a wooden ceiling and is lit by three double-splayed windows, each one centrally placed in the N, S and W walls. There is an interesting angle wall cupboard in the NW angle. The barrel vaulted first floor is accessed from the SE angle and is lit by a large twin-light flat-headed window in the centre of the E and W walls and by a simple slit ope in the E end of the N wall. The murder-hole over the lobby is located on the floor of the window embrasure on the E wall. Steeply pitched mural stairs with a corbelled roof give access to a lobby in the SW angle protected by a murder-hole accessed from the third floor. From the SW angle the second floor is accessed. A small secret mural passage is accessed from the window embrasure of the N window and runs between the N wall and the barrel vault over the first floor. The destroyed third floor is inaccessible. A possible bawn wall (TN010-018003-) projects out from the SW angle of the tower. There is a possible quarry to the SW of the tower and a natural spring well in a possible enclosure to the E of the tower. The area to the E of the tower was impossible to examine due to dense overgrowth although there is some evidence of possible earthworks that may be the remains of the levelled bawn or possibly levelled buildings inside the bawn (TN010-018003-). An earlier FAS survey carried out in 1985 recorded that the tower house was 'located on an earthen mound surrounded by a ditch outside of which there is a low earthen bank from visible from northwest clockwise through north to northeast' (SMR File 1985). This earthwork or earthen enclosure appears to be the levelled remains of the bawn of the tower house. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien & Jean Farrelly Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 17 December 2015

• TN010-018003 Bawn
  Description

  Situated on natural rock outcrop on flat poorly drained pasture with extensive views. A tall rectangular tower (TN010-018001-) surviving four storeys high built with roughly coursed limestone rubble with base-batter. Two angle towers project from the E face of the tower and the main doorway (now destroyed) was in the centre of the recessed E wall. A possible bawn wall projects out from the SW angle of the tower, elsewhere it is not visible above ground level. There is a possible quarry to the SW of the tower and a natural spring well in a possible enclosure to the E of the tower. The area to the E of the tower was impossible to examine due to dense overgrowth although there is some evidence of possible earthworks that may be the remains of the levelled bawn or possibly levelled buildings inside the bawn (TN010-018003-). An earlier FAS survey carried out in 1985 recorded that the tower house was 'located on an earthen mound surrounded by a ditch outside of which there is a low earthen bank from visible from northwest clockwise through north to northeast' (SMR File 1985). This earthwork or earthen enclosure appears to be the levelled remains of the bawn of the tower house. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload/revision: 10 January 2012

• TN010-029 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on flat pasture with good views in all directions. Depicted as a small circular enclosure on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map. Not visible at ground level. A triangular-shaped enclosure of scrub and rock outcrop defined by a drystone wall of recent appearance now occupies this area. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 Drumnamahane, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1466 (ZIP).

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 Drumnamahane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Drumnamahane · Dromainn na Meathán

Area

1,828,986 m² (182.9 ha, 451.95 acres)

Civil parish

Uskane, and its townlands

Barony

Ormond Lower

Electoral division

Uskane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

252 people lived in 85 households in the Uskane electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bawnmore, Curragh, Drumnamahaneisland, Eminiska, Lisleighbeg, Middletown

Placenames

Drumnamahane 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.