Dunmore

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dunmore, from 303 m² to 242,256 m² (24.23 ha, 59.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Dunmore 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.

• 22 Jun 2025Conditional

  to construct a two-storey extension to the rear (north-west) of existing dwelling house, install new sewage treatment system and raised percolation area, new borehole well for fresh water and all associated site development works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560367

• 24 Jul 2024Conditional

  to construct a two storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, new entrance, private borewell, wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with all other associated site work

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2460356

• 20 Jul 2021Conditional

  for development at this site. The development will consist of the construction of a single storey building comprising a meeting and general-purpose room, and associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 21616

• 5 May 2021Conditional

  for development consisting of a two-storey dwelling house with part single storey, wastewater treatment system and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21380

• 28 Jan 2020Refused

  for development consisting of a two-storey dwelling house with part single storey, wastewater treatment system and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2040

• 7 Jun 2019Conditional

  to construct a single storey extension to the side and rear of my dwelling with all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19395

• 5 Dec 2017Conditional

  to construct a new two storey replacement dwelling house, demolition of existing dwelling, set back of boundary to public road to facilitate improved vehicular entrance, provision of a new treatment plant and percolation area and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 17803

• 31 Oct 2017Conditional

  for development which will consist of the construction of a 2 storey building comprising a gym, small meeting room and 2 small dressing room 2 on the ground floor; a team meeting room/fitness analysis room on the first floor; connection to existing foul water treatment system and associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17714

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: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
• Special Protection Area: River Nore SPA 004233
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Dunmore Complex 001859

Recorded monuments

• KK014-058001 Church
  Description

  On gently sloping land at the edge of steep, though not very high, drop down to the River Nore flood plain, in rolling pasture. The Nore flows NW-SE c. 50m SW of the graveyard. There are fair to good views in all directions, with land rising gently to the NE and W. The church is located in the N portion of an irregularly shaped graveyard (KK14-058002-). According to O’Kelly (1969, 40) this is the location of, ‘the ancient parish church recorded as Domhnach Mór na Trionóide Naomhtha e.e. great church of the Holy Trinity’. Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 271) states that there are, ‘no remains of the ancient church of the Holy Trinity’ and that the, ‘Protestant church that occupied its site was cleared away about 1875’. The OS Letters (1839) describe the church as, ‘a modern Protestant Church and a burying ground attached’ (O’Flanagan (ed.) 1930, vol. 1, 39 (13)). In 1876-8 it was recorded that the ‘Church of Dunmore’ had been ‘recently thrown down’ (Anon. 1876-8, 110). A part of a moulded round-headed arch of the church door (KK014-058003-), bearing the date 1604 in the spandrel, had been removed and is inserted in the external face of the wall of the entranceway of the house opposite the graveyard (ibid.). It appears that the bell from this church had been donated, as indicated on an inscription on the bell, by James, Duke of Ormonde in 1682, who possibly also donated the white and black flagstones, both these and the bell were removed to St Mary’s Church Kilkenny (ibid.). It is unclear whether a 17th-century church replaced a medieval church or whether the medieval church was refitted in the 17th century. There is no visible trace of the church at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 8 June 2020

• KK014-058002 Graveyard
  Description

  On gently sloping land at the edge of steep, though not very high, drop down to the River Nore flood plain, in rolling pasture. The Nore flows NW-SE c. 50m SW of the graveyard. There are fair to good views in all directions, with land rising gently to the NE and W. An irregularly shaped six-sided graveyard (dims. c. 32m N-S; c. 41m NW-SE) with a church (KK14-058001-) located in the N portion. The OS Letters (1839) describe the church as, ‘a modern Protestant Church and a burying ground attached’ (O’Flanagan (ed.) 1930, vol. 1, 39 (13)). According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 271) the funerary monuments in the graveyard date from 1721 onward. There are no visible pre-1700 funerary monuments. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 8 June 2020

• KK014-058003 Architectural fragment
  Description

  Inserted on its side into the external face of the wall of the entranceway of the house opposite a church (KK014-058001-) and graveyard (KK014-058002-). From the historical evidence for the church it is unclear whether a 17th-century church replaced the medieval church or whether the medieval church was refitted in the 17th century. In 1876-8 it was recorded that the ‘Church of Dunmore’ had been ‘recently thrown down’ and this fragment was noted 'built into the wall of [the] glebe garden' (Anon. 1876-8, 110). There is no visible trace of the church at ground level. The limestone fragment consists of part of the moulded round-headed arch of a church door within a flat-headed moulded frame, bearing the date 1604 in the spandrel. See attached photograph KK014-058003--01 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 8 June 2020

• KK014-060 Enclosure
  Description

  On a N-S terrace along the E side of the Nore and Dinin river valleys, with land dropping to the W down to the flood plain, in flat terrain under grass and tillage. There are good views in all directions, though they are very good to the W. A roughly oval enclosure (diam. c. 35m) defined by wide fosse showing as a cropmark on aerial photograph (CUCAP BGG040, 16 July 1971). It is not visible at ground level. See attached aerial photograph (CUCAP BGG040, 16 July 1971) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 8 June 2020

• KK014-061 House - 17th century
  Description

  On a N-S terrace along the E side of the Nore and Dinin river valleys, with land dropping to the W down to the flood plain, in flat terrain under grass and tillage. There are good views in all directions, especially to the W. The manor of Dunmore belonged to the Butlers of Ormond. A lease of 1593 states that, 12 couples of rabbits be sent each week to the Earl's Houses of Kilkenny, Gowran and Dunmore' (Clohosey 1951, 44). In 1618, Elizabeth Butler, daughter of Thomas Butler the 10th Earl of Ormond, and her husband, Richard Preston, Lord Dingwall, were granted a large portion of the contested Ormond estate. In 1623, Elizabeth, now Countess of Desmond, was in residence in Dunmore and in a letter she notes, 'the breath and length of the hangings that must be had for the great chamber of Dunmore' (ibid. 45). She left Ireland the following year, never to return. Her daughter, also Elizabeth, married her cousin, James Butler, the 1st Duke of Ormond in 1629, becoming the Duchess of Ormond and thereby reuniting the fractured Ormond estate. In 1653, following the Cromwellian confiscations, Parliament ordered that Dunmore house and lands of the yearly value of £2000 be returned to Elizabeth and her children (ibid.). In 1653 a survey of the estate was undertaken which describes, 'a castle, a stone house adjoining in repayre, another small old castle, small thatch houses some with chimneies and a [cornmill?] - 2126 acres' (Fenlon 1997, 80). Elizabeth took up residence there in 1657 and following the Restoration in 1660 she embarked on a building programme for the house (ibid.; Fenlon 1997, 79). It is unclear whether she completely refitted an existing house or built a new one, though Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 272) and Bence-Jones (1978, 116) assert the latter. According to Bence-Jones (ibid.) the house was built of red brick. Fenlon (1997, 79-87), suggests that, 'hints as to the actual form of the house, garnered from inventories taken there in 1675 and 1684, point to a new return of three stories being added to an earlier structure of similar height'. During the absence of the duchess in 1665 a letter from her agent informs her that, 'at Dunmore the great stairs at the upper end of the hall are put up, but the carvings about them not yet finished and the fretworks and wainscotings in her Grace's apartments are finished, and the masons have worked good part of the marble steps for the entrance into the house, and the frontispiece of pillars is ready to put up when the masons have paved the portico before the entrance, which is good part done, and the whole house is glazed, and the rooms plastered and doors made and the rooms locked up to preserve the glass from breaking' (Clohosey 1951). In 1698, John Dunton described the house as, 'the finest house in Ireland. On some of the floors of this house I reckoned twenty-four rooms; the staircase that leads to them are hung with curious landscapes, and is so large that twenty men might walk abreast; had the house another branch it would be a perfect H; but without this additional beauty, perhaps it may boast of more rooms than are to be found in some whole towns' (ibid. 47). Following the death of the duchess in 1684 the house appears to have fallen into decline (Fenlon 1997, 85). In 1709, Molyneux noted, 'formerly, a handsome Country house belonging to the Duke, called Dunmore House, which is now pulled down (recte deserted, or, perhaps, dismantled), and the furniture and pictures all carried to the Castle [Kilkenny]' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 3, 272). The ruins were removed at the beginning of the 19th century and Dunmore Cottage was built on the site (Clohosey 1951, 48). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 16 December 2020

• KK014-119 Enclosure
  Description

  A broad gravel ridge, running roughly E-W, on the E margins of the Nore and Dinin river valleys. There are excellent views in all directions. A roughly circular (diam. c. 32m) area on the top of the end of the ridge appears to have been modified to create a platform. Only a portion of the N sector survives and it is heavily overgrown. The greater part has now been removed by gravel quarrying. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 18 June 2020

Architectural heritage

• Dunmore Cottage, house, 1765–1785 · National interest
  Description

  Detached eight-bay single-storey double-pile summer house, c.1775, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier house, c.1600, on site with single-bay single-storey central entrance bay, three-bay single-storey bowed projecting flanking bays, single-bay single-storey bay to right, three-bay single-storey bowed projecting bay to side (west) elevation, five-bay single-storey rear (north) elevation, and three-bay two-storey lateral range to east. Refenestrated, c.1800. Now disused. Hipped double-pile (M-profile) slate roof (continuing into pitched roof to lateral range) having half-conical roofs to bowed projecting bays with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, rooflights, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted rendered walls (possibly over red brick Running bond construction to bowed projecting bays) with rendered band to eaves, and unpainted roughcast walls to part of rear (north) elevation. Ogee-headed window openings (square-headed window openings to rear (north) elevation and to lateral range with some in bipartite arrangement) with cut-limestone sills, and replacement six-over-nine timber sash windows, c.1800, having tracery overlights (no overlights to square-headed openings with eight-over-eight timber sash windows to bipartite openings having timber casement windows to first floor lateral range). Tudor-headed door opening on three cut-limestone steps with paired octagonal pillars supporting panelled entablature, remains of carved timber surround, and glazed timber panelled double doors. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds on a slightly elevated site with unkempt landscaped grounds including ha-ha to front (south) elevation having unpainted rendered retaining wall over random rubble stone construction with cut-limestone coping. (ii) Attached four-bay two-storey lower range, c.1800, to east possibly originally service wing. Refenestrated. Hipped and pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack, rooflights, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted rendered wall to front (south) elevation with unpainted roughcast walls to remainder. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, replacement six-over-six and three-over-six (first floor) timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with cut-limestone steps having rock-faced cut-limestone parapets, and replacement timber panelled door having overlight.

• Dunmore Cottage, gates/railings/walls, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, c.1800, comprising pair of limestone ashlar piers with stringcourses, cut-limestone capping, iron double gates having arrow-head and spear-head finials, sections of iron flanking railings on random rubble stone plinth having cut-limestone coping, and limestone ashlar outer piers having cut-limestone capping. Set back from road in grounds shared with Dunmore Cottage.

• Dunmore Cottage, gates/railings/walls, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, c.1800, comprising pair of limestone ashlar piers with stringcourses, cut-limestone capping, iron double gates having arrow-head and spear-head finials, sections of iron flanking railings on unpainted rendered plinth having cut-limestone coping, and limestone ashlar outer piers having cut-limestone capping. Set back from road in grounds shared with Dunmore Cottage.

• Dunmore Cottage, bridge, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch rubble limestone road bridge over stream, c.1800. Random rubble limestone walls with cut-limestone coping supporting wrought iron railings to parapet having squared rubble limestone terminating piers with cut-limestone capping. Single elliptical arch with cut-stone voussoirs, and rubble stone soffits having traces of render over. Set back from road in grounds shared with Dunmore Cottage spanning stream with slightly overgrown banks to stream.

• Dunmore Cottage, gates/railings/walls, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, c.1800, comprising pair of limestone ashlar piers with stringcourses supporting inscribed friezes, cut-limestone capping, cut-granite piers forming flanking pedestrian gateway having iron turnstile, random rubble limestone curved flanking walls having cut-limestone coping leading to limestone ashlar outer piers having cut-limestone capping, and random rubble limestone boundary wall to perimeter of site. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Dunmore Cottage.

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 Dunmore, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2165 (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 Dunmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Dunmore · An Dún Mór

Area

1,048,857 m² (104.89 ha, 259.18 acres)

Civil parish

Dunmore, and its townlands

Barony

Fassadinin

Electoral division

Dunmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

675 people lived in 236 households in the Dunmore electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Dunmore West, Dunmorepark, Dunmorepark, Loughmerans, Troyswood

Placenames

Dunmore 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.