Drumgoole

68 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumgoole, from 179 m² to 276,009 m² (27.6 ha, 68.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Drumgoole 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.

• 16 Sept 2026N/a

  for development. The development consists of alterations and the provision of extensions to existing dwelling house. The works shall include; the demolition of existing rear single storey extensions, alterations to all elevations, and the provision of new side and rear single storey extensions with all ancillary associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660594

• 17 Dec 2024Conditional

  for construction of one and a half storey Granny Flat type extension consisting of kitchen/living area, bedrooms and ancillary accommodation to side of existing dwelling, including use of part of the existing dwelling as living accommodation, upgrading of foul effluent treatment system, and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460640

• 7 Feb 2023Conditional

  for open porch to front of existing dwelling as constructed and all associated site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2360041

• 29 Mar 2022Conditional

  is hereby sought for construction of dormer type dwelling house with attached carport and store, entrance through existing entrance (recorded on the record of protected structures NIAH Ref No 12301061, 12301081 and RPS Ref No C66) and avenue, foul effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 22203

• 5 Oct 2021N/a

  is hereby sought for the construction of work shed, storage shed, toilet facilities, connection to on site sewerage system fencing and all associated site works at

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 21836

• 20 Jan 2020Conditional

  for stables and all associated works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2025

• 29 Oct 2019N/a

  for stables and all associated works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 19807

• 13 Nov 2018N/a

  Retention Permission for Stables and all associated works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 18752

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

Recorded monuments

• KK005-081 House - 17th century
  Description

  In 1635 Castlecomer was granted to Christopher Wandesforde, who established a town there and in 1638 built Castlecomer House. The house is depicted on the Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Fassadining, County Kilkenny (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin). Though, according to Nolan (1979, 78, 112), the family did not establish their principal residence here until c. 1694. During the 1798 rebellion the United Irishmen fought the Crown Forces in the ‘Battle of Comer’, as a result of which the town and the original Wandesforde residence was burnt (Ó Drisceoil 2018, 58). Following this, in c. 1802, Anne Countess of Ormonde and Ossory built a new house on the site of its predecessor (ibid.). By the 1960s the house had become vacant and it was almost completely demolished in 1975 (http://archiseek.com/2014/1802-castlecomer-house-co-kilkenny/, viewed 12 June 2017). In 1979 a two-storey house was built on part of the site (Farrelly et al. 1993, 128). See attached: KK005-081----_01 extract from Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Fassadining (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 18 January 2022

• KK006-003 Mine
  Description

  An artificial hollow in an elevated position within a tree plantation. This feature appears to be the remains of open cast mining, possibly medieval or 17th-century in date. According to the OS letters (1839), this feature 'is called by the inhabitants "Cromwell's Pit"; it is an apparently artificial hollow, and it is said that Cromwell, from this, besieged "the Garrison."' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 44). When visited in 1993 the area had been subject to land disturbance and there was no visible trace of the hollow at ground level and no local knowledge of its location (Farrelly et al. 1993, vol. 1, 129). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 22 February 2016

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1815–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch rubble stone road bridge over river, c.1825. Random rubble stone walls with rubble stone buttressed piers, and rendered rounded rubble stone coping. Single round arch with dressed rubble stone shallow voussoirs, and rubble stone soffits. Set back from road in grounds originally shared with Castlecomer House sited spanning tributary of Dinin River with grass banks to river.

• Castlecomer House, laundry, 1843–1899 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three- or five-bay single-storey laundry, extant 1899, on a cruciform plan centred on three-bay single-storey breakfront; single-bay (single-bay deep) single-storey central return (north). Refenestrated, ----. Now disused. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched slate roof (north), pressed or rolled iron ridges centred on paired rendered octagonal chimney stacks on rendered base having "Cavetto"-detailed stringcourses below capping, roll moulded cut-granite coping to gables on rendered kneelers with cut-granite diagonal pinnacles to apexes, and no rainwater goods surviving on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Rendered walls on rendered chamfered plinth. Tudor-headed central open internal porch with cut-granite step threshold, and concealed dressings having chamfered reveals with hood moulding below blind shield panel. Tudor-headed door opening into laundry with concealed dressings having chamfered reveals framing replacement timber panelled door. Square-headed flanking window openings, concealed dressings having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings framing replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings (remainder), concealed dressings having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings framing replacement timber casement windows. Set in unkempt grounds originally shared with Castlecomer House.

• Bridge, 1815–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Two-arch rubble stone hump back road bridge over river, c.1825. Random rubble stone walls with cut-stone triangular cut-water to pier, and squared rubble stone coping to parapets. Pair of segmental arches with squared rubble stone voussoirs, and rubble stone soffits having remains of render over. Sited spanning Dinin River with grass banks to river.

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 Drumgoole, about 1 in 20 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 Drumgoole.

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 Drumgoole with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Drumgoole · Droim Gualaigh

Area

1,488,526 m² (148.85 ha, 367.82 acres)

Civil parish

Castlecomer, and its townlands

Barony

Fassadinin

Electoral division

Castlecomer, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,397 people lived in 928 households in the Castlecomer electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghamucky, Ardra, Ballyhimmin, Castlecomer, Donaguile, Smithstown

Placenames

Drumgoole 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.