Drom

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drom, from 16 m² to 438,552 m² (43.86 ha, 108.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Drom 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 2024Conditional

  DEMOLISH EXISTING DERELICT HOUSE AND TO CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 24366

• 21 May 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE AND PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19526

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: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365

Recorded monuments

• KE068-016 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture, above a steep fall of ground down to the river which is c. 50m to the NE. A raised roughly circular heavily overgrown area (c. 26m N-S; c. 24m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 1.2m; ext. H 1.4m). The interior is covered in ferns. A break at SE may indicate the entrance. Field boundaries abut the bank at N and S. Field-clearance rubble is piled against the outer face of the bank at NNE and SSW. This is one of the three raths recorded in Drom townland in the 1940s, one of which was in Clem.T. Cooper's, one in John G. Cooper's and another in Florence T. Cooper's land (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry). Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE068-017 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a level elevation on a W-facing slope with views SE to The Paps of Dana. The location of this rath is indicated by a slightly raised level area. It is indicated as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on the 1846 OS 6-inch map. This is probably one of the three raths recorded in Drom townland in the 1940s, one of which was in Clem. T. Cooper's, one in John G. Cooper's and another in Florence T. Cooper's land (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry). Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE068-028 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough hill pasture, on the NW-facing slopes of Killeen Mountain. A rectangular area (27m NW-SE; 20m NE-SW) defined by large stone on outcropping rock at NW and by a partially collapsed drystone wall (T 0.25m; H 0.7m) elsewhere. Remains of cultivation ridges run NW-SE across the interior. A large stone at the NW side is known locally as a mass-rock (KE068-116----). The enclosure is indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as a rectangular enclosure (c. 40m NW-SE; c. 15m NE-SW) and named 'Sheep Fold'. It is indicated on the 1894-5 OS 6-inch map as a rectangular enclosure (c. 20m NW-SE; c. 15m NE-SW). Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE068-116 Mass-rock
  Description

  In rough hill pasture, on the NW-facing slopes of Killeen Mountain. A large stone (L 6-8m; Wth 4m; H 1.8-2.5m) is perched on a rock outcrop. According to local information, it was once used as a mass-rock. It forms part of the enclosing element of an enclosure (KE068-028----) immediately to the SE. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Drom, about 1 in 5 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 Drom.

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

Name

Drom

Area

2,125,082 m² (212.51 ha, 525.12 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcummin, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Doocarrig, the unit of the census

Census 2022

694 people lived in 226 households in the Doocarrig electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Doocarrig Beg, Doocarrig More, Headfort, Kilquane, Lisnagrave, Rossacroo, Shronedarragh

Placenames

Drom 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.