Drom

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drom, from 241 m² to 344,498 m² (34.45 ha, 85.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Drom in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165

Recorded monuments

• KE001-043 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 35m N-S, 29m E-W Lisroe/Lios Rua (russet ringfort) is a univallate rath situated c166m S of the Coosheen stream. The enclosing bank is low and narrow, and to the N through W it only survives as a slight platform rise. Elsewhere the bank survives to a maximum height of 1.2m externally, 1.2m internally and on average 4m in width. There is a c 4m wide gap in the SSE sector of the bank. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 125. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE004-001 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  The external diameter of this ring-barrow measures 17m N-S. It consists of a circular mound averaging .5m high, surrounded by an internal fosse 1.8m in width and .5m deep and an external earthen bank rising to a maximum height of 1m internally and .8m externally. Access to the interior is gained by a causeway to the E which is 1.8m wide. In the centre of the interior is a depression .75m x 2.3m which reveals some stones. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 85. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE004-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 29m This sub-circular univallate rath is situated in pastoral land and a good view is afforded in all directions. To the WNW of this site lies a ring-barrow (KE004-001----). The enclosing earthen bank rises to a height of .9m externally and .5m internally, and the width of the bank at the base measures 4m. A slight exterior fosse is to be noted to the N to NW, where it measures 1m in width and .3m deep. The interior is at a slightly higher level than the surrounding land and is wet and boggy. Three breaks are to be noted to the NE, E and SSE, measuring c2m, c 1.5m and c 3m in width. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 222. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drom.

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

Name

Drom · An Drom

Area

355,272 m² (35.53 ha, 87.79 acres)

Civil parish

Kilconly, and its townlands

Barony

Iraghticonnor

Electoral division

Gullane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Gullane electoral division: 278 people in 112 households; 88% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bromore East, Bromore West, Faha

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.