Dromin

76 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromin, from 6 m² to 229,532 m² (22.95 ha, 56.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• P1Agriculture
  Kerry County Development Plan 2022-2028, Kerry · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 26 Nov 2025Conditional

  retain the demolition of the dwelling on site and permission to construct a replacement dwelling and all associated site works

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 25283

• 5 Nov 2025N/a

  INVALID APPLICATON

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 25261

• 28 Feb 2025Conditional

  Roof-mounted photovoltaic solar panels distributed over two water reservoir tanks with a maximum square metreage of 750 m2 in combination with associated ancillary works at Listowel (Dromin) Water Treatment Plant at Dromin, Listowel, Co. Kerry, V31 NX46.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560130

• 19 Dec 2024N/a

  The development will consist of roof-mounted photovoltaic solar panels distributed over two water reservoir tanks with a maximum square metreage of 750 m2 in combination with associated ancillary works at Listowel (Dromin) Water Treatment Plant at Dromin, Listowel, Co. Kerry, V31 NX46.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2461009

• 14 Aug 2024Conditional

  (A) DEMOLISH SIDE NORTH GABLE EXTERNAL WALL AND REAR EAST EXTERNAL WALL, REDESIGN THE FLOOR LAYOUT AND CARRY OUT ELEVATIONAL CHANGES, WHICH WILL INCLUDE RAISING THE RIDGE HEIGHT OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND (B) CONSTRUCT A NEW SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE NORTH ELEVATION AND REAR EAST ELEVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE (C) CONSTRUCT A SHED WHICH SHALL BE USED FOR ANCILLARY STORAGE TO THE HOUSE, FUEL STORAGE AND THE STORAGE OF 1 NO. VINTAGE CAR AND 1 NO. RALLY CAR, AND ALL NECESSARY ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460555

• 31 May 2021Conditional

  (A) RETAIN AS BUILT DOMESTIC GARAGE (B) RETAIN AS BUILT DOMESTIC BARBEQUE BUILDING (C) RETAIN AS BUILT SINGLE STOREY REAR EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELILNG AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21585

• 2 May 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A WEATHERING ENCLOSURE FOR THE EXISTING WATER TREATMENT PLANT (WTP) BUILDING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 17400

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Dromin.

Recorded monuments

• KE011-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 34m N-S, 36m E-W This univallate rath is situated NE of Dromin House. It consists of a circular area enclosed by a well-defined earthen bank and a slight trace of an external fosse. The enclosing bank is on average 6.5m in width at the base. It rises to a maximum height of 2m externally and .8m-2.6m above the interior. An external fosse is to be noted mainly to the S to SE, where it is 1.6m wide and .5m deep. The enclosing bank S to SE contains three breaks, but the possible entrance is SE where it is 3m wide. At this point the fosse curves in towards the opening. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 425. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE011-047 Fulacht fia
  Description

  While a new road was being dug, burnt shattered stones were exposed. No surface trace remains (local information). The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 57. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_256 (ZIP).

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

Name

Dromin · An Dromainn

Area

1,100,280 m² (110.03 ha, 271.89 acres)

Civil parish

Listowel, and its townlands

Barony

Iraghticonnor

Electoral division

Listowel Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Listowel Rural electoral division: 1,654 people in 635 households; 83% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygowloge, Clievragh, Coolatoosane, Dromin Upper, Knockane, Listowel

Placenames

Dromin 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.