Dromin Lower

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromin Lower, from 2,575 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres) to 197,675 m² (19.77 ha, 48.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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.

• G5Mixed/general 'green'/recreational/conservation,other (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Kerry County Development Plan 2022-2028, Kerry · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 21 Apr 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT 2 NO. HOUSES ON SITES 29 AND 30

  Permission, 2 homes · Kerry County Council, 17361

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

• KE011-014 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 28.4m N-S, 21m E-W Situated N of the Limerick-Tralee railway line, on pastureland gently sloping SE, this univallate rath consists of a sub-circular raised area of c 1.2m above the enclosing fosse. NW to W and E to S an enclosing bank c 4m wide is discernable. The external height ranges 1m-1.6m and the internal .3m-.5m high. The enclosing fosse is very shallow, c 2m wide and .6m-1m below the height of the surrounding land. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 426. 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 Dromin Lower.

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 Dromin Lower, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_257 (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 Dromin Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Dromin Lower · An Dromainn Íochtarach

Area

425,407 m² (42.54 ha, 105.12 acres)

Civil parish

Listowel, and its townlands

Barony

Iraghticonnor

Electoral division

Listowel Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinruddery, Ballygowloge, Dromin Upper, Skehanierin Lower

Placenames

Dromin Lower 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.