# Dromin Lower, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Listowel, barony of Iraghticonnor, Co. Kerry; in Irish An Dromainn Íochtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 425,407 m² (42.54 ha, 105.12 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 12,775 m² (1.28 ha, 3.16 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): G5 Mixed/general 'green'/recreational/conservation,other, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Listowel, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/listowel.md - Barony: Iraghticonnor - Electoral division: Listowel Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/24103 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 71171 - Centre: latitude 52.446135, longitude -9.457166 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1197799: 197,675 m² (19.77 ha, 48.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1197799.md - Parcel 1154960: 16,801 m² (1.68 ha, 4.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1154960.md - Parcel 1193488: 15,697 m² (1.57 ha, 3.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1193488.md - Parcel 1151694: 9,854 m² (0.99 ha, 2.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1151694.md - Parcel 1161227: 6,637 m² (0.66 ha, 1.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1161227.md - Parcel 1244963: 2,575 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1244963.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - G5 Mixed/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: http://docstore.kerrycoco.ie/KCCWebsite/planning/devplan/vol2new.pdf ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 21 Apr 2017, Kerry County Council 17361: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. CONSTRUCT 2 NO. HOUSES ON SITES 29 AND 30. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/17361/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC, site code 002165, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002165 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KE011-014: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE011-014----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dromin Lower. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_257.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kerry/dromin-lower.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/dromin-lower.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/dromin-lower.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/kerry.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballinruddery: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballinruddery.md - Ballygowloge: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballygowloge.md - Dromin Upper: https://everytownland.com/kerry/dromin-upper.md - Skehanierin Lower: https://everytownland.com/kerry/skehanierin-lower.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kerry/dromin-lower - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kerry/dromin-lower