Dromin West

54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromin West, from 717 m² to 163,250 m² (16.32 ha, 40.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Dromin West 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.

• 8 Oct 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT AN UNDERGROUND SLATTED TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS ON HIS LANDS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 20946

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 West.

Recorded monuments

• KE057-025 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a break of a NNE-facing slope, overlooking the estuary of the River Laune. This possible rath is not visible at ground level. It is indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m). Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE057-026 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a SE-facing slope, overlooking the estuary of the River Laune. A circular area (diam. c. 40m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5.5m; int. H 1.8m; ext. H 1.2m) SW-N and by a low rise N-SW. The bank is incorporated into a field boundary system SW-N. There is a gap (Wth 1m) at NW. The interior is now part of a field. This rath is indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as an embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) and is named 'Lisroe'. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE057-027 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a SE-facing slope. A circular area (42m E-W; 40m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 8.3m; int. H 1.35m; ext. H 2.75m) which is incorporated into a field boundary system NW-E. Breaches occur in the bank along the E and S arcs. The SE portion of the interior is raised (H 2.85m) to compensate for the hillslope. A possible hut site (KE057-027001-) was noted in the W half of the interior. Field boundaries radiate from the N and E arcs, externally. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE057-027001 Hut site
  Description

  Within the W half of a rath (KE057-027----). A raised, roughly circular, stony area (c. 11m N-S; c. 12m E-W; H 0.4m) with a central depression (4.5m NE-SW; 2.5m NW-SE; D 0.4m) may be the remains of a hut site. 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 Dromin West.

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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_95 (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 West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Dromin West · An Dromainn Thiar

Area

1,105,516 m² (110.55 ha, 273.18 acres)

Civil parish

Killorglin, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Dromin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dromin electoral division: 852 people in 302 households; 87% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Banshagh, Dromin, Dromin East, Kilderry South, Knockavota, Stealroe, Tinnahally

Placenames

Dromin West 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.