Drommurher
Townland in the civil parish of Murher, barony of Iraghticonnor, Co. Kerry; in Irish Drom Mhaigh Oirthir
- Area
- 79.8 ha
- 197 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 2,002 m² (0.2 ha, 0.49 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drommurher, from 427 m² to 485,095 m² (48.51 ha, 119.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Drommurher 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
21 Oct 2021Conditional
RETAIN EXISTING DINING ROOM AND MEZZANIE FLOOR OVER AS CONSTRUCTED TO THE REAR OF OUR EXISTING DWELLING, RETAIN ALL EXISTING OUTBUILDINGS NOT BEING DEMOLISHED, PERMISSION FOR THE FOLLOWING, DEMOLISH SOUTHERN SECTION OF EXISTING OUT BUILDING (MACHINERY SHED) ERECT A NEW LIVING AREA TO THE SOUTH OF THE EXISTNG DINING ROOM, FIT NEW PATIO DOOR TO WEST SIDE OF THE DINING ROOM, BLOCK UP THE PATIO DOOR TO WEST SIDE OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HUOSE AND FOR ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211204
2 Jun 2021Conditional
(A) CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION AND CARRY OUT ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE (B) DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK (C) INSTALL NEW MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT WITH SAND POLISHING FILTER SYSTEM (D) CONSTRUCT NEW ENTRANCE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21594
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drommurher.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drommurher.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drommurher.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Drommurher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Drommurher · Drom Mhaigh Oirthir
- Area
- 797,776 m² (79.78 ha, 197.13 acres)
- Civil parish
- Murher, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iraghticonnor
- Electoral division
- Newtownsandes, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Newtownsandes electoral division: 1,135 people in 451 households; 79% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloonprohus, Cuss, Derry, Kealid, Moyvane South, Murher
- Placenames
- Drommurher 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.