# Dromacummer East, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Bruree, barony of Coshma, Co. Limerick; in Irish Drom an Chomair Thoir. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 891,774 m² (89.18 ha, 220.36 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,660 m² (0.37 ha, 0.9 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Bruree, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/bruree.md - Barony: Coshma - Electoral division: Rockhill, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 337 people lived in 124 households in the Rockhill electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 17% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/31085 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120897 - Centre: latitude 52.442883, longitude -8.664081 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromacummer East, from 976 m² to 313,405 m² (31.34 ha, 77.44 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1643053: 313,405 m² (31.34 ha, 77.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1643053.md - Parcel 1597743: 197,045 m² (19.7 ha, 48.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1597743.md - Parcel 1658009: 121,921 m² (12.19 ha, 30.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1658009.md - Parcel 1627048: 121,076 m² (12.11 ha, 29.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1627048.md - Parcel 1600793: 30,666 m² (3.07 ha, 7.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1600793.md - Parcel 3451270: 17,026 m² (1.7 ha, 4.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3451270.md - Parcel 1653812: 15,615 m² (1.56 ha, 3.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1653812.md - Parcel 1629048: 9,336 m² (0.93 ha, 2.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1629048.md - Parcel 1665712: 8,778 m² (0.88 ha, 2.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1665712.md - Parcel 1603837: 4,926 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1603837.md - Parcel 1603168: 4,411 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1603168.md - Parcel 3265742: 2,909 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3265742.md - Parcel 3265743: 2,860 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3265743.md - Parcel 1590407: 2,682 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1590407.md - Parcel 1670458: 2,386 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1670458.md - Parcel 1636711: 2,269 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1636711.md - Parcel 1672114: 2,232 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1672114.md - Parcel 1620272: 2,163 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1620272.md - Parcel 1627885: 2,010 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1627885.md - Parcel 1637129: 1,652 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1637129.md - Parcel 1645086: 1,290 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1645086.md - Parcel 3265741: 976 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3265741.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Dromacummer East in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 29 Oct 2025, Limerick County Council 2561106: N/a. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a vehicular entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic proprietary waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561106/0 - 13 Nov 2023, Limerick County Council 23545: N/a. Permission, 1 home. a two storey dwelling, entrance, effluent treatment system and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/23545/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Dromacummer East. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI039-056: Earthwork, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI039-056----. In reclaimed pasture 40m W of the River Maigue and 80m NW of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Knockfenora. Fording point over the River Maigue 125m to the N. Depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch map as a raised circular-shaped area (diam. c. 60m). The 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map shows the partially level monument as a raised semi-shaped area (dims. c. 65m N-S; 55m E-W) defined by a scarp truncated from E-S-SSW by a post-1700 field boundary running N-S and at S by a field boundary running NW-SE. The monument is visible as a roughly oval-shaped area (dims. c. 62m NE-SW; 47m NW-SE) defined by a fosse, intersected at NE by a field boundary running NE-SW on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012. Outline of monument clearly visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13. Outline of monument visible as a D-shaped cropmark on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020. Recorded in the Ordnance Survey Field Name Books as one of '2 ancient forts, one in the S. and another [LI039-057----] about the central part of the townland' (OSNB Bruree Parish). See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 27 April 2021 - LI039-057: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI039-057----. In pasture 280m E of the River Maigue that marks the townland boundary with Dromacummer West. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a raised irregular-shaped area (dims. 24m N-S; 25m E-W) defined by a fosse only visible from SE-S-SW, intersected at W by the former Limerick to Chareville railway track running NW-SE. Scrub-covered monument visible immediately E of the former railway track on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020. Recorded in the Ordnance Survey Field Name Books as one of '2 ancient forts, one in the S. [LI039-056----] and another about the central part of the townland' (OSNB Bruree Parish). See attached Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 27 April 2021 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) - Bridge, 1860–1870, Regional interest, registry number 21903910, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC®no=21903910. Single-span limestone railway bridge, built c. 1862, with rusticated walls with buttresses to north and south elevations and square-plan rusticated piers having carved caps and plinths to parapet walls. Cut copings to parapet walls. Cast-iron girders to underside of arch. - Bridge, 1860–1870, Regional interest, registry number 21903911, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC®no=21903911. Single-arch humpback limestone railway bridge, built c. 1862. Coursed roughly dressed walls with snecked abutments. ## 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 Dromacummer East, about 1 in 20 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dromacummer East. - 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/limerick/dromacummer-east.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/dromacummer-east.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/dromacummer-east.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Dromacummer East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick: https://everytownland.com/limerick.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Athlacca South: https://everytownland.com/limerick/athlacca-south.md - Cloonbrien: https://everytownland.com/limerick/cloonbrien.md - Dromacummer West: https://everytownland.com/limerick/dromacummer-west.md - Howardstown South: https://everytownland.com/limerick/howardstown-south.md - Knockfenora: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knockfenora.md - Knockmore: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knockmore.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/limerick/dromacummer-east - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/dromacummer-east