Dromacummer East

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromacummer East, from 976 m² to 313,405 m² (31.34 ha, 77.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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.

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.

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

• 29 Oct 2025N/a

  the construction of a vehicular entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic proprietary waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2561106

• 13 Nov 2023N/a

  a two storey dwelling, entrance, effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 23545

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 Dromacummer East.

Recorded monuments

• LI039-056 Earthwork
  Description

  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
  Description

  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

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  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
  Description

  Single-arch humpback limestone railway bridge, built c. 1862. Coursed roughly dressed walls with snecked abutments.

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 Dromacummer East, about 1 in 20 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 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 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 Dromacummer East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Dromacummer East · Drom an Chomair Thoir

Area

891,774 m² (89.18 ha, 220.36 acres)

Civil parish

Bruree, and its townlands

Barony

Coshma

Electoral division

Rockhill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Athlacca South, Cloonbrien, Dromacummer West, Howardstown South, Knockfenora, Knockmore

Placenames

Dromacummer East 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.