Dromacummer West
Dromacummer West is a townland in the civil parish of Bruree, barony of Coshma, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Drom an Chomair Thiar.
Parcel 1663458
- Area
- 136,785 m² (13.68 ha, 33.8 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Dromacummer West
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 2 recorded monuments.
- LI039-054 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, immediately E of N20 and 71m N of townland boundary with Ballyfookeen. Possible ring -barrow (LI039-053----) 290m to NW. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a small mound enclosed by a wide fosse. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as sub-circular-shaped platform (dims. c. 29m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by a scarp and enclosed by 2 banks with intervening fosse and external fosse. Much denuded banks and ditches of monument, with scrub-covered interior visible on the OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-22 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020. Outline of enclosing elements clearly visible on aerial photographs (ASIAP (306) 8, 11) taken 13/09/2002. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. and ASIAP aerial Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 8 April 2021 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 306/9, 11, 12, 13 on 13/09/2002.
- LI039-162 Earthwork
Description
In pasture immediately W of the N20 roadway. Barrow (LI039-053---) lies 180m to SW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Cropmark visible as an oval-shaped area (24m N-S; 20m E-W) on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 where it is intersected at N by field boundary running NW-SE. Outline of monument visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 13 May 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 78.5 ha
- 194 acres
- Land parcels
- 4
- registered freehold, median 156,770 m² (15.68 ha, 38.74 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromacummer West, from 126,931 m² (12.69 ha, 31.37 acres) to 343,276 m² (34.33 ha, 84.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Dromacummer 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Dromacummer West in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Dromacummer West.
Recorded monuments
- LI039-199 Enclosure
Description
In pasture immediately N of the River Maigue. Transected at W by a field boundary which marks the townland boundary with Cappanafaraha. Partial cropmark of circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 33m) visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13 and on earlier OSi othoimages. Partial cropmark forming roughly a D-shaped area (approx. dims. 46m N-S x 42m E-W) running onto the River Maigue is clearly visible on Google Earth orthophoto taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 2 June 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dromacummer 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Dromacummer West, 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 West.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Dromacummer West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Dromacummer West · Drom an Chomair Thiar
- Area
- 785,071 m² (78.51 ha, 194 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
- Cappanafaraha, Dromacummer East, Howardstown South, Knockfenora
- Placenames
- Dromacummer 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.