Dromagarraun

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromagarraun, from 971 m² to 262,068 m² (26.21 ha, 64.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Dromagarraun 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.

• 10 Mar 2023Conditional

  3-bay slatted shed, hay storage area, hardstand and access roadway from existing farm entrance

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 23149

• 13 Jun 2019Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling house, detached garage, site entrance, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, demolition of existing cottage on site and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19569

• 14 Dec 2018Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling house, detached garage, site entrance, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 181224

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161

Recorded monuments

• LI018-076 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, atop low rise. Roughly circular area (40.6m N-S; 40.6m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 0.55m; Wth 5m). Along base of scarp band of darker-coloured grass (Wth c. 4.8m) SW->SE probably marks line of silted-up fosse; this is overlain by field boundary SE->SW. Level interior covered in tall grass. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI018-077 Enclosure
  Description

  Atop hillock, in undulating pasture. Oval area (14m N-S; 16m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 0.7m; Wth 6m). Interior level, and entire site covered by tall grass. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI018-078 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On slight rise, in undulating marshy pasture. Roughly circular area (24m N-S; 26m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.8m) W->NE and defined by scarped edge (H 1.1m; Wth 4m) NE->W, with external fosse around entire circumference. Fosse has recently been widened and deepened to act as part of field drain system WNW->SSE. Elsewhere it is shallow (D 0.4m; Wth 3.7m) and waterlogged. Field boundary and drain skirt fosse at E and S. Interior is level and under grass, but with trees covering NW quadrant. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI018-079 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating marshy pasture. Formerly circular enclosure (diam. 29m E-W) has been truncated on N side by E-W field boundary, so that distance from field boundary to edge of interior is now 20.3m N-S. Surviving enclosing element consists of a scarped edge (H 0.25m; Wth 3m) with an external fosse (D 0.25m; Wth 3m). Fosse is barely apparent on W side but on E side is accentuated by stand of rushes growing along it. Interior slopes up gently towards centre. Entire site under grass. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI018-080 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Atop low rise, in undulating pasture. Roughly circular area (diam. c. 24m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1.45m) with external fosse (D 0.5m; Wth 2.3m). Entire site covered by dense overgrowth of trees, and undergrowth of bushes and brambles. Field boundary abuts enclosure at NE and NW and incorporates enclosing bank NW->NE. There are numerous cattle breaks in bank, visible through undergrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI018-117 Well
  Description

  In undulating pasture, at foot of S-facing slope. Roughly-circular well (0.78m E-W; 0.88m N-S) with dry-stone lining, containing water to depth of c. 1m. Dry-stone lining rises to form wall enclosing well (H 1.3m), covered by single lintel, with opening facing S. Short passage (Wth c. 0.8m) leads to opening from trackway c. 1.7m to S. No indications of holy use. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dromagarraun.

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 Dromagarraun, about 1 in 10 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dromagarraun.

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 Dromagarraun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Dromagarraun · Drom an Gharráin

Area

1,119,798 m² (111.98 ha, 276.71 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmoylan, and its townlands

Barony

Shanid

Electoral division

Kilmoylan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

398 people lived in 164 households in the Kilmoylan electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonlahard East, Cloonlahard West, Tinnakilla, Tooraree Lower

Placenames

Dromagarraun 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.