Dromalta

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromalta, from 12 m² to 202,866 m² (20.29 ha, 50.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Dromalta 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.

• 6 Jun 2025Conditional

  (i) Construct a new slatted livestock unit. Proposed slatted unit to incorporate easy feed, cubicles, calving pens, creep area, crush & underground slatted slurry storage tank with external agitation & ancillary external concrete (ii) Construct a roofed dungstead. The above development to be carried out with all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560539

• 31 Jan 2019Conditional

  detached garage and site entrance as constructed together with associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 1973

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 Dromalta.

Recorded monuments

• LI015-023 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in poorly drained, gently undulating pasture with good views to E, S and W. Roughly circular area (23.4m N-S; 21.1m E-W) defined by a scarped edge (Wth 3.1m; H 0.4m) from WNW to WSW with the traces of an external fosse (Wth 2.3m; D 0.2m) in the NW. The site has been truncated by the drain to W. The scarp is poorly defined. The interior is very uneven and slopes gently down to SW. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 3 July 2013

• LI015-024 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in poorly drained pasture on a very gentle W-facing slope with good views over rolling pasture in all directions. Consists of a sub-circular area (22.4m NW-SE; 21.6m NE-SW) defined by a scarped edge (Wth 2.36m; H 0.3m), with an external fosse (Wth 1.4m; D 0.1m) from NE to SW and atNW, and with traces of an external earthen bank (ext. H 0.2m; Wth 1.4m; int. H 0.2m) at SW. There is a gap in the scarp (Wth 7.1m) at NNE. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 3 July 2013

• LI015-026001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated immediately N of a small river and E of a field boundary in gently undulating pasture with good views in all directions. Roughly circular area (35.1m E-W; 33m N-S) enclosed by an earthen bank (int. H 0.2m; Wth 1.6m; ext. H 0.8m) from NW to SE and defined by a scarped edge (Wth 2.8m: H 0.8m) from SE to SW, with an external fosse (Wth 2.2m; D 0.5m) NE to SE. The enclosing element is truncated by a field drain at W. The interior slopes down to the SE. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 3 July 2013

• LI015-026002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in the NW corner of a field of gently undulating pasture with good views in all directions. Identified from aerial photography as a potential enclosure. It consists of a sub-oval area (21.5m N-S; 18.9m E-W) defined by a scarped edge (Wth 3m; H 0.4m), with an external fosse (Wth 2.2m) from N to SE, and with traces of an external bank (int. H 0.2m; Wth 1.6m; ext. H 0.2m) from NNE to E. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 3 July 2013

• LI015-029 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Site of Tobar Bríde situated immediately W of a field boundary, in poorly drained, undulating pasture. The site is sheltered to N, E and S and has good views to W. Described by Ó Danachair (1955, 213) as 'a strong spring issuing from the rock…the water cures vomiting and sick stomach if taken fasting before daybreak'. Ó Danachair mentions a legend still told locally that the well moved to this spot from the location of the Bullaun (LI015-041----) in the same townland. The site is heavily obscured by dense vegetation but no longer seems to be in holy use. See attached photo taken in 1954 by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.21.00281 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/17025. Compiled by: Denis Power Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 3 October 2020

• LI015-056001 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  Situated in poorly drained pasture with good views in all directions. Identified from aerial photography (Bruff Survey Map 15, no 18; 4/3731) as a possible ring barrow. No trace of the monument was evident when the site was inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 23 October 2013

• LI015-056002 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated in poorly drained pasture with good views in all directions. Identified from aerial photography (Bruff Survey Map 15, no 17; 4/3731) as a possible enclosure. No trace of the monument was evident when the site was inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 23 October 2013

• LI015-066001 Enclosure
  Description

  Identified as circular enclosure on aerial photograph (Bruff Survey: Map 15, no 21.2; 4/3729). According to Doody (2008, 130) 'subrectangular enclosure, c. 50m x 40m NW-SE, possible entrance on W side, possible internal bank.' The morphology of this enclosure indicates that it may be Bronze Age in date (ibid.). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 5 November 2013

• LI015-066003 Enclosure
  Description

  Identified as circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on aerial photograph (Bruff Survey: Map 15, no 20; 4/3729). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 24 October 2013

• LI015-080 Standing stone
  Description

  On SW-facing slope, in pasture, c. 10m NE of a public road. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Described in 1999 by the ASI as a single upright standing stone (H. 0.89m x 0.2m x 0.3m) that is square in section. Monument is close to the inside angle formed by the meeting of two field boundaries. Not visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018 and sketch location map Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 10 July 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1195 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Dromalta with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Dromalta · Drom Ealta

Area

1,311,492 m² (131.15 ha, 324.08 acres)

Civil parish

Tuogh, and its townlands

Barony

Owneybeg

Electoral division

Cappamore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cappamore electoral division: 1,424 people in 517 households; 76% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cunnagavale, Killuragh, Pallasbeg, Tuogh

Placenames

Dromalta 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.