Drombane
Drombane is a townland in the civil parish of Dromkeen, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is An Drom Bán.
- Area
- 113 ha
- 279 acres
- Land parcels
- 39
- registered freehold, median 2,860 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drombane, from 139 m² to 137,240 m² (13.72 ha, 33.91 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Drombane 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
30 Jun 2023N/a
the demolition of existing single storey rear extension and to construct a new side and rear extension, garage, wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 23352
23 Jun 2022Refused
the demolition of existing two storey dwelling, construction of a new two storey dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system, site entrance, site boundaries and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22699
15 May 2020Conditional
construction of a dwelling house, garage, entrance, installation of a wastewater treatment system and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20391
27 Jul 2018Conditional
the removal of existing domestic entrance, existing roadside hedgerow and existing agricultural entrance and construct new domestic entrance, new roadside boundary wall and new agricultural entrance
Permission · Limerick County Council, 18763
24 May 2018N/a
the construction of a storey and a half dwelling house, detached domestic garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works
Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 18513
12 Mar 2018Conditional
the construction of new storage/furniture assembly building for use ancillary to existing adjoining furniture retail warehouse, reusing existing external retail area for garden furniture display and associated site works which includes reusing existing entrance
Permission · Limerick County Council, 18228
16 Feb 2018Conditional
dwelling extension, garage and entrance
Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18131
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
Recorded monuments
- LI024-005 Ringfort - rath
Description
In improved, undulating pasture, on a gentle SE-facing slope. Circular area (diam. c. 18m) defined by scarped edge (Wth 1.45m; H 1.1m) at foot of which is earthen bank (Wth 6.2m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.25-0.45m) SSE-WSW and faint trace of outer fosse (Wth 5.6m; D 0.18m) SSE-SSW. Interior and enclosing element covered by dense scrub overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 5 December 2013
Architectural heritage
- Post box, 1940–1960 · Regional interest
Description
Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, erected c. 1850, with 'Post Office' written in relief. Manufacturer's marker on base: 'W.T. Allen & Co. London'. Mounted in former shop wall.
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
- 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1174 (ZIP).
- 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 Drombane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Drombane · An Drom Bán
- Area
- 1,129,861 m² (112.99 ha, 279.19 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dromkeen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Electoral division
- Caherconlish East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 576 people lived in 187 households in the Caherconlish East electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyart, Castle-Erkin South, Eyon, Gortnadromin, Mountsion, Pallasbeg, Tinnatarriff, Woodfarm
- Placenames
- Drombane 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.