Dromcluher
Dromcluher is a townland in the civil parish of Tuogh, barony of Owneybeg, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Drom Cloichir.
- Area
- 118.1 ha
- 292 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 9,362 m² (0.94 ha, 2.31 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromcluher, from 135 m² to 458,314 m² (45.83 ha, 113.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Dromcluher 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
10 Dec 2025Conditional
PERMISSION for administration building and staff carparking, extension to truck parts storage building, vintage truck storage building, truck washdown area, truck fuel depot, truck yard with truck parking, warehouse (10,000 sq.m floor area), wastewater treatment percolation area, surface water drainage biodiversity system, 2 no. firefighting water storage tanks, removal of portacabin building and all ancillary site works. Retention permission for existing wash bay, temporary portacabin offices, septic tank, storage sheds, 2 no. water tanks and yard extension.
Permission · Limerick County Council, 25391
7 Sept 2017Conditional
the erection of a vehicle maintenance shed and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 17835
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
- LI015-015 Mound
Description
Situated immediately NW of a stream on a W-facing slope in gently undulating pasture with good views to N, W and S. Coniferous forestry has been planted up to the N and W borders. Indicated on the 1927 OS 6-inch map as an oval mound (c. 10m N-S; c. 5m E-W) immediately to the N of a stream, at a point where the stream meanders. The site is inaccessible due to dense scrub vegetation. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 3 July 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dromcluher.
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 Dromcluher, about 1 in 5 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1194 (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 Dromcluher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Dromcluher · Drom Cloichir
- Area
- 1,180,968 m² (118.1 ha, 291.82 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tuogh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Owneybeg
- Electoral division
- Cappamore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,424 people lived in 517 households in the Cappamore electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cappanouk, Dromsallagh, Eyon, Pallasbeg, Tinnatarriff, Tuogh
- Placenames
- Dromcluher 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.