# Dromeenboy, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Dromkeen, barony of Coonagh, Co. Limerick; in Irish Drom Iníne Baoith. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 626,076 m² (62.61 ha, 154.71 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 27,788 m² (2.78 ha, 6.87 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Dromkeen, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/dromkeen.md - Barony: Coonagh - Electoral division: Grean, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,548 people lived in 533 households in the Grean electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32392 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120909 - Centre: latitude 52.581285, longitude -8.345958 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromeenboy, from 511 m² to 167,688 m² (16.77 ha, 41.44 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1605829: 167,688 m² (16.77 ha, 41.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1605829.md - Parcel 1598737: 119,722 m² (11.97 ha, 29.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1598737.md - Parcel 1673641: 55,502 m² (5.55 ha, 13.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1673641.md - Parcel 1667086: 44,965 m² (4.5 ha, 11.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1667086.md - Parcel 1659987: 42,124 m² (4.21 ha, 10.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1659987.md - Parcel 1639459: 35,218 m² (3.52 ha, 8.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1639459.md - Parcel 1628769: 33,765 m² (3.38 ha, 8.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1628769.md - Parcel 1596849: 28,159 m² (2.82 ha, 6.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1596849.md - Parcel 1605830: 27,417 m² (2.74 ha, 6.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1605830.md - Parcel 1628838: 21,654 m² (2.17 ha, 5.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1628838.md - Parcel 3265826: 9,254 m² (0.93 ha, 2.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3265826.md - Parcel 1674235: 4,327 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1674235.md - Parcel 5627616: 2,043 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5627616.md - Parcel 1665095: 1,158 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1665095.md - Parcel 1600565: 629 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1600565.md - Parcel 6126233: 511 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6126233.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Dromeenboy in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 16 Feb 2026, Limerick County Council 2637: Conditional. Permission. alterations to single storey extension granted under previous planning reference 22/985, to provide an alternate floor plan, new elevation and altering the roof from pitched slate to a flat aluclad zing style, with extended cantilevered canopy over the front door along with all necessary ancillary site development works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2637/0 - 6 Dec 2023, Limerick County Council 2360906: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, entrance, garage and all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360906/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC, site code 002165, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002165 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI024-107: Barrow - ring-barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI024-107----. Situated on reclaimed pasture, 10m S of the Mulkear River which forms townland boundary with Killuragh. Monument identified as a roughly circular-shaped ring-barrow by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 146: AP 4/3730). Monument is visible as a circular-shaped cropmark (diam. 10m) on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13. It is not visible on Google Earth orthophoto taken 28/06/2018. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 22 July 2020 - LI024-111: Barrow - ring-barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI024-111----. In reclaimed pasture, on the floodplain of the Dead River 45m to N and its confluence with the Mulkear River 155m to NW. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Monument identified as a circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 144: AP 4/3730). Monument is not visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 22 July 2020 - LI024-114: Barrow - ditch barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI024-114----. In reclaimed pasture, on the flood plain of the Dead River and the Mulkear River 310m and 350m to N, respectively. Monument identified as a circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 138: AP 4/3722). Monument is visible as a circular-shaped earthwork (approx. diam. 9m) on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 22 July 2020 - LI024-321: Barrow - ditch barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI024-321----. In reclaimed grassland. Outline of circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 7m) defined by a fosse visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13 and earlier OSi orthophotos. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 June 2020 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dromeenboy. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Dromeenboy, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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_1217, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1217.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/limerick/dromeenboy.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/dromeenboy.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/dromeenboy.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Dromeenboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick: https://everytownland.com/limerick.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballyvoneen: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyvoneen.md - Cunnagavale: https://everytownland.com/limerick/cunnagavale.md - Garrane More: https://everytownland.com/limerick/garrane-more.md - Killuragh: https://everytownland.com/limerick/killuragh.md - Linfield: https://everytownland.com/limerick/linfield.md - Nicker: https://everytownland.com/limerick/nicker.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/limerick/dromeenboy - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/dromeenboy