Dromkeen

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromkeen, from 43,007 m² (4.3 ha, 10.63 acres) to 317,130 m² (31.71 ha, 78.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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 Dromkeen 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Dromkeen in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Dromkeen.

Recorded monuments

• LI023-164 Enclosure
  Description

  On low-lying ground, cut by land drains and watercourses, in forestry. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Described by the ASI in 2005 as an oval-shaped cropmark identifed by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 265: AP 4/3717). Not visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018, where the area is enclosed by a forestry exclusion zone. See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 30 August 2020

• LI023-293 Enclosure
  Description

  In low-lying, wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses. An enclosure (LI023-164----) lies 145m to NW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a roughly oval-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 258: AP 4/3717). Monument is not visible on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimage taken, where monument has been planted with forestry. See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 258. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 14 September 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Dromkeen, 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1175 (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.

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

Name

Dromkeen · Drom Caoin

Area

454,497 m² (45.45 ha, 112.31 acres)

Civil parish

Grean, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Kilmurry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

911 people lived in 304 households in the Kilmurry electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardroe, Curraghaveara, Dromkeen South

Placenames

Dromkeen 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.