# Dromkeen North, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Dromkeen, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Limerick; in Irish Drom Caoin Thuaidh.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 666,432 m² (66.64 ha, 164.68 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,097 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Dromkeen, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/dromkeen.md
- Barony: Clanwilliam
- Electoral division: Kilmurry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/31481
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120925
- Centre: latitude 52.578705, longitude -8.403684 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromkeen North, from 410 m² to 227,560 m² (22.76 ha, 56.23 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1654018: 227,560 m² (22.76 ha, 56.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1654018.md
- Parcel 3324172: 113,326 m² (11.33 ha, 28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3324172.md
- Parcel 1616447: 33,267 m² (3.33 ha, 8.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1616447.md
- Parcel 1645415: 11,127 m² (1.11 ha, 2.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1645415.md
- Parcel 1624713: 4,560 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1624713.md
- Parcel 5921584: 2,447 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5921584.md
- Parcel 1589413: 2,098 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1589413.md
- Parcel 3299528: 2,096 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3299528.md
- Parcel 3851354: 1,849 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3851354.md
- Parcel 3851333: 1,462 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3851333.md
- Parcel 1607751: 1,008 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1607751.md
- Parcel 4993356: 853 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4993356.md
- Parcel 1629289: 443 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1629289.md
- Parcel 4993358: 410 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4993358.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Dromkeen North 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)

1 application, newest first.

- 8 Feb 2021, Limerick County Council 21125: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construction of a dwelling, garage, entrance, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/21125/0

Applicants are not shown.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Dromkeen North.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LI024-003: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI024-003----. In 1826 Dromkeen Castle was described as following; 'In this Parish was situated Drumkeen House, the ruins of which are still to be seen and gives strong indications of its former consequence, when it was the residence of the ancient family of the Bourkes of Drumkeen' (Fitzgerald and McGregor 1826, 284). Westropp (1906-7, 98) recorded the following details on Dromkeen; ‘1250 John Pincerna (Butler) granted Dronchyn to augment a prebend (B.B.L., p. 105). 1280 The sheriff ordered to hold a sworn enquiry about land of Dromken, held by Silvester Architedekne (Mem. R. Exch., No. 438). 1322 Suit of J. Harold and Paul de Hynterberg, about Drumkeyne, of which John, Paul's father, had disseised Harold (Plea R., 142), 1399-1400 The custody of estates of Ric. Harold, in Drumkyn, disturbed by Katherine, his widow (Mem. R., No. 26). It is alleged that the de Burghs, descendants of John Bourke of Shrule, son of Walter, circa 1410, and Sabia, his wife, daughter of Conor O'Brien, Prince of Thomond, settled there in first half of fifteenth century and held it to recent times. 1583 W. Bourke held Dromekyn C. (Des. R., 37). 1585 His son Ric. held it. 1619 C. and bawn granted to Holcroft. 1633 W. Bourke still owner (Inq. Chan. 93). 1655 C. shown (D.S.A., 14 ; Petty, 65). 1691 Right Rev. Ulysses Burgh, Bishop of Ardagh, died buried at Drumkeen. 1717 Church and monument repaired by Rev. Richard Burg. He calls it "the burial place of his family from time immemorial".' In grounds of demesne and forming main entrance to 18th century Dromkeen House. Substantial remains of a medieval wall (H c. 7-8m; T c. 0.8m) running N-S supported with buttresses to W, E and N. Wall pierced by a tall archway with cut stone voussoirs forming the elliptical head. Two long window openings above have either broken or modified arches. Large pile of loose stone collected around base of wall at N-end, E-side. Loose cut stone on grass verge to W. Dromkeen House described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage as a 'Detached double-pile five-bay two-storey over half-basement house, built c. 1730, with extension and abutting two-storey wing to rear (north-east) elevation' (www.buildingsofireland.ie; Reg. No. 21902401). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 04 January 2019

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)

- Dromkeen House, country house, 1720–1740, Regional interest, registry number 21902401, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC&regno=21902401. Detached double-pile five-bay two-storey over half-basement house, built c. 1730, with extension and abutting two-storey wing to rear (north-east) elevation. Pitched slate roof with roughcast rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods to rear elevation. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings having three-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor, six-over-six pane to ground floor and four-over-four pane to basement, all having tooled limestone sills. Round-headed opening with timber doorcase comprising double-leaf timber panelled door flanked by carved pilasters with cobweb fanlight above. Flight of cut limestone steps having cast-iron railings on roughcast rendered containing walls terminating in carved tapering limestone guardstones. Wrought-iron bootscrape to steps. Outbuildings to east of rear yard comprising multiple-bay two-storey range with recent extension to rear (east) elevation Hipped slate roof with yellow brick chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings having fixed window fittings and limestone sills. Square-headed openings having timber battened doors. Central segmental-arched opening having double-leaf timber battened doors. Four-bay single-storey thatched house to rear of yard. Pitched reed thatched roof. Whitewashed walls. Square-headed openings with replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed openings with replacement timber panelled doors. Remains of rubble limestone entrance arch to south-east of site having segmental-headed arch with cut stone voussoirs. Square-profile limestone piers with cut caps flanked with rubble limestone side walls and replacement timber gates.
- Presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1930–1950, Regional interest, registry number 21902405, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC&regno=21902405. Detached three-bay two-storey presbytery, built c. 1940, with flat-roofed porch to front (south) elevation. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and terracotta ridge tiles. Render bracketed cornice to porch. Rendered walls, lined-and-ruled to ground floor with render stringcourse dividing stories. Square-headed openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash and replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed openings to porch with stepped recessed hood details above and replacement uPVC windows. Rubble stone boundary wall.

## 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 Dromkeen North, about 1 in 5 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1175, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1175.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/dromkeen-north.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/dromkeen-north.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/dromkeen-north.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Dromkeen North 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)

- Ballybeg: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballybeg-120162.md
- Curraghnaboul: https://everytownland.com/limerick/curraghnaboul.md
- Dromkeen South: https://everytownland.com/limerick/dromkeen-south.md
- Gortnadromin: https://everytownland.com/limerick/gortnadromin.md
- Moanroe: https://everytownland.com/limerick/moanroe-121570.md
- Mountsion: https://everytownland.com/limerick/mountsion-121618.md
- Mountsion: https://everytownland.com/limerick/mountsion-121619.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.

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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/dromkeen-north
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