# Dromkeen, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Grean, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Limerick; in Irish Drom Caoin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 454,497 m² (45.45 ha, 112.31 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 76,894 m² (7.69 ha, 19 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Grean, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/grean.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/31491 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120924 - Centre: latitude 52.571732, longitude -8.412312 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 8 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1589132: 317,130 m² (31.71 ha, 78.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1589132.md - Parcel 1649002: 94,101 m² (9.41 ha, 23.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1649002.md - Parcel 2519679: 59,687 m² (5.97 ha, 14.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2519679.md - Parcel 1657854: 43,007 m² (4.3 ha, 10.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1657854.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Dromkeen in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## 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. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI023-164: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI023-164----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI023-293----. 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 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 Dromkeen. ## 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, about 1 in 10 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 high, moderately low, low. - 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.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/dromkeen.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/dromkeen.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Dromkeen 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) - Ardroe: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ardroe.md - Curraghaveara: https://everytownland.com/limerick/curraghaveara.md - Dromkeen South: https://everytownland.com/limerick/dromkeen-south.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/dromkeen - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/dromkeen