Drommoher
Drommoher is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcornan, barony of Kenry, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Drom Aichir Beag.
- Area
- 48.1 ha
- 119 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 3,682 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drommoher, from 290 m² to 278,461 m² (27.85 ha, 68.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Drommoher 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
26 Oct 2024Conditional
the construction of an extension to rear of existing dwelling, carry out associated renovation works, replace the existing septic tank with a wastewater treatment system and associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2461064
3 Mar 2020Conditional
conversion of first floor storage area of outbuilding to a games/music room, w/c, and study with ground floor access being provided through conversion of ground floor storage area to entry, 5 no. roof windows to the south elevation of outbuilding and 1 no. roof window to the front elevation of outbuilding, car/boat garage extension to the rear of the outbuilding and permission for revised site boundaries
Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20183
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drommoher.
Recorded monuments
- LI003-017 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, atop low hill. Semicircular area (30.5m N-S; 19.5m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 1.7m; Wth 7.4m) NNW->SSE. A field boundary, which formerly bisected enclosure has been removed and is now replaced by wire fence; no trace of enclosure evident of W side fence. Scarp lowers NNW->NNE (H 0.4m; Wth 4m) and SE->SSE (H 0.15m; Wth 2m). Level interior, under pasture, contains two mature deciduous trees in NW quadrant. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
- Dromaher House, house, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1810, having gabled porch to west (front) elevation. Hipped slate roof with red brick chimneystacks. Rubble stone walls having dressed limestone quoins. Square-headed openings having render surrounds, red brick voussoirs and surrounds and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed opening to west of porch with red brick voussoirs and surround and timber sliding sash window. Square-headed opening to north elevation of porch with render surround and timber panelled door. Pair of square-profile piers flanking double-leaf gate to west of house.
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 Drommoher, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drommoher.
- 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 Drommoher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Drommoher · Drom Aichir Beag
- Area
- 480,909 m² (48.09 ha, 118.84 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcornan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kenry
- Electoral division
- Pallaskenry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,104 people lived in 392 households in the Pallaskenry electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymartin, Pallas, Ringmoylan, Shannongrove, Summerville
- Placenames
- Drommoher 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.