Dromore
Dromore is a townland in the civil parish of Kildimo, barony of Kenry, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is An Drom Mór.
- Area
- 18.9 ha
- 47 acres
- Land parcels
- 0
- registered freehold
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromore. The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 3 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 Dromore 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
No planning application touches the townland of Dromore 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Dromore & Bleach Loughs 001030
Recorded monuments
- LI012-004 Ringfort - cashel
Description
In woodland, atop low rise. Circular area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by dry-stone bank (int. H 1.95m; ext. H 1.75m), best preserved at W. Entrance (Wth 4.10m) at E. Mound of stone (H 1.m) at centre covered with brambles. Interior, planted with ornamental grasses, slopes gently to the E. According to landowner, this is a landscape feature associated with Dromore Castle on whose demesne it lies. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
- Dromore Castle, country house, 1865–1870 · National interest
Description
Freestanding square-plan Gothic Revival style country house, built 1866-7. Comprising battered three-bay three-storey main block with round-tower to north-west, adjoining crenellated single-storey bay with external flue to west having squinch to north-west corner, terminating in battered square-plan four-stage tower. South block having entrance bay terminating in battered square-plan, crenellated three-stage tower. Multiple-bay five-storey block to north with adjoining battered tower to north-east. House roofless. Hipped limestone roof with cross finial to north-east tower. Limestone spire to round-tower having carved finial. Gables to north-west block with limestone copings, some having carved finials. Limestone chimneystacks. Entrance block to south with pitched limestone roof. Guarderobe-like projections to west and north elevations. Roughly dressed limestone walls with buttress to north-east elevation and carved heraldic plaques to south entrance bay. Square-headed arrow slit window openings. Paired arrow slit window openings having oculus over with inset trefoil-headed opening to west elevation. Paired lancet window openings having limestone mullions and transoms with oculi over having inset quatrefoil openings to west, north and south blocks. Quatrefoil window openings to south entrance bay. Paired lancet window openings having limestone mullions and transoms with oculi over having inset multifoil openings to west block, east elevation. Pointed arch openings to round-tower with inset square-headed arrow slit windows having carved quatrefoil motifs over. Lancet openings to north block, south elevation second floor having inset trefoil-headed window openings with limestone mullions. Triple trefoil-headed lancet window openings to north-west block, east elevation. Pointed arch opening to north-west block, west elevation with inset round-headed carriage arch and adjoining pointed arch pedestrian entrance having limestone voussoirs. Carved limestone lions and heraldic motifs to tympanum with flanking engaged columns having carved quatrefoils over. Pointed arch door openings to north elevation. Pointed arch opening to south entrance bay having inset pointed arch opening with carved limestone voussoirs. Square-headed shouldered door openings to south entrance block, east and west elevations, first floor. External cantilevered limestone staircase to south block, north elevation. Barrel vault to entrance, main block having tooled limestone ribs. Cut limestone stairs and spiral staircases to interior, north block, with carved sandstone springing arch to ground floor. Red brick walls to interior, west block, with carved limestone fireplace. Flight of limestone steps with rubble limestone walls and pointed arch door opening to north.
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 Dromore, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_736 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Dromore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Dromore · An Drom Mór
- Area
- 188,726 m² (18.87 ha, 46.64 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kildimo, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kenry
- Electoral division
- Kildimo, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 688 people lived in 235 households in the Kildimo electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Dromore 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.