Knockdromin

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockdromin, from 90 m² to 290,657 m² (29.07 ha, 71.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Knockdromin 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.

• 21 Aug 2026N/a

  erection of a 30m high lattice telecommunications support structure together with antennae, dishes, associated telecommunications equipment and concrete foundation, all enclosed by security fencing, and to extend the existing farm access track to provide access to the compound

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660963

• 29 Jul 2026N/a

  the construction of a new two-storey dwelling, a new site entrance requiring the existing boundary ditch to be set back to provide adequate sight distance, a wastewater treatment system, and all ancillary site works

  Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 2660861

• 16 Jul 2024Conditional

  a constructed two-storey dwelling house, site entrance and associated works; for the decommission of an existing septic tank and to construct a new packaged waste water treatment system and polishing filter

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 24290

• 13 Nov 2023Conditional

  as constructed poultry house(change of design), feed bins, as constructed revised site layout plan and site boundaries and all associated site works, changed from that previously granted under planning ref. 16/515

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 23547

• 9 Jun 2022Conditional

  a dwelling house, garage, entrance, boundary walls, an onsite waste water treatment and disposal system and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22656

• 6 Nov 2020Conditional

  alterations and extension to existing poultry house and carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 201138

• 31 Jul 2020Conditional

  construction of 1no. detached dwelling, new boundary walls, site entrance, improvements to the adjacent access road, domestic sewerage treatment plant and ancillary soil filter, and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20749

• 30 Jan 2020Conditional

  an extension to their present thatched cottage(A recorded Protected Structure RPS No.: D20(H)) to provide additional bedroom and storage accommodation. Planning permission is also sought for the demolition of a later edition single storey farm out building to the north of the existing thatched cottage to facilitate the newly proposed extension, as well as all associated site works on and under land

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2062

• 26 Mar 2019Conditional

  alterations and extensions to dwelling house with all associated site works including partial removal of existing garage

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19283

• 12 Nov 2018Conditional

  Extension of Permission for Planning Ref. 12/964: the construction of a two storey dwelling house, detached garage, septic tank with wastewater treatment system, percolation area, front entrance and ancillary site works

  Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 187038

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 Knockdromin.

Recorded monuments

• LI020-085 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on SE-facing slope, below brow of low hill. Circular area (diam. 30.5m) enclosed by earthen bank NW->NNE and defined by scarped edge NNE->NW, with outer fosse (D 0.3m; Wth 1.5m) SE->WSW. Bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.75m), best preserved at N, has a much worn down outer face due to cattle traffic. Scarp (H 1.4m), best preserved along SE arc, lowers at S to match narrow causeway (Wth 3m) across fosse. A wire fence runs across base of scarp and fosse S->WSW. Line of removed field boundary can be traced as shallow depression running as a chord across N edge of interior and crossing enclosing element NW-NE. Interior, under pasture, slopes down to S. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey direct entry thatched house, built c. 1790. Hipped thatched roof with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered battered walls having render plinth course. Square-headed openings with render surrounds, concrete sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Recessed square-headed opening having replacement timber battened door. Two-bay single-storey concrete outbuilding to north with pitched corrugated-iron roof. Rendered boundary walls to south having render copings.

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 Knockdromin, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockdromin.

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 Knockdromin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Knockdromin · Cnoc Dromann

Area

1,011,375 m² (101.14 ha, 249.92 acres)

Civil parish

Clonshire, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Lower

Electoral division

Croagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

833 people lived in 248 households in the Croagh electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballincurra, Cappagh, Clogh East, Cloonoul, Croagh, Graigue

Placenames

Knockdromin 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.