Dromin Upper
Dromin Upper is a townland in the civil parish of Listowel, barony of Iraghticonnor, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is An Dromainn Uachtarach.
Parcel 1192134
- Area
- 942 m²
- Buildings
- 4 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 283 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Dromin Upper
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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.
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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. Parts of the land are made ground.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_257 (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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 81.1 ha
- 200 acres
- Land parcels
- 235
- registered freehold, median 360 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
235 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromin Upper, from 9 m² to 153,575 m² (15.36 ha, 37.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 46 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Kerry County Development Plan 2022-2028, Kerry · 16 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Kerry County Development Plan 2022-2028, Kerry · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G2Walkway, Cycleway (Walkway, cycleway, bridle path)
Kerry County Development Plan 2022-2028, Kerry · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
14 Sept 2026N/a
permission to construct 12. no residential dwellings which includes 8no. semi-detached dwellings, 4no. terrace dwellings, roads & services and all ancillary site works
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660880
17 Feb 2025Conditional
to to retain her garage as constructed
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2560091
9 Aug 2024Conditional
Retention of the existing building within revised site boundaries and Planning Permission for (a) change of use from preschool use to residential use, (b) changes to window and door opes to all four elevations, all at ground floor level, (c) forming new window to side (east), new window to rear, new sliding doors to side (west) and relocation of front door to side (west), all at ground floor level, (d) addition of two roof lights to front roof plane, (e) construction of single storey extension to rear and side (west), (f) construction of detached single storey domestic shed to front and (g) all associated site works
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2460534
16 Oct 2023Conditional
RETAIN THE GAS STORAGE TANK AND PLANNING PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT 13 NO. RESIDENTIAL DWELLINGS. THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT COMPRISES OF 13 NO. TWO BEDOOMS DWELLING AND THE COMPLETITION OF SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING ROADS AND SERVICES
Retention, 13 homes · Kerry County Council, 231049
25 Aug 2023Refused
TO ERECT A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTIC ACCOMMODATION, WITH MAINS, WATER AND WASTEWATER CONNECTIONS, AND TO CARRY ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ON HIS SITE
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23936
9 Sept 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT A WAREHOUSE FOR GENERAL STORAGE, CAR PARKING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211040
9 Aug 2019Conditional
(A) DEMOLISH EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND OUTBUILDING AND (B) CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19845
1 May 2019Conditional
(A) CONSTRUCT A REAR GROUND EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, AND (B) RETENTION OF EXISTING DOMESTIC SHED AS BUILT
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19458
31 Oct 2018Conditional
(A) RETAIN EXTENSION AS CONSTRUCTED TO REAR OF PREMISES ON GROUND FLOOR, INCORPORATING BEDROOM AND EN-SUITE IN LIEU OF BATHROOM, (B) RETAIN FIRST FLOOR BEDROOM AS CONSTRUCTED WITHIN ATTIC SPACE AT FRONT OF PREMISES AND ENLARGED STUDY / OFFICE AS CONSTRUCTED WITHIN ATTIC SPACE AT THE REAR OF PREMISES, (C) PLANNING PERMISSION FOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO INSTALL 2 NO. FIRE ESCAPE AND RESCUE GABLE WINDOWS ON THE (NORTH) AND SIDE (EAST) ELEVATIONS RESPECTIVELY FOR EXISTING FIRST FLOOR BEDROOMS AND (D) PLANNING PERMISSION FOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO INSTALL 1 NO. FIRE ESCAPE VELUX WINDOW IN LIEU OF EXISTING VELUX WINDOW ON THE SIDE (WEST) ELEVATION FOR EXISTING STUDY / OFFICE ALL
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 181059
4 Apr 2018Conditional
REMOVE EXISTING FLAT ROOF ON HER DWELLING HOUSE AND REPLACE IT WITH A PITCH ROOF WITH SLATE FINISH ALSO ALTERATIONS TO SOUTH ELEVATION AND WEST ELEVATION ALL ON HER SITE
Permission · Kerry County Council, 18300
5 Mar 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY REAR EXTENSION TO MONTESSORI PRE-SCHOOL AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18186
2 Jun 2017Conditional
(1) DEMOLISH THE EXISTING SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF OUR DWELLING, (2) TO DEMOLISH EXISTING SHED BUILDINGS, AND REPLACE WITH A NEW SHED BUILDING, (3) TO CONSTRUCT A PART TWO STOREY / PART SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF OUR DWELLING, ALL ASSOCIATED ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO THE EXISTING DWELLING AND ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES AND SITE WORKS ALL
Permission · Kerry County Council, 17519
25 Apr 2017N/a
CONSTRUCT A WAREHOUSE/RETAIL UNIT AND DEMOLISH EXISTING STORE ON SITE ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 17372
21 Apr 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT 2 NO. HOUSES ON SITES 29 AND 30
Permission, 2 homes · Kerry County Council, 17361
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Dromin Upper.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dromin Upper.
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 Dromin Upper, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low. Parts of the land are made ground.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_256 (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 Dromin Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Dromin Upper · An Dromainn Uachtarach
- Area
- 811,125 m² (81.11 ha, 200.43 acres)
- Civil parish
- Listowel, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iraghticonnor
- Electoral division
- Listowel Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,654 people lived in 635 households in the Listowel Rural electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballygowloge, Coolatoosane, Dromin, Dromin Lower, Listowel, Skehanierin (Egan), Skehanierin (Stokes), Skehanierin Lower
- Placenames
- Dromin Upper 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.