Dromin North

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromin North, from 2,079 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres) to 600,507 m² (60.05 ha, 148.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Dromin North 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.

• 6 Oct 2025Conditional

  revisions to a single dwelling permitted under planning ref. no. 21/1401 as follows: (1) Revised Garage design and location, (2) enclosed corridor connecting the dwelling house and the proposed garage, (3) additional window to the east elevation, These proposed works also include associated site ancillary works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2561017

• 3 May 2024Conditional

  the demolition of an existing garage and to construct a new extension to an existing dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 24189

• 8 Oct 2021Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211401

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 Dromin North.

Recorded monuments

• LI039-080 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In wet pasture 320m N of the townland boundary with Drumin South. Enclosures (LI039-081/82----) lie 400m to NE. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a raised circular-shaped area defined by a scarp. Shown as a partially levelled monument on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map where it is depicted as a horseshoe-shaped area (dims. c. 40m NE-SW; 24m NW-SE) defined by a scarp from N-NE and at SW, open to SE an by a field boundary from SW-N. Truncated at SW by field boundary running NE-SW and E-W, at NW by a curving field drain running NE-SW. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey recorded that; ‘There is an ancient fort in the central part of the townland’ (OSNB Abbeyfeale to Bruree 643). Partially levelled monument the E half of which has been levelled. Visible as a curved field wall from S-W-N on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019 where it is intersected at N by a field boundary running N-S and at S by a field boundary running roughly E-W. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 28 April 2021 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – 328/14 on 05/10/2002.

• LI039-157 Quarry
  Description

  In pasture immediately N of townland boundary with Maidstown. Dromin Church (LI039-077001-) and graveyard (LI039-077002-) located 150m to SE. Annotated 'Fair Green' and depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a ridge running NW-SE (L c. 75m) that is excavated to N with an oval-shaped depression at SE. Identified as a possible rectangular enclosure on aerial photograph (ASIAP (346) 19) taken 05/01/2003. Visible as a large depression resulting from quarrying activity on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020. See attached Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 11 May 2021

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dromin 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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Dromin North, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Dromin North · An Dromainn Thuaidh

Area

710,084 m² (71.01 ha, 175.47 acres)

Civil parish

Dromin, and its townlands

Barony

Coshma

Electoral division

Dromin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

577 people lived in 197 households in the Dromin electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballingayrour, Ballinlee South, Ballinstona North, Dromin South, Maidstown, Raymondstown, Wellfield

Placenames

Dromin North 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.