Dromturk

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromturk, from 2,698 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres) to 191,262 m² (19.13 ha, 47.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 6 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 Dromturk 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.

• 31 Jul 2026Conditional

  a new toilet block and install a waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 26181

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 Dromturk.

Recorded monuments

• LI028-041 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In grounds of Newcastle West golf course, on slight W-facing slope and immediately below brow of hill. Circular area (30m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank, densely overgrown with bushes and trees. Bank is best preserved (int. H 1m; ext. H 0.45m) N->S, but lowers S->N (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.75m). Interior, covered with dense overgrowth, slopes gently down to W. A strip of uncut grass (Wth c. 12m) separates site from mown area of golf course. Field boundaries, indicated on 1923 OS 6-inch map abutting site at NW and E, have been removed. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI028-160 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on S-facing slope. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1841 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. However, it is now evident as circular area (23m N-S) defined by scarped edge (H 0.45m; Wth 4.9m) S->WSW and NNW->NNE. Otherwise site level and under grass. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Dromturk, 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 Dromturk.

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

Name

Dromturk · Drom Toirc

Area

291,267 m² (29.13 ha, 71.97 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbradran, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Lower

Electoral division

Kilscannell, the unit of the census

Census 2022

612 people lived in 185 households in the Kilscannell electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinvulla, Ballyegny More, Rathgoonan, Rathreagh Beg

Placenames

Dromturk 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.