Dromlohan

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromlohan, from 1,929 m² to 270,040 m² (27 ha, 66.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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 Dromlohan 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.

• 26 Mar 2026Conditional

  a change of house design and relocation of domestic garage to rear of dwelling granted planning under planning ref. no. 24/61275

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2678

• 5 Dec 2025Refused

  the construction of a dwelling house, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2561275

• 5 Dec 2025Refused

  the construction of a dwelling house, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2561273

• 22 Oct 2025Conditional

  an increase in the number of children to be accommodated at the existing Pre-School Sessional Service previously granted under Planning Reference Nos. 15/268 and 23/60764, and retention permission for an existing greenhouse structure, together with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2561069

• 14 Oct 2025Refused

  the change of use of the former filling station to a café and for the existing car wash. Planning permission for the construction of new sanitary facilities for the café. Change of use of part of the existing public house/restaurant and function room to provide a gymnasium, a barber shop, and a modified public house/restaurant. Construction of a ground floor extension to provide an access corridor to the rear of the proposed gym; construction of a ground floor extension to provide a new entrance and sanitary facilities for the restaurant and to provide access to the first floor existing residential area. Construction of a first floor extension to the rear to accommodate a fitness studio, changing rooms and ancillary gymnasium areas; a separate first floor extension to staff office facilities; and a new roof connecting with the existing pitched roof structure. Alterations and change of use of the existing go-kart track to an athletics/walking track. Change of use of the existing track viewing area/ changing room structure to sports injury treatment rooms. Alterations to the façade and change of use of the existing storage building to a hydro training area. Construction and installation of 2 no. paddle courts with enclosed glass panel walls. Change of use of the existing barn structure to a car valet and cleaning area. Site development works including: installation of 6 no. sauna and plunge pool pods and a wave pool in a new external recreation area; installation of a new wastewater treatment system; improvements to SUDS drainage infrastructure; alterations to existing vehicle entrances; provision of new parking areas and internal roads; modifications to site walls; installation of new footpaths and pedestrian areas; and all associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2561037

• 13 Feb 2025Conditional

  construction of a dwelling, garage, entrance, effluent treatment system and all associated site works. Outline Planning Ref. No. 21/1645

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2533

• 7 Feb 2025Conditional

  a dwelling, garage, entrance, effluent treatment system and all associated site works. Outline Permission Ref. No. 21/1649

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2527

• 18 Dec 2024Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling and detached garage, the installation of a waste-water treatment system, a new vehicle entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2461275

• 2 Aug 2024Conditional

  the existing awnings and timber shed in the front lawn used as an outdoor classroom/ playarea for the preschool, the existing covered pargola outside the classroom area to the front of the property and the existing domestic garage at the rear of the property together will all associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2460777

• 5 Jan 2024N/a

  the demolition of existing single storey function room / night club / restaurant / petrol station & canopy, toilet blocks / 1st. floor living accommodation and construction of new 2 storey 20 bed country lodge, including refurbishment of existing original public bar. Provision of new foul treatment unit & rainwater retention system and associated site development works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 246

• 19 Oct 2023Conditional

  permission to vary condition No. 2 of planning permission no. 19/1122 in relation to the number of children to be accommodated at existing Pre-School Sessional Service and the retention of hardstand area for parking

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360764

• 15 Mar 2023Conditional

  the construction of a granny flat and all associated site works, and also retention permission for extension to primary dwelling, wastewater treatment and percolation system, polytunnel and site works as constructed

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 23162

• 8 Aug 2022Conditional

  the construction of a Granny flat extension to the side of the existing dwelling and install a new effluent treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 22866

• 2 Jun 2022Conditional

  a granny flat to the side/front of dwelling

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22620

• 30 Nov 2021Conditional

  construction of a dwelling, garage, entrance, effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211649

• 29 Nov 2021Conditional

  construction of a dwelling, garage, entrance, effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211645

• 16 Jul 2021Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling house, new vehicular entrance, new waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211016

• 10 May 2021Conditional

  an independent living unit/granny flat attached to an existing dwelling

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 21623

• 7 Apr 2021Conditional

  construction of a slatted suckler house with a creep area and rear passageway with associated underground slurry tank, construction of a machinery shed and the construction of a concrete yard central to all buildings with clean and soiled water channels. Retention permission is also sought for an existing slatted house with underground tank and for a storage building to retain and complete

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21440

• 5 Feb 2021N/a

  construction of a 24 metre monopole mobile and broadband tower with headframe, carrying telecommunications equipment, together with associated equipment and cabinets, enclosed within a 2.4m palisade fence compound with access track

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21117

• 22 Dec 2020Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 201402

• 15 Nov 2019Conditional

  varying condition No.'s 3 & 5 of planning permission ref. no. 15/268 in relation to hours of operation and number of children to be accommodated at existing Pre-school sessional service

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 191122

• 31 Jan 2019N/a

  the proposed improvement works will be carried out within the existing 60kph speed limit zone over a length of 750m between L6135 Curraghchase Junction and the L6125 Junction. The improvement works proposed comprise a reduction of the N69 carriageway width to 6.5m over the 750m length of the scheme with a footway installed on the southern side (school side) and kerbing and a grass verge on the northern side of the carriageway. The proposed works also include for the installation of LED public lighting on the northern side of the carriageway, road lining and signage as well as surface water drainage along both sides of the N69 carriageway and pavement improvement works. Accommodation works will be undertaken as required including improvement works in and around the community hub of the national school and GAA club grounds. The implementation of the works proposed will result in a rearrangement of the existing road network in the vicinity of the scheme. Changes to the existing road network will include the reduction of road width to 6.5m over a 750m length and the installation of a kerbed footway abutting the westbound carriageway and kerbing and a verge abutting the eastbound carriageway over the scheme length

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 198000

• 29 Jan 2019Conditional

  the construction of a garage and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 1964

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Askeaton Fen Complex SAC 002279
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Curraghchase Woods 000174

Recorded monuments

• LI011-069 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, atop hill with panoramic views over surrounding countryside. Circular area (40m N-S; 38m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.05m; ext. H 2.65m) with external fosse. Bank well preserved all around but external height greatest at N. It lowers to a scarped edge (H 1.7m; Wth 7.7m) E->ESE. Bank damaged externally at ENE where interior recently linked by raised passage (Wth 4m) to adjacent pasture field. Causeway entrance at SW (Wth 5.5m). Fosse (D 1.95m, max. Wth 3.5m) narrows along N arc (Wth 2.10m). Interior, under pasture, slopes gently down to S; two ESB poles stand in SW quadrant. Outer edge of fosse abutted by converging field boundaries at N. Public road runs tangentially to SE arc. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI011-070 Burial ground
  Description

  In pasture, on E edge of break in E-facing hill slope. No visible surface trace of mass burial discovered here about 1965 of which no details are known (Wallace 1972, 60). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI011-146 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, atop natural rise. Monument depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1841 OS 6-inch map has been levelled but is still apparent as slight scarp (Wth 6m; H c. 0.7m) defining roughly circular area (c. 22m NW-SE; c. 25m NE-SW). Entire monument covered by grass; some rock outcropping occurs in interior. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Dromlohan National School, school, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former school, built c. 1830. Having recent single-storey extension to front (south) elevation and two-storey porch to first floor of east elevation, with external staircase. Remains of lean-to to west elevation. Pitched slate roof having rendered red brick chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Corrugated-iron roof to extension. Roughcast rendered walls, rubble stone visible in places. Rendered walls to extension. Square-headed openings to south elevation with bipartite six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Wire mesh over ground floor windows. Square-headed opening to north elevation, first floor of porch having timber fittings. Square-headed openings to south elevation of extension having timber framed windows with wire mesh. Square-headed opening to first floor, south elevation of porch with timber fittings. Rendered dog-leg staircase having half-pace landing and rendered wall to entrance. Square-headed opening to north elevation of extension with timber fittings and metal door. Rendered step to entrance. Square-headed opening to north elevation having metal door. Pair of rubble stone piers to west of building with double-leaf cast-iron gate.

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 Dromlohan, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Dromlohan · Drom Lócháin

Area

1,520,746 m² (152.07 ha, 375.78 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcornan, and its townlands

Barony

Kenry

Electoral division

Kilcornan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

839 people lived in 278 households in the Kilcornan electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyvogue, Boherboy, Cowpark, Cragreagh, Currahchase North, Graigues, Mornane

Placenames

Dromlohan 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.