Drominboy Upper

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drominboy Upper, from 96 m² to 142,061 m² (14.21 ha, 35.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Drominboy Upper 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.

• 1 Aug 2025Conditional

  the demolition of a domestic garage, construction of a dormer type house complete with a domestic garage, a new effluent treatment system and a new shared site entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 25264

• 2 Jul 2024N/a

  the construction of a shared vehicular entrance, dwelling house, domestic wastewater treatment system with polishing filter; together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2460660

• 3 Jul 2017Conditional

  decommissioning of existing entrance and construction of a new entrance comprising splay walls, piers, gates, vehicle dwell area and all associated incidental works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17622

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 Drominboy Upper.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drominboy Upper.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1760–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey direct entry thatched house, built c. 1770, with lean-to to front (north-west) elevation and adjoining two-bay single-storey outbuilding to north-east. Pitched thatched roof having rendered chimneystack. Single-pitched slate roof to lean-to. Roughcast rendered walls. Battered walls to south-west elevation. Square-headed openings with painted stone sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed openings to lean-to having timber casement windows. Square-headed opening to lean-to, south-west elevation with timber panelled door. Square-headed opening to rear (south-east) elevation having half-glazed timber battened door. Pitched slate roof to outbuilding with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and painted stone sills. Pair of square-profile rendered piers to north-west with render caps and rendered boundary walls terminating in second pair of piers.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1089 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Drominboy Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Drominboy Upper · An Dromainn Bhuí Uachtarach

Area

365,277 m² (36.53 ha, 90.26 acres)

Civil parish

Killeenagarriff, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Castleconnell, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castleconnell electoral division: 3,607 people in 1,298 households; 75% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drominboy, Drominboy Lower, Gardenhill, Knockbrack East, Knocksentry, Woodroad

Placenames

Drominboy 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.