Dromorehill

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromorehill, from 77 m² to 154,081 m² (15.41 ha, 38.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Dromorehill 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

  to demolish an existing substandard dwelling house and for the construction of a replacement dwelling house, garage, treatment unit and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660462

• 31 Aug 2023Conditional

  of: (1) of a domestic garage & (2) of the existing dwellinghouse on a revised location within the site

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361030

• 29 Dec 2022Conditional

  for the change of dwellinghouse & garage plans to those previously approved under pl. ref. no. 19/1928 and for all ancillary services and site works.Gross floor space of proposed works 208.00sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261336

• 12 Dec 2019Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, garage, treatment unit and all associated. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 244 sqm, Garage - 47 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191928

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: Lough Coy SAC 002117
• Special Area of Conservation: Carrowbaun, Newhall and Ballylee Turloughs SAC 002293

Recorded monuments

• GA114-069001 Church
  Description

  In pastureland overlooking Lough Coy to the E. This rectangular medieval church (9.85m E-W; 5.6m N-S; wall T 0.85m) is densely overgrown with ivy. The W gable (H c. 4m) and N side-wall (H 2.3m) are the best preserved walls and are constructed of large well-mortared blocks of limestone. Only the foundation courses (o.4m) of the E gable and S side-wall survive. A plinth is visible beneath all the walls. No architectural features were visible but they may be concealed by the ivy. A stone-lined well (GA114-069003-), possibly associated, lies c. 20m to the NE. There is a children's burial ground (GA114-069002-) immediately to the S and a ringfort (GA114-070----) lies c. 140m to the SW. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 10 February 2020

• GA114-069002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Immediately to the S of a church (GA114-069001-). A roughly rectangular area (10m E-W; 7m N-S) is defined along the W side by a field wall; elsewhere no visble trace of an enclosing element survives. Within the interior a number of small set stones indicate burials aligned E-W. According to local information, the last burial took place around 1950. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 June 2017

• GA114-069003 Well
  Description

  In pastureland c. 20m to the NE of the church (GA114-069001-). This natural spring well is delimited by a roughly rectangular drystone wall (L 2.2m). At its N end, where it is covered by a single lintel, it is 0.8m wide and it narrows to 0.45m at the S end where a series of three steps access the well. At the time of the site visit, a channel (L 20m) running E from the well lead to a dried-up watering hole. Water was being pumped from the well to a trough c. 30m to the ENE. The well may be associated with the church to the SW but no votive offerings were noted at it. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 14 June 2017

• GA114-070 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In grassland. Circular rath (diam. 48.9m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The outer bank survives only at N. There is a souterrain (GA114-070001-) in the NW quadrant of the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 December 2017

• GA114-070001 Souterrain
  Description

  In the NW quadrant of a rath (GA114-070----). This complex well-preserved drystone-built souterrain (L >17.4m) consists of three/four passages connected by two creeps. The 1st passage (L 3m; Wth 1.4m) runs SSE-NNW; access to it is gained via a modern breach at the SSE end. A creep (L 0.7m; Wth 0.6m), now blocked, at the N end of the W side-wall leads to the 2nd passage (L 4.5m; Wth 1.15m; H 1.8m), which also runs SSE-NNW. Access to it is now gained through a breach at the N end of the creep. A slightly dog-legged creep (L 1m; Wth 0.6m) at the N end of the E side-wall of this passage leads to the 3rd passage (L 5.2m; Wth 1.35m), which runs ENE-WSW. A large natural boulder is incorporated into the NE end of the N side-wall of this passage. Beyond the boulder another possible passage (L 3m; Wth 0.8m) runs northwards into/under the bank of the rath. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 December 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 Dromorehill, 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 high, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_837 (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.

No address of the register names Dromorehill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Dromorehill · An Droim Mór

Area

678,858 m² (67.89 ha, 167.75 acres)

Civil parish

Kilthomas, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Kiltartan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

859 people lived in 290 households in the Kiltartan electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballylee, Ballynabucky, Carrowbaun East, Loughaunawadda, Shanvally, Skehanagh

Placenames

Dromorehill 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.