Dromkeen North

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromkeen North, from 410 m² to 227,560 m² (22.76 ha, 56.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Dromkeen 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.

• 8 Feb 2021Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21125

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 Dromkeen North.

Recorded monuments

• LI024-003 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  In 1826 Dromkeen Castle was described as following; 'In this Parish was situated Drumkeen House, the ruins of which are still to be seen and gives strong indications of its former consequence, when it was the residence of the ancient family of the Bourkes of Drumkeen' (Fitzgerald and McGregor 1826, 284). Westropp (1906-7, 98) recorded the following details on Dromkeen; ‘1250 John Pincerna (Butler) granted Dronchyn to augment a prebend (B.B.L., p. 105). 1280 The sheriff ordered to hold a sworn enquiry about land of Dromken, held by Silvester Architedekne (Mem. R. Exch., No. 438). 1322 Suit of J. Harold and Paul de Hynterberg, about Drumkeyne, of which John, Paul's father, had disseised Harold (Plea R., 142), 1399-1400 The custody of estates of Ric. Harold, in Drumkyn, disturbed by Katherine, his widow (Mem. R., No. 26). It is alleged that the de Burghs, descendants of John Bourke of Shrule, son of Walter, circa 1410, and Sabia, his wife, daughter of Conor O'Brien, Prince of Thomond, settled there in first half of fifteenth century and held it to recent times. 1583 W. Bourke held Dromekyn C. (Des. R., 37). 1585 His son Ric. held it. 1619 C. and bawn granted to Holcroft. 1633 W. Bourke still owner (Inq. Chan. 93). 1655 C. shown (D.S.A., 14 ; Petty, 65). 1691 Right Rev. Ulysses Burgh, Bishop of Ardagh, died buried at Drumkeen. 1717 Church and monument repaired by Rev. Richard Burg. He calls it "the burial place of his family from time immemorial".' In grounds of demesne and forming main entrance to 18th century Dromkeen House. Substantial remains of a medieval wall (H c. 7-8m; T c. 0.8m) running N-S supported with buttresses to W, E and N. Wall pierced by a tall archway with cut stone voussoirs forming the elliptical head. Two long window openings above have either broken or modified arches. Large pile of loose stone collected around base of wall at N-end, E-side. Loose cut stone on grass verge to W. Dromkeen House described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage as a 'Detached double-pile five-bay two-storey over half-basement house, built c. 1730, with extension and abutting two-storey wing to rear (north-east) elevation' (www.buildingsofireland.ie; Reg. No. 21902401). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 04 January 2019

Architectural heritage

• Dromkeen House, country house, 1720–1740 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached double-pile five-bay two-storey over half-basement house, built c. 1730, with extension and abutting two-storey wing to rear (north-east) elevation. Pitched slate roof with roughcast rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods to rear elevation. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings having three-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor, six-over-six pane to ground floor and four-over-four pane to basement, all having tooled limestone sills. Round-headed opening with timber doorcase comprising double-leaf timber panelled door flanked by carved pilasters with cobweb fanlight above. Flight of cut limestone steps having cast-iron railings on roughcast rendered containing walls terminating in carved tapering limestone guardstones. Wrought-iron bootscrape to steps. Outbuildings to east of rear yard comprising multiple-bay two-storey range with recent extension to rear (east) elevation Hipped slate roof with yellow brick chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings having fixed window fittings and limestone sills. Square-headed openings having timber battened doors. Central segmental-arched opening having double-leaf timber battened doors. Four-bay single-storey thatched house to rear of yard. Pitched reed thatched roof. Whitewashed walls. Square-headed openings with replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed openings with replacement timber panelled doors. Remains of rubble limestone entrance arch to south-east of site having segmental-headed arch with cut stone voussoirs. Square-profile limestone piers with cut caps flanked with rubble limestone side walls and replacement timber gates.

• Presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1930–1950 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey presbytery, built c. 1940, with flat-roofed porch to front (south) elevation. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and terracotta ridge tiles. Render bracketed cornice to porch. Rendered walls, lined-and-ruled to ground floor with render stringcourse dividing stories. Square-headed openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash and replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed openings to porch with stepped recessed hood details above and replacement uPVC windows. Rubble stone boundary wall.

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 Dromkeen North, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1175 (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 Dromkeen North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Dromkeen North · Drom Caoin Thuaidh

Area

666,432 m² (66.64 ha, 164.68 acres)

Civil parish

Dromkeen, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Kilmurry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

911 people lived in 304 households in the Kilmurry electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybeg, Curraghnaboul, Dromkeen South, Gortnadromin, Moanroe, Mountsion, Mountsion

Placenames

Dromkeen 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.