Dromore

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromore, from 939 m² to 144,276 m² (14.43 ha, 35.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Dromore 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.

• 12 Oct 2020Conditional

  Permission to construct a milking parlour incorporating cubicle housing for livestock, to also include; dairy, machine room, handline facility, storage room, unroofed attached enclosure (linking to existing slatted shed), along with upgrading of existing site entrance & other associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 20419

• 25 May 2020Conditional

  permission to install a new mechanical effluent treatment system and raised/mounded percolation area, to serve existing two storey dwelling house together with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20181

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 Dromore.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Dromore.

Architectural heritage

• Post box, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron wall-mounted post box, manufactured c.1905, set in red brick square-plan gate pier with pointed rendered cap. Rectangular moulded frame with single hooded aperture. Crown and monogram of King Edward VII to top, 'Post Office' to letter slot hood, and foundry name under side-hung door. Set on rural country road.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, with gabled windbreak to front elevation, single-bay single-storey lean-to extension to west end, and incorporating outbuilding to ground floor of east end. Now vacant. Pitched natural slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, cast-iron rainwater goods, and two red brick chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls to south, east and west elevations, exposed coursed rubble limestone walls to north elevation. Square-headed window openings with red brick block-and-start window surrounds, two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with rendered reveals and painted stone sills, one one-over-one pane sash window to ground floor of south elevation. Porch has pitched slate roof and square-headed replacement timber door. Square-headed timber battened door to easternmost bay of front elevation. Lean-to has corrugated-iron roof and square-headed two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Outbuildings to front at right angle, one with pitched corrugated-iron roof and roughcast rendered walls, other with pitched slate roof and limewashed rubble and brick walls. Square-headed openings with timber battened doors to both outbuildings. Enclosed yard bounded by outbuildings to east, with coursed rubble and roughcast rendered boundary wall to west, and house to north. Pedestrian gates to east and west of house. Wrought-iron pedestrian and vehicular gates to south with rendered red brick square-plan gate piers. Located on rural country road, post box c.1905 directly opposite house in square-plan brick pier, likely to have been farming entrance with ruin of single-storey farm building in field opposite.

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 Dromore, about 1 in 20 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_2377 (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 Dromore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Dromore · An Droim Mór

Area

1,319,555 m² (131.96 ha, 326.07 acres)

Civil parish

Tullycorbet, and its townlands

Barony

Cremorne

Electoral division

Caddagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

544 people lived in 181 households in the Caddagh electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caddagh, Coolkill East, Cordevlis South, Drumgavny, Lisnaveane, Losset

Placenames

Dromore 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.