Drominacreen
Drominacreen is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmeedy, barony of Connello Upper, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Dromainn an Chrainn.
Parcel 3991729
- Area
- 55,764 m² (5.58 ha, 13.78 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Drominacreen
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 10 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 172.4 ha
- 426 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 40,876 m² (4.09 ha, 10.1 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drominacreen, from 4,902 m² (0.49 ha, 1.21 acres) to 306,408 m² (30.64 ha, 75.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Drominacreen 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
21 Aug 2017Conditional
: (a) Partial demolition of existing silage slab for use as a dungstead. (b) Construction of 1 no. agricultural building to include milking parlour, livestock handling facilities, dairy & ancillary rooms along with unroofed waiting yard with slatted soiled water/parlour washings tank. (c) Construction of 1 no. agricultural building to include straw bedded & cubicle livestock housing with slatted slurry tank. (d) Construction of 2 no. walled silage pits with apron. (e) erection of meal bin & 1 no. water storage tank, along with associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 17782
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drominacreen.
Recorded monuments
- LI045-007 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on slight S-facing slope. Circular area (29m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.4m) with an external fosse (D 0.3m; Wth 5m). Entrance via causeway (Wth 9m) across fosse at SSE. Entire site under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI045-008 Ringfort - rath
Description
In gently undulating pasture. Circular area (18m N-S; 20m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.95m) with external fosse (Wth 2.6m) SW->NW. Enclosing element has been levelled NW->SW but is evident as arc of poor-quality grass. Field boundary runs along outer edge of fosse SW->NW. Interior slopes down to E, and is under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drominacreen.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Drominacreen, about 1 in 10 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drominacreen.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Drominacreen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Drominacreen · Dromainn an Chrainn
- Area
- 1,723,735 m² (172.37 ha, 425.94 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmeedy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Connello Upper
- Electoral division
- Kilmeedy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 368 people lived in 133 households in the Kilmeedy electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bohard, Cloonpasteen, Garbally, Gortnagluggin, Kilmeedy, Pallas
- Placenames
- Drominacreen 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.