Dromeenboy

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromeenboy, from 511 m² to 167,688 m² (16.77 ha, 41.44 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 Dromeenboy 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.

• 16 Feb 2026Conditional

  alterations to single storey extension granted under previous planning reference 22/985, to provide an alternate floor plan, new elevation and altering the roof from pitched slate to a flat aluclad zing style, with extended cantilevered canopy over the front door along with all necessary ancillary site development works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2637

• 6 Dec 2023Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, entrance, garage and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360906

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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165

Recorded monuments

• LI024-107 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Situated on reclaimed pasture, 10m S of the Mulkear River which forms townland boundary with Killuragh. Monument identified as a roughly circular-shaped ring-barrow by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 146: AP 4/3730). Monument is visible as a circular-shaped cropmark (diam. 10m) on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13. It is not visible on Google Earth orthophoto taken 28/06/2018. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 22 July 2020

• LI024-111 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture, on the floodplain of the Dead River 45m to N and its confluence with the Mulkear River 155m to NW. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Monument identified as a circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 144: AP 4/3730). Monument is not visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 22 July 2020

• LI024-114 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture, on the flood plain of the Dead River and the Mulkear River 310m and 350m to N, respectively. Monument identified as a circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 138: AP 4/3722). Monument is visible as a circular-shaped earthwork (approx. diam. 9m) on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 22 July 2020

• LI024-321 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  In reclaimed grassland. Outline of circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 7m) defined by a fosse visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13 and earlier OSi orthophotos. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 June 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Dromeenboy, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1217 (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 Dromeenboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Dromeenboy · Drom Iníne Baoith

Area

626,076 m² (62.61 ha, 154.71 acres)

Civil parish

Dromkeen, and its townlands

Barony

Coonagh

Electoral division

Grean, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,548 people lived in 533 households in the Grean electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyvoneen, Cunnagavale, Garrane More, Killuragh, Linfield, Nicker

Placenames

Dromeenboy 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.