Dromore

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromore, from 196 m² to 150,566 m² (15.06 ha, 37.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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.

• 9 Aug 2021Conditional

  development consisting of (1) the conversion and extension of existing two storey granary to residential accomodation linking same to existing dwelling house (2) to carry out elevational changes and apply a render finish to part of existing granary (3) to retain extension to the side of the existing dwelling house as constructed (which is at variance with previous permission granted under planning reference number PL08/69) (4) to retain 3 no. rooflights on rear elevation of existing dwellling house (5) to retain a domestic wooden storage shed for a purpose incidental to the enjoyment of the dwelling house

  Retention, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 21316

• 6 Aug 2020Conditional

  development consisting of the construction of a two storey extension to the side elevation of existing two storey dwelling and all associated siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 20260

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

• SL035-085 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on the N end of a ridge and surrounded on all sides by field boundaries. A slightly raised roughly circular area (int. diam. 23m x 21.2m) enclosed by an earthen bank and an external fosse. The bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.85m; ext. H 1.6m) has numerous gaps and the fosse (Wth 3.7m; D 0.6m) has silted up. A possible entrance (Wth 1.4m) is in the N arc. The interior is sloping and uneven. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL035-086 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a N-facing slope. A roughly circular area (int. diam. 20.9m x 18m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 3.3m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.25m) and an external fosse (Wth 2.8m; D 0.7m). The entrance (Wth 2m), with a possible causeway across the fosse, is at SW. The interior is sloping. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL035-087 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture, on the W-facing slope of a ridge. A roughly circular area (int. diam. 20.1m x 17.3m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2.7m; int. H 0.65m; ext. H 1.3m) and external fosse (Wth 3.5m; D 0.2m). The entrance (Wth 1.5m) is in the S arc. The interior is sloping. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL035-094001 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough undulating pasture, on a S-facing slope. An oval area (c. 30m x c. 25m) enclosed by a ruinous earth and stone bank (Wth 4.8m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.55m). The entrance (Wth 2m) is at S. The interior is crossed by a lane on a N-S axis off-centre to W and by a stone field boundary off-centre to E. The SE arc of this enclosure, which is on the E side of the field boundary, is within the N half of a second enclosure (SL035-094002-). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL035-094002 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough undulating pasture, on a S-facing slope. An arc of poorly preserved earthen bank (Wth 1.25m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.25m) NNE-SW abuts a stone field boundary on the NW side to enclose a D-shaped area (dims. 16.5m NW-SE; straight side L 36.3m NE-SW). The entrance (Wth 4.2m) is at S. The SE arc of another enclosure (SL035-094001-) is incorporated into the N half of the interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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

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, moderately low, low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dromore.

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. Sligo.

Name

Dromore · An Droim Mór

Area

736,733 m² (73.67 ha, 182.05 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmactranny, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Kilmactranny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

360 people lived in 133 households in the Kilmactranny electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloghmine, Drumbeg South, Drumbeg West, Highwood, Magheralackagh, Moytirra East, Treanmore

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.