Dromore
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmacshalgan, barony of Tireragh, Co. Sligo; in Irish An Droim Mór
- Area
- 88.8 ha
- 219 acres
- Land parcels
- 57
- registered freehold, median 1,421 m²
- Zoning
- P5
- RV – rural village uses
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromore, from 207 m² to 64,012 m² (6.4 ha, 15.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RV – rural village uses (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 45 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S3CF – community facilities (Community facilities)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1OS – open space (Open space, park)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - N6TU – transport and utilities-related infrastructure (Other networks and basic infrastructure/utilities uses)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
14 Aug 2025Conditional
planning permission for (1) alterations to the existing dwelling house including part demolition of the existing dwelling house (2) extensions to the front, side and rear of the existing dwelling house (3) new garage (4) and all associated site works all at 97 Fairview Terrace, Dromore West, County Sligo. F26 PC92.
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560345
22 Feb 2024Conditional
To construct / erect the following to a proposed Astro Turf Pitch and Walking Track which are in themselves exempt from planning (Exempted development Ref. ED487). The proposed works are; Construct an access road, car park and pedestrian access including associated lighting. The lighting will also include the walking track. Erect fencing, ball stop netting and floodlighting to the perimeter of the proposed pitch. The lighting to the pitch will be mounted on 4 no. 15m high columns. Permission to include all associated site works
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2460049
25 Aug 2023Conditional
retention of a prefabricated modular unit to the rear of the dwelling, to be used as a storage area and construction of a timber screen surround as detailed
Retention · Sligo County Council, 2360221
12 Oct 2021Conditional
development consisting of the construction of 6 no. semi-detached dwelling houses with connection to main sewer and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 21413
24 Feb 2021Conditional
development consisting of the construction of a ground floor extension to the northside and rear and carry out all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2154
12 Nov 2018Conditional
for development consisting of the construction of a total of 8 no. two storey dwelling houses to consist of 4 no. detached and 4 no. semi-detached, connect to existing services and to carry out all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 18444
2 May 2018N/a
PP - for development consisting of the construction of 4 no. two storey dwelling houses, connection to existing services and to carry out all ancillary site works.
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 18157
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 Dromore.
Recorded monuments
- SL012-030 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
In pasture, on the W edge of Dromore West village. Represented as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on the OS 1st ed. 6-inch map (surveyed 1837), it is shown as bisected centrally on a E-W axis by a trackway on the OS 25-inch plan (surveyed 1909-12). This enclosure has been levelled. Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 05 November 2013
Architectural heritage
- Mill (water), 1860–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Detached multiple-bay three-storey stone former mill building, built c. 1870, now unused. L-plan, gabled north-facing front elevation, hipped-roof east wing, lean-to shed to west. Pitched artificial slate roof, no rainwater goods. Uncoursed rubble limestone walling, stone eaves corbel course. Square-headed window openings, rough stone lintels and sills, painted six-pane timber fixed-light to ground floor of gabled front, painted two-over-two timber fixed-light windows to first and second floors, diamond-paned cast-iron fixed light to second floor of east wing. Square-headed door openings forming loophole on gabled front, limestone voussoirs, stone thresholds, painted vertically-sheeted timber doors, half-door to ground floor main elevation. Located on west bank of Dunneill River, yard to foreground, rubble stone boundary wall to road, wrought-iron flat-bar entrance gates on concrete and stone piers.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dromore.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Dromore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Dromore · An Droim Mór
- Area
- 888,133 m² (88.81 ha, 219.46 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmacshalgan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tireragh
- Electoral division
- Dromore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dromore electoral division: 527 people in 205 households; 77% of households own their home; 46% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Dunneill, Farranmacfarrell, Knockaculleen, Lecarrow
- 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.