Drominagh
Drominagh is a townland in the civil parish of Terryglass, barony of Ormond Lower, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is Drom Aidhneach.
- Area
- 59 ha
- 146 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 5,353 m² (0.54 ha, 1.32 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drominagh, from 5 m² to 165,723 m² (16.57 ha, 40.95 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Drominagh 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
23 Dec 2024N/a
a four-year temporary permission for the continued operation of a meteorological mast, which was twice previously granted temporary permission under Reg. Ref. 17600650 and Ref. 201410. The mast consists of a lattice tower standing approximately 10m high and mounted on a pre-cast triangular block measuring 2.5 metres by 2.5 metres by 2.5 metres in area and supported in place by 3 no. cable stays mounted into the pre-cast base. The mast supports an enclosure (measuring 0.315m x 0.415m) at the bottom of the tower, which holds the battery pack with instruments mounted at a number of heights on the tower. The mast is located on agricultural lands within the townland
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2461146
26 Nov 2020Conditional
a four year temporary permission for the continued operation of a meteorological mast, which was previously granted temporary permission under reg. ref. 17600650, consisting of a lattice tower standing approximately 10 m high and mounted on a pre-cast triangular block measuring 2.5 m by 2.5 m by 2.5 m in area and supported in place by 3 no. cable stays mounted into the pre-cast base. The mast supports an enclosure (measuring 0.315 m x 0.415 m) at the bottom of the tower which holds the battery pack with instruments mounted at a number of heights on the tower, located on agricultural lands
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 201410
17 Nov 2020N/a
a four year temporary permission for the continued operation of a meteorological mast, which was previously granted temporary permission under reg. ref. 17600650, consisting of a lattice tower standing approximately 10 m high and mounted on a pre-cast triangular block measuring 2.5 m by 2.5 m by 2.5 m in area and supported in place by 3 no. cable stays mounted inot the pre-case base. The mast supports an enclosure (measuring 0.315 m x 0.415 m) at the bottom of the tower which holds the battery pack with instruments mounted at a number of heights on the tower, located on agricultural lands
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 201350
8 Jun 2017Conditional
1 no. Meteorological Mast for date gathering. The mast consists of a lattice tower standing approximately 10m high and mounted on a pre-cast triangular block measuring 2.5 metre by 2.5 metres by 2.5 metres in area, and supported in place by 3 no. cable stays mounted into the pre-cast base. The mast supports and enclosure (measuring 0.315m x 0.415m) at the bottom of the tower which holds the battery pack with instruments mounted at a number of heights on the tower
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 17600650
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Derg, North-east Shore SAC 002241
- Special Protection Area: Lough Derg (Shannon) SPA 004058
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Derg 000011
Recorded monuments
- TN006-005 Enclosure
Description
Situated on flat pasture with good views in all directions. Not visible at ground level. The site was ploughed out by a local farmer in the late 1960s. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drominagh.
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 Drominagh, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drominagh.
- 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 Drominagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Drominagh · Drom Aidhneach
- Area
- 590,222 m² (59.02 ha, 145.85 acres)
- Civil parish
- Terryglass, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Electoral division
- Terryglass, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 575 people lived in 220 households in the Terryglass electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 19% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cornalack, Drominagh Demesne, Drominagh Wood, Newlawn, Shanakill Lower
- Placenames
- Drominagh 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.