Drumcomoge
Drumcomoge is a townland in the civil parish of Emly, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is Drom Camóige.
- Area
- 105.1 ha
- 260 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 19,866 m² (1.99 ha, 4.91 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumcomoge, from 932 m² to 232,273 m² (23.23 ha, 57.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Drumcomoge 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 Apr 2026Conditional
the change of house type and garage type under previously permitting governing permission Planning Reference Number 24/189 together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2660342
23 Aug 2024Conditional
a dwelling house, garage, entrance, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all other associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 24189
29 Jul 2024N/a
the construction of a dwelling house, garage, entrance, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 24171
2 Aug 2022Conditional
a) the construction of a new single storey extension to rear of 44.8 sqm., b) Elevational alterations which will include the infilling of an existing external door opening on the North East Elevation which will be replaced for a window, c) Internal alterations, d) All associated site & landscaping works including relocation of waste water treatment system. Permission for retention for a detached single storey garden room of 20.6 sqm with attic storage of 20.6 sqm.
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 22497
3 Feb 2017Conditional
upgrade the existing septic tank and percolation area and all ancillary works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 17600088
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 Drumcomoge.
Recorded monuments
- TS065-022 Ringfort - rath
Description
On top of the level summit of broad NE-SW orientated ridge in gently undulating pasture with a group of ring-barrows (TS065-024001- to TS065-024007-) visible on lower ground to the SE. Roughly ovoid slightly raised area (dims. 19m NE-SW; 16m NW-SE) enclosed by an earthen scarped edge (Wth 4m; ext. H 1.6m). The interior is level and clear of overgrowth except for thorn bushes along the edges. Known locally as a 'moat'. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- TS065-055 Moated site
Description
In gently undulating pasture. Not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch map but visible in an aerial photograph (Bruff No 5/2096) as a rectangular area (dims. c. 30m NE-SW; c. 25m NW-SE). No visible surface trace at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumcomoge.
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 Drumcomoge, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumcomoge.
- 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 Drumcomoge with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Drumcomoge · Drom Camóige
- Area
- 1,051,230 m² (105.12 ha, 259.76 acres)
- Civil parish
- Emly, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Electoral division
- Emly, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 682 people lived in 258 households in the Emly electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballincarroona (Co. Limerick), Ballinvreena, Ballyholahan East, Ballyholahan West, Ballynaveen, Bartoose, Grange (Co. Limerick)
- Placenames
- Drumcomoge 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.