placenamesDrom
An Drom
Brookley’s formal entrance and a cottage opposite Saint Mary’s preserve different scales of domestic building in the wider division.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Drom · Irish · main form · validated name
- Drom · English · main form
Place & story
Brookley’s worked stone doorway
At Brookley, the architectural inventory records a substantial house built around 1730, with five principal bays above a basement and lower wings at either side. Its elaborate limestone entrance combines alternating projecting blocks with a decorated pediment. The 2004 survey found the house derelict, along with a ruined gate lodge; these are recorded remains of an estate ensemble, rather than an intact country house. [2] [4]
A cottage across from the church
The smaller house opposite Saint Mary’s in Drom represents another building tradition. The same survey dates it to about 1800 and records a hipped roof thatched with reeds, with the thatch continuing over an added porch. A half-door and adjacent limestone outbuildings accompany its single-storey form. Although renovated, it retained much of its earlier shape when surveyed. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Drom. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Brookley House, 22403404, survey 2004 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Thatched house opposite Saint Mary’s, Drom, 22403502, survey 2004 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Drom electoral division: constituent townlands · Townlands.ie / OpenStreetMap contributors
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.