Cumry
Townland in the civil parish of Aghnamullen, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Na Comraigh
- Area
- 78.9 ha
- 195 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 8,997 m² (0.9 ha, 2.22 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cumry, from 87 m² to 163,469 m² (16.35 ha, 40.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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
No zone of a development plan covers Cumry 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
2 Sept 2026N/a
permission to erecting a two-storey style dwelling and a detached domestic garage, installing an on-site wastewater treatment system and percolation area, creating a new site entrance together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2660361
6 Mar 2026Conditional
permission to construct 1 No. Poultry House, together with all ancillary structures (to include meal bin(s) and soiled water tank(s)), and all associated site works at Cumry, Ballybay, Co. Monaghan
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660073
4 Oct 2023Refused
Permission to construct 1 No. Poultry House, and to retain and complete 1 No. store/changing area/W.C. including on-site waste water treatment system and percolation area, together with all ancillary structures (to include meal bin(s) and soiled water tank(s) and all associated site works. Significant further information relates to an amended site boundary.
Extension of duration · Monaghan County Council, 239015
23 Mar 2022Conditional
permission to erect a bungalow insert a filter unit and percolation area and open new entrance on to public road
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 22133
15 Sept 2021Refused
permission to erect a bungalow insert a filter unit and percolation area and open new entrance onto public road
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21523
18 Oct 2018Conditional
Permission to construct 1 No. Poultry House, and to retain and complete 1 No. store/changing area/W.C. including on-site waste water treatment system and percolation area, together with all ancillary structures (to include meal bin(s) and soiled water tank(s) and all associated site works. Significant further information relates to an amended site boundary.
Retention · Monaghan County Council, 18481
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Dromore Lakes 000001
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cumry.
Architectural heritage
- Cumry Lodge, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey house with half-dormer attic, built c.1820, having gablet over entrance bay dormer window to front (north) elevation, with two-bay two-storey return to rear elevation, with full-width single-storey lean-to addition to south gable of this. Pitched tiled roofs, red brick chimneystacks, and paired timber corbels to eaves. Roughcast rendered walls with tooled stone quoins. Square-headed window openings with tooled stone sills, having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to west elevation, replacement uPVC windows elsewhere. Round-headed window opening to front dormer, having replacement uPVC window and tooled stone sill. Elliptical-headed door opening having timber panelled door with cobweb fanlight and with geometric glazing to sidelights, latter with stone sills. Yard to rear comprising multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding to south range, single-bay single-storey outbuilding to south-west corner, and two-storey multiple-bay outbuilding to east range, with pitched corrugated metal roofs, whitewashed rubble stone walls, square-headed, round-headed, and camber-headed openings with some timber battened fittings and some double-leaf timber battened doors. Set in own grounds, having recent gates to site entrance.
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2379 (ZIP).
- 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 Cumry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Cumry · Na Comraigh
- Area
- 789,106 m² (78.91 ha, 194.99 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghnamullen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Cremorne
- Electoral division
- Anny, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Anny electoral division: 391 people in 125 households; 93% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balladian, Bowelk, Corkeeran, Drumskelt, Edenaneane, Keenogbane
- Placenames
- Cumry 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.