Drum

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drum, from 12 m² to 131,874 m² (13.19 ha, 32.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Drum 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.

• 14 Jan 2025Conditional

  permission for the extension and renovation of the existing house, shop and the adjoining Gospel Hall comprising of: Provision of a new conference room and WC facilities on the ground floor with 1 no 3 bedroom apartment over, an additional detached Pastoral Hub to the rear, improved access and toilet facilities to the Gospel Hall and permanent retention of a storage shed and a car parking area, Significant Further Information relates to submitted, revised drawings

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560015

• 3 Jan 2025N/a

  permission for the extension and renovation of existing house, shop and the adjoining Gospel Hall comprising of: Provision of a new conference room and WC facilities on the ground floor with 1 no 3 bedroom apartment over, an additional detached Pastoral Hub to the rear, improved access and toilet facilities to the Gospel Hall and permanent retention of a storage shed and a car parking area

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560002

• 29 Jan 2024Conditional

  permission for development consisting of the extension and renovation of existing terrace of 5 houses comprising of: 04 No. 02 storey, 03-bedroom houses and 01 No. 03 storey 04-bedroom house, upgrade existing foul and surface water connections to public sewers, together with all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2460027

• 28 Apr 2021Conditional

  permission for development at this site at the building known as Anderson's Pub, Drum, Co. Monaghan. The building is as a protected structure of local importance in the Monaghan County Development Plan 2019-2025 under the title 'Anderson's Pub' (ref. no.: Local 80). The development will consist of works including (i) alterations to the internal layouts of the previously approved planning application ref. 19/575 (ii) conversion of existing stores at ground floor level to guest accommodation with annex and the addition of new external steps to provide access, (iii) conversion of an alterations to 2 no. stables at lower ground floor to create guest accommodation, (iv) repair and thermal upgrade of the external fabric of the property including repair works to the existing windows, (v) refurbishment of glazing and shop front to front façade and (vi) all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21223

• 28 Jul 2020Conditional

  Permission to construct a new two storey dwelling house with attached domestic garage at basement level, form new vehicular site entrance, connect to foul sewer mains and watermain services, together with all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20299

• 20 Dec 2019Conditional

  permission for development at this site at the building known as Anderson's Pub, Drum, Co. Monaghan. The building is as a protected structure of local importance in the Monaghan County Development plan 2013-2019 under the title 'Anderson's Pub' (ref. no.: Local 80). The development will consist of: i) restoration of existing pitched roof structure and chimneys including repair works to lead work and rain water goods to replicate historic details to the entire property, ii) the addition of rooflights to the rear facing roofscape, iii) repair and thermal upgrade of the external fabric of the residential portion of the property including repair works to the existing windows, iv) alterations to the internal layout of the residential portion of the property, v) conversion of existing stores at lower ground floor level to create residential accommodation with new fenestration to existing opes, vi) connection to public services and vii) site development works to the rear of the building and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19575

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drum.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drum.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay one-and-a-half-storey house, built c.1830, having gabled half-dormer windows with pitched slate roofs, and later inserted shopfronts to front (north) elevation. Now in use as house, post office and shop. Pitched slate roof, with rendered chimneystacks having simple, clay chimneypots. Decorative timber bargeboards, terracotta ridge tiles and finials to dormer windows, clay ridge tiles to main roof apex. Roughcast rendered walls, render quoins and plinth. Late twentieth-century letter box in front elevation. Square-headed window openings, having shouldered render surrounds and painted sills, and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to front elevation. Square-headed window opening with three-over-three pane timber sliding sash window to east gable. Square-headed door opening to house, having recent glazed timber door. Recent shopfronts, having plate glass windows, glazed timber door, and nameplates to front. Later two-bay single-storey outbuilding attached to west gable. Street fronted, with car park to rear surrounded by recent rendered boundary wall terminating in square-plan piers.

• John Anderson, coaching inn, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached eight-bay former coaching inn, single-storey-with-attic to front and two-storey to rear, built c.1860. Shopfront inserted to front (north) elevation. Formerly also in use as shop and public house. Now disused. Pitched slate roof, with rendered chimneystacks and square-plan vent stack, and rendered barges with render roll crest to apex. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls to front, rear and west elevations, lined-and-ruled rendered walls east gable. Some coursed limestone and sandstone rubble visible, visible rubble quoins to west end rear elevation. Smooth rendered plinth, and smooth rendered rectangular panel to west corner. Square-headed window openings with cut limestone sills, having mixed timber sliding sash windows with one-over-two panes, one-over-one panes, and six-over-six panes. Timber battened fittings to window openings to west end of front elevation. Bull's eye windows to west end of front elevation and to attic level of west gable, that to gable with red brick surround, that to front elevation having moulded render surround and remains of spoked timber window. Shopfront consisting of hand-painted nameplate with moulded cornice over recessed square-headed door opening, having half-glazed timber panelled double-leaf door, approached by flight of rendered steps with recent metal railing. Door flanked by timber display windows with painted sills. Square-headed door opening to house having timber battened door, paned over-light, and concrete steps. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding attached to west end of rear elevation, having pitched corrugated-iron roof and rubble stone walls, red brick and slate to eaves level, with some roughcast render. Street fronted, with yard to the rear.

• House, 1900–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pair of two-storey houses, built c.1920, comprising three-bay house facing street and slightly higher second house at right angles presented two-bay gable-fronted facade to street. Catslide addition recessed to rear of three-bay house. Pitched corrugated-iron roofs with rendered chimneystack to first and red brick to second, to mid-ridge. Rendered walls, with rendered fascia and carved bargeboards to three-bay house, and truss-effect detail to gable of two-bay house. Square-headed openings, with three-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to ground floor of three-bay house and two and three-light timber casement windows elsewhere to both houses, and timber panelled doors with over-lights to front elevation of each house.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drum.

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.

No address of the register names Drum with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Drum · An Droim

Area

592,580 m² (59.26 ha, 146.43 acres)

Civil parish

Currin, and its townlands

Barony

Dartree

Electoral division

Drum, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drum electoral division: 190 people in 69 households; 94% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghareagh East, Cortober, Drumborisk, Drumgramph, Dunnaluck, Lisbrannan, Tonagimsy

Placenames

Drum 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.