Drumacon

57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumacon, from 842 m² to 148,310 m² (14.83 ha, 36.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Drumacon 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.

• 31 Oct 2025Conditional

  permission to construct a new two storey style dwelling house, detached storey and a half domestic garage, establish new entrance onto public road, new sewerage wastewater treatment system and percolation area, together with all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560437

• 17 Oct 2025N/a

  permission to construct a new two storey style dwelling house, establish new entrance onto public road, new sewerage wastewater treatment system and percolation area, together with all associated site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560421

• 13 Apr 2022Conditional

  permission for development consisting of an increase of ridge height too the first floor extension as approved under planning reference 21/254 and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 22169

• 28 Sept 2021Refused

  retention of an entrance/exit from lands with L-37032 public road and associated works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted includes revised boundary to site and revised site layout.

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 21546

• 6 Sept 2021Refused

  permission 1. To construct a two storey style dwelling house, new sewerage wastewater treatment system and form new entrance onto public road and 2. The importation of soil, stone, concrete and inert waste along with construction and demolition material to raise existing ground levels and all ancillary site development works (a waste facility permit application will be submitted to Monaghan County Council separately)

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21507

• 26 May 2021Conditional

  Erect a bungalow, insert a filter unit and percolation area and exit onto public road by way of existing laneway.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21291

• 7 May 2021Conditional

  permission for development consisting of the demolition of the existing conservatory, first floor extension and single storey side extension to existing dwelling along with associated ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21254

• 22 Jun 2020Conditional

  permission for development consisting of to construct a two storey style dwelling house, new sewerage wastewater treatment system and form new entrance onto public road and all associated site development works. Significant further information related to relocation of sand polishing area.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20229

• 22 Jun 2020Conditional

  Permission to construct a two storey style dwelling house, new sewerage wastewater treatment system and new entrance onto public road and all associated site developments works. Significant further information / revised plans relates to relocation of sand polishing area and change of house design & associated elevational changes.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20230

• 18 May 2020Conditional

  Permission to construct a two storey dwelling house and detached garage, new site entrance onto public road, wastewater treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20167

• 13 Nov 2018Conditional

  consist of a two storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, proprietary treatment system and soil polishing filter, new entrance and all associated site works

  Extension of duration · Monaghan County Council, 189019

• 6 Mar 2017Conditional

  permission for a change of use from proposed single storey private dwelling house to self-catering tourist accommodation as previously granted under planning permission reference no. 16/34

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17103

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 Drumacon.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumacon.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumacon.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), 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 Drumacon.

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 Drumacon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Drumacon · Droim Dhá Chon

Area

2,071,739 m² (207.17 ha, 511.94 acres)

Civil parish

Muckno, and its townlands

Barony

Cremorne

Electoral division

Church Hill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Church Hill electoral division: 748 people in 262 households; 73% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Dromore, Longfield

Placenames

Drumacon 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.