# Drumacon, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Muckno, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Droim Dhá Chon. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,071,739 m² (207.17 ha, 511.94 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 28,413 m² (2.84 ha, 7.02 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 12 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Muckno, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/muckno.md - Barony: Cremorne - Electoral division: Church Hill, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 748 people lived in 262 households in the Church Hill electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/39766 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170736 - Centre: latitude 54.103159, longitude -6.657277 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumacon, from 842 m² to 148,310 m² (14.83 ha, 36.65 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 317791: 148,310 m² (14.83 ha, 36.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/317791.md - Parcel 5083205: 147,892 m² (14.79 ha, 36.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5083205.md - Parcel 354066: 123,780 m² (12.38 ha, 30.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/354066.md - Parcel 317793: 101,033 m² (10.1 ha, 24.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/317793.md - Parcel 3554774: 94,939 m² (9.49 ha, 23.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3554774.md - Parcel 5157187: 72,717 m² (7.27 ha, 17.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5157187.md - Parcel 319227: 67,562 m² (6.76 ha, 16.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319227.md - Parcel 317823: 64,762 m² (6.48 ha, 16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/317823.md - Parcel 318989: 60,411 m² (6.04 ha, 14.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/318989.md - Parcel 317827: 56,020 m² (5.6 ha, 13.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/317827.md - Parcel 317652: 50,138 m² (5.01 ha, 12.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/317652.md - Parcel 354068: 48,366 m² (4.84 ha, 11.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/354068.md - Parcel 317651: 47,929 m² (4.79 ha, 11.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/317651.md - Parcel 319229: 47,724 m² (4.77 ha, 11.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319229.md - Parcel 353897: 47,429 m² (4.74 ha, 11.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/353897.md - Parcel 353889: 46,945 m² (4.69 ha, 11.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/353889.md - Parcel 353886: 45,332 m² (4.53 ha, 11.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/353886.md - Parcel 354207: 43,663 m² (4.37 ha, 10.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/354207.md - Parcel 354070: 42,895 m² (4.29 ha, 10.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/354070.md - Parcel 5083215: 41,413 m² (4.14 ha, 10.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5083215.md - Parcel 351598: 40,188 m² (4.02 ha, 9.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/351598.md - Parcel 317796: 37,058 m² (3.71 ha, 9.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/317796.md - Parcel 319228: 35,515 m² (3.55 ha, 8.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319228.md - Parcel 354208: 33,717 m² (3.37 ha, 8.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/354208.md - Parcel 317650: 33,362 m² (3.34 ha, 8.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/317650.md - Parcel 317795: 32,981 m² (3.3 ha, 8.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/317795.md - Parcel 317503: 31,364 m² (3.14 ha, 7.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/317503.md - Parcel 5182445: 28,924 m² (2.89 ha, 7.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5182445.md - Parcel 354209: 28,413 m² (2.84 ha, 7.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/354209.md - Parcel 354206: 25,338 m² (2.53 ha, 6.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/354206.md - Parcel 317794: 23,508 m² (2.35 ha, 5.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/317794.md - Parcel 317648: 14,482 m² (1.45 ha, 3.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/317648.md - Parcel 354359: 14,206 m² (1.42 ha, 3.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/354359.md - Parcel 317792: 12,995 m² (1.3 ha, 3.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/317792.md - Parcel 317810: 10,610 m² (1.06 ha, 2.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/317810.md - Parcel 321651: 10,117 m² (1.01 ha, 2.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/321651.md - Parcel 354069: 9,953 m² (1 ha, 2.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/354069.md - Parcel 320573: 8,328 m² (0.83 ha, 2.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/320573.md - Parcel 5945770: 7,457 m² (0.75 ha, 1.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5945770.md - Parcel 354067: 6,852 m² (0.69 ha, 1.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/354067.md - Parcel 4609126: 5,615 m² (0.56 ha, 1.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4609126.md - Parcel 341619: 4,512 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/341619.md - Parcel 356294: 4,298 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/356294.md - Parcel 338696: 4,112 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/338696.md - Parcel 3554775: 3,706 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3554775.md - Parcel 4114550: 3,004 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4114550.md - Parcel 3388835: 2,969 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3388835.md - Parcel 3554776: 2,966 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3554776.md - Parcel 321470: 2,942 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/321470.md - Parcel 335727: 2,727 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/335727.md - Parcel 353807: 2,724 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/353807.md - Parcel 349734: 2,630 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/349734.md - Parcel 320657: 2,592 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/320657.md - Parcel 4403782: 2,400 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4403782.md - Parcel 322885: 2,198 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/322885.md - Parcel 4403942: 1,350 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4403942.md - Parcel 344432: 842 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/344432.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 12 applications, newest first. - 31 Oct 2025, Monaghan County Council 2560437: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560437/0 - 17 Oct 2025, Monaghan County Council 2560421: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560421/0 - 13 Apr 2022, Monaghan County Council 22169: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/22169/0 - 28 Sept 2021, Monaghan County Council 21546: Refused. Retention. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21546/0 - 6 Sept 2021, Monaghan County Council 21507: Refused. Permission, 1 home. 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). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21507/0 - 26 May 2021, Monaghan County Council 21291: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Erect a bungalow, insert a filter unit and percolation area and exit onto public road by way of existing laneway.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21291/0 - 7 May 2021, Monaghan County Council 21254: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21254/0 - 22 Jun 2020, Monaghan County Council 20229: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/20229/0 - 22 Jun 2020, Monaghan County Council 20230: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/20230/0 - 18 May 2020, Monaghan County Council 20167: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/20167/0 - 13 Nov 2018, Monaghan County Council 189019: Conditional. Extension of duration. consist of a two storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, proprietary treatment system and soil polishing filter, new entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/189019/0 - 6 Mar 2017, Monaghan County Council 17103: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/17103/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drumacon. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumacon. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumacon. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Drumacon, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumacon.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumacon.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumacon.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Drumacon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Dromore: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/dromore-170726.md - Longfield: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/longfield-171406.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumacon - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/drumacon