# Drumar, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballybay, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Droim Áir. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 714,924 m² (71.49 ha, 176.66 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 21,064 m² (2.11 ha, 5.21 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballybay, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/ballybay.md - Barony: Cremorne - Electoral division: Ballybay Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,593 people lived in 581 households in the Ballybay Rural electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 8% 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/39642 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170754 - Centre: latitude 54.144856, longitude -6.903678 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumar, from 1,005 m² to 104,472 m² (10.45 ha, 25.82 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 316737: 104,472 m² (10.45 ha, 25.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/316737.md - Parcel 331567: 93,758 m² (9.38 ha, 23.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/331567.md - Parcel 4106042: 89,231 m² (8.92 ha, 22.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4106042.md - Parcel 315808: 80,342 m² (8.03 ha, 19.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/315808.md - Parcel 343804: 59,270 m² (5.93 ha, 14.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/343804.md - Parcel 331565: 57,080 m² (5.71 ha, 14.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/331565.md - Parcel 343807: 49,305 m² (4.93 ha, 12.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/343807.md - Parcel 331564: 42,391 m² (4.24 ha, 10.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/331564.md - Parcel 331568: 25,827 m² (2.58 ha, 6.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/331568.md - Parcel 343309: 23,018 m² (2.3 ha, 5.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/343309.md - Parcel 315809: 21,064 m² (2.11 ha, 5.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/315809.md - Parcel 3996242: 15,563 m² (1.56 ha, 3.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3996242.md - Parcel 1531072: 15,485 m² (1.55 ha, 3.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1531072.md - Parcel 343808: 14,856 m² (1.49 ha, 3.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/343808.md - Parcel 330019: 6,749 m² (0.67 ha, 1.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/330019.md - Parcel 4291129: 6,477 m² (0.65 ha, 1.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4291129.md - Parcel 331216: 5,099 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/331216.md - Parcel 5366508: 1,845 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5366508.md - Parcel 331566: 1,364 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/331566.md - Parcel 1531410: 1,337 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1531410.md - Parcel 343805: 1,005 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/343805.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Drumar 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) 1 application, newest first. - 18 Dec 2020, Monaghan County Council 20567: Conditional. Permission. permission to construct 1 no. poultry house together with all ancillary structures (to include meal storage bin(s) and soiled water tank(s)) and site works associated with the above development. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/20567/0 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 Drumar. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MO019-013: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO019-013----. Located just S of the summit of a small hillock. This is an oval grass-covered area (dims 42.4m N-S; 28.6m E-W) that slopes down to the S. It is defined by an overgrown earthen bank N-E which is largely reduced to a scarp (at E: Wth of base 3.7m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.6m). There is no visible fosse and there are entrances at NNW (Wth of base 1.4m) and SSW (Wth of base 1.4m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 22 June 2018 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumar. ## 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 Drumar, about 1 in 20 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2426, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2426.zip (ZIP). - 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/drumar.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumar.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumar.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Drumar 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) - Corkeeran: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/corkeeran-170433.md - Cornacreeve: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/cornacreeve-170473.md - Drumgrole: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumgrole.md - Lantaur: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/lantaur.md - Monantin: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/monantin.md - Mullan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/mullan-171522.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/drumar - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/drumar