Drumavan

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumavan, from 30 m² to 100,210 m² (10.02 ha, 24.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Drumavan 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.

• 26 Jun 2023Conditional

  retention permission for the following; • Retention of extensions to existing two-storey dwelling together with elevational changes • Retention of domestic entrance together with all associated site works

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 23152

• 7 Jun 2023N/a

  retention permission of extensions to existing two storey dwelling together with all elevational changes and retention of domestic entrance together with all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 23138

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Drumcor Lough 001841

Recorded monuments

• MO021-003 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a low NW-SE spur. It is depicted only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is a large subcircular grass-covered area (dims 71m NW-SE; 63m NE-SW) defined by a scarp (at NE: Wth 3.1m; H 1.45m) and hedge. An entrance is not identified, and a fosse (Wth c. 1.5m; D c. 0.6m) at N noted in the 1940s was not recorded in 1968 (SMR file). There is a farm track at the base of the scarp S-WNW, and farm buildings encroach on the interior at this side. 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: 21 June 2018

• MO021-004 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated at the S end of a short N-S drumlin ridge which is known as ‘Doon’, meaning a fort. This is an oval grass-covered area (dims 27m NE-SW; 21.5m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 4m; int. H c. 0.5m; ext. H c. 2m) NNW-NE which is largely reduced to a scarp and hedge that has a field bank at its base WSW-WNW. The original entrance is not identified with certainly but it might be the gap (Wth of base 1m) at SSW. The interior has become overgrown since 1968 (OSAP). 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: 21 June 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 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 Drumavan.

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

Name

Drumavan · Droim an Mheáin

Area

656,986 m² (65.7 ha, 162.34 acres)

Civil parish

Currin, and its townlands

Barony

Dartree

Electoral division

Currin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Currin electoral division: 729 people in 255 households; 74% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghadrumdoney, Callowhill, Drumcor (Co. Cavan), Drumhillagh, Killark, Skerrick West

Placenames

Drumavan 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.