Drumbo

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumbo, from 119 m² to 137,597 m² (13.76 ha, 34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Drumbo 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.

• 6 Aug 2026N/a

  permission to construct a two-storey detached dwelling, single storey domestic garage, new vehicular entrance onto public road, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, landscaping and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2660333

• 15 Oct 2021Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of the retention of single storey side extension, detached garage, first floor conversion and dormer window to rear along with permission for two fire escape rooflights to rear, internal and external alterations and additions and all associated site development works

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 21581

• 25 Apr 2019Conditional

  permission to construct a replacement two storey style dwelling house, new waste water treatment system, the demolition of an existing shed, using existing private entrance and access laneway and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19192

• 23 Jan 2019Conditional

  Permission to build a detached double garage for storage and cars and all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 1922

• 9 Jun 2017Conditional

  Permission to construct a single storey dwelling with basement domestic store, attached carport, new entrance, effluent treatment system, percolation area and associated site works. Significant Further Information consists of a revised site layout plan

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17278

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 Drumbo.

Recorded monuments

• MO034-010 Crannog
  Description

  Located in the N, bulbous (dims c. 330-c. 400m) end of Rahans Lough (L c. 1km N-S) c. 90-100m from the N and E shores. Five silver shillings of Queen Mary dating from 1553-4 but fused into a single mass were found on a crannog at Rahans in 1863 (Dolley 1970, 218), and since then some quernstones (Lucas 1962, 157), a number of bronze pins, a ploughshare, a hone and other articles from the lough that were acquired by the National Museum of Ireland from the Shirley collection (Lucas 1968), may have come from this feature which is depicted as a small island (diam. c. 10m) on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. This is a small overgrown platform cairn (diam. 14m; H 0.7m over water) built around rock outcrop (L 5m) on the W side. There is no timber construction visible although it has been described thus (Boylan 1967, 362-3), but there were animal bones on the W shore. 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. Date of revision: 27 June 2017

• MO034-011 Crannog
  Description

  Situated in the shallows on the NE shoreline of Rahans Lough (L c. 1km N-S; c. 80-160m E-W), which has a bulbous (dims c. 330-c. 400m) northern end. This is a small cairn (diam. 5m; H 0.2m over water) but the cairn extends below the water level (D 0.5-1m) c. 10m to the W and S. This is probably the small crannog described by Boylan (1967, 362-3) in 1954 as having timbers when a dug-out canoe was discovered in the lake. There were no structural timbers visible in 1983, but animal bones were present. 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. Date of revision: 27 July 2017

Architectural heritage

• Farmyard complex, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex, built c.1800, comprising five-bay single-storey house with flat-roofed entrance porch to front (west) elevation, with two-bay single-storey outbuilding attached to north gable and single-storey outbuilding to west and further detached farmyard structures to north. Pitched tiled roof with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings having replacement timber windows and door. Adjoining outbuilding to north has pitched corrugated-iron roof, rendered walls, and square-headed openings. Detached single-storey outbuilding to west having pitched corrugated-iron roof and rendered walls. House set back from road with concrete yard to front. Rendered gate piers with metal entrance gates. Rendered wall dividing front yard from farmyard to west, having corrugated-iron gate between rendered piers and square headed door opening to east.

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 Drumbo.

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

Name

Drumbo · Droim Bó

Area

790,267 m² (79.03 ha, 195.28 acres)

Civil parish

Magheracloone, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Lough Fea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Lough Fea electoral division: 686 people in 234 households; 88% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derry, Descart, Killygally, Leitrim, Liscarnan, Mason Lodge, Mokeeran, Moylough, Rahans

Placenames

Drumbo 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.