# Drumbo, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Magheracloone, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Droim Bó.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 790,267 m² (79.03 ha, 195.28 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,290 m² (0.53 ha, 1.31 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Magheracloone, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/magheracloone.md
- Barony: Farney
- Electoral division: Lough Fea, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/39586
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170775
- Centre: latitude 53.924264, longitude -6.72462 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumbo, from 119 m² to 137,597 m² (13.76 ha, 34 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 339929: 137,597 m² (13.76 ha, 34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/339929.md
- Parcel 356914: 90,807 m² (9.08 ha, 22.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/356914.md
- Parcel 342446: 83,182 m² (8.32 ha, 20.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/342446.md
- Parcel 333076: 71,594 m² (7.16 ha, 17.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/333076.md
- Parcel 329450: 69,930 m² (6.99 ha, 17.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/329450.md
- Parcel 333788: 51,383 m² (5.14 ha, 12.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/333788.md
- Parcel 5630399: 43,466 m² (4.35 ha, 10.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5630399.md
- Parcel 5630554: 42,629 m² (4.26 ha, 10.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5630554.md
- Parcel 342733: 30,589 m² (3.06 ha, 7.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/342733.md
- Parcel 333074: 17,652 m² (1.77 ha, 4.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/333074.md
- Parcel 329279: 16,785 m² (1.68 ha, 4.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/329279.md
- Parcel 342445: 12,803 m² (1.28 ha, 3.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/342445.md
- Parcel 4106244: 5,960 m² (0.6 ha, 1.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4106244.md
- Parcel 327662: 5,290 m² (0.53 ha, 1.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/327662.md
- Parcel 333075: 3,680 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/333075.md
- Parcel 5870345: 2,703 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5870345.md
- Parcel 322374: 2,198 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/322374.md
- Parcel 333036: 1,761 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/333036.md
- Parcel 333787: 1,759 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/333787.md
- Parcel 315093: 976 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/315093.md
- Parcel 330151: 915 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/330151.md
- Parcel 321228: 912 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/321228.md
- Parcel 320184: 903 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/320184.md
- Parcel 5870391: 302 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5870391.md
- Parcel 5258115: 249 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5258115.md
- Parcel 315984: 207 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/315984.md
- Parcel 353434: 119 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/353434.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

5 applications, newest first.

- 6 Aug 2026, Monaghan County Council 2660333: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660333/0
- 15 Oct 2021, Monaghan County Council 21581: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21581/0
- 25 Apr 2019, Monaghan County Council 19192: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/19192/0
- 23 Jan 2019, Monaghan County Council 1922: Conditional. Permission. Permission to build a detached double garage for storage and cars and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/1922/0
- 9 Jun 2017, Monaghan County Council 17278: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/17278/0

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## 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 Drumbo.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- MO034-010: Crannog, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO034-010----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO034-011----. 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

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)

- Farmyard complex, 1780–1820, Regional interest, registry number 41403409, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO&regno=41403409. 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.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: 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: 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, 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/drumbo.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumbo.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumbo.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Drumbo 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)

- Derry: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/derry-170648.md
- Descart: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/descart-170705.md
- Killygally: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/killygally.md
- Leitrim: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/leitrim-171306.md
- Liscarnan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/liscarnan.md
- Mason Lodge: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/mason-lodge.md
- Mokeeran: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/mokeeran.md
- Moylough: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/moylough.md
- Rahans: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/rahans-171597.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.

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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.

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