Drumbrackan

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumbrackan, from 28 m² to 80,826 m² (8.08 ha, 19.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Drumbrackan 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.

• 18 Sept 2025N/a

  planning permission for a development which consists to retain 2 no. extensions to front, side and rear of existing dormer style detached dwelling, 3 no. dormer windows to front of dwelling, alterations to internal floor layout and external elevations, revised driveway, landscaping and all associated site works. Significant further Information received relates to submitted revised drawings and Soil Characterisation Assessment report

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2560382

• 1 Jul 2022N/a

  Permission for retention consisting of 2 no. extensions to front, side and rear of the existing dormer style detached dwelling, 3 no. dormer windows to the front of the dwelling, alterations to internal floor layout and external elevations, revised driveway, landscaping and all associated site works. Significant further information received in relation to change of height of entrance walls and piers.

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 22298

• 26 Jan 2022Refused

  permission for development consisting of a two-storey dwelling, advanced waste water treatment system and percolation area, upgrade existing entrance with new entrance walls and piers and all ancillary site development works Significant further information received in relation to revisions to house design, site boundaries and entrance location

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2228

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 Drumbrackan.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumbrackan.

Architectural heritage

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

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 low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumbrackan.

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

Name

Drumbrackan · Droim Breacáin

Area

884,392 m² (88.44 ha, 218.54 acres)

Civil parish

Magheracloone, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Enagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Enagh electoral division: 819 people in 236 households; 90% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Crumlin, Drumerlough Beg, Drumerlough More, Drumiller (Co. Cavan), Lavagilduff, Lisagoan (Co. Cavan), Tullybrick (Co. Cavan)

Placenames

Drumbrackan 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.