# Drumbrackan, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Magheracloone, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Droim Breacáin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 884,392 m² (88.44 ha, 218.54 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,390 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Magheracloone, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/magheracloone.md - Barony: Farney - Electoral division: Enagh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 819 people lived in 236 households in the Enagh electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 10% 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/39478 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170779 - Centre: latitude 53.942112, longitude -6.826649 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumbrackan, from 28 m² to 80,826 m² (8.08 ha, 19.97 acres); 24 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 321627: 80,826 m² (8.08 ha, 19.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/321627.md - Parcel 343063: 70,970 m² (7.1 ha, 17.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/343063.md - Parcel 327120: 63,845 m² (6.38 ha, 15.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/327120.md - Parcel 323199: 57,671 m² (5.77 ha, 14.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/323199.md - Parcel 345753: 54,809 m² (5.48 ha, 13.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345753.md - Parcel 332579: 50,441 m² (5.04 ha, 12.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/332579.md - Parcel 330187: 46,932 m² (4.69 ha, 11.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/330187.md - Parcel 345133: 40,171 m² (4.02 ha, 9.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345133.md - Parcel 333079: 37,601 m² (3.76 ha, 9.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/333079.md - Parcel 346516: 32,952 m² (3.3 ha, 8.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/346516.md - Parcel 327292: 28,350 m² (2.83 ha, 7.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/327292.md - Parcel 352495: 28,160 m² (2.82 ha, 6.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/352495.md - Parcel 342782: 27,305 m² (2.73 ha, 6.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/342782.md - Parcel 330128: 24,664 m² (2.47 ha, 6.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/330128.md - Parcel 330581: 17,392 m² (1.74 ha, 4.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/330581.md - Parcel 322977: 15,581 m² (1.56 ha, 3.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/322977.md - Parcel 346140: 14,494 m² (1.45 ha, 3.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/346140.md - Parcel 344982: 7,951 m² (0.8 ha, 1.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/344982.md - Parcel 339923: 7,073 m² (0.71 ha, 1.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/339923.md - Parcel 326315: 6,685 m² (0.67 ha, 1.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/326315.md - Parcel 346642: 5,002 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/346642.md - Parcel 346541: 4,725 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/346541.md - Parcel 326350: 4,055 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/326350.md - Parcel 319794: 4,047 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319794.md - Parcel 4150194: 3,835 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4150194.md - Parcel 337488: 3,161 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/337488.md - Parcel 323959: 3,140 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/323959.md - Parcel 322370: 2,741 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/322370.md - Parcel 325526: 2,599 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/325526.md - Parcel 323822: 2,455 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/323822.md - Parcel 336885: 2,365 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/336885.md - Parcel 328342: 2,308 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/328342.md - Parcel 325401: 2,180 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/325401.md - Parcel 329162: 2,170 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/329162.md - Parcel 345649: 2,141 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345649.md - Parcel 4949191: 1,851 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4949191.md - Parcel 3996426: 1,776 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3996426.md - Parcel 336886: 1,726 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/336886.md - Parcel 355304: 1,611 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/355304.md - Parcel 329189: 1,439 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/329189.md - Parcel 315082: 1,193 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/315082.md - Parcel 330905: 942 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/330905.md - Parcel 337487: 144 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/337487.md - Parcel 337486: 28 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/337486.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 18 Sept 2025, Monaghan County Council 2560382: N/a. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560382/0 - 1 Jul 2022, Monaghan County Council 22298: N/a. Retention. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/22298/0 - 26 Jan 2022, Monaghan County Council 2228: Refused. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2228/0 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 Drumbrackan. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumbrackan. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumbrackan. ## 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 Drumbrackan, about 1 in 10 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. - 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, 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/drumbrackan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumbrackan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumbrackan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Drumbrackan 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) - Crumlin: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/crumlin-170617.md - Drumerlough Beg: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumerlough-beg.md - Drumerlough More: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumerlough-more.md - Drumiller (Co. Cavan): https://everytownland.com/cavan/drumiller.md - Lavagilduff: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/lavagilduff.md - Lisagoan (Co. Cavan): https://everytownland.com/cavan/lisagoan.md - Tullybrick (Co. Cavan): https://everytownland.com/cavan/tullybrick-21932.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/drumbrackan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/drumbrackan