# Drumbristan, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Errigal Trough, barony of Trough, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Droim Dhristin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,312,469 m² (131.25 ha, 324.32 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,819 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Errigal Trough, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/errigal-trough.md - Barony: Trough - Electoral division: Bragan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 318 people lived in 104 households in the Bragan electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 11% 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/40395 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170781 - Centre: latitude 54.364267, longitude -7.027118 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumbristan, from 87 m² to 157,951 m² (15.8 ha, 39.03 acres); 32 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4887017: 157,951 m² (15.8 ha, 39.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4887017.md - Parcel 321514: 147,428 m² (14.74 ha, 36.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/321514.md - Parcel 321595: 95,018 m² (9.5 ha, 23.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/321595.md - Parcel 357338: 66,255 m² (6.63 ha, 16.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/357338.md - Parcel 334602: 65,988 m² (6.6 ha, 16.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/334602.md - Parcel 352954: 65,361 m² (6.54 ha, 16.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/352954.md - Parcel 330745: 63,778 m² (6.38 ha, 15.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/330745.md - Parcel 341167: 63,302 m² (6.33 ha, 15.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/341167.md - Parcel 326197: 59,916 m² (5.99 ha, 14.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/326197.md - Parcel 341486: 56,820 m² (5.68 ha, 14.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/341486.md - Parcel 354419: 43,419 m² (4.34 ha, 10.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/354419.md - Parcel 326945: 40,447 m² (4.04 ha, 9.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/326945.md - Parcel 349687: 39,163 m² (3.92 ha, 9.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/349687.md - Parcel 349014: 38,018 m² (3.8 ha, 9.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/349014.md - Parcel 356092: 27,171 m² (2.72 ha, 6.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/356092.md - Parcel 320557: 25,879 m² (2.59 ha, 6.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/320557.md - Parcel 322048: 25,828 m² (2.58 ha, 6.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/322048.md - Parcel 354780: 20,692 m² (2.07 ha, 5.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/354780.md - Parcel 348783: 19,440 m² (1.94 ha, 4.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/348783.md - Parcel 317938: 18,314 m² (1.83 ha, 4.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/317938.md - Parcel 318095: 18,155 m² (1.82 ha, 4.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/318095.md - Parcel 348810: 10,775 m² (1.08 ha, 2.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/348810.md - Parcel 321045: 10,316 m² (1.03 ha, 2.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/321045.md - Parcel 347181: 9,994 m² (1 ha, 2.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/347181.md - Parcel 347052: 9,811 m² (0.98 ha, 2.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/347052.md - Parcel 325428: 7,970 m² (0.8 ha, 1.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/325428.md - Parcel 344690: 7,830 m² (0.78 ha, 1.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/344690.md - Parcel 317677: 5,999 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/317677.md - Parcel 317426: 5,637 m² (0.56 ha, 1.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/317426.md - Parcel 321143: 5,401 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/321143.md - Parcel 322416: 5,092 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/322416.md - Parcel 322493: 4,929 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/322493.md - Parcel 4687049: 4,709 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4687049.md - Parcel 353286: 4,642 m² (0.46 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/353286.md - Parcel 321417: 4,365 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/321417.md - Parcel 328018: 4,286 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/328018.md - Parcel 324378: 4,203 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/324378.md - Parcel 348577: 3,486 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/348577.md - Parcel 5790282: 3,372 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5790282.md - Parcel 323516: 3,165 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/323516.md - Parcel 4343241: 3,113 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4343241.md - Parcel 356980: 3,103 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/356980.md - Parcel 4095039: 2,957 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4095039.md - Parcel 4885005: 2,715 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4885005.md - Parcel 320816: 2,620 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/320816.md - Parcel 353408: 2,541 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/353408.md - Parcel 319973: 2,205 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319973.md - Parcel 4884971: 2,011 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4884971.md - Parcel 323567: 1,962 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/323567.md - Parcel 317982: 1,807 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/317982.md - Parcel 5833023: 1,709 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5833023.md - Parcel 329505: 1,684 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/329505.md - Parcel 320796: 1,557 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/320796.md - Parcel 321158: 1,478 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/321158.md - Parcel 317870: 1,377 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/317870.md - Parcel 319763: 959 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/319763.md - Parcel 347605: 675 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/347605.md - Parcel 5827279: 448 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5827279.md - Parcel 5833040: 334 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5833040.md - Parcel 347008: 252 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/347008.md - Parcel 327551: 250 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/327551.md - Parcel 353670: 241 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/353670.md - Parcel 5705743: 178 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5705743.md - Parcel 5705762: 87 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5705762.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Drumbristan 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) 8 applications, newest first. - 9 Sept 2025, Monaghan County Council 2560367: Conditional. Permission. permission to demolish existing two-storey extensions to both the front and rear of the dwelling, and for the construction of a new rear two-storey extension, together with a single-storey front porch addition to the existing dwelling house, including elevational changes/internal alterations and associated site works, Significant Further Information received relates to submitted Site Layout Plan, Sewer Layout Plan, Sewer Longitudinal Section, Existing Sewer Network Map, Uisce Èireann Feasibility letter. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560367/0 - 6 Mar 2025, Monaghan County Council 2517: Conditional. Permission. planning permission to construct a detached domestic garage to the rear & side of existing two storey dwelling house with all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2517/0 - 14 Jan 2025, Monaghan County Council 252: N/a. Permission. planning permission to construct a detached domestic garage to the rear & side of existing two storey dwelling house together with all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/252/0 - 30 Sept 2021, Monaghan County Council 21550: Conditional. Retention. retention of relocation of previously granted two-storey dwelling (to include retention of handing of dwelling and changes to front, rear and side elevations) along with full planning permission for retention of relocation of septic tank, percolation area and all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21550/0 - 4 Jun 2021, Monaghan County Council 21331: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission to upgrade and construct new proprietary waste-water treatment system and polishing filter together with associated site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21331/0 - 7 Sept 2020, Monaghan County Council 20357: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission to erect a bungalow, insert a filter unit and raised percolation area and open new entrance onto public road. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/20357/0 - 24 Apr 2019, Monaghan County Council 19185: N/a. Permission, 1 home. permission to erect a bungalow, insert a filter unit and percolation area and open new entrance onto public road.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/19185/0 - 4 Dec 2018, Monaghan County Council 18562: Conditional. Permission. permission for the construction of a 38kv electricity substation, switchroom and equipment compound with palisade fence; the construction of approximately 400m of site access track and the upgrading of approximately 150m of existing agricultural track and an existing agricultural site entrance; approximately 200m of underground cabling and all associated site development and reinstatement works in the townland of Luppan, County Monaghan; and (ii) the installation of approximately 22km of 38kV electricity cables from the proposed substation to the existing electricity substation in the townland of Lisdrumdoagh, County Monaghan. The electricity cables will comprise approximately 17km of overhead line and approximately 5 km of underground line. Overhead lines will consist of 3 no. cables suspended from wooden poles with a maximum height of 16 metres, and all associated site development and reinstatement works. Underground cables will be located within private lands and within the public roads numbered L5171, L1400 and L1171; will be installed in excavated trenches of approximately 1.2m in depth and will include associated underground ducting, joint bays, communication chamber bays, sheath link boxes and inspection chambers; directional drilling beneath the N12 and Ulster Canal and all associated site development and reinstatement works. A vehicle access track of up to 4m in width will be provided immediately adjacent to underground cables with private lands. This planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report which includes an assessment of the likely impacts of the proposed development, as a whole and in combination with the relevant off-site or secondary developments which will occur as a direct result of the proposed development, including the wind farm development permitted pursuant to Monaghan County Council Planning Register Reference 10/110 & An Bord Pleanála Reference PL18.240760 and proposed to be amended by planning reference 17/258 & An Bord Pleanála Reference PL18.300998 (currently under construction). A Natura Impact Statement will also be submitted to the planning authority with the planning application. This application is accompanied by an EIAR. Significant Further information has been submitted.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/18562/0 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 Drumbristan. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumbristan. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart, church/chapel, 1830–1890, Regional interest, registry number 41400305, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41400305. Freestanding Catholic church with Gothic-Revival detailing, built 1823 and enlarged 1885-8 to designs by William Hague Jr. Cruciform plan comprising crossing of two-bay nave to south, single-bay transepts to east and west, single-bay chancel to north (ridge and eaves all at same level); porches to transept gables, and modern porch to re-entrant angle of nave and east transept. Pitched slate roof, perforated red-clay ridge tiles, moulded cast-iron gutters on chamfered sandstone eaves, moulded corbels supporting sandstone verges, gablet apex blocks, Celtic Cross finial to chancel apex, cross finials to porch apexes. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls, painted quoins to transepts and nave; rock-faced squared-and-snecked sandstone walls with dressed quoins to chancel and porches. Shield-shaped date-stone to Chancel gable inscribed '1886'. Cut limestone gabled bell-cote to chancel gable with side offsetting and pointed-arch edge-roll moulded aperture with bronze bell embossed 1874, supported by splayed buttress with eaves-level string course. Modern porch is timber sheeted with lean-to slate roof. Pointed-arch window openings with timber Y-tracery stained-glass windows to transepts and nave; three stained-glass lancets (centre stepped over date-stone apron) with block label-ended hood-mouldings to chancel gable, single lancets to transept gables. Square-headed loops with splayed sandstone surrounds to each gable apex (except nave), leaded church glass casements to porch cheeks. Oculus stained-glass windows to sill level of nave gable. Pointed-arch door openings with stained vertically sheeted double-leaf doors to porch gables, splayed sandstone surrounds, and label-ended hood-mouldings. Square-headed door opening with stained vertically sheeted door with splayed sandstone surrounds to chancel east elevation. Interior almost completely refurbished c.1980. Original canted stained and varnished timber diagonally sheeted panelled ceiling supported on moulded stone corbel-supported timber beams, dry-walled and with recent brick-tiled floors. Freestanding varnished pine benches flanking central aisles. Replacement gallery accessed by stair with stained railing, chevron-sheeted panelling to rear partitioned offices lit by stained-glass oculi. Two-step carpeted dais projecting into crossing with reused polychrome marble altar and lectern. Leaded glass throughout to Y-tracery windows with painted roundels and stained margins. Porches have gridded stained church glass. Set back from road to north by recent rubble-faced plinth walls and two brick-paved paths leading to porch entrances. Situated in graveyard on sloping site rising to south. Celtic High Cross memorials to clergy to north of chancel (one with bas-relief depiction of instruments of Passion on rear base). Recent graves to south, and mature specimen trees on heights to south. ## 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 Drumbristan, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumbristan. - 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/drumbristan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumbristan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumbristan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Drumbristan 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) - Derryhellan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/derryhellan.md - Derrylea Beg: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/derrylea-beg.md - Derrylea More: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/derrylea-more.md - Derrynarget: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/derrynarget.md - Derryveagh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/derryveagh.md - Drumlester: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumlester.md - Knockabeany: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/knockabeany.md - Tonintlieve: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/tonintlieve.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/drumbristan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/drumbristan