Drumcanon

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumcanon, from 242 m² to 135,286 m² (13.53 ha, 33.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Drumcanon 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.

• 22 Sept 2023Conditional

  permission to refurbish and extend existing old stone building as a replacement to dwelling house granted permission in planning ref 21/82. Connect to proposed filter unit and percolation area and exit on to public road as granted permission in planning ref 21/82

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 23197

• 30 Aug 2023N/a

  permission to refurbish and extend old stone building, connect to filter unit and percolation area and exit on to public road as granted permission in planning ref 21/82

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 23178

• 2 Feb 2022Conditional

  Erect single storey dwellinghouse, insert a filter unit and percolation area and exit onto public road.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2240

• 27 Aug 2021Conditional

  permission to erect a two storey dwelling with attached sunroom, treatment plant, percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21492

• 14 Apr 2021N/a

  Permission to erect a bungalow, insert filter unit and percolation area and exit onto public road

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21196

• 24 Feb 2021Conditional

  permission to demolish old stone out building, erect a bungalow, insert filter unit and percolation area and exit onto public road

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2182

• 5 Jun 2020Conditional

  Permission to erect single storey extension to gable of existing two storey dwelling house and exit onto public road by way of existing entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20199

• 16 Nov 2017Refused

  Permission for the change of use of an existing shed to an agricultural store to include the storage of farmyard manures, organic dairy sludge's and soil conditioners. The development is intended for the purposes of an activity requiring a waste licence and upon the grant of planning a waste facility permit will be applied for.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17541

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Black And Derrygoony Loughs 001596

Recorded monuments

• MO026-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the S-facing spine of a drumlin. This is a sibcircular grass-covered area (dims c. 46m N-S; c. 40m E-W) defined by a scarp (at NNW: Wth 3m; H 0.6m; at NNE: H c. 2m) NW-ENE that merges into the slope elsewhere but is surrounded at a distance of c. 5-10m by a field bank and hedge SE-W-NW. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. The interior is cut by a NNE-SSW field bank towards the perimeter at NW. 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 26 February 2018

• MO026-003 Crannog
  Description

  Situated in Black Lough, at the entry to the NW arm of a roughly X-shaped lake (max. dims c. 770m NE-SW; c. 500m NW-SE) with arms (Wth c. 120-300m) extending to the NE, SE, SW and NW. A large island (dims c. 50m E-W; c. 40m N-S) is depicted only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map, but it is now incorporated in woodland on the N side of the lake. A cairn (diam. 20m; H 1.5m) on rock outcrop may be a crannog, but no structural features are evident. 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 26 February 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Drumcanon, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Drumcanon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Drumcanon · Droim Chanann

Area

1,319,803 m² (131.98 ha, 326.13 acres)

Civil parish

Aghnamullen, and its townlands

Barony

Cremorne

Electoral division

Cormeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

527 people lived in 174 households in the Cormeen electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corvackan, Derrygoony, Drumgor, Lackan, Latton, Lisdrumcleve, Maghon

Placenames

Drumcanon 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.