# Drumcanon, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Aghnamullen, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Droim Chanann. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,319,803 m² (131.98 ha, 326.13 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 18,803 m² (1.88 ha, 4.65 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Aghnamullen, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/aghnamullen.md - Barony: Cremorne - Electoral division: Cormeen, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/40003 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170787 - Centre: latitude 54.05782, longitude -6.941811 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumcanon, from 242 m² to 135,286 m² (13.53 ha, 33.43 acres); 26 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 332982: 135,286 m² (13.53 ha, 33.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/332982.md - Parcel 321955: 118,213 m² (11.82 ha, 29.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/321955.md - Parcel 321660: 104,094 m² (10.41 ha, 25.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/321660.md - Parcel 353151: 95,992 m² (9.6 ha, 23.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/353151.md - Parcel 347553: 77,449 m² (7.74 ha, 19.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/347553.md - Parcel 352024: 59,379 m² (5.94 ha, 14.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/352024.md - Parcel 316909: 51,747 m² (5.17 ha, 12.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/316909.md - Parcel 335330: 49,437 m² (4.94 ha, 12.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/335330.md - Parcel 340705: 44,477 m² (4.45 ha, 10.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/340705.md - Parcel 329418: 42,516 m² (4.25 ha, 10.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/329418.md - Parcel 321153: 41,222 m² (4.12 ha, 10.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/321153.md - Parcel 322862: 34,521 m² (3.45 ha, 8.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/322862.md - Parcel 346217: 31,659 m² (3.17 ha, 7.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/346217.md - Parcel 339845: 29,254 m² (2.93 ha, 7.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/339845.md - Parcel 340608: 25,832 m² (2.58 ha, 6.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/340608.md - Parcel 353947: 24,366 m² (2.44 ha, 6.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/353947.md - Parcel 335485: 22,134 m² (2.21 ha, 5.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/335485.md - Parcel 335173: 19,436 m² (1.94 ha, 4.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/335173.md - Parcel 349628: 18,170 m² (1.82 ha, 4.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/349628.md - Parcel 2400511: 16,555 m² (1.66 ha, 4.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2400511.md - Parcel 334516: 16,552 m² (1.66 ha, 4.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/334516.md - Parcel 349876: 15,746 m² (1.57 ha, 3.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/349876.md - Parcel 325860: 11,809 m² (1.18 ha, 2.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/325860.md - Parcel 339858: 6,411 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/339858.md - Parcel 3995846: 6,282 m² (0.63 ha, 1.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3995846.md - Parcel 337113: 3,889 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/337113.md - Parcel 5120353: 3,745 m² (0.37 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5120353.md - Parcel 342812: 2,820 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/342812.md - Parcel 350582: 2,713 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/350582.md - Parcel 354972: 2,669 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/354972.md - Parcel 346838: 2,409 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/346838.md - Parcel 336606: 2,147 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/336606.md - Parcel 352092: 2,106 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/352092.md - Parcel 324258: 1,550 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/324258.md - Parcel 335256: 581 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/335256.md - Parcel 350344: 242 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/350344.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 8 applications, newest first. - 22 Sept 2023, Monaghan County Council 23197: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/23197/0 - 30 Aug 2023, Monaghan County Council 23178: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/23178/0 - 2 Feb 2022, Monaghan County Council 2240: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Erect single storey dwellinghouse, insert a filter unit and percolation area and exit onto public road.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2240/0 - 27 Aug 2021, Monaghan County Council 21492: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission to erect a two storey dwelling with attached sunroom, treatment plant, percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21492/0 - 14 Apr 2021, Monaghan County Council 21196: N/a. Permission, 1 home. Permission to erect a bungalow, insert filter unit and percolation area and exit onto public road. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21196/0 - 24 Feb 2021, Monaghan County Council 2182: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission to demolish old stone out building, erect a bungalow, insert filter unit and percolation area and exit onto public road. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2182/0 - 5 Jun 2020, Monaghan County Council 20199: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Permission to erect single storey extension to gable of existing two storey dwelling house and exit onto public road by way of existing entrance. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/20199/0 - 16 Nov 2017, Monaghan County Council 17541: Refused. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/17541/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Black And Derrygoony Loughs, site code 001596 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MO026-002: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO026-002----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO026-003----. 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 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumcanon. ## 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 Drumcanon, 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. 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 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/drumcanon.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumcanon.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumcanon.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Drumcanon 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) - Corvackan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/corvackan.md - Derrygoony: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/derrygoony.md - Drumgor: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumgor.md - Lackan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/lackan.md - Latton: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/latton.md - Lisdrumcleve: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/lisdrumcleve.md - Maghon: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/maghon.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/drumcanon - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/drumcanon