# Drumcattan, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Donaghmoyne, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Droim Chatáin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 529,161 m² (52.92 ha, 130.76 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,513 m² (0.75 ha, 1.86 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Donaghmoyne, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/donaghmoyne.md - Barony: Farney - Electoral division: Kiltybegs, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 716 people lived in 228 households in the Kiltybegs electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/39554 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170790 - Centre: latitude 54.012253, longitude -6.629097 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumcattan, from 1,542 m² to 81,235 m² (8.12 ha, 20.07 acres); 28 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 352442: 81,235 m² (8.12 ha, 20.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/352442.md - Parcel 353283: 52,132 m² (5.21 ha, 12.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/353283.md - Parcel 356116: 42,054 m² (4.21 ha, 10.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/356116.md - Parcel 2720124: 38,401 m² (3.84 ha, 9.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2720124.md - Parcel 5081086: 25,180 m² (2.52 ha, 6.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5081086.md - Parcel 316463: 23,792 m² (2.38 ha, 5.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/316463.md - Parcel 347170: 22,160 m² (2.22 ha, 5.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/347170.md - Parcel 4889151: 19,646 m² (1.96 ha, 4.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4889151.md - Parcel 5326613: 17,748 m² (1.77 ha, 4.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5326613.md - Parcel 326170: 16,382 m² (1.64 ha, 4.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/326170.md - Parcel 4167807: 14,777 m² (1.48 ha, 3.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4167807.md - Parcel 334578: 14,392 m² (1.44 ha, 3.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/334578.md - Parcel 320362: 13,378 m² (1.34 ha, 3.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/320362.md - Parcel 321073: 12,951 m² (1.3 ha, 3.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/321073.md - Parcel 344092: 12,734 m² (1.27 ha, 3.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/344092.md - Parcel 326072: 10,317 m² (1.03 ha, 2.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/326072.md - Parcel 317442: 9,810 m² (0.98 ha, 2.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/317442.md - Parcel 318866: 8,829 m² (0.88 ha, 2.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/318866.md - Parcel 349236: 8,240 m² (0.82 ha, 2.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/349236.md - Parcel 326188: 7,513 m² (0.75 ha, 1.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/326188.md - Parcel 338180: 7,485 m² (0.75 ha, 1.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/338180.md - Parcel 353969: 7,378 m² (0.74 ha, 1.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/353969.md - Parcel 332869: 7,084 m² (0.71 ha, 1.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/332869.md - Parcel 2400022: 6,988 m² (0.7 ha, 1.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2400022.md - Parcel 338631: 6,776 m² (0.68 ha, 1.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/338631.md - Parcel 351337: 4,936 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/351337.md - Parcel 344367: 4,748 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/344367.md - Parcel 3470033: 3,477 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3470033.md - Parcel 338411: 3,331 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/338411.md - Parcel 2400432: 3,319 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2400432.md - Parcel 5568662: 2,933 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5568662.md - Parcel 4167826: 2,895 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4167826.md - Parcel 326175: 2,637 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/326175.md - Parcel 339268: 2,348 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/339268.md - Parcel 351620: 1,837 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/351620.md - Parcel 338610: 1,742 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/338610.md - Parcel 322264: 1,740 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/322264.md - Parcel 329651: 1,723 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/329651.md - Parcel 5156959: 1,542 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5156959.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Drumcattan 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. - 29 May 2025, Monaghan County Council 2560215: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission for the construction of a storey and a half style dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, boundary fencing, new domestic entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560215/0 - 1 Dec 2022, Monaghan County Council 22500: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission consisting of the construction of a storey and a half style dwelling house, installation of on-site waste water treatment system, new entrance onto public roadway and all associated site development works. Significant further information/Revised plans submitted includes the following: (1) Addition of domestic garage to the development along the eastern boundary of the site (2) amendments to the site layout (3) elevational changes (4) submission of reports. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/22500/0 - 2 Jan 2018, Monaghan County Council 183: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. Permission to retain an extension to the rear of the existing property, with the building line along the front being retained and an extension/conversion of the attic into habitable living space. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/183/0 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 Drumcattan. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MO028-134001: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO028-134001-. Situated in a low-lying landscape. It is depicted as a rectangular structure on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in italic lettering as ‘R. C. Church.’ This is a post-penal Roman Catholic church which was renovated in 1891 but which is now closed. It is in a subtriangular graveyard (dims c. 45-75m E-W; c. 40m N-S) extending E from a NW-SE road, and is defined by masonry walls. It has rather few headstones dating largely from the nineteenth century. There is no evidence that there was a mass-rock here (Ó Gallachair 1957, 119). Date of revised upload: 12 December 2017 - MO028-134002: Graveyard, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO028-134002-. Situated in a low-lying landscape. This is a subtriangular graveyard (dims c. 45-75m E-W; c. 40m N-S) extending E from a NW-SE road and associated with a post-Penal Roman Catholic church (MO028-134001-). The graveyard is defined by masonry walls but has rather few headstones dating from the early nineteenth century. There is no evidence that there was a mass-rock here (Ó Gallachair 1957, 119). Date of revised upload: 12 December 2017 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) - Water pump, 1910–1930, Regional interest, registry number 41402820, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41402820. Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c.1920, with maker's mark to shaft, with domed cap with finial, and curved cowtail handle. Set on metal plate within concrete base, with rectangular cast-iron trough to base with maker's mark, flanked by cast-iron bollards. Rubble stone boundary wall to rear. Located at road junction north of Drumcattan Catholic Church. - Saint Anne's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1795–1895, Regional interest, registry number 41402821, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41402821. Freestanding Roman Catholic Church, consisting of three-bay nave with single-storey extension to east gable, dated 1796. Renovated and remodelled 1891. Pitched slate roof having decorative cast=iron ridge cresting, stone coping with cross gable apex finials and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered and ruled-and-lined rendered walls having smooth rendered quoins set on smooth rendered plinth. Slate date plaque to north elevation reads: 'This Chapel was built under the inspection of Rev. Ber. Callan, Pastor of Inishkeen AD 1796'. Second slate date plaque to front (west) elevation reads: 'Remodelled and renovated by J.C. Maguire, Pastor, Inishkeen, A.D. 1891'. Various window openings, pointed-arch window openings to north and south elevations having rendered hood-mouldings and stone sills with one timber Y-traceried windows having lattice glazing (other windows have been replaced with uPVC windows), large pointed-arch window openings to gables having rendered hood-mouldings and stone sills with timber perforated tracery windows. Rear extension having square-headed window openings with stone sills and two-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows with ogee horns. Square-headed door opening to front gable having rendered hood-moulding containing carved faces and timber tongued-and-grooved double-leaf door with fanlight. Semi-circular stoups to either side of door, with hood-mouldings. Square-headed door opening to south elevation of rear extension having recent timber door. Interior has altar furniture raised on timber floor to south-east end. Timber gallery to north-west end, supported by timber columns having recent timber in-fill partition between columns. Timber tongue-and-grooved soffit and exposed timber braced tie-beam roof structure. Smooth rendered walls. Hood-mouldings having head stops to windows. Stone flags to floor. Church set within graveyard and bounded by rubble stone walls with metal gates to west. ## 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 Drumcattan, 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumcattan. - 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/drumcattan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumcattan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumcattan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Drumcattan 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) - Annagerril: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/annagerril.md - Carricklane: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/carricklane.md - Drumganny: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumganny.md - Drumnanaliv: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumnanaliv.md - Drumny: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumny.md - Mullaghunshinagh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/mullaghunshinagh.md - Tattyboy: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/tattyboy.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/drumcattan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/drumcattan