Drumcreeghan

64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumcreeghan, from 150 m² to 148,368 m² (14.84 ha, 36.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Drumcreeghan 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.

• 30 Sept 2024Conditional

  permission for the intensification of use of 2 No. existing poultry houses together with all ancillary structures and site works associated with the above development on an existing poultry farm. This application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a Licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994-2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (E.I.A.R.) will be submitted with this planning application

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2460366

• 22 Jun 2017Conditional

  Permission to construct 1 no. poultry house together with all ancillary structures (to include meal storage bin(s) and soiled water tank(s) etc.) and site works (including new site entrance) associated with the development. This application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a license under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (licensing) regulations 1994-2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment report (E.I.A.R) will be submitted with this planning application

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 17300

• 16 Mar 2017Conditional

  permission to retain alterations to 1 No. Poultry house constructed on foot of planning permission Ref. No. 06/1640, ( and to omit 1 No. Poultry house approved under planning Ref. 07/1065) together with all ancillary structures ( to include meal storage bin and soiled water tank) and site works associated with the above development

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 17123

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drumcreeghan.

Recorded monuments

• MO023-031 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on top of a drumlin. This is a subcircular grass and scrub-covered area (dims 38.5m E-W; 33m N-S) defined by a grass and scrub-covered earthen bank separated by a fosse from an outer field bank. There is a modern gap at WSW but the original entrance (Wth of base 1.9m) and causeway (Wth of top 2.4m; H 0.6m) is at E. 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. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 9 May 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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

The EPA radon map did not answer.

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 Drumcreeghan.

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 Drumcreeghan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Drumcreeghan · Droim Chríocháin

Area

819,886 m² (81.99 ha, 202.6 acres)

Civil parish

Aghnamullen, and its townlands

Barony

Cremorne

Electoral division

Creeve, the unit of the census

Census 2022

705 people lived in 230 households in the Creeve electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Anveyerg, Cargaghbane, Carnaveagh, Drumhillagh, Edenforan, Mullananalt, Tamlat

Placenames

Drumcreeghan 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.