Drumdesco

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumdesco, from 49 m² to 57,121 m² (5.71 ha, 14.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• G5Recreation/Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Landscape Protection/Conservation (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 3 Sept 2025N/a

  permission to retain and complete two storey dwelling house as built, and exit on to public road by new entrance and all associated works, previous planning Ref, 17/850

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2571

• 22 Jun 2023Conditional

  Permission to erect a two storey dwelling house, insert a filter unit and percolation area and exit on to public road

  Extension of duration · Monaghan County Council, 239006

• 1 Oct 2020Conditional

  permission to erect a proposed single storey dwelling house plus a detached domestic garage type structure including a proprietary waste water treatment system

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20398

• 30 Dec 2019N/a

  permission for the development consisting of change of use of the building known as St. Marys Hall to a crèche facility, the addition of a first floor in the building, the addition of external doors and windows, the addition of external access ramp and access facilities, the provision for lift facilities, all internal and all associated site works.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 19581

• 6 Dec 2017Conditional

  Permission to erect a two storey dwelling house, insert a filter unit and percolation area and exit on to public road

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17580

• 14 Nov 2017Conditional

  Permission to construct a single storey detached garage, the conversion of the existing garage including alterations to the existing dwelling and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17536

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: Mullaghmore Lake (South) 001785

Recorded monuments

• MO009-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a NE-SW ridge. The name ‘Shanrath’ meaning an 'old fort' is recorded only on the 1949 revision of the OS 6-inch map. It is not known locally, no archaeological feature is visible at ground level in pasture and its precise location is not known. 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. Date of revision: 12 December 2017

Architectural heritage

• Mullaghmore House, gates/railings/walls, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, erected c.1850, comprising ornate double-leaf cast-iron vehicular gate set to openwork cast-iron piers, with sinusoidal-plan curvilinear matching cast-iron railings, terminating in square-profile openwork cast-iron piers. Maker's insignia 'C.JONES / MAKERS / BELFAST' to railings at south-east. Single-leaf pedestrian gate at north-west, with similar detailing. Set at entrance to Mullaghmore House.

• Saint Mary's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1770–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding stone barn-style Roman Catholic church with Gothic Revival detailing, built c.1785, rebuilt c.1820. Comprising four-bay nave, three-stage tower to south, two-stage tower to north, single-cell baptistery to west elevation, canted sacristy to southeast internal angle, three-bay single-storey office to north-east internal angle. Pitched slate roof with angled blue terracotta ridge tiles (hipped to office and sacristy), moulded metal gutters on moulded stone corbels, stone verges. North tower has single-pitched roof with stone parapet with cross on stepped plinth flanked by elongated pyramidal pinnacles; baptistery had moulded stone entablature-styled parapet; south tower has pyramidal roof with wrought-iron cross finial. Squared and tooledundressed sandstone walling, dressed quoins to nave and towers (string courses between stages, south tower third stage had V-joined quoins and moulded cornice with parapet); squared and snecked dressed sandstone to sacristy and office. Wrought-iron weather-vane possibly from roof belvedere of Gola House (destroyed in early 1920s). Pointed-arch stained-glass windows, splayed surrounds (stop-ended hood-mouldings to west elevation). Sacristy has triple lancets with block label-ended hood-mouldings. South tower third stage has stone Serliano windows to east and west, Gibbs-blocked lancet to south, louvred throughout, blind oculus to north. Pointed-arch vertically sheeted varnished timber doors, splayed surrounds to both ends of east elevation (both modern insertions accessed by external masonry stairs), double-leaf doors with intersecting tracery tympanum to west elevations of both towers. Set back from road to west in vast graveyard extended west to road, to east elevated site, and immediately to west with priest’s graves. Bitmac drive surrounding church with car-park to west enclosed by dwarf stone boundary walls, mature trees to north and south. Interior remodelled c.1990 but retaining original spatial arrangement and timber trusswork. U-shaped galleries with raked pews and raised-and-fielded gallery panelling supported on scagiola columns. Wrought-iron reinforced timber king-post trusses and purlins, varnished diagonally sheeted panelling, and painted quatrefoil indented wall-plate. Plastered walls with panelled window reveals, painted timber panelled and plastered reredos (c.1950). Modern pews freestanding to carpeted floors, stepped dais with freestanding marble altar. Wall-mounted marble memorial on west wall to the 'Rt. Rev. James Murphy Catholic Bishop of Clogher' (d.1824).

• Saint Mary's Catholic Church, presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three-bay parochial house, built c.1820, attached to east elevation of Saint Mary's Church, having two-storey front and three-storey rear elevations, with porch to front elevation. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Harl-rendered walls having smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings throughout, with smooth render reveals, render sills and timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to front and rear, two-over-four pane to east, three-pane timber casement windows to top floor to rear, and three-over-six pane to east and west sides of porch. Segmental-headed door opening to front, having replacement timber door, sidelights and fanlight. Square-headed recent timber louvered door to rear. Set in tarmacadamed grounds of church.

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

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

Name

Drumdesco · Droim Deisce

Area

553,429 m² (55.34 ha, 136.76 acres)

Civil parish

Tedavnet, and its townlands

Barony

Monaghan

Electoral division

Scotstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Scotstown electoral division: 1,208 people in 402 households; 82% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowhatta, Cussee, Drumbin, Drumsheaver, Mullaghmore North, Stracrunnion

Placenames

Drumdesco 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.