# Drumdesco, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Tedavnet, barony of Monaghan, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Droim Deisce. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 553,429 m² (55.34 ha, 136.76 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,284 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): G5 Recreation/Amenity, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Tedavnet, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/tedavnet.md - Barony: Monaghan - Electoral division: Scotstown, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,208 people lived in 402 households in the Scotstown electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/40943 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170806 - Centre: latitude 54.28366, longitude -7.054311 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumdesco, from 49 m² to 57,121 m² (5.71 ha, 14.11 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 342025: 57,121 m² (5.71 ha, 14.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/342025.md - Parcel 333006: 51,717 m² (5.17 ha, 12.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/333006.md - Parcel 342320: 46,856 m² (4.69 ha, 11.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/342320.md - Parcel 342026: 46,181 m² (4.62 ha, 11.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/342026.md - Parcel 342028: 38,932 m² (3.89 ha, 9.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/342028.md - Parcel 340354: 37,774 m² (3.78 ha, 9.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/340354.md - Parcel 332799: 32,161 m² (3.22 ha, 7.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/332799.md - Parcel 3627375: 31,234 m² (3.12 ha, 7.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3627375.md - Parcel 342322: 23,647 m² (2.36 ha, 5.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/342322.md - Parcel 5008005: 22,110 m² (2.21 ha, 5.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5008005.md - Parcel 5007970: 17,459 m² (1.75 ha, 4.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5007970.md - Parcel 328621: 13,605 m² (1.36 ha, 3.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/328621.md - Parcel 329519: 13,038 m² (1.3 ha, 3.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/329519.md - Parcel 332672: 10,924 m² (1.09 ha, 2.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/332672.md - Parcel 353349: 10,613 m² (1.06 ha, 2.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/353349.md - Parcel 332668: 10,138 m² (1.01 ha, 2.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/332668.md - Parcel 318983: 8,541 m² (0.85 ha, 2.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/318983.md - Parcel 338922: 8,105 m² (0.81 ha, 2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/338922.md - Parcel 3627461: 7,067 m² (0.71 ha, 1.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3627461.md - Parcel 336928: 5,480 m² (0.55 ha, 1.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/336928.md - Parcel 326578: 4,984 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/326578.md - Parcel 4631855: 4,841 m² (0.48 ha, 1.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4631855.md - Parcel 4647996: 3,826 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4647996.md - Parcel 355256: 3,692 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/355256.md - Parcel 4406842: 3,643 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4406842.md - Parcel 320642: 3,284 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/320642.md - Parcel 4406822: 3,101 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4406822.md - Parcel 353092: 2,994 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/353092.md - Parcel 314950: 2,736 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/314950.md - Parcel 351692: 2,697 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/351692.md - Parcel 346903: 2,669 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/346903.md - Parcel 350347: 2,420 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/350347.md - Parcel 356144: 2,325 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/356144.md - Parcel 349531: 2,159 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/349531.md - Parcel 354493: 1,999 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/354493.md - Parcel 348880: 1,847 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/348880.md - Parcel 348817: 1,826 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/348817.md - Parcel 332670: 1,814 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/332670.md - Parcel 322629: 1,629 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/322629.md - Parcel 5033997: 1,277 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5033997.md - Parcel 324567: 1,244 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/324567.md - Parcel 327320: 1,007 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/327320.md - Parcel 5585880: 849 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5585880.md - Parcel 5034012: 718 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5034012.md - Parcel 4892505: 381 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4892505.md - Parcel 5585881: 247 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5585881.md - Parcel 4892508: 201 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4892508.md - Parcel 324118: 135 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/324118.md - Parcel 4648034: 85 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4648034.md - Parcel 4406848: 51 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4406848.md - Parcel 5585885: 49 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5585885.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - G5 Recreation/Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other): Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan; 2 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://monaghan.ie/planning/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/06/Monaghan-County-Development-Plan-2025-2031-Written-Statement-compressed-files.pdf#page=235 - G3 Landscape 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: https://monaghan.ie/planning/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/06/Monaghan-County-Development-Plan-2025-2031-Written-Statement-compressed-files.pdf#page=235 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 6 applications, newest first. - 3 Sept 2025, Monaghan County Council 2571: N/a. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2571/0 - 22 Jun 2023, Monaghan County Council 239006: Conditional. Extension of duration. Permission to erect a two storey dwelling house, insert a filter unit and percolation area and exit on to public road. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/239006/0 - 1 Oct 2020, Monaghan County Council 20398: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission to erect a proposed single storey dwelling house plus a detached domestic garage type structure including a proprietary waste water treatment system. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/20398/0 - 30 Dec 2019, Monaghan County Council 19581: N/a. Permission. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/19581/0 - 6 Dec 2017, Monaghan County Council 17580: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Permission to erect a two storey dwelling house, insert a filter unit and percolation area and exit on to public road. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/17580/0 - 14 Nov 2017, Monaghan County Council 17536: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Permission to construct a single storey detached garage, the conversion of the existing garage including alterations to the existing dwelling and all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/17536/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Mullaghmore Lake (South), site code 001785 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MO009-001: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO009-001----. 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 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) - Mullaghmore House, gates/railings/walls, 1840–1860, Regional interest, registry number 41400903, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41400903. 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, registry number 41400906, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41400906. 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, registry number 41400980, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41400980. 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. ## 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 Drumdesco, 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 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 Drumdesco. - 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/drumdesco.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumdesco.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumdesco.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Drumdesco 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) - Carrowhatta: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/carrowhatta.md - Cussee: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/cussee.md - Drumbin: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumbin.md - Drumsheaver: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumsheaver.md - Mullaghmore North: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/mullaghmore-north.md - Stracrunnion: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/stracrunnion.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/drumdesco - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/drumdesco