Drumdreeny

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumdreeny, from 1,119 m² to 178,151 m² (17.82 ha, 44.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Drumdreeny 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.

• 21 May 2025Conditional

  Retention permission for development at this site: Drumdreeny, Culloville, Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan. The development will consist of the retention of a domestic garage

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2539

• 19 Dec 2024N/a

  retention of a domestic garage

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 24124

• 13 Nov 2023Conditional

  permission for development consisting of a single storey dwelling house, single storey domestic garage, upgrade of existing agricultural entrance to a residential entrance, extend existing access lane, provision of entrance piers, installation of a wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with all ancillary site development works, Significant Further Information relates to, Submission of a Brochure roof sheeting and a Floor plan and elevation drawing

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2360280

• 16 Oct 2023N/a

  permission for development consisting of a single storey dwelling house, single storey domestic garage, upgrade of existing agricultural entrance to a residential entrance, extend existing access lane, provision of entrance piers, installation of a wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with all ancillary site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2360238

• 8 Jun 2023Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of a two storey dwelling house, a domestic wastewater treatment system, a new site entrance with all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 23141

• 24 Nov 2022N/a

  permission consisting of the importation of subsoil to raise and level existing ground for improvement of existing agricultural land, use of existing entrance and include all associated site works. The class of activity will be; Class 5 & 6 of the third Part II pf the Waste Management (Facility Permit & Registration) Regulations, 20017 as amended

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 22495

• 31 Aug 2022Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of a single storey dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new vehicular entrance and piers together with all ancillary site development works. Significant further information received in relation to the submission of a flood risk assessment report.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 22378

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 Drumdreeny.

Recorded monuments

• MO028-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated at the summit of the NW end of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. This rath is marked on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793) and on subsequent OS maps. It is a circular overgrown area (diam. 32.5m NE-SW; 30m WNW-ESE) defined by an earthen bank (at SW: Wth 4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.5m), which is reduced to a scarp (Wth 4m; H 2.4m) NE-E, with a slight outer fosse or drain (Wth of base 1.4m; ext. D 0.6m) SE-W. The original entrance is not identified. 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: 6 December 2017.

• MO028-019 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the spine of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. This monument is marked as a circular enclosure on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793). It is depicted as a large circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 45m) and described as a ‘fort’ in gothic lettering on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map but it is not depicted on the 1907 edition. A NW-SE field bank bisects the location, but no archaeological feature is visible at ground level in pasture. 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: 6 December 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Drumdreeny · Droim Dhraighnigh

Area

464,164 m² (46.42 ha, 114.7 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmoyne, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Kilmurry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilmurry electoral division: 669 people in 207 households; 91% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Anny, Corcullionglish, Corrateemore, Corrinshigagh, Kilmurry, Tray

Placenames

Drumdreeny 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.