# Drumdreeny, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Donaghmoyne, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Droim Dhraighnigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 464,164 m² (46.42 ha, 114.7 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,485 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Donaghmoyne, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/donaghmoyne.md - Barony: Farney - Electoral division: Kilmurry, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 669 people lived in 207 households in the Kilmurry electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 40% 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/39534 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170807 - Centre: latitude 54.04585, longitude -6.65475 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumdreeny, from 1,119 m² to 178,151 m² (17.82 ha, 44.02 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 317100: 178,151 m² (17.82 ha, 44.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/317100.md - Parcel 4835668: 74,407 m² (7.44 ha, 18.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4835668.md - Parcel 320879: 25,479 m² (2.55 ha, 6.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/320879.md - Parcel 4835729: 20,795 m² (2.08 ha, 5.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4835729.md - Parcel 338495: 11,850 m² (1.19 ha, 2.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/338495.md - Parcel 316111: 10,410 m² (1.04 ha, 2.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/316111.md - Parcel 5564116: 6,124 m² (0.61 ha, 1.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5564116.md - Parcel 332860: 3,709 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/332860.md - Parcel 2400067: 3,485 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2400067.md - Parcel 4994947: 3,259 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4994947.md - Parcel 4672401: 2,535 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4672401.md - Parcel 318564: 2,493 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/318564.md - Parcel 352809: 2,371 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/352809.md - Parcel 3669478: 2,323 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3669478.md - Parcel 5155015: 1,850 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5155015.md - Parcel 334131: 1,729 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/334131.md - Parcel 350988: 1,119 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/350988.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 7 applications, newest first. - 21 May 2025, Monaghan County Council 2539: Conditional. Retention. Retention permission for development at this site: Drumdreeny, Culloville, Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan. The development will consist of the retention of a domestic garage. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2539/0 - 19 Dec 2024, Monaghan County Council 24124: N/a. Retention. retention of a domestic garage. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/24124/0 - 13 Nov 2023, Monaghan County Council 2360280: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360280/0 - 16 Oct 2023, Monaghan County Council 2360238: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360238/0 - 8 Jun 2023, Monaghan County Council 23141: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/23141/0 - 24 Nov 2022, Monaghan County Council 22495: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/22495/0 - 31 Aug 2022, Monaghan County Council 22378: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/22378/0 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 Drumdreeny. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MO028-018: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO028-018----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO028-019----. 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 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumdreeny. ## 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 Drumdreeny, 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. - 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, 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/drumdreeny.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumdreeny.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumdreeny.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Drumdreeny 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) - Anny: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/anny-170120.md - Corcullionglish: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/corcullionglish.md - Corrateemore: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/corrateemore.md - Corrinshigagh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/corrinshigagh-170548.md - Kilmurry: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/kilmurry.md - Tray: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/tray.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/drumdreeny - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/drumdreeny