Drumerlough More

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumerlough More, from 44 m² to 116,883 m² (11.69 ha, 28.88 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 Drumerlough More 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 Oct 2020Conditional

  Proposed development will consist of the following: (1) to construct a split level single storied dwelling house (2) to demolish the remains of a derelict dwelling house and to construct a detached domestic garage (3) to install a proprietary wastewater treatment unit and site specific percolation area (4) to construct entrance gates and piers and to use an existing laneway and entrance to access to development site (5) and all ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20436

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 Drumerlough More.

Recorded monuments

• MO030-039 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated at the summit of a drumlin. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 39m WNW-ESE; 39m N-S) that slopes down to the E. It is defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth of base 6.4-7m; int. H 0.2m at E to 1.4m at W; ext. H 1.4m at W to 1.9m at E), with an outer fosse (at WNW: Wth of top 4.8m; Wth of base 2m; ext. D 0.9m) and slight outer bank (at WNW: Wth of base 3m; ext. H 0.3m) W-NNW. There are entrances at NNE (Wth of base 2m) and SW (Wth of base 1m). 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: 25 August 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 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 Drumerlough More.

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

Name

Drumerlough More · Droim ar Loch Mór

Area

526,924 m² (52.69 ha, 130.21 acres)

Civil parish

Magheracloone, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Drumcarrow, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumcarrow electoral division: 515 people in 164 households; 90% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballaghnagearn, Camaghy, Drumbrackan, Drumbrone, Drumerlough Beg, Lavagilduff, Scalkill

Placenames

Drumerlough More 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.