Drumever

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumever, from 412 m² to 350,128 m² (35.01 ha, 86.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Drumever 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.

• 6 Jun 2025Conditional

  permission for development which will consist of: permission to convert, renovate and extend an existing gate lodge building at Ballymackney House into a residendial dwelling. The gate lodge building at Ballymackney House is a protected structure. The proposed works relating to this protected structure include the following: 1. Alterations and the construction of a single storey extension to the rear and side of the gate lodge building. 2. A new domestic waste water treatment system to serve the proposed development. 3. New site boundaries. 4. Improvements at the existing site entrance to include all associated site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2544

• 1 Jun 2022Conditional

  permission to renovate and change the use of the existing gate lodge building with Ballymackney House from residential to self-catering accommodation. The gate lodge building at Ballymackney House is protected structure. The proposed works relating to this protected structure include the following: 1. Alterations and the erection of a single storey extension to the rear and side of the gate lodge building 2. A new domestic waste water treatment system to serve the proposed development 3. New site boundaries 4. Improvements at the existing site entrance 5. All associated site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 22244

• 2 Jul 2021Conditional

  permission to construct a one and a half storey type dwelling house, a domestic garage, a domestic waste water treatment system and a new site entrance with all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21392

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: Monalty Lough 001608

Recorded monuments

• MO031-100 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a slight rise in a low-lying undulating landscape. This is depicted as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 50m) only on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map. It is visible as a slightly raised and grass-covered subcircular area (dims c. 38m E-W; c. 34m N-S), but it is also visible as a subcircular enclosure defined by a single fosse feature which may have an entrance at SSE on the OSI aerial images (1995). 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: 31 July 2017

Architectural heritage

• Ballymackney House, house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house over basement, built c.1830, having outbuildings to yard to rear (north-west). Hipped slate roof with timber corbelled eaves and paired rendered chimneystacks, with rubble stone chimneystack to rear. Roughcast rendered walls, with render quoins and plinth course. Square-headed window openings, having tripartite frames with timber mullions and tooled stone sills to front and side elevations, with timber sliding sash windows, three-over-six pane to first floor and six-over-six pane to ground floor. Rear elevation has square-headed four-over-four pane window and round-headed eight-over-twelve pane staircase window with intersecting glazing bars to fanlight. Elliptical-headed door opening, having timber panelled door set in carved timber doorcase, flanked by geometrically leaded sidelights over panelled stall risers, and with elaborate petal fanlight, recessed within render surround. Square-headed replacement timber doors to rear with over-lights. Yard to rear has three-bay two-storey outbuilding to yard to rear having pitched slate roof, stone bell-cote, rubble stone walls, external staircase to east gable with cut-stone steps and rubble stone retaining wall, square-headed openings, timber windows and battened timber doors; three-bay single-storey outbuilding to rear yard having pitched slate roof, rubble stone walls, square-headed openings having recent metal shutters, depressed relieving arch to central bay. Second yard to north having ranges of outbuildings with corrugated-iron roofs, rubble stone walls and square-headed openings. Rubble stone boundary walls with wrought-iron pedestrian gate and wrought-iron double-leaf gate flanked by stone piers to north of house, separating front garden from farm yards. Set back from road, with mature trees to garden and avenue. Site entrance to east.

• Ballymackney House, gates/railings/walls, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Entrance gates to Ballymackney House, erected c.1860, having double-leaf wrought-iron vehicular gate, flanked by single-leaf pedestrian gates, set to square-plan rubble limestone piers, lower to outer piers, clad with tooled margined cut stone to road elevation, having cut-stone pointed caps. Rubble stone flanking boundary walls with vertical rubble stones for copings, that to north becoming parapet wall of bridge. Ruinous remains of detached two-bay single-storey gate lodge, having slate roof, rendered walls, and square-headed openings with timber battened door and boarded window.

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 high, 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 Drumever.

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

Name

Drumever · Droim Ramhar

Area

791,707 m² (79.17 ha, 195.64 acres)

Civil parish

Killanny, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Ballymackney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballymackney electoral division: 1,001 people in 335 households; 92% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghafad, Annacroff, Coolaha, Lisnashannagh, Monaltybane, Shanmullagh, Shanrah, Tullyraine (Co. Louth)

Placenames

Drumever 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.