# Drumever, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killanny, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Droim Ramhar. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 791,707 m² (79.17 ha, 195.64 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,607 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killanny, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/killanny.md - Barony: Farney - Electoral division: Ballymackney, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,001 people lived in 335 households in the Ballymackney electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/39271 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170811 - Centre: latitude 53.959069, longitude -6.668754 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumever, from 412 m² to 350,128 m² (35.01 ha, 86.52 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 323474: 350,128 m² (35.01 ha, 86.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/323474.md - Parcel 335467: 143,557 m² (14.36 ha, 35.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/335467.md - Parcel 340510: 136,394 m² (13.64 ha, 33.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/340510.md - Parcel 323983: 78,853 m² (7.89 ha, 19.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/323983.md - Parcel 338884: 62,737 m² (6.27 ha, 15.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/338884.md - Parcel 5026025: 3,448 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5026025.md - Parcel 337425: 2,671 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/337425.md - Parcel 323225: 2,542 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/323225.md - Parcel 322446: 2,298 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/322446.md - Parcel 355926: 2,118 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/355926.md - Parcel 4102262: 1,644 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4102262.md - Parcel 343621: 1,461 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/343621.md - Parcel 346450: 1,191 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/346450.md - Parcel 5026020: 412 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5026020.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 6 Jun 2025, Monaghan County Council 2544: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2544/0 - 1 Jun 2022, Monaghan County Council 22244: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/22244/0 - 2 Jul 2021, Monaghan County Council 21392: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21392/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Monalty Lough, site code 001608 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MO031-100: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO031-100----. 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 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) - Ballymackney House, house, 1820–1840, Regional interest, registry number 41403146, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41403146. 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, registry number 41403147, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41403147. 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. ## 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 Drumever, about 1 in 10 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 high, 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 Drumever. - 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/drumever.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumever.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumever.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Drumever 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) - Aghafad: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/aghafad.md - Annacroff: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/annacroff.md - Coolaha: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/coolaha.md - Lisnashannagh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/lisnashannagh-171393.md - Monaltybane: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/monaltybane.md - Shanmullagh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/shanmullagh-171645.md - Shanrah: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/shanrah.md - Tullyraine (Co. Louth): https://everytownland.com/louth/tullyraine.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/drumever - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/drumever