# Drumfaldra, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Aghnamullen, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Droim Fallach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 332,238 m² (33.22 ha, 82.1 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,026 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Aghnamullen, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/aghnamullen.md - Barony: Cremorne - Electoral division: Anny, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 391 people lived in 125 households in the Anny electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/39937 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170812 - Centre: latitude 54.103621, longitude -6.930305 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumfaldra, from 291 m² to 168,299 m² (16.83 ha, 41.59 acres); 9 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5177865: 168,299 m² (16.83 ha, 41.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5177865.md - Parcel 330875: 87,784 m² (8.78 ha, 21.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/330875.md - Parcel 329107: 7,011 m² (0.7 ha, 1.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/329107.md - Parcel 330245: 5,284 m² (0.53 ha, 1.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/330245.md - Parcel 339459: 4,768 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/339459.md - Parcel 4856565: 3,792 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4856565.md - Parcel 341946: 2,277 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/341946.md - Parcel 344405: 291 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/344405.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Drumfaldra 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) No planning application touches the townland of Drumfaldra in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## 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 Drumfaldra. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumfaldra. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Rock Mount, house, 1820–1840, Regional interest, registry number 41402318, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41402318. Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c.1830, with outbuildings now incorporated as further accommodation. Original house has pitched slate roof with carved timber bargeboards over rafter ends and to gablet over entrance bay, rendered stepped profile chimneystacks to gable ends and having stepped copings and octagonal clay chimneypots. Render mainly removed to expose rubble limestone walls with squared quoins. Camber-headed window openings with brick voussoirs, stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Segmental-headed window openings to first floor rear with brick voussoirs and square-headed to ground floor with stone lintels. Round-headed doorway to front elevation with brick voussoirs and square-headed to rear with stone lintel, having recent timber door. Block to north end of house is slightly recessed two-storey with similar roof details to house, two openings to first floor and four to ground, with segmental and round-headed window openings with similar details to house, and segmental-headed doorway Further recent block at right angle to north end of recessed block has similar roofing to house, rendered walls, square-headed window and wide segmental-headed door opening. Set in own grounds, having single rubble stone pier to garden entrance to west of house, rubble stone walls to driveway and site entrance. - Drumfaldra House, house, 1820–1840, Regional interest, registry number 41402319, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41402319. Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey house, built c.1830, on site of earlier house, having pedimented breakfront to front (east) elevation, and five-bay two-storey south elevation with pedimented breakfront to middle bay. Outbuildings attached to north elevation forming range to rear. Hipped slate roofs, pitched to pediments, having red brick chimneystacks and slightly projecting timber corbelled eaves. Render removed, exposing rubble limestone walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills throughout, having tooled stone surrounds to front elevation and ground floor breakfront to south elevation. Bipartite windows with central stone mullion to side bays of front elevation and to ground floor of breakfront to south elevation, having four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows with margin lights, replacement uPVC window to ground floor of breakfront to south elevation. Six-over-six pane timber sliding sash window with margin lights to first floor breakfront to front elevation. Mixed six-over-six pane and eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows and replacement uPVC windows to south elevation. Elliptical-headed door opening with carved stone surround having enlarged keystone detailing and fluted curved brackets to simple cornice. Leaded petal fanlight and geometrical leaded sidelights, and timber panelled double-leaf door. Diminishing cut-stone steps. Single-storey range of outbuildings attached to north elevation of house, having hipped corrugated-iron roof, rubble stone and rendered walls, square-headed window opening with eight-over-eight pane window to east elevation. Rubble stone walled garden to south of house, having brick-lined walls to south and west interior elevations, and cut-stone copings. Site entrance to south-east with recent piers and railings. Square-plan three-bay single-storey gate lodge having re-entrant corner, pyramidal tiled roof, rendered walls, and square-headed openings. Wall-mounted cast-iron post box to pier of site entrance, having V. R. Insignia and W. T. Allen maker's mark. ## 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 Drumfaldra, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumfaldra. - 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/drumfaldra.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumfaldra.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumfaldra.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Drumfaldra 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) - Bowelk: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/bowelk.md - Corwillin: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/corwillin.md - Edenforan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/edenforan.md - Tamlat: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/tamlat-171688.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/drumfaldra - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/drumfaldra