Drumgaghan

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumgaghan, from 55 m² to 208,631 m² (20.86 ha, 51.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Drumgaghan 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 Dec 2019Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of the construction of a two storey dwelling with single storey living and lounge area to the southwest, associated domestic garage, open new vehicular entrance to site, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter together with all associated site development works. Significant further information relates to site location map, floor plans and site layout

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19545

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 Drumgaghan.

Recorded monuments

• MO006-032 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on a gentle S-facing slope. There are local reports that a number of distinctive rings become visible when this field is growing cereals. These were about twelve feet (diam. c. 4m) across. Bricks had been made in the locality and they may be related to this as they could represent firing-pits. The rings do not appear on any aerial photographs. The precise locations are not known. Date of revised upload: 29 August 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 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

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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

Name

Drumgaghan · Droim Dhacháin

Area

481,263 m² (48.13 ha, 118.92 acres)

Civil parish

Donagh, and its townlands

Barony

Trough

Electoral division

Enagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Enagh electoral division: 548 people in 181 households; 87% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Belderg, Derryveen, Letgonnelly, Mullabrack (Shaw), Mullaghpeak, Skinnagin

Placenames

Drumgaghan 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.