Drumgramph

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumgramph, from 1,394 m² to 109,129 m² (10.91 ha, 26.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Drumgramph 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.

• 25 Oct 2019Conditional

  A ten year permission for the development of 8 no. wind turbines, each with a maximum tip height of up to 180 metres; and all associated site development, reinstatement, temporary and ancillary works including turbine foundations, crane hardstands, approximately 5.5 kilometres of site access tracks, permanent upgrade works to the L62012 and L62013 local roads, 11 no. site entrances, underground electricity and communications cabling, site drainage works, a temporary construction compound and a permanent meteorological mast with a maximum height of up to 101 metres. The proposed development will have a 30-year operational life from the date of commissioning of the entire development. The proposed development also includes permanent upgrade works along the R188, R183 and R189 regional roads in the townlands of Rakean, Lismagonway, Aghadrumkeen and Newbliss to accommodate the delivery of wind turbine components. Upgrade works will include the removal of roadside banks and vegetation, re-profiling of a vertical crest, the removal of 1 no. tree and the temporary lowering of a bridge parapet wall, and all associated site development and reinstatement works. This planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report which includes an assessment of the likely impacts of the proposed development, as a whole and in combination with the relevant off-site or secondary developments which will occur as a direct result of the proposed development, including connection to the national electricity grid, upgrade works to turbine component delivery routes and the importation and use of construction materials. The planning application is also accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement. Significant further information relates to revised plans. (NOTE 1ST AND 3RD PARTY APPEAL ON THIS FILE)

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 19486

• 18 Sept 2019Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of the construction of a new storey and a half rural dwelling house and single storey detached garage, new effluent treatment system and percolation area, and all associated site works. Significant further information relates to the amendment of site line boundary

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19439

• 28 May 2019Conditional

  permission for the installation of a meteorological mast with a maximum height of up to 100 metres supported by guy wires for the purpose of measuring and recording meteorological data and all associated site development and reinstatement works. The existing 80 metre meteorological mast, located on the subject site, was erected as exempted development in accordance with Class 20A, Schedule 2, of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 (as amended). It is proposed to increase the overall height of this existing mast to up to 100 metres. Existing access arrangements to the proposed development site, using a public right of way, will remain unaltered. The operational lifetime of the proposed development will be up to five years. Significant further information relates to a revised development description.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 19242

• 7 Feb 2018Conditional

  Permission to alter plans and elevations of previously approved dwelling house which has yet to be constructed (planning ref No 17/272), by extending the dwelling by 600mm in a southern direction

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 1847

• 7 Jun 2017Conditional

  Permission to demolish existing dwelling and construct a new storey and a half type dwelling, install new proprietary sewerage treatment system and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17272

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 Drumgramph.

Recorded monuments

• MO017-056 Enclosure
  Description

  Located at the outer edge of a shelf towards the top of the SW-facing slope of a drumlin. This enclosure is depicted as an embanked rectangular enclosure on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. It is a rectangular grass-covered area (dims 41m E-W; 40m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth c. 3m; int. H c. 0.5m,; ext. H c. 1.8m), an outer fosse and outer bank at N, and scarps with hedges (at E: H 1.55m) and outer drains (at E: Wth of base 1.4m; D 0.4m) on the other sides. There is a ramp entrance (Wth of top 3.2m) at E, and another entrance gap (Wth of base 2m) at W. It might be a small field. 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. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 9 May 2018

Architectural heritage

• Violet Vale, house, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay one-and-a-half-storey house, built c.1860, having advanced entrance bay topped with gabled half-dormer window to front (north) elevation, and gabled half-dormer windows to either side of this. Near-full-height addition to rear elevation. Pitched slate roofs, with polychrome brick chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Terracotta ridge tiles, with decorative timber bargeboards and ball-mounted finials to dormer windows. Roughcast rendered walls, partly pebbledashed to front elevation, lined-and-ruled rendered walls to entrance bay with triangular pebble-dashed panel over door. Render quoins and plinth. Square-headed window openings, having shouldered render surrounds to front elevation, and painted sills. Two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening having sunburst glazed timber door. Set back from road in own grounds.

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

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, low (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 Drumgramph.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Drumgramph with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Drumgramph · Droim gCreamha

Area

855,110 m² (85.51 ha, 211.3 acres)

Civil parish

Currin, and its townlands

Barony

Dartree

Electoral division

Killynenagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

219 people lived in 71 households in the Killynenagh electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghareagh East, Closdaw, Corkish, Cortreane, Drum, Drumanan, Dunnaluck, Killyleg, Lislea, Lislongfield, Tattincake

Placenames

Drumgramph 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.