# Drumgrole, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballybay, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Droim Dhrol. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,166,621 m² (116.66 ha, 288.28 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 29,948 m² (2.99 ha, 7.4 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballybay, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/ballybay.md - Barony: Cremorne - Electoral division: Ballybay Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,593 people lived in 581 households in the Ballybay Rural electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 8% 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/39643 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170848 - Centre: latitude 54.138137, longitude -6.887032 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumgrole, from 426 m² to 119,387 m² (11.94 ha, 29.5 acres); 26 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 331700: 119,387 m² (11.94 ha, 29.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/331700.md - Parcel 331699: 111,491 m² (11.15 ha, 27.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/331699.md - Parcel 2602011: 82,511 m² (8.25 ha, 20.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2602011.md - Parcel 331703: 80,201 m² (8.02 ha, 19.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/331703.md - Parcel 343811: 73,068 m² (7.31 ha, 18.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/343811.md - Parcel 343809: 68,987 m² (6.9 ha, 17.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/343809.md - Parcel 343818: 67,685 m² (6.77 ha, 16.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/343818.md - Parcel 331701: 62,496 m² (6.25 ha, 15.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/331701.md - Parcel 324459: 56,514 m² (5.65 ha, 13.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/324459.md - Parcel 343810: 54,914 m² (5.49 ha, 13.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/343810.md - Parcel 331702: 50,677 m² (5.07 ha, 12.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/331702.md - Parcel 331569: 47,034 m² (4.7 ha, 11.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/331569.md - Parcel 331709: 42,552 m² (4.26 ha, 10.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/331709.md - Parcel 331706: 40,952 m² (4.1 ha, 10.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/331706.md - Parcel 339373: 33,701 m² (3.37 ha, 8.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/339373.md - Parcel 343812: 31,279 m² (3.13 ha, 7.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/343812.md - Parcel 317042: 30,512 m² (3.05 ha, 7.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/317042.md - Parcel 337447: 29,948 m² (2.99 ha, 7.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/337447.md - Parcel 4334111: 7,527 m² (0.75 ha, 1.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4334111.md - Parcel 352341: 7,455 m² (0.75 ha, 1.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/352341.md - Parcel 354135: 6,272 m² (0.63 ha, 1.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/354135.md - Parcel 343816: 6,035 m² (0.6 ha, 1.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/343816.md - Parcel 343815: 5,821 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/343815.md - Parcel 332269: 5,532 m² (0.55 ha, 1.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/332269.md - Parcel 339328: 5,074 m² (0.51 ha, 1.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/339328.md - Parcel 343817: 4,547 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/343817.md - Parcel 3629253: 4,512 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3629253.md - Parcel 5575353: 3,803 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5575353.md - Parcel 344480: 3,470 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/344480.md - Parcel 348011: 3,454 m² (0.35 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/348011.md - Parcel 319571: 2,360 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319571.md - Parcel 317026: 1,996 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/317026.md - Parcel 331708: 1,671 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/331708.md - Parcel 355259: 1,103 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/355259.md - Parcel 331707: 426 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/331707.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Drumgrole 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) 7 applications, newest first. - 26 May 2025, Monaghan County Council 2560205: N/a. Permission. permission for renovation of existing derelict dwelling, extended floor area, elevational changes, new domestic garage, new sewerage wastewater treatment system and percolation area, use existing entrance laneway onto public road and all associated site development works, Significant further information received relates to submitted, Site layout plan, revised house plans, Dereliction report, Consent letter. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560205/0 - 29 Aug 2022, Monaghan County Council 22372: Conditional. Retention. retention permission of a single storey detached domestic garage and amended site boundary as previously approved under planning file number 19/107, together with all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/22372/0 - 18 Dec 2020, Monaghan County Council 20567: Conditional. Permission. permission to construct 1 no. poultry house together with all ancillary structures (to include meal storage bin(s) and soiled water tank(s)) and site works associated with the above development. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/20567/0 - 8 Mar 2019, Monaghan County Council 19107: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Permission to construct a two-storey dwelling, single storey detached domestic garage, new wastewater treatment system, new entrance with gates and piers onto shared access lane together with alteration of existing access on public road & associated works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/19107/0 - 17 Aug 2018, Monaghan County Council 18392: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Permission to construct a new single storey detached domestic garage and store adjacent to dwelling house as per previous Grant of Permission Ref: 17/71 and all other associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/18392/0 - 26 Feb 2018, Monaghan County Council 1872: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Permission to construct a one and a half storey dwelling, single-storey detached domestic garage, new entrance gates and piers, connection to mains sewer and all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/1872/0 - 21 Feb 2017, Monaghan County Council 1771: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission to demolish derelict house and erect a two storey dwelling, sewerage treatment unit, percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/1771/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Drumgrole. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumgrole. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumgrole. ## 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 Drumgrole, about 1 in 5 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: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2476, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2476.zip (ZIP). - 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/drumgrole.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumgrole.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumgrole.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Drumgrole 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) - Corkeeran: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/corkeeran-170433.md - Cornacreeve: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/cornacreeve-170473.md - Corrabofin: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/corrabofin.md - Drumar: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumar.md - Dunmaurice: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/dunmaurice.md - Knocknamaddy: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/knocknamaddy.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/drumgrole - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/drumgrole