Drumguff
Drumguff is a townland in the civil parish of Killeevan, barony of Dartree, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is Droim Dhaimh.
- Area
- 15.3 ha
- 38 acres
- Land parcels
- 4
- registered freehold, median 22,970 m² (2.3 ha, 5.68 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumguff, from 2,284 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres) to 29,866 m² (2.99 ha, 7.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Drumguff 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
30 Apr 2026N/a
permission for amendments to the development will consist of: • Revisions to the new indoor playing arena with attached two storey structure. • Revisions to the entrance onto the public road. • Revisions to the signage. • Amendments to the site layout including all associated and ancillary site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660170
20 May 2024Conditional
permission for a two storey extension to the existing childcare facility comprising of preschool and afterschool rooms, signage, connection to the existing wastewater treatment system, provision of additional car parking spaces together with all ancillary site works, Significant Further Information relates to, Revised site layout plan, Revised Location plan and Road Safety Audit
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2460182
25 Oct 2023Conditional
permission for development consisting of: • Construction of a single storey new indoor playing arena with attached two storey structure consisting changing rooms, meeting rooms, social room, gym and ancillary rooms. • Construction of new outdoor playing field with soil retaining structures, boundary fencing, flood lighting and all required ancillary works. • Construction of new internal access roadways, car parking together with associated hard and soft landscaping. • Widening of existing access route, installation of new culvert to link existing access route to proposed internal roadways. • Installation storm water drainage system including attenuation tank. • Installation of proprietary wastewater treatment system. • Signage to proposed building. Significant Further Information submitted relates to Revised Site Services Plan, Revised site layout plan, Site Drainage Plan, Landscaping Plan, Flood Risk Assessment
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2360253
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drumguff.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumguff.
Architectural heritage
- Bridge, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Limestone railway bridge over Newbliss to Monaghan road and over stream, built c.1850. Roughly-hewn limestone blocks built to courses, with neat pointing. Segmental arch to road and round to stream, with roughly dressed stone walling and soffits, rock-faced voussoirs, sloping buttresses to outer edges of elevations, and low parapets, each with rock-cut string course to base.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Drumguff, 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumguff.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Drumguff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Drumguff · Droim Dhaimh
- Area
- 153,335 m² (15.33 ha, 37.89 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killeevan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dartree
- Electoral division
- Newbliss, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 918 people lived in 322 households in the Newbliss electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Drumshannon, Glinch, Guardhill, Lisalea, Lisdarragh
- Placenames
- Drumguff 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.