# Drumguff, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killeevan, barony of Dartree, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Droim Dhaimh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 153,335 m² (15.33 ha, 37.89 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 22,970 m² (2.3 ha, 5.68 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killeevan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/killeevan.md - Barony: Dartree - Electoral division: Newbliss, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/57316 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170850 - Centre: latitude 54.161812, longitude -7.13713 (WGS 84) ## 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); 9 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 347833: 29,866 m² (2.99 ha, 7.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/347833.md - Parcel 5373797: 28,699 m² (2.87 ha, 7.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5373797.md - Parcel 328891: 17,240 m² (1.72 ha, 4.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/328891.md - Parcel 4266987: 2,284 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4266987.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 30 Apr 2026, Monaghan County Council 2660170: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660170/0 - 20 May 2024, Monaghan County Council 2460182: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460182/0 - 25 Oct 2023, Monaghan County Council 2360253: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360253/0 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 Drumguff. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumguff. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Bridge, 1840–1860, Regional interest, registry number 41305004, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41305004. 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. ## 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 Drumguff, 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 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 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/drumguff.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumguff.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumguff.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Drumshannon: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumshannon.md - Glinch: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/glinch.md - Guardhill: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/guardhill.md - Lisalea: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/lisalea.md - Lisdarragh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/lisdarragh.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/drumguff - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/drumguff