# Drumguill, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Drumsnat, barony of Monaghan, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Droim Goill. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 698,992 m² (69.9 ha, 172.72 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,826 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 12 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Drumsnat, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/drumsnat.md - Barony: Monaghan - Electoral division: Drumsnat, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,069 people lived in 392 households in the Drumsnat electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 32% 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/40641 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170851 - Centre: latitude 54.220501, longitude -7.046408 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumguill, from 161 m² to 175,084 m² (17.51 ha, 43.26 acres); 24 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 354348: 175,084 m² (17.51 ha, 43.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/354348.md - Parcel 319119: 131,159 m² (13.12 ha, 32.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319119.md - Parcel 319120: 105,774 m² (10.58 ha, 26.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319120.md - Parcel 340905: 75,611 m² (7.56 ha, 18.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/340905.md - Parcel 348364: 60,598 m² (6.06 ha, 14.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/348364.md - Parcel 324531: 57,249 m² (5.72 ha, 14.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/324531.md - Parcel 354674: 13,077 m² (1.31 ha, 3.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/354674.md - Parcel 354349: 10,233 m² (1.02 ha, 2.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/354349.md - Parcel 327475: 6,820 m² (0.68 ha, 1.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/327475.md - Parcel 328475: 6,541 m² (0.65 ha, 1.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/328475.md - Parcel 317059: 4,366 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/317059.md - Parcel 6229459: 4,062 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6229459.md - Parcel 323536: 3,980 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/323536.md - Parcel 5884015: 3,745 m² (0.37 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5884015.md - Parcel 321678: 3,501 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/321678.md - Parcel 3375907: 3,184 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3375907.md - Parcel 348296: 2,875 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/348296.md - Parcel 345458: 2,854 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345458.md - Parcel 349549: 2,798 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/349549.md - Parcel 2706585: 2,675 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2706585.md - Parcel 322997: 2,414 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/322997.md - Parcel 347875: 2,348 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/347875.md - Parcel 324151: 2,346 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/324151.md - Parcel 352517: 2,094 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/352517.md - Parcel 352788: 2,010 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/352788.md - Parcel 329798: 1,995 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/329798.md - Parcel 350709: 1,965 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/350709.md - Parcel 348536: 1,757 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/348536.md - Parcel 336941: 1,348 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/336941.md - Parcel 338930: 1,335 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/338930.md - Parcel 316503: 1,177 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/316503.md - Parcel 327208: 1,156 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/327208.md - Parcel 354311: 669 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/354311.md - Parcel 5884020: 494 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5884020.md - Parcel 350068: 238 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/350068.md - Parcel 6229461: 161 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6229461.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Drumguill 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) 12 applications, newest first. - 3 Sept 2026, Monaghan County Council 2660368: N/a. Permission. permission to construct 1 No. poultry house together with all ancillary structures (to include meal storage bin(s)) and site works. This application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a Licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (E.I.A.R.) will be submitted with this planning application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660368/0 - 11 Jun 2026, Monaghan County Council 2651: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. retention of two-storey dwelling house, insert new filter unit and percolation area and exit on to public road by way of new entrance from associated car park and all ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2651/0 - 17 Sept 2025, Monaghan County Council 2578: N/a. Retention, 1 home. permission to retain two storey dwelling house, insert new filter unit and percolation area and exit on to public road by way of existing entrance and all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2578/0 - 18 Feb 2025, Monaghan County Council 2510: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. planning permission to construct a new two storey dwelling house & detached domestic garage, new domestic entrance, install new mechanical effluent treatment system and subsoil percolation area together with all ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2510/0 - 20 Dec 2024, Monaghan County Council 24127: Refused. Retention. retention of a two storey dwelling house as replacement for demolished two storey dwelling house, insert new filter unit and percolation area and exit on to public road by way of existing entrance and all associated works, Significant further information received relates to submitted Water Protection Plan list, Amended site boundaries, letter of consent re farm buildings.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/24127/0 - 31 May 2024, Monaghan County Council 2454: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. permission to retain changes to dwelling house and new position of septic tank. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2454/0 - 6 Sept 2023, Monaghan County Council 23183: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission to erect a one and a half storey dwelling house with a domestic garage, install wastewater treatment system and percolation area, construct new domestic entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/23183/0 - 6 Apr 2022, Monaghan County Council 22155: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission to erect a two storey extension to rear of existing two storey dwelling house and exit onto public road by way of existing entrance. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/22155/0 - 28 Oct 2021, Monaghan County Council 21600: N/a. Permission. permission for development consisting of the construction of a two storey granny flat extension onto existing dwelling house with all new service connected onto existing services together with all ancillary site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21600/0 - 15 Sept 2021, Monaghan County Council 21521: Conditional. Permission. permission for 1. amendments to site boundaries from those granted in planning permission ref. 20/214 and 2. the construction of a detached single storey domestic garage and all other associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21521/0 - 15 Jun 2020, Monaghan County Council 20214: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission for development consisting of the construction of a new bungalow type dwelling house, proprietary waste water treatment unit and polishing filter and construct new entrance onto existing road and all other associated site development works. Significant further information relates to amended site plan and amended site location map.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/20214/0 - 18 Dec 2019, Monaghan County Council 19562: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission for a development consisting of the erection of a one and a half storey style dwelling house with a detached domestic garage, install wastewater treatment system and percolation area, construct new domestic entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/19562/0 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 Drumguill. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumguill. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Saint Mary's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1810–1925, Regional interest, registry number 41401305, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41401305. Free-standing gable-fronted Roman Catholic church with Byzantine-Romanesque detailing, built 1810, rebuilt 1924-5 after fire, to designs by Rudolf Butler. T-plan with six-bay nave, easternmost bay slightly recessed, and with single-bay gabled transept having lower ridge. Flat-roofed aisle abutting north elevation, with chapel and boiler shed outshots, flat-roofed porch to west gable, and modern catslide porch abutting east elevation of transept. Pitched slate roof with roll-top blue/black angled ridge tiles, stone Celtic Cross finials and verges on painted eaves corbel blocks, and half-round metal gutters. Cut sandstone bell-cote with Celtic Cross finial and offset, pointed-arch aperture containing single bronze bell with lettering '[Sheridan?]…Dublin 1873'. Rendered chimneystack to east end party wall of nave/chancel and north aisle/sacristy. Painted roughcast walling over napped plinth; strip buttresses to ends of east gable. Round-headed stained-glass casement lancets throughout, single to north aisle east and west elevations, bipartite to porch, tripartite to nave gables, bipartite to nave in round-headed napped surround with oculus above double round-headed lights, with render sills. Square-headed replacement timber battened doors to porches. Front porch has stone stoups and Minton-like herringbone tiled floors with polychrome lozenge-patterned margins. Nave has gallery to west end of nave, round-arch arcade with similar arch to transept. Aisle ends in side chapel with door accessing sacristy to east end of chancel and behind side chapel. Exposed timber roof structure supported on painted stone corbels, with timber sheeted roof over rafters and purlins. Set back from road, with steel gates and rubble and roughcast plinth wall with modern inset plaque inscribed 'Saint Mary’s Church Erected 1810 AD.' Situated on sloping site rising to north-east, with terraced lawn and bitmac pathways, with stone Celtic Cross to priest’s grave to front of transept gable, terraced ditch surrounding west porch and north aisle, rendered modern two-storey house to south-east of church at roadside, modern school-house across road to south, substantial graveyard with rendered stepped wall enclosing graveyard with mostly twentieth-century gravestones and 'Jubilee' mission crucifix, dated 2000, to east end of graveyard. ## 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 Drumguill, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground and water. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2278, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2278.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/drumguill.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumguill.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumguill.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Drumguill 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) - Cabragh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/cabragh-170207.md - Cooldarragh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/cooldarragh.md - Corcreeghy: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/corcreeghy.md - Drumgarve: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumgarve.md - Kilnaclay: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/kilnaclay.md - Mullanavannog: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/mullanavannog-171540.md - Roosky: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/roosky-171616.md - Tirmadown: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/tirmadown.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/drumguill - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/drumguill