# Drumguillew Lower, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballybay, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Droim gColbha Íochtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 597,493 m² (59.75 ha, 147.64 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 14,858 m² (1.49 ha, 3.67 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballybay, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/ballybay.md - Barony: Cremorne - Electoral division: Greagh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 481 people lived in 170 households in the Greagh electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 10% 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/39849 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170852 - Centre: latitude 54.110087, longitude -6.827838 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumguillew Lower, from 467 m² to 276,236 m² (27.62 ha, 68.26 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 355711: 276,236 m² (27.62 ha, 68.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/355711.md - Parcel 333825: 75,328 m² (7.53 ha, 18.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/333825.md - Parcel 332347: 62,378 m² (6.24 ha, 15.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/332347.md - Parcel 318991: 48,545 m² (4.85 ha, 12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/318991.md - Parcel 352366: 42,979 m² (4.3 ha, 10.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/352366.md - Parcel 352629: 30,427 m² (3.04 ha, 7.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/352629.md - Parcel 353005: 23,249 m² (2.32 ha, 5.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/353005.md - Parcel 334732: 14,858 m² (1.49 ha, 3.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/334732.md - Parcel 322103: 4,385 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/322103.md - Parcel 4287908: 4,310 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4287908.md - Parcel 331028: 4,068 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/331028.md - Parcel 4268958: 3,906 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4268958.md - Parcel 332424: 3,693 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/332424.md - Parcel 2561058: 2,013 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2561058.md - Parcel 336482: 467 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/336482.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Drumguillew Lower 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) 5 applications, newest first. - 17 Nov 2023, Monaghan County Council 23231: N/a. Retention, 1 home. permission to retain a detached dormer style structure for purposes of dependent relative accommodation, connection to existing site services, and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/23231/0 - 7 Oct 2022, Monaghan County Council 22444: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission consisting of the construction of a single storey detached garage together with all ancillary and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/22444/0 - 18 Oct 2021, Monaghan County Council 21584: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission for demolition of existing dwelling and outbuildings, with the construction of a proposed replacement dwelling and wastewater treatment system and percolation area. The development is to use the existing vehicular entrance/exit to the site and include for all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21584/0 - 8 Feb 2021, Monaghan County Council 2152: N/a. Permission, 1 home. permission for a development consisting of demolition of existing dwelling and outbuildings, with the construction of a proposed replacement dwelling and wastewater treatment system and percolation area. The development is to use the existing vehicular entrance/exit to the site and include for all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2152/0 - 22 May 2018, Monaghan County Council 18210: 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 (including new site entrance) associated with the above development. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/18210/0 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 Drumguillew Lower. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MO024-003: Megalithic tomb - court tomb, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO024-003----. Situated on a slight rise between drumlins, it is not depicted on any OS map. This is a court-tomb with a slightly curved gallery (L c. 5m; Wth 1.4m) aligned roughly NW-SE. A single stone to the SE of the gallery is probably a court stone. A number of the stones are shattered. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumguillew Lower. ## 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 Drumguillew Lower, 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. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumguillew Lower. - 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/drumguillew-lower.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumguillew-lower.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumguillew-lower.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Drumguillew Lower 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) - Clogher: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/clogher.md - Drumhawan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumhawan.md - Shane: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/shane.md - Toome: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/toome-171775.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/drumguillew-lower - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/drumguillew-lower