# Drumguillew Upper, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballybay, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Droim gColbha Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 609,796 m² (60.98 ha, 150.68 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 26,472 m² (2.65 ha, 6.54 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 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/39850 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170853 - Centre: latitude 54.099007, longitude -6.811474 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumguillew Upper, from 1,889 m² to 99,525 m² (9.95 ha, 24.59 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 315307: 99,525 m² (9.95 ha, 24.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/315307.md - Parcel 315164: 90,709 m² (9.07 ha, 22.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/315164.md - Parcel 355709: 84,522 m² (8.45 ha, 20.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/355709.md - Parcel 314974: 68,932 m² (6.89 ha, 17.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/314974.md - Parcel 315488: 66,100 m² (6.61 ha, 16.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/315488.md - Parcel 322527: 55,284 m² (5.53 ha, 13.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/322527.md - Parcel 316918: 41,980 m² (4.2 ha, 10.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/316918.md - Parcel 4835849: 26,472 m² (2.65 ha, 6.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4835849.md - Parcel 316958: 25,702 m² (2.57 ha, 6.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/316958.md - Parcel 356224: 19,811 m² (1.98 ha, 4.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/356224.md - Parcel 4852211: 15,685 m² (1.57 ha, 3.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4852211.md - Parcel 4852210: 5,878 m² (0.59 ha, 1.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4852210.md - Parcel 5215213: 5,251 m² (0.53 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5215213.md - Parcel 347344: 2,591 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/347344.md - Parcel 345031: 1,889 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/345031.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Drumguillew Upper 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. - 18 Mar 2026, Monaghan County Council 2660097: Conditional. Permission. permission for the development will consist of the conversion of existing dry/loose livestock handling shed to a slatted livestock shed with underground slurry storage tank, provision of R.C. walls to part of the shed and replacement of the existing roof with a new roof together with all ancillary site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660097/0 - 16 Mar 2022, Monaghan County Council 22123: Conditional. Permission. permission consisting of a dry bedded shed for the housing of livestock along with an unroofed silage base & other associated ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/22123/0 - 2 Jun 2021, Monaghan County Council 21323: N/a. Permission. permission to construct a dry bedded shed for the housing of livestock along with an unroofed silage base & other associated ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21323/0 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 Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MO024-011: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO024-011----. Located on the most westerly summit of three on a NW-SE drumlin ridge. This is a subcircular grass-covered area (dims 46m N-S; 37m E-W) defined by an earthen bank separated by a fosse from an outer overgrown bank, which is incorporated into a field bank NE-S. There are many gaps in both banks but the original entrance through the inner (Wth of base 2.4m) bank and a causeway (Wth of top c. 4m; H 0.4m) are at E. There is a circular hut-site (diam. 7-8m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 1.5m; H 0.3m) at the centre but an entrance to it is not identified. 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 - MO024-011001: Hut site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO024-011001-. Located on the most westerly summit of three on a NW-SE drumlin ridge. A circular hut-site (diam. 7-8m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 1.5m; H 0.3m) is at the centre of rath (MO024-011----) but an entrance to it is not identified. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 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 Upper. ## 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 Upper, 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 Drumguillew Upper. - 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-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumguillew-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumguillew-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Drumguillew Upper 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-170206.md - Drumhawan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumhawan.md - Drumlane: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumlane.md - Greagh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/greagh-171084.md - Shane: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/shane.md - Tullycarragh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/tullycarragh.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-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/drumguillew-upper