Drumgurra

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumgurra, from 426 m² to 150,703 m² (15.07 ha, 37.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 41 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Drumgurra 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.

• 6 Mar 2025Conditional

  planning permission for the construction of a portal framed, agricultural storage shed and all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560088

• 8 Dec 2023Conditional

  Retention of a portal framed, agricultural machinery shed and all associated site works

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2360307

• 13 Oct 2021Refused

  permission for the construction of a two storey dwelling, domestic garage, effluent treatment system and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21575

• 19 Aug 2021N/a

  The construction of a two storey dwelling, domestic garage, effluent treatment system & associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21469

• 20 May 2020Conditional

  Permission to alterations to existing ground levels, using imported soil and stone material

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 20174

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drumgurra.

Recorded monuments

• MO030-011 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a rise in an undulating landscape. This was described in 1967 (SMR file) as a circular grass-covered area (diam. 25m E-W; 24.3m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at S: Wth of base 6.6m; int. H 1.7m) SE-W and by a low scarp (at N: Wth 1.6m; H 0.6m) elsewhere. There was no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. It has been removed or has eroded away since 1995 (Bing 2013). 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. Date of revision: 24 August 2017

• MO030-012 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the summit of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. It is depicted as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’, and as an arc of hachures at the W side of an enclosure on the 1907 edition. It was described in 1967 (SMR file) as a circular grass-covered area (diam. 30m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (at W: Wth of base 4.5m; Wth of top 1.6m; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.7m) SW-NW and by a slight scarp elsewhere. There was no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. The bank has since eroded away (Bing 2013). 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. Date of revision: 24 July 2017

• MO030-014 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated at the SW tip of a low NE-SW spur at the S foot of a drumlin. This is a circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 42m NNE-SSW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 3.4-5.2m; int. H 0.4m at SSW to 1.2m at NNE) with some bushes that has been converted into a field bank with external stone facing, and a field wall replaces the bank SW-NW. There is no visible fosse, and there are entrances at ESE (Wth of base 1m) and S (Wth of base 1.1m). 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. Date of revision: 25 August 2017

• MO030-015 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the E tip of a W-E spur on the E side of a drumlin and overlooking a col with another drumlin summit c. 450m to the E. This is a circular overgrown area (diam. 25m NW-SE; 24.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 4.6m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.1m) W-NW and by a scarp (at S: Wth 3.4m; H 1.8m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or entrance. The monument is quartered by overlying NE-SW and NW-SE field walls but the wall running SW from the centre is now only a relict feature while the E quadrant has been completely removed. 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. Date of revision: 25 August 2017

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumgurra.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumgurra.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.

No address of the register names Drumgurra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Drumgurra · Droim Goireadh

Area

1,680,920 m² (168.09 ha, 415.36 acres)

Civil parish

Magheross, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Drumgurra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumgurra electoral division: 742 people in 242 households; 90% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrickartagh, Carrickmaclim, Corlea, Fartagorman, Lisnafeddaly, Mullaghcroghery, Rakeeragh

Placenames

Drumgurra 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.