Drumillard Big

82 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumillard Big, from 174 m² to 88,800 m² (8.88 ha, 21.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 44 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Industry/Enterprise/Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 24 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Recreation/Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C6Existing Commercial (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses)
  Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community Services/Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 8 Jul 2026N/a

  permission for development consisting of the construction of a new showroom and warehouse premises comprising the following: 1. Construction of a two storey showroom/warehouse unit. 2. Provision of hardstanding areas, including car parking spaces, internal roads and turning heads. 3. Provision of an outdoor paving and hard landscaping display area, including a single-storey display structure. 4. Connection to existing public mains services. 5. Alteration of existing entrances onto the public roadway. 6. Installation of company signage on the building and at the site entrance. 7. Provision of new street lighting, including alterations to existing public lighting infrastructure. 8. Construction of entrance walls and gates, boundary fencing, and all associated ancillary site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660287

• 22 Dec 2025Conditional

  APPEALED - ACP - DECISION: Granted ; retention permission for an existing external yard storage building with full permission sought for a change of use from an existing retail outlet (RB Coogan) to a timber frame manufacturing facility with ancillary office and staff facilities; elevational changes, new signage, an extension to the existing external yard storage building, new plant room / ancillary store, alterations to the existing car parking areas, revised boundary treatments and all associated site development works. Significant Further Information received relates to submitted, Revised Plans, Water Protection Checklist, Car Parking proposal report, Flood Risk Assessment, Photo Montage and SUDs design Report.

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2560533

• 18 Dec 2025Conditional

  permission for demolition of existing rear extension, removal of existing roof, raising of external walls, construction of new raised roof, construction of new two-storey extension to the rear, demolition of rear outbuilding, internal and external additions and alterations, and all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560514

• 11 Dec 2025N/a

  permission for a development consisting of the demolition of existing rear extension, removal of existing roof, raising of external walls, construction of new raised roof, construction of new two-storey extension to the rear, demolition of rear outbuilding, internal and external additions and alterations, and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560497

• 3 Aug 2023Conditional

  permission to construct a two-storey style extension and a single storey extension to the rear of existing dwelling and upgrade existing septic tank to new sewerage wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2360160

• 3 Nov 2022Conditional

  permission for the importation of soil, stone, concrete, and inert waste along with construction and demolition material to raise existing ground levels and all ancillary site development works (in connection with a waste permit application)

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 22475

• 25 Jul 2022Conditional

  permission consisting of the retention of treatment plant building and odder abatement technology infrastructure and all associated site development works. Significant further information received in relation to (1) amendment to the development description (2) Revised site layout to define items such as foul and storm water (3) Revised landscaping and boundary treatment proposals (4) submission of additional reports

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 22336

• 15 Jun 2022Conditional

  permission to erect a two storey extension to rear of two storey dwelling house

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 22271

• 1 Feb 2022Conditional

  permission to construct a single storey bungalow and a single storey habitable log cabin (on a temporary basis), new sewerage wastewater treatment system, and new entrance onto public roadway LT75063 and all associated site development works. Significant further information received in relation to 1) development description amended to omit proposal to erect a single storey habitable log cabin ( on a temporary basis) and replace with permission to erect a single storey domestic garage. 2) Alterations to design of proposed single storey bungalow.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2238

• 20 Dec 2021Conditional

  permission for installation of portacabin with WC facilities with connection to public sewage system and all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21691

• 19 Mar 2021Conditional

  permission for development consisting of a change of use from proposed two storey split level dwellinghouse to self catering tourist accommodation as previously granted under Planning Permission reference No. 18/565.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21130

• 12 Jan 2021Conditional

  permission to construct a first floor extension to the side of their existing dwelling house together with all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 217

• 9 Sept 2020N/a

  permission for a development consisting of 1. retention of infilling of low-lying lands with stone and inert material & 2. permission to infill adjoining lands with stone and inert material in order to raise the ground levels together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 20362

• 15 Apr 2020Conditional

  permission for works consisting of the importation of soil, stone, concrete and inert waste along with construction and demolition material to raise existing ground levels ground levels, and all ancillary site development works (in connection with a waste permit application). Significant Further information relates to the submission of a Flood Risk Assessment

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 20126

• 25 Nov 2019N/a

  permission for development consisting of 1) The retention of upgraded treatment plant and 2) Permission to construct a single storey extension to side of existing food processing plant together with all ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19524

• 5 Dec 2018Conditional

  conversion of existing two storey split level agricultural barn to dwelling house with single storey extension to side of building, new sewerage wastewater treatment system and new entrance onto public roadway LT75063 and all associated development works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18565

• 23 Nov 2018N/a

  permission to create a vehicular entrance and works to consist of infilling of low-lying lands via importing of inert material and soils (overall quantity to not exceed 25,000 tonnes)

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18544

• 28 Feb 2018Conditional

  Permission to raise existing roof, erect an extension to rear and renovate dwelling house

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 1877

• 31 Jan 2018Conditional

  Permission to extend to rear of existing dwellinghouse and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 1840

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Muckno Lake 000563
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Smiley 001607

Recorded monuments

• MO020-015 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located the NW end 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 a curve in a field bank SE-W on the 1907 edition. No archaeological feature is visible at ground level in pasture, but the bank is probably incorporated into a field bank and hedge SE-W-NW (diam. c. 35m 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: 22 June 2018

Architectural heritage

• Derrycreevy Bridge, bridge, 1740–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Two-arch slightly humpbacked stone bridge, built c.1760, carrying Castleblayney to Newtownhamilton road over stream linking Drumillard and Muckno Loughs. Walls of uncoursed rubble sandstone with segmental arches having heavy, punch-finished ashlar voussoirs and punched chamfered string course narrowing wing walls and spandrels to parapet wall with heavy, punched flat coping stones. Parapets are terminated on both sides by square piers and are splayed slightly outward on each side of road crossing with some recent repairs with guillotined stone to south-east parapet. South-east parapet abuts low rubble stone field wall continuing on both sides of bridge. Bridge surface has soft grass margin to each side and no positive drainage. Upstream and downstream sides both have curved, pointed cutwaters.

• First Castleblayney Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1785–1935 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted Presbyterian church with Gothic detailing, dated 1787, remodelled 1930 by John Francis McGahon of Dundalk, having three-bay nave with single-storey flat-roofed minister’s room (1930) to rear (west). Pitched natural slate roof, half-hipped to rear, blue-black angled clay ridge and hip tiles, half-round metal gutters, stone finial gable, oval slate date plaque inscribed '1787/Revd. John Davys'. Roughcast rendered walling, smooth rendered plinth, quoins, and minister’s room. Pointed-arch cast-iron Y-tracery diagonally glazed windows with stained margins and quatrefoil to spandrels. Geometric tracery to east window over entrance door with moulded string course continued as hood-moulding, with concrete sills throughout. Pointed-arch timber double-leaf doors. Interior having partially timber-panelled lobby with timber dog-leg stairs leading to first floor gallery and meeting room. Church hall having two aisles, painted plastered walls and ceiling, wall-mounted carved stone memorials, carved timber pulpit and balcony on pair of cast-iron columns. Set back from road by roughcast plinth walls and cast-iron gates hinged to square pillars. Situated in elevated graveyard site, addressed by central flights of granite steps. Nearby lecture hall, built 1892 by John Harvey of Castleblayney.

• First Castleblayney Presbyterian Church, manse, 1870–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey manse, built 1871, to designs by Dundalk architect John Murray, with T-shaped plan having two-bay two-storey extension to rear elevation and lean-to slate with lead hip-roofed porch over main entrance. Rolled clay ridge tiles over pitched slate roof having brick chimneystacks with oversailing courses, overhanging eaves with timber-sheeted soffits, pierced timber bargeboards and replacement metal rainwater goods held on timber fasciaboard. Coarse roughcast cement rendered walls with battered, projecting stone plinth and pointed segmental-headed window openings with replacement uPVC frames, and concrete sills. Slate with lead hip-roofed single-storey canted bay window to south-east ground floor elevation having square-headed lights with replacement uPVC frames, and concrete sills. Two-centred pointed-arch doorway on smooth rendered entrance porch to north-east elevation with moulded render cornice to porch and moulding around doorcase which holds pointed timber door. Pitched slate-roofed single-storey roughcast rendered outbuilding to north-east with smooth rendered wall and steel-sheeted gates between outbuilding and manse which has single storey lean-to structure in this rear enclosed yard. Site set back off Keady road in own gardens surrounded by mature trees between manse and adjacent Presbyterian church building.

• Castleblayney Presbyterian Lecture Hall, Hall, 1890–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey hall, dated 1891, with gabled entrance porch to north-east façade and gabled extension to south-west elevation at rear of original hall structure linking it with four-bay late twentieth-century extension to south-west. Pitched fibre-cement tiled roof to both original main hall structure and lower entrance porch with ornate pierced timber bargeboards to both, and replacement metal gutters held on small rounded stone corbels at eaves, and cast-iron downpipes. Original hall building has ruled-and-lined smooth cement rendered walls with rusticated smooth render block-and-start quoins and two-centred arch window openings which have four-over-four pane timber sliding sash frames with convex horns and stone sills. Pointed window openings to the smooth cement rendered rear extension have replacement uPVC frames. Stone shield over main entrance doorway, with date. Two-centred arch doorway opening double-leaf timber-sheeted pointed doors with ornate iron hinges. Roughcast cement rendered front wall with heavy cast-iron gate held on octagonal roughcast rendered piers leading to sandstone steps up to main entrance doorway.

• House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced five-bay two-storey house, built c.1830, with gabled porch to front and lean-to porch to rear. Pitched fibre-cement tiled roof with terracotta ridge tiles, three smooth rendered brick chimneystacks with moulded clay pots, sprocketed eaves, and smooth rendered cornice holding cast-iron round rainwater goods. Painted ruled-and-lined smooth rendered walls with rusticated smooth render block-and-start quoins and square-headed window openings which have shallow reveals and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash frames to front mostly with chamfered but some convex horns and painted stone sills. Single four-over-four pane timber sliding sash window above front porch, with six-over-three pane frame to first floor on rear elevation where all other windows have replacement timber frames. Original crown glass evident to some window panes especially to rear elevation. Shallow pitched roof to front porch has decorative pierced scalloped timber bargeboard and painted smooth rendered walls containing camber-arch doorway opening with moulded render architrave framing replacement eight-panel timber door and flanking sidelights with stone sills. Painted, smooth rendered wall with wrought-iron railings held by square piers with cut-stone caps enclose front garden between house and road. Detached two-storey corrugated steel-clad gabled, stone-built outhouse with single-storey lean-to on west gable end to south-west corner of rear garden.

• House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced seven-bay single-storey rubble stone house with dormer attic, built c.1830, possibly originally three houses, having detached single-storey pitched roofed outhouse to south-west corner of rear yard and detached single-storey outhouse south of gable end creating entrance gateway for densely overgrown rear yard. Pitched slate roof with black clay ridge tiles, three evenly spaced brick chimneystacks having simple over-sailing courses, and replacement metal gutters on timber fasciaboard fixed to exposed overhanging rafter ends and having cast-iron downpipes. Gabled wall dormers with fibre-cement tiles, decorative terracotta ridge, black clay finials and pierced decorative timber bargeboards. Painted, ruled-and-lined smooth rendered walls with small triangular render moulding above dormer windows and camber-arch window openings with side-hung timber casements, two-pane to dormer level and six-pane to ground floor level, all with painted stone sills. One-over-one pane timber sliding sash window visible to south gable end. Square-headed entrance doorway with replacement sheeted timber door in simple moulded timber frame. Painted, smooth rendered ruled-and-lined brick boundary wall to front garden, with wrought-iron railings held by square piers with chamfered and stopped arrises and cut-stone capping. Square-plan gate piers with cut-stone capping incorporated into south-east corner of house and north-east corner of single-storey outbuilding with steel-sheeted gates to rear yard. Pitched outbuilding with slate roof and stone walls with wide double-leaf timber-sheeted door to gable end at road.

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 20 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; parts are made ground and water.

Terrain model

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

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 Drumillard Big with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Drumillard Big · Droim Iolaird Mór

Area

897,126 m² (89.71 ha, 221.68 acres)

Civil parish

Muckno, and its townlands

Barony

Cremorne

Electoral division

Castleblayney Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castleblayney Rural electoral division: 3,948 people in 1,451 households; 62% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corleadargan, Corracloghan, Corratanty, Derrycreevy, Drumillard Little

Placenames

Drumillard Big 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.