Drummaconor
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmore, barony of Monaghan, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Droim Mhic Conchúir
- Area
- 55 ha
- 136 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 37,159 m² (3.72 ha, 9.18 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drummaconor, from 2,290 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres) to 181,661 m² (18.17 ha, 44.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Drummaconor 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
16 Dec 2022Conditional
permission to decommission 1 no. existing poultry house and poultry manure store and to construct 1 no. replacement free range poultry house, together with all ancillary structures, and all associated site works associated with the proposed development. Significant further information relates to clarification that an Appropriate Assessment Screening report has been submitted and a SuDS Report & Traffic Assessment information has been received
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 22518
1 Nov 2018Conditional
The construction of a Type 1 carriageway for a distance of 3.1km from the townland of Tullygrimes to the townland of Annaghervy. The N54 realignment will consist of 7.3km carriageway with 2x2.5km hard shoulders and 2 x 3m verges, the provision of a ghost island junction located at the junction of the N54 with the R187 regional road and at the junction of the N54 with the local road L1600. The local roads L16004 and L1600 will be realigned to provide a stagger type junction with the local roads L21803 and L16005.
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 188015
7 Mar 2018Conditional
Permission to retain (previously granted under register ref: 11/337 for a temporary 5 year period which has expired) for existing 21m high multi-operator telecommunications support structure carrying associated telecommunications equipment, and associated equipment cabinets and cabin within a fenced compound. The development will continue to form part of the existing and future telecommunications and broadband networks. Significant Further Information relates to retention permission for the replacement of 2x0.3m dishes with 2x0.6m dishes and the addition of 6 x RRUs (Remote Radio Units).
Retention · Monaghan County Council, 1893
31 Aug 2017N/a
The construction of a Type 1 carriageway for a distance of 3.1km from a location 500m west of Monaghan Town boundary to a location 180m west of the R187 regional road junction with the N54. The N54 realignment will consist of 7.3m carriageway with 2 x 2.5m hard shoulders and 2 x 3m verges, the provision of a ghost island junction located at the junction of the N54 with the R187 regional road and at the junction of the N54 with the local road L1600.The local roads L16004 and L1600 will be realigned to provide a stagger type junction with the local roads L21803 and L160005
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 178008
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drummaconor.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drummaconor.
Architectural heritage
- Bridge, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch humpback canal bridge, built c.1838, to carry road over Ulster Canal. Round arch with tooled sandstone voussoirs. Roughly coursed squared sandstone to spandrel and parapet walls, tooled stone platband to base of parapet walls. Gunnelled squared stone to voussoirs. Towpath with tooled sandstone coping running to west abutment. Squared roughly-coursed sandstone walls having tooled stone coping to approach to bridge.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2277 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Drummaconor with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Drummaconor · Droim Mhic Conchúir
- Area
- 549,957 m² (55 ha, 135.9 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Monaghan
- Electoral division
- Bellanode, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Bellanode electoral division: 1,571 people in 495 households; 83% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghnamallagh, Annaghervy, Annagola, Cooldarragh, Corcreeghy, Drumacaslan, Tullykenny
- Placenames
- Drummaconor 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.