Drummans
Townland in the civil parish of Clones, barony of Monaghan, Co. Monaghan; in Irish An Dromainn
- Area
- 106.4 ha
- 263 acres
- Land parcels
- 41
- registered freehold, median 6,656 m² (0.67 ha, 1.64 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drummans, from 30 m² to 201,030 m² (20.1 ha, 49.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Drummans 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
18 Jan 2019Conditional
permission to construct 2 no. poultry houses together with all ancillary structures (to include meal bin(s),and soiled water tank(s) and ancillary site works (to include a new/upgraded site entrance) associated with the development. This application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a Licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) will be submitted with this planning application.
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 1916
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 Drummans.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drummans.
Architectural heritage
- Drummans Mill, mill (water), 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached multiple-bay two-storey former corn mill, built c.1800, having water-wheel to east elevation, and built into slight incline. Pitched corrugated-iron roof with render coping and replacement rainwater goods. Rubble sandstone walls, rendered in places. Outline of pedimented porch visible to front (south) elevation, with outline of blocked square-headed door opening. Square-headed ventilation slots under roof line to front and rear elevation. Square-headed window openings with timber pivoted windows to first floor front having some red bricks to surround. Square-headed door opening to front having timber lintel and double-leaf timber battened door. Square-headed door opening to rear with timber lintel and single-leaf timber battened door. Cast-iron water-wheel having cast-iron axle and timber spokes set within wheel-pit abutting east of building. Mill race visible to north. Grinding stone from mill to grounds. Two-storey corn drying kiln, adjoining two-storey outbuilding, to south-east of mill. Pitched slate roof having red brick chimneystack. Coursed rubble stone walls with squared stone quoins and square-headed ventilation openings to front (north-west) elevation. Square-headed window opening to south-west elevation at upper level having stone lintel and timber fittings. Gauged-brick segmental-headed opening to front with squared stone surrounds. Raised platform to interior behind rubble stone wall. Remains of red brick vaulting below perforated iron drying floor, supported on lengths of railway track.
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 20 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; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drummans.
- 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 Drummans with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Drummans · An Dromainn
- Area
- 1,063,853 m² (106.39 ha, 262.88 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clones, and its townlands
- Barony
- Monaghan
- Electoral division
- Clones, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Clones electoral division: 517 people in 180 households; 88% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghalissabeagh, Allagesh, Derryarrit, Derrylea, Derryleedigan, Derryleedigan (Jackson), Drumloo, Dundrumman, Gola Irish
- Placenames
- Drummans 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.