# Drumshannon, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Aghabog, barony of Dartree, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Droim Seanáin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 604,551 m² (60.46 ha, 149.39 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 15,413 m² (1.54 ha, 3.81 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Aghabog, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/aghabog.md - Barony: Dartree - Electoral division: Killeevan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 330 people lived in 125 households in the Killeevan electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/40143 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170931 - Centre: latitude 54.159206, longitude -7.122969 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumshannon, from 450 m² to 100,833 m² (10.08 ha, 24.92 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 328856: 100,833 m² (10.08 ha, 24.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/328856.md - Parcel 328851: 76,614 m² (7.66 ha, 18.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/328851.md - Parcel 324505: 70,559 m² (7.06 ha, 17.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/324505.md - Parcel 328858: 65,567 m² (6.56 ha, 16.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/328858.md - Parcel 328852: 48,392 m² (4.84 ha, 11.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/328852.md - Parcel 347743: 36,491 m² (3.65 ha, 9.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/347743.md - Parcel 347835: 32,502 m² (3.25 ha, 8.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/347835.md - Parcel 348770: 24,571 m² (2.46 ha, 6.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/348770.md - Parcel 348771: 23,243 m² (2.32 ha, 5.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/348771.md - Parcel 328857: 22,003 m² (2.2 ha, 5.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/328857.md - Parcel 340177: 18,577 m² (1.86 ha, 4.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/340177.md - Parcel 348768: 12,248 m² (1.22 ha, 3.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/348768.md - Parcel 338230: 7,641 m² (0.76 ha, 1.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/338230.md - Parcel 325350: 7,130 m² (0.71 ha, 1.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/325350.md - Parcel 329894: 7,080 m² (0.71 ha, 1.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/329894.md - Parcel 348772: 5,190 m² (0.52 ha, 1.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/348772.md - Parcel 4855676: 3,238 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4855676.md - Parcel 328854: 3,017 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/328854.md - Parcel 348773: 2,371 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/348773.md - Parcel 316080: 1,720 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/316080.md - Parcel 332035: 927 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/332035.md - Parcel 4855674: 450 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4855674.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Drumshannon 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) No planning application touches the townland of Drumshannon in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## 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 Drumshannon. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumshannon. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Newbliss Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1840–1845, Regional interest, registry number 41305008, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41305008. Detached four-bay Presbyterian church, dated 1842, renovated and modernised c.1990, with lower single-bay two-storey former sexton's house attached and abutting four-bay two-storey hall to north-east. Pitched slate roofs to church, with air vents, stone copings with moulded kneelers, replacement aluminium gutters. Rough-dashed rendered walls with stone quoins, and having moulded plaque over main entrance doorway with inscribed lettering 'PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH A.D. 1842'. Pointed window openings with tooled chamfered stone surrounds, hood-mouldings, and timber Y-tracery with metal lattice glazing, except for east windows which are late nineteenth-century stained glass. Tudor arch door opening recessed moulded stone surround with hood-moulding, replacement double-leaf timber battened door, with concrete step to front. Former sexton's house has pointed windows, hall has square-headed windows, with stone sills and replacement uPVC frames, both have square-headed doorways with timber battened door. Buildings set back from road behind rendered wall, with graveyard to front and side, recessed entrance gateway having rendered piers with flat stone caps, curved walls, and double-leaf cast-iron gates with spearhead details. Interior refitted c.1990, having timber sheeted ceiling and internal porch, pine pews, and inserted rear partition. ## 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 Drumshannon, 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 high, moderately low, low. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumshannon. - 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/drumshannon.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumshannon.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumshannon.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Drumshannon 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) - Cormoy: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/cormoy-170463.md - Drumgristin: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumgristin-170846.md - Drumguff: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumguff.md - Feagh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/feagh.md - Genagh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/genagh.md - Glinch: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/glinch.md - Lisdarragh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/lisdarragh.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/drumshannon - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/drumshannon