Drumswords

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumswords, from 33 m² to 88,534 m² (8.85 ha, 21.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Drumswords 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Drumswords in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Drumswords.

Recorded monuments

• MO017-033001 Church
  Description

  Situated on a shelf towards the bottom of a N-facing slope. The church was probably a chapel-of-ease to the parish church of Galloon which is in Co. Fermanagh (Foley and McHugh 2014, vol. 1, Pt. 2, 750-7), so that it does not occur in the ecclesiastical lists and the names of the clergy are not recorded. During the Middle Ages Galloon was a large parish, which was only broken up in 1806 (Shirley 1879, 327) when the parishes of Killeevan, Aghabog, Currin, and Ematris, also known as Edergole, were established in Co. Monaghan by the Church of Ireland. It is not known for certain how many medieval churches there may have been in the Dartry part of Galloon, but this church and that at Killeevan Glebe (MO012-070----) are both now within Killeevan parish, and this church has a core that is likely to be of fifteenth century date. Described as an ‘Old Church in Ruins’ on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map, this structure was revamped for Protestant worship in the eighteenth century. It is depicted on Taylor and Skinner’s 1783 Maps of the Roads of Ireland (Andrews 1969, 52). There are vestry books from 1764-1805, which is probably the period of its re-use (Davies 1938). The church is in the N part of a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 65m NW-SE; c. 50m NE-SW) defined by earthen banks with hedges and mature deciduous trees on all sides except the NW where there is a masonry wall bordering an ENE-WSW road. There are modern headstones and some from the eighteenth century, the earliest being 1708, but Shirley (1879, 334-7) read one with the date 1704. The inscriptions have been recorded (Mulligan 1985), although that of John English, dated 1698, was not noted in 2016. A stone (Wth 0.35m; H 0.28m) with carvings of mortality symbols is built into the W graveyard pier and is probably eighteenth century in date. The church is a rectangular structure (ext. dims 20.05m E-W; 7.6m N-S; int. dims 18.25m E-W; 6.33m N-S) defined by masonry walls that are almost complete (H 4.5m), apart from the top of the W gable and the W end of the S wall. There are good quoinstones but the tops of the N, S and E walls were rebuilt to accommodate the provision of rounded window-heads for the two windows in both the long walls, each originally with two lights. The capitals provided for the window-heads are larger than the medieval surrounds below. A doorway, represented now only by its W jamb, at the W end of the N wall is probably secondary and the W side of a blocked embrasure towards the W end of the S wall is probably the location of an original doorway. The E window is pointed and was probably of three lights and richly decorated originally but its mullions are gone and its pointed hood-moulding is an eighteenth century replacement as new stonework above it is evident. A large W window, probably a two-light decorated window, was removed and the embrasure blocked when a memorial to the Ley family was built inside it, but the date of the memorial is not known (Shirley 1879, 336). However, it is likely to date from the late seventeenth century as it was erected by William Ley, the grandson of Emanuell Ley who received land-grants in the 1610s (Lee 1998, 203), although Taylor (1896, 330) read the date as 1750. See the attached views _1 from N; _2 from E; _3 from S; _4 W window N wall; _5 Ley memorial 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 30 November 2016

• MO017-033002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on a shelf towards the bottom of a N-facing slope. The church (MO017-033001-) is in the N part of a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 65m NW-SE; c. 50m NE-SW) defined by earthen banks with hedges and mature deciduous trees on all sides except the NW where there is a masonry wall bordering an ENE-WSW road. The Ley memorial is built into the W embrasure of the church. In the graveyard there are modern headstones and some from the eighteenth century, the earliest being 1708, but Shirley (1879, 334-7) read one with the date 1704. The inscriptions have been recorded (Mulligan 1985), although that of John English, dated 1698, was not noted in 2016. A stone (Wth 0.35m; H 0.28m) with carvings of mortality symbols is built into the W graveyard pier and is probably eighteenth century in date. compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 12 August 2016

• MO017-033003 Wall monument
  Description

  A large window in the W wall of the church (MO017-033001-) was removed and the embrasure blocked when a memorial to the Ley family was built inside it. The inscription was recorded by Shirley (1879, 336), but the date was not legible, and the inscription is completely eroded now. However, it is likely to date from the late seventeenth century as it was erected by William Ley, the grandson of Emanuell Ley who received land grants in the 1610s, although Taylor (1896) read the date as 1750. Leyborow was their estate centred on what is now Annaghmakerig (Lee 1998, 203). The inscription on slate was surmounted by a white marble plaque displaying the Lee arms of a lion rampant. Both the inscription and the arms are enclosed by limestone or slate surrounds but an entablature over the arms does not survive. Shirley (ibid.) transcribed the legend as: This Monument was Erected by William Ley of Leyborow in memory of his father Richard Lee Esq., Son of Emmanuel Ley Esq. and likewise in memory of his mother Mrs Elizabeth Ley who both died in ye year of Our Lord…. See the attached image Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 30 November, 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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 Drumswords.

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

Name

Drumswords · Droim Soird

Area

478,382 m² (47.84 ha, 118.21 acres)

Civil parish

Killeevan, and its townlands

Barony

Dartree

Electoral division

Newbliss, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Newbliss electoral division: 918 people in 322 households; 76% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Crossbane, Drumcrow, Drumreenagh, Dunseark, Mullaghboy, Searkin

Placenames

Drumswords 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.