# Drumswords, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Killeevan, barony of Dartree, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Droim Soird.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 478,382 m² (47.84 ha, 118.21 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 23,026 m² (2.3 ha, 5.69 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Killeevan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/killeevan.md
- Barony: Dartree
- Electoral division: Newbliss, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 918 people lived in 322 households in the Newbliss electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/40235
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170940
- Centre: latitude 54.138252, longitude -7.198489 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumswords, from 33 m² to 88,534 m² (8.85 ha, 21.88 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 327618: 88,534 m² (8.85 ha, 21.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/327618.md
- Parcel 332111: 85,017 m² (8.5 ha, 21.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/332111.md
- Parcel 329883: 48,869 m² (4.89 ha, 12.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/329883.md
- Parcel 348186: 44,040 m² (4.4 ha, 10.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/348186.md
- Parcel 5130581: 42,623 m² (4.26 ha, 10.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5130581.md
- Parcel 321227: 28,163 m² (2.82 ha, 6.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/321227.md
- Parcel 316425: 25,251 m² (2.53 ha, 6.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/316425.md
- Parcel 345371: 23,026 m² (2.3 ha, 5.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345371.md
- Parcel 345982: 21,496 m² (2.15 ha, 5.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345982.md
- Parcel 345322: 17,058 m² (1.71 ha, 4.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345322.md
- Parcel 328887: 16,633 m² (1.66 ha, 4.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/328887.md
- Parcel 329385: 14,724 m² (1.47 ha, 3.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/329385.md
- Parcel 343167: 11,854 m² (1.19 ha, 2.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/343167.md
- Parcel 324449: 4,693 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/324449.md
- Parcel 5080183: 33 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5080183.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

No planning application touches the townland of Drumswords 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 Drumswords.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- MO017-033001: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO017-033001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO017-033002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO017-033003-. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## 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 Drumswords, about 1 in 10 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, partly inferred.
- 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, 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/drumswords.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumswords.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumswords.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Drumswords 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)

- Crossbane: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/crossbane.md
- Drumcrow: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumcrow.md
- Drumreenagh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumreenagh-170924.md
- Dunseark: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/dunseark.md
- Mullaghboy: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/mullaghboy-171494.md
- Searkin: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/searkin.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.

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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.

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