Drumturk

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumturk, from 88 m² to 154,541 m² (15.45 ha, 38.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Drumturk 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.

• 26 Mar 2026Conditional

  permission for development which will consist of: proposed change of use from existing domestic dwelling to short term tourist rental accommodation, revised boundaries and all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660109

• 1 Sept 2021Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of the construction of a single storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, boundary fencing, new entrance and all associated site works. Significant further information relates to revisions to site boundaries and dwelling, relocation of entrance, provisions of retaining wall to rear and all associated development works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21500

• 23 Nov 2018Conditional

  erect a storey and a half dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, mounded soil polishing filter, entrance onto public road and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 189021

• 22 Mar 2018Conditional

  two storey dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage, waste water treatment system, mounded soil polishing filter, entrance onto public road via existing lane and all associated site works

  Extension of duration · Monaghan County Council, 189003

• 27 Jan 2017Conditional

  permission for a change of house location and change of site boundaries on previously granted permission ref: 13/29 for the construction of a two storey dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 1723

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 Drumturk.

Recorded monuments

• MO031-098 Promontory fort - inland
  Description

  Situated at the N edge of a low plateau. It is depicted as a large D-shaped feature (dims c. 150m NW-SE; c. 75m NE-SW) with the straight side at NE and defined by a single field bank on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as a ‘fort’ in gothic lettering. It is represented as an equally large D-shaped hachured feature with a wooded border (Wth c. 10m) on the NW and NE sides on the 1907 edition. It was known locally as the ‘Black Fort’ and the name was recorded by the Ordinance Survey in the 1830s (Herity 2012, 302). This was a slightly raised triangular grass-covered area (dims 77m NW-SE; c. 58m NE-SW) defined by an overgrown scarp (at NE: H 1.4m) and a berm (at NE: Wth 7m) at the upper edge of the natural slope (total H c. 4m) on the NE side and by a slight scarp (Wth 6m; H 0.8m) on the NW side. The S edge is provided by an uneven grass-covered scarp (at SW: H 1.1m) that was quarried at the SE angle. There is no evidence of a bank, fosse or entrance, but it may have been an inland promontory fort. It had been removed by 1984. The rath (MO031-099----) is c. 100m to the SW. 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. Date of revision: 31 July 2017

• MO031-099 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a low-lying plateau. It is depicted as a subtriangular embanked enclosure on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’, and it is depicted as an oval hachured feature on the 1907 edition. It was recorded in the 1967 as an oval, slightly domed (H 0.8m) grass-covered area (dims c. 49.5m NNW-SSE; 34.3m E-W; ) defined by a scarp (at W: Wth 2m; H 0.7m) and traces of an eroded fosse W-N-E (at E: Wth of top 9m; int. D 0.8m; ext. D 0.1m). The interior and the perimeter at S were disturbed by ancient quarrying. There was no identifiable original entrance. It had been eroded away by 1984 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. Date of revision: 31 July 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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, 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 Drumturk.

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

Name

Drumturk · Droim Thoirc

Area

628,273 m² (62.83 ha, 155.25 acres)

Civil parish

Killanny, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Drumboory, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumboory electoral division: 571 people in 179 households; 91% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annamarran, Clonturk (Mason), Corradoran (Co. Louth), Drumhasket, Lisnashannagh, Mullaghmacateer, Mullaghmeen, Shanrah

Placenames

Drumturk 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.