Drumskelt

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumskelt, from 182 m² to 237,757 m² (23.78 ha, 58.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Drumskelt 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.

• 11 Jun 2025Conditional

  permission for development which will consist of 1. The change of use of the premises from two fisherman’s apartments to a single dwelling house; 2. Demolition of extensions to rear of dwelling house with the construction of a new two-storey extension to rear; 3. Construction of a new porch to front of the premises; 4. Replacement of existing septic tank and soakaway with a wastewater treatment system and raised mound percolation area and 5. Creation of new access onto the public road together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560232

• 23 Dec 2024Conditional

  permission for the development will consist of a single storey agricultural machinery storage shed at existing farmyard together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2460482

• 23 Jun 2021Conditional

  permission to construct a free-range laying type poultry house including attached egg/equipment stores, manure elevator & detached manure store, together with all ancillary structures including vertical meal bins, washings tank & other associated ancillary site works also with new site access from public road (incorporating portion of existing site access lane)

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21374

• 27 Nov 2019Conditional

  permission to construct a slatted shed for the housing of livestock, along with associated ancillary site works, using existing site access lane onto public road

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 19530

• 16 Jul 2019Conditional

  permission to construct a two-storey dwelling accessed via existing laneway off LT39003, install a waste water treatment system and percolation area, with all ancillary and associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19326

• 10 Feb 2017Conditional

  Retention of conversion of the existing two-storey farmhouse out-buildings to 2 no. fisherman's apartments together with all ancillary site development works. Retention Permission is also sought for an existing two-storey extension to the rear of the existing two-storey farmhouse comprising of a kitchen/bathroom at ground floor level and a bathroom/hall at first floor level. Permission is also sought for the replacement of the existing septic tank and soakway serving the premises with a certified wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter.

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 1748

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Dromore Lakes 000001

Recorded monuments

• MO018-052 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a local summit of a W-E drumlin at a point where the ridge turns N. A circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 45m) is depicted only on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’. No archaeological feature is visible at ground level in reclaimed pasture with some large overgrown ponds. 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. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 19 June 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Drumskelt, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2379 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Drumskelt with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Drumskelt · Droim Scoilte

Area

1,049,834 m² (104.98 ha, 259.42 acres)

Civil parish

Aghnamullen, and its townlands

Barony

Cremorne

Electoral division

Anny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

391 people lived in 125 households in the Anny electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cumry, Edenaneane, Keenogbane, Keenogduff, Lisgillan, Lisgorran, Monintin

Placenames

Drumskelt 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.