Drumlester

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumlester, from 52 m² to 183,597 m² (18.36 ha, 45.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Drumlester 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 Mar 2026Conditional

  permission to construct a single storey dwelling house, single storey domestic garage, new vehicular entrance off existing private laneway, provision of entrance piers, installation of a wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2660082

• 26 Sept 2025Conditional

  planning permission for change of house plans from that previously granted planning permission planning reference number 23/60162. Significant Further Information received relates to applying for permission to retain existing mobile home for use as temporary living accommodation for the duration of their planning permission ref. no. 2360162.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560389

• 18 Jun 2025Conditional

  permission to construct 2 no. poultry houses together with all ancillary structures (to include meal storage bin(s) and soiled water tank(s)) and site works associated with the above development. This application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a Licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (N.I.S.) was submitted with planning application (19/403)

  Extension of duration · Monaghan County Council, 259006

• 19 Feb 2025Conditional

  permission for a development which will consist of a single storey dwelling house, single storey domestic garage, new vehicular entrance off existing private laneway, provision of entrance piers, installation of a wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with all ancillary site development works, Significant further information received relates to submitted, Revised drawings, Roof panel broacher, cladding brochure,

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560053

• 8 Nov 2023Conditional

  permission for change / revision of house and garage design as previously granted under planning ref: 21/304. The development will consist of revised storey dwelling and revised garage design with propriety waste water treatment unit, percolation area, new site entrance and ancillary site works (as previously granted)

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 23225

• 3 Aug 2023Conditional

  permission to construct a two storey dwellinghouse, proprietary waste water treatment system, site entrance onto the public road from an existing private roadway and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2360162

• 21 Dec 2021Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of alterations to the previously approved application, planning permission reference 21/304. Alterations include amendments to the elevations, inclusion of an entrance porch, change of materials, alterations to the internal layout and all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21696

• 11 Jun 2021Conditional

  permission for construction of a one and a half storey dwelling, single-storey detached domestic garage, use of existing shared access lane, construction of new gates & piers, new wastewater treatment system & all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21346

• 31 May 2021Conditional

  permission to erect a two storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, proprietary waste water treatment unit, percolation area, new site entrance and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21304

• 29 Aug 2019Conditional

  permission to construct 2 no. poultry houses together with all ancillary structures (to include meal storage bin(s) and soiled water tank(s)) and site works associated with the above development. This application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a Licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (N.I.S.) will be submitted with this planning application. Significant further information relates to an amended EIAR

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 19403

• 4 Dec 2018Conditional

  permission for the construction of a 38kv electricity substation, switchroom and equipment compound with palisade fence; the construction of approximately 400m of site access track and the upgrading of approximately 150m of existing agricultural track and an existing agricultural site entrance; approximately 200m of underground cabling and all associated site development and reinstatement works in the townland of Luppan, County Monaghan; and (ii) the installation of approximately 22km of 38kV electricity cables from the proposed substation to the existing electricity substation in the townland of Lisdrumdoagh, County Monaghan. The electricity cables will comprise approximately 17km of overhead line and approximately 5 km of underground line. Overhead lines will consist of 3 no. cables suspended from wooden poles with a maximum height of 16 metres, and all associated site development and reinstatement works. Underground cables will be located within private lands and within the public roads numbered L5171, L1400 and L1171; will be installed in excavated trenches of approximately 1.2m in depth and will include associated underground ducting, joint bays, communication chamber bays, sheath link boxes and inspection chambers; directional drilling beneath the N12 and Ulster Canal and all associated site development and reinstatement works. A vehicle access track of up to 4m in width will be provided immediately adjacent to underground cables with private lands. This planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report which includes an assessment of the likely impacts of the proposed development, as a whole and in combination with the relevant off-site or secondary developments which will occur as a direct result of the proposed development, including the wind farm development permitted pursuant to Monaghan County Council Planning Register Reference 10/110 & An Bord Pleanála Reference PL18.240760 and proposed to be amended by planning reference 17/258 & An Bord Pleanála Reference PL18.300998 (currently under construction). A Natura Impact Statement will also be submitted to the planning authority with the planning application. This application is accompanied by an EIAR. Significant Further information has been submitted.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18562

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 Drumlester.

Recorded monuments

• MO010-014001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the E end of a WNW-ESE drumlin ridge. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 37m) defined by an earthen bank (art S: Wth of base 6m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 3m) separated by a fosse (Wth of base 1.7m) from an outer earthen bank. There is an entrance through the inner (Wth of base 2.7m) and outer (Wth of base 2.9m) banks and a causeway (Wth of top 4.4m; H 1.2m) at E, and the monument is surrounded by an earthen field bank (at ESE: Wth 3.1m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.55m) NE-SE with an entrance (Wth of base 5.4m) through it at E. There is a souterrain (MO010-014002-) inside the perimeter at N and a house-site (MO010-014003-) at the centre. 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: 26 January 2018

• MO010-014002 Souterrain
  Description

  Situated just N of the centre of rath (MO010-014001-) and leading N from a rectangular mound or hut site (MO010-014003-). It is described (McCormick 1978, 326) as a passage or chamber (L 2m; Wth c. 1m; H 0.4-1m) with drystone walls and a lintelled roof that is entered at the S. At the N end a creep (L 0.7m; Wth 0.4m), roofed with a single lintel, leads to an inner chamber (L 2.3m plus N-S; Wth 0.45m at N to c. 0.9m at S; H 0.5m at N to 1.2m at S) that is damaged at the N end. 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: 11 November, 2016

• MO010-014003 Hut site
  Description

  Located N of the centre of rath (MO010-014001-). It is described by McCormick (1978, 326) a rectangular mound (dims c. 8m N-S; c. 7m E-W; H 0.3m) with the entrance to souterrain (MOP010-014002-) inside its N edge. Date of revised upload: 26 January 2018 Revised by: Michael Moore

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 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 Drumlester.

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

Name

Drumlester · Droim Leastar

Area

1,083,319 m² (108.33 ha, 267.69 acres)

Civil parish

Donagh, and its townlands

Barony

Trough

Electoral division

Glaslough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glaslough electoral division: 964 people in 325 households; 76% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coraghbrack, Cornahoe Lower, Derrylea Beg, Drumbeo, Drumbristan, Feddans, Knockabeany, Shanmullagh, Tullycumasky

Placenames

Drumlester 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.