Drumbirn

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumbirn, from 77 m² to 90,446 m² (9.04 ha, 22.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Drumbirn 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.

• 19 Apr 2022Conditional

  permission consisting of amendments to the development permitted under Monaghan County Council Planning Register Reference 10/110 (An Bord Pleanála Reference PL18.240760) to provide for: (I) modifications to the finished floor levels of the permitted wind turbines and meteorological mast to account for existing ground levels; (ii) the re-configuration of the crane hardstandings of turbines T2 and T3; (iii) the omission of 845 metres of permitted wind farm accress track between turbines T4 and T6 including the crossing of the Rackelly stream; (iv) the realignment of 140 metres of underground wind farm electrical cabling T4 and T6 to follow an existing forestry track; (v) the omission of 145 metres of underground wind farm electrical cabling and its replacement with the 145 metres of overhead electricity line; (vi) the omission of the permitted electrical switchroom; (vii) temporary haul route upgrade works along the L11131, L5151, L1122 and L5150 local roads and the creation of a temporary site entrance and access track from the L5150; and (viii) all associated site development, drainage, access and reinstatement. This planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report/Environmental Impact Statement which includes an assessment of the likely effects 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 the grid connection infrastructure proposed pursuant to Monaghan County Council Planning Register Reference 18/562 (An Bord Pleanála Reference ABP-309906-21). This planning application is also accompanied by Natura Impact Statement. Significant further information received in relation to revised development description to include revised planning application boundary compared to that of Monaghan County Council planning register reference 10/110. **Transboundary Application**

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 22176

• 23 Aug 2019Conditional

  permission for proposed extension to the rear of existing single storey dwelling house and replacement of existing trussed roof. The new dormer style trussed roof to be increased in height to provide habitable attic space with roof windows and span over both existing dwelling and proposed extension. The development to include connections to all existing on site services and all associated site works. Previous planning references - P94/635 & P97/406. Significant further information relates to permission for the provision of new windows and door openings to Southern gable, new window openings to Northern gable and permission for the installation of an upgraded soil polishing filter system to service existing (certified) Septic Tank which fully complies to EPA code of practice "Wastewater treatment and disposal systems serving single houses".

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19397

• 13 Mar 2019Conditional

  Permission to retain a single storey nursery building, existing connection to wastewater treatment system & associated works. Significant Further Information relates to revised site layout and documentation in relation to existing wastewater treatment system

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 19118

• 1 Jun 2017Refused

  Permission for the technical amendments to the development permitted under Monaghan County Council Planning Register Reference 10/110 (An Bord Pleanala Reference PL18.240760) to include the realignment of site access tracks and underground cabling, the redesign of turbine hardstand areas and realignment of turbines T4 and T7 hardstand areas; relocation and resizing of the substation, including the omission of external transformers, transformers foundations and palisade fencing; relocation and design changes to the meteorological mast from a free standing mast to a guy-wired lattice structure; approximately 820 metres of underground cable from the meteorological mast to turbine T2; 2 no temporary storage compounds; and minor road upgrade works along the L5151-0 and L11131-0. Significant Further Information has been submitted in relation to application

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 17258

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 Drumbirn.

Recorded monuments

• MO003-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the SE and of the summit of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. This is a circular area (34m E-W; 31.5m N-S) planted with coniferous trees, defined by an earthen bank (at W: Wth 4m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1) with an external fosse (at SW: Wth of top 3.8m; ext. D 0.7m). There are several gaps in the bank, but the original entrance (Wth of top 3.7m) is at SSE. 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: 25 July 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Drumbirn.

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

Name

Drumbirn · Droim Birn

Area

496,794 m² (49.68 ha, 122.76 acres)

Civil parish

Errigal Trough, and its townlands

Barony

Trough

Electoral division

Derrygorry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Derrygorry electoral division: 292 people in 104 households; 76% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardginny, Cavan (Moutray), Esker, Killyslavan, Mullanafinnog, Tavanagh

Placenames

Drumbirn 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.