Drummond

72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drummond, from 4 m² to 145,601 m² (14.56 ha, 35.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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 Drummond 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.

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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 Drummond.

Recorded monuments

• MO033-006 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on the SW-facing slope of a low NW-SE drumlin ridge. It is depicted as a small circular embanked enclosure on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as a ‘fort’ with field banks approaching it from NE, SE and NW. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 11m; 10.5m N-S;) defined by a scrub-covered earthen bank (Wth of base 2.8-3m; int. H 0.3-0.6m; ext. H 0.7m at N to 1.1m at S) with an outer fosse (at N: Wth of base 3m; ext. D 0.2m) NNW-NE that has been incorporated into a recent drain (at S: Wth of top 3m; Wth of base 1.8m; ext. D 0.6m) elsewhere . There is a large tree-stump at the centre, and there are gaps in the bank at N, E, SE and SSW, none of which need be original. The equally small enclosure (MO033-007----) is c. 100m to the ENE while the cropmark enclosure (MO033-008----) is c. 50m to the ESE. 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: 28 June 2017

• MO033-007 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on the summit of a NW-SE drumlin ridge towards the NW end. It is depicted as a small circular embanked enclosure on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as a ‘fort’ with field banks approaching it from NE, NW and SW. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 12m) defined by an earthen bank (at NE: Wth at base 4.6m; int. H 0.4ml; ext. H 1.5m) with some scrub, but material has been added to the perimeter S-NNW. There is no visible fosse or entrance. The equally small enclosure (MO033-006----) is c. 100m to the WSW while the cropmark enclosure (MO033-008----) is c. 40m 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: 28 June 2017

• MO033-008 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on the SW-facing slope of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. A circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 35m) defined by a single fosse feature (Wth c. 5m) that has a large opening (Wth c. 10m) at SE is visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP: AVG 85, 86) dating from c. 1973. It is also visible on Google Images (19/03/2015). The small enclosures (MO033-007----) and (MO033-008----) are c. 50m to the WNW and c. 40m to the NE respectively. 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: 13 July 2017

Architectural heritage

• Farmyard complex, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex, built c.1820 on sloping site, comprising three-bay single-storey vernacular house with gabled windbreak to front (south) elevation, with single and two-storey outbuildings attached to west end, and having external staircase to west gable of outbuilding. House later in use as outbuilding, now disused. Pitched slate roof, with brick chimneystack to east gable, and with remains of brick chimneystack to west end of house. Roughcast rendered walls to front and rear, with exposed rubble stone and brick wall to east gable. Square-headed window openings, no windows remaining, with some timber battened fittings. Windbreak has pitched slate roof with timber bargeboards, and square-headed door opening having timber battened door with over-light. Later square-headed opening with sliding metal gate to east end of front elevation. Attached single-bay outbuilding having pitched slate roof, roughcast rendered walls and square-headed opening with sliding metal doors. Two-bay two-storey outbuilding attached to west gable of this, having pitched slate roof, whitewashed rubble stone walls, square-headed openings with timber battened shutters and doors. Dogleg external staircase to west gable, with poured concrete treads over rubble stone base.

• Drummond Cottage, farmyard complex, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex, built c.1800, comprising attached four-bay single-storey house with remains of windbreak with rounded walls, and extensive range of outbuildings. Front elevation of house facing west, with three-bay single-storey outbuilding attached to south gable, with open byre attached to south gable of this, whole forming west range of yard, with single-bay single-storey outbuilding attached to east elevation of outbuilding. Multiple-bay single and two-storey outbuildings forming east range of yard, two-bay two-storey outbuilding to south side, and two-bay single-storey pigsty to north side. Pitched slate roof to house, with red brick chimneystack. Roughcast rendered rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings, blocked-up on front elevation, having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with exposed box frames on end gable wall. Square-headed panelled timber door opening to front elevation. Single-storey three-bay outbuilding extending to south with pitched corrugated-iron roof, roughcast-rendered rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings with timber fittings. Open byre with monopitch corrugated-iron roof, rubble stone walls, and round-plan rubble stone piers supporting roof. East range and outbuilding to south have pitched corrugated-iron and slate roofs, painted coursed rubble stone walls, and timber fittings. Pigsty has lean-to corrugated iron roof, rubble stone walls, timber fittings, and rubble stone boundary walls. Yard accessed through round-plan piers supporting wrought-iron gate to south-west, additional set of round-plan piers supporting wrought-iron gate accesses fields from north-east corner of yard. Original entrance to Drummond Cottage to north-west of house, no longer in use. Site entrance on main road to south with double-leaf wrought-iron gate, round-plan painted rubble stone walls and flanking walls.

• Lime kiln, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Square-plan lime kiln, built c.1800, built into bank, recently restored and rebuilt. Roughly dressed stone walls, some dressed snecked new stonework with castellated parapet. Round arch with rusticated voussoirs and keystone to fire opening, rubble stone to soffit. Situated close to crossroads.

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 Drummond, about 1 in 10 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drummond.

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.

• Drummond, Magheracloone5 sales

Name

Drummond · An Dromainn

Area

1,392,650 m² (139.27 ha, 344.13 acres)

Civil parish

Magheracloone, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Enagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

819 people lived in 236 households in the Enagh electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycartlan, Camaghy, Cormey (Co. Cavan), Derrynaglah, Enagh, Knocknacran West, Lisnakeeny, Stranatona

Placenames

Drummond 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.