Drumboory

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumboory, from 1,003 m² to 403,799 m² (40.38 ha, 99.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Drumboory 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Drumboory in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Drumboory.

Recorded monuments

• MO034-007 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on the summit of a knoll, it is described as Campbell’s Fort in gothic lettering on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 53m; N-S; 50m E-W; int. diam. 49m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (at S: Wth 6.2m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 2.2m) and outer fosse (at S: Wth of top 4.6m; ext. D 0.8m) is incorporated into a field bank and hedge E-SSW, and by a scarp (at N: Wth 2m; ext. H 0.8m) with an outer berm (at N: Wth 7m) suggesting the fosse elsewhere. A slight dip in the perimeter at NW may be the entrance. 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: 17 June 2017

• MO034-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated at the crest of the S-facing slope of a drumlin, this rath is known locally as Kenny’s rath. It is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 42.8m NE-SW; int. diam. 38.7m NE-SW) with some scrub sloping down to the SW (H c. 3m) defined by an earthen bank (at NE: Wth 3.3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.3m) reduced to a scarp at SW (Wth 10m; int. H 0.1m; ext. 0.9m). It is surrounded almost immediately by a field bank (Wth 2.8-3.6m; max. int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.8-1.1m) and hedge with external stone facing. There is no visible fosse and an entrance gap at SW is modern. 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: 17 June 2017

• MO034-015 Souterrain
  Description

  Located in a fold between drumlins, the summits of which are c. 200-250m to the NW and NNE. There is a local belief that there was a ‘cave’, probably a souterrain, N of a farmhouse in Killark, but there is no reference to it from Killark school in the Schools’ Manuscripts from the 1930s, for which see this web-page accessed on 15/06/2017: http://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4723809 If it exists its precise location cannot be identified. 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: 27 June 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), 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 Drumboory.

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

Name

Drumboory · Droim Buaraí

Area

2,234,194 m² (223.42 ha, 552.08 acres)

Civil parish

Magheracloone, 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), Corkeeran, Halftate, Killark, Leeg, Mullyore, Tomiska, Tullyallen

Placenames

Drumboory 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.