Drumrutagh

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumrutagh, from 2,432 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres) to 29,665 m² (2.97 ha, 7.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• C2.1Industry/Enterprise/Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Recreation/Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Landscape Protection/Conservation (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 4 Dec 2025Conditional

  permission for development consisting of an extension to the previously granted planning permission (ref:19283) partially constructed cattle cubicle shed, new enclosed calf pen with underground effluent tanks together with all ancillary and associated site works. This application relates to a site in the vicinity of a protected structure NIAH Reg. No:41400982. The proposed development does not affect the protected structure in any way

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560483

• 25 Nov 2025N/a

  permission consisting of the construction of an enclosed calf pen with roof extending from existing cubicle shed, a 2-bay cubicle shed extension to existing cubicle shed with underground tanks for effluent and dairy washings together with all ancillary and associated site works (This application relates to a site in the vicinity of a protected structure NIAH Reg. No:41400982. The proposed development does not affect the protected structure in any way)

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560471

• 1 Apr 2021Conditional

  permission to develop a greenway from Monaghan Town’s Coolshannagh roundabout (N2 junction with N12) to Ardgonnell Bridge, located on the border with Northern Ireland near the N12. The proposed greenway measures 7.3 kms in length and affects mainly rural land in both public and private ownership. It follows the route of the Ulster Canal as it proceeds alongside the N12 national primary road to Middletown, County Armagh. The proposed stretch of Greenway within Monaghan Town connects to the existing greenway near Coolshannagh roundabout and passes along the rear of Monaghan Institute on the N12 Armagh Road.The proposed greenway from Monaghan Town to the border passes through the following Townlands: An Tulaigh Thirim (Tullyhirm); Cnoc an Chonnaidh (Knockaconny); Droim Ruatach Drumrutagh); Droim Achaidh Chruitin (Drumacruttan); An Chorr Bheag (Corbeg); Cruail (Crowey); Sceith na gCeann (Skinnagin); Táite an Teampaill (Templetate); Tulaigh Loiscthe (Tullylish); Táite Mhuileann an Ūcaire (Tuckmilltate); Coill Uí Néill (Killyneill); Coillidh Liaf (Killeef) and Tamlacht (Tamlat). The proposed Greenway will consist of the following 5m corridor incorporating a pathway up to 3m wide with a drainage/buffer verge up to 1m on each side. The pathway will consist of an unbound, granular surface course of gravel and dust, with asphalt in certain locations such as road crossing points, stock proof timber fencing (1.2m tall) at each side of the greenway where appropriate, as well as chicane railings at road crossing points, four pedestrian timber footbridges for connectivity across the canal and watercourses, underpass guardrails at the following bridges: Drumratagh Bridge; Crowey Bridge; Glebe Bridge and Pipers Bridge, information boards at the termination point in Monaghan Town, together with way-marking and advanced warning signage for users along the route where appropriate, and all necessary associated site works such as route clearance, tree felling where unavoidable, drainage improvements, road junction improvements for pedestrians (dropped kerbs, tactile paving), site levelling/re-grading works and cut and fill earthworks.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 218005

• 20 Jun 2019Conditional

  permission to construct a new cubicle shed, milking parlour, dairy, associated plant rooms and collecting yards, with underground tanks for effluent and dairy washings, erection of meal bin with all ancillary & associated site works. This application relates to a site in the vicinity of a protected structure NIAH Reg. No.: 41400935. The proposed development does not affect the protected structure in any way.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19283

• 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 Drumrutagh.

Recorded monuments

• MO009-030 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a rise in a low-lying landscape. A circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30m) is depicted 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 pasture. As the location is in full view of Bessmount House c. 300m to the S it may have been a tree-ring or adapted as one. 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 December 2017

• MO009-068 Ritual site - holy tree/bush
  Description

  Situated on a slight N-S ridge with small S-N streams c. 200m to the E and W. It is described as ‘Confession Bush’ in italic lettering only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. A mass rock is thought to be located here (Ó Galachair 1957, 126) but there is no other information about it, and it is not recorded in the schools’ manuscripts of the Irish Folklore Commission. There is no mass rock present but there is a lone hawthorn bush. Date of revised upload: 14 December 2017

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch canal bridge, built c.1838, carrying private road over Ulster Canal. Elliptical arch with tooled sandstone voussoirs. Squared coursed sandstone spandrel and parapet walls. Tooled sandstone coping to parapets and tooled sandstone platband to base of parapet walls. Gunnelled squared stone to soffit. Towpath with tooled stone coping running to north-west abutment.

• Bessmount Park, gate lodge, 1760–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay split-level gate lodge, built c.1770, having single-storey front elevation, two-storey to south-east end bay, and two-storey over basement rear. Now in use as private house. Pitched slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods, red brick chimneystacks, decorative timber bargeboards, terracotta ridge tiles and cast-iron finials. Harl-rendered walls having tooled stone plinth course to front elevation. Square-headed window openings throughout, with tripartite and bipartite timber casement windows, tooled stone sills to front, render sills to rear. Red brick porch addition to front having canted corners and square-headed door opening with replacement timber door. Square-headed replacement timber door to north-east elevation opening onto render platform. Square-headed openings at basement level to rear with timber battened doors.

• Bessmount Park, house, 1720–1870 · National interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay three-storey irregular-plan house, mainly remodelling of c.1868 of earlier house of c.1722. front elevation having stepped plan, south end bay gabled and having octagonal-plan oriel window to corner at first floor level supported on engaged carved limestone octagonal-plan column. Middle bay topped with tower, latter incorporating water, and fronted by gabled projecting porch. North end bay to front has canted bay window, and half-dormer. Gable-fronted music room to north having three-bay long sides and connected to house by short link. South elevation is four-bay four-storey, with projecting gabled bay fronted by bowed two-storey glazed projection, with lean-to glazed corridors to flanking bays, and gable-fronted projecting bay to south. South elevation is arcaded at lowest level. Three-bay three-storey west elevation has projecting middle bay. Hipped slate roofs, having pyramidal spires to oriel projection and to half-dormer window to north bay of front elevation, with decorative metal finials. Sprocketed truncated pyramidal roof to tower to entrance bay, with decorative cast-iron railings to top, and having decorative gargoyle rainwater spout. Pierced terracotta ridge tiles, polychrome brick chimneystacks with clay pots, cast-iron rainwater goods having decorative edging, and moulded red brick eaves brackets, cut-stone copings, and with sculpted foliate finial to gabled front south bay flanked by doves. M-profile slate roof to music room and connection, with decorative timber bargeboards to front, terracotta ridge cresting and finials. Dormer windows to north elevation of music room, with timber bargeboards, and terracotta ridge cresting and finials. Harl-rendered walls, red brick block-and-start quoins and string courses to front, polychrome brick detailing and polychrome blank arcades to water tower, brick detailing to apex of projecting bays to front, north and south elevations. Rendered panels to corner oriel. Harl-rendered plinth course to front and side elevations, having tooled limestone coping. Cut limestone porch to front has trefoil-arch opening with billeted surround, inset stone medallions to spandrels depicting William Henderson and his wife, carved foliate capitals and frieze to impost course on square-plan piers with corner columns. Three shield devices to apex of porch gable, with carved panel above and blind arcaded balustrade. Tooled limestone canted bay window has five trefoil-headed lights with chamfered surrounds, fixed timber windows, moulded brick cornice and diagonally set hipped slate roof. Paired windows to first floor front and south elevations, set within trefoil-headed recesses, with cut-stone block-and-start surrounds, mullions and transoms, with linked polychrome brick arches above. Pointed-arch window openings to second floor to front, north and south elevations, arranged in groups of three to north and middle bay and five to south bay, with brick voussoirs and tooled limestone block-and-start surrounds, mullions and transoms. Square-headed openings to tooled limestone oriel window and to openings in ground and first floors of north elevation, with triple window to ground floor of north elevation. Pointed-arch window openings to south bay ground floor to front, in group of five, with raised chamfered tooled limestone surrounds, mullions and transoms. Pointed-arch window opening to second floor to south elevation, with yellow brick jambs and red brick voussoirs, and traceried margined timber window. Square-headed window openings to rear, west elevation, and to north elevation of music room, lacking articulation. One-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows throughout (except where already specified), with timber fixed or casement frames above transoms of the more complex windows, with stone sills. Triple lancet window to front gable of music room, with trefoil heads, in tooled limestone surrounds with transoms. trefoil light in oculus to apex of same gable. Tripartite arrangement of shouldered window openings to front of entry porch to music room, with tooled limestone chamfered surround, sill and mullions. Trefoil devices to dormer hoods of north elevation of music room. Variety of single, double and triple window openings to returns to rear. Projecting double-light bay window to rear with hipped slate roof and timber surrounds. First floor level of south elevation has timber posts between groups of four trefoil-headed lights, and glazed roof. Square-headed door opening to house proper, comprising double-leaf timber panelled door with over-lights and sidelights opening onto mosaic tiled platform approached by two steps. Flight of limestone steps to front of porch to garden level, flanked by cut-stone parapets. Square-headed door opening to front of glazed south end of glazing to south elevation, with double-leaf half-glazed timber panelled door with sidelights and over-lights, opening on to nosed render steps. Square-headed door opening to front of music room with raised render surround and half-glazed timber panelled door, opening onto two render steps. Square-headed door opening to rear at basement level, with timber battened door and tripartite over-light. Gauged-brick three-centred door opening to rear of music room, with timber battened door. Square-headed door opening to rear of music room, with timber panelled door. Random rubble wall enclosing yard to rear of house.

• Bessmount Park, outbuilding, 1770–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Range of outbuildings, built c.1790, to rear (west) of Bessmount Park House, comprising L-plan block to west of house and rectangular-plan ranges to north-west and south-west of main block. Pitched slate roofs, hipped to west portion of east-west leg of L-plan, cut limestone bell-cote and cast-iron bell to roof, brick eaves courses and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughly coursed rubble stone walls having squared block-and-start quoins, painted to east elevation to interior of yard to rear of house. Cast-iron wall-ties to outbuilding range to south-west. Gauged masonry square-headed window openings, with six-over-six, two-over-two and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, windows to front (east) and rear elevations, some openings blocked. Square-headed window openings and slit openings, some having red brick surrounds. Gauged masonry square-headed door openings with timber battened doors and half-doors, some openings to rear at first floor level, accessed by flights of stone steps. Three-centred arch having gauged-brick voussoirs to front, and gauged masonry voussoirs to arch to rear allowing access through main range. Three-centred arch with tooled gauged masonry voussoirs to front of south-west outbuilding. Round-plan rubble stone piers having render capping abutting some walls.

• Bessmount Park, walled garden, 1740–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Rectangular-plan walled garden, built c.1750, comprising rubble stone walls with red brick lining to interior in Flemish garden wall bond, and with curved corners. Some cut limestone and slate coping to walls. Gauged-brick segmental-arch vehicular entrance to west elevation, red brick surround and double-leaf replacement corrugated-iron door. Recent chicken houses to interior, and outbuildings adjoining external walls.

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 10 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2373 (ZIP).

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

Name

Drumrutagh · Droim Ruatach

Area

861,888 m² (86.19 ha, 212.98 acres)

Civil parish

Tehallan, and its townlands

Barony

Monaghan

Electoral division

Tehallan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tehallan electoral division: 905 people in 307 households; 84% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghnasedagh, Annahagh, Crumlin, Drumacruttan, Eden Island, Knockaconny, Liscarney, Lisnanore, Tullyhirm

Placenames

Drumrutagh 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.