Drumerlough Beg

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumerlough Beg, from 967 m² to 119,130 m² (11.91 ha, 29.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Drumerlough Beg 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.

• 12 Jul 2023Conditional

  permission to demolish existing derelict buildings and erect a bungalow, insert filter units and percolation areas and exit on to public road by new entrance and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 23154

• 1 Sept 2021Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of the retention of single storey garage, and permission for construction of single storey granny flat to side of existing dwelling, internal and external alterations and additions, connections to existing services and all associated site works. Significant further information relates to revised plans received on 12/11/2021.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21497

• 30 Jul 2021Conditional

  Demolition of existing single storey dwelling and replace with a new two storey dwelling, install new waste water treatment system, percolation area & all associated site works. Significant further information relates to the submission of a condition report of existing dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21442

• 17 Nov 2020Conditional

  Permission for demolition of existing dwelling and roadside outbuilding, construction of a replacement dwelling, detached garage, modification of existing entrance, new gates and piers, installation of a wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with all ancillary and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20492

• 21 Oct 2020Conditional

  Proposed development will consist of the following: (1) to construct a split level single storied dwelling house (2) to demolish the remains of a derelict dwelling house and to construct a detached domestic garage (3) to install a proprietary wastewater treatment unit and site specific percolation area (4) to construct entrance gates and piers and to use an existing laneway and entrance to access to development site (5) and all ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20436

• 29 Jun 2018Conditional

  Permission to construct a dormer style dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary waste water treatment system and percolation area, boundary fencing, new entrance onto the public road and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18302

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 Drumerlough Beg.

Recorded monuments

• MO030-038 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated towards the S end of a N-S drumlin ridge. This is a grass and scrub-covered circular area (diam. 39.5m NNW-SSE; 39m E-W) that slopes down to the S (H 1.5m) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth of base 4.8-5m; int. H 1-2.5m; ext. H 2-3m) with an outer fosse (Wth of base 2.5-3m; ext. D 0.5-1.1m) that is absent ENE-ESE, and an outer field bank SW-N. The entrance (Wth of base 1.8m) and causeway are at SE. 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 Drumerlough Beg.

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 Drumerlough Beg, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Drumerlough Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Drumerlough Beg · Droim ar Loch Beag

Area

568,227 m² (56.82 ha, 140.41 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

Camaghy, Crumlin, Drumbrackan, Drumerlough More, Mullantornan

Placenames

Drumerlough Beg 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.