Drumskelt

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumskelt, from 2,927 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres) to 259,253 m² (25.93 ha, 64.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Drumskelt 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.

• 11 Jul 2024Conditional

  permission to erect a single-storey dwelling house with attached domestic garage-type structure, packaged wastewater treatment system/mounded polishing filter, new vehicular entrance, hard/soft landscaping, and associated site works, Significant Further Information relates to, Site Characterization Report & revised drawings

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2460243

• 22 Sept 2021Refused

  Permission- to construct 2 No. Poultry Houses, together with all ancillary structures (to include meal storage bin(s), etc.) and all associated site works (to include upgraded site entrance)

  Extension of duration · Monaghan County Council, 219031

• 22 Dec 2017Conditional

  Permission to construct a single storey dwelling house, single storey domestic garage, installation of a waste water treatment system with a sand polishing filter, new entrance off public roadway together with ancillary and associated site works. Significant Further information relates to the first floor roof space being used as a games room.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17626

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 Drumskelt.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumskelt.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Drumskelt, about 1 in 20 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Drumskelt · Droim Scoilte

Area

793,736 m² (79.37 ha, 196.14 acres)

Civil parish

Killeevan, and its townlands

Barony

Dartree

Electoral division

Aghabog, the unit of the census

Census 2022

318 people lived in 113 households in the Aghabog electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghareagh, Corlougharoe, Crappagh, Crover, Drumaghakeel, Drumary, Drumgristin

Placenames

Drumskelt 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.