Drumbristan

64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumbristan, from 87 m² to 157,951 m² (15.8 ha, 39.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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 Drumbristan 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.

• 9 Sept 2025Conditional

  permission to demolish existing two-storey extensions to both the front and rear of the dwelling, and for the construction of a new rear two-storey extension, together with a single-storey front porch addition to the existing dwelling house, including elevational changes/internal alterations and associated site works, Significant Further Information received relates to submitted Site Layout Plan, Sewer Layout Plan, Sewer Longitudinal Section, Existing Sewer Network Map, Uisce Èireann Feasibility letter

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560367

• 6 Mar 2025Conditional

  planning permission to construct a detached domestic garage to the rear & side of existing two storey dwelling house with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2517

• 14 Jan 2025N/a

  planning permission to construct a detached domestic garage to the rear & side of existing two storey dwelling house together with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 252

• 30 Sept 2021Conditional

  retention of relocation of previously granted two-storey dwelling (to include retention of handing of dwelling and changes to front, rear and side elevations) along with full planning permission for retention of relocation of septic tank, percolation area and all associated site development works

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 21550

• 4 Jun 2021Conditional

  permission to upgrade and construct new proprietary waste-water treatment system and polishing filter together with associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21331

• 7 Sept 2020Conditional

  permission to erect a bungalow, insert a filter unit and raised percolation area and open new entrance onto public road

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20357

• 24 Apr 2019N/a

  permission to erect a bungalow, insert a filter unit and percolation area and open new entrance onto public road.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19185

• 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 Drumbristan.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumbristan.

Architectural heritage

• Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart, church/chapel, 1830–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Catholic church with Gothic-Revival detailing, built 1823 and enlarged 1885-8 to designs by William Hague Jr. Cruciform plan comprising crossing of two-bay nave to south, single-bay transepts to east and west, single-bay chancel to north (ridge and eaves all at same level); porches to transept gables, and modern porch to re-entrant angle of nave and east transept. Pitched slate roof, perforated red-clay ridge tiles, moulded cast-iron gutters on chamfered sandstone eaves, moulded corbels supporting sandstone verges, gablet apex blocks, Celtic Cross finial to chancel apex, cross finials to porch apexes. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls, painted quoins to transepts and nave; rock-faced squared-and-snecked sandstone walls with dressed quoins to chancel and porches. Shield-shaped date-stone to Chancel gable inscribed '1886'. Cut limestone gabled bell-cote to chancel gable with side offsetting and pointed-arch edge-roll moulded aperture with bronze bell embossed 1874, supported by splayed buttress with eaves-level string course. Modern porch is timber sheeted with lean-to slate roof. Pointed-arch window openings with timber Y-tracery stained-glass windows to transepts and nave; three stained-glass lancets (centre stepped over date-stone apron) with block label-ended hood-mouldings to chancel gable, single lancets to transept gables. Square-headed loops with splayed sandstone surrounds to each gable apex (except nave), leaded church glass casements to porch cheeks. Oculus stained-glass windows to sill level of nave gable. Pointed-arch door openings with stained vertically sheeted double-leaf doors to porch gables, splayed sandstone surrounds, and label-ended hood-mouldings. Square-headed door opening with stained vertically sheeted door with splayed sandstone surrounds to chancel east elevation. Interior almost completely refurbished c.1980. Original canted stained and varnished timber diagonally sheeted panelled ceiling supported on moulded stone corbel-supported timber beams, dry-walled and with recent brick-tiled floors. Freestanding varnished pine benches flanking central aisles. Replacement gallery accessed by stair with stained railing, chevron-sheeted panelling to rear partitioned offices lit by stained-glass oculi. Two-step carpeted dais projecting into crossing with reused polychrome marble altar and lectern. Leaded glass throughout to Y-tracery windows with painted roundels and stained margins. Porches have gridded stained church glass. Set back from road to north by recent rubble-faced plinth walls and two brick-paved paths leading to porch entrances. Situated in graveyard on sloping site rising to south. Celtic High Cross memorials to clergy to north of chancel (one with bas-relief depiction of instruments of Passion on rear base). Recent graves to south, and mature specimen trees on heights to south.

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 Drumbristan, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Drumbristan · Droim Dhristin

Area

1,312,469 m² (131.25 ha, 324.32 acres)

Civil parish

Errigal Trough, and its townlands

Barony

Trough

Electoral division

Bragan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

318 people lived in 104 households in the Bragan electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derryhellan, Derrylea Beg, Derrylea More, Derrynarget, Derryveagh, Drumlester, Knockabeany, Tonintlieve

Placenames

Drumbristan 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.