Drumbanagher

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumbanagher, from 9 m² to 228,247 m² (22.82 ha, 56.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Drumbanagher 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.

• 3 Aug 2017Conditional

  The construction of a two-storey dwelling with attached single -storey domestic garage, detached single storey ancillary garage, new entrance with gates and piers, wastewater treatment system & all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17380

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 Drumbanagher.

Recorded monuments

• MO007-006 Hilltop enclosure
  Description

  Situated on top of a drumlin. This enclosure is depicted on McCrea’s map of Co. Monaghan (1793). The enclosure is a large subcircular area (int. dims 95m N-S; 85m E-W) planted with mature deciduous trees, which is defined by an earthen bank (at S: Wth c. 10m; int. H c. 2m; ext. H c. 3.5m) and outer fosse (at S: Wth of top c. 10m; ext. D c. 1m). The original entrance (Wth of base 3.5m) is at ESE. The enclosure was the location of a skirmish which took place on March 13, 1688 (Lewis 1837, vol. 1, 657; Shirley 1879, 130), although the year might be 1689 or 1690, between John McKenna and Mathew Anketell, who had relieved a Protestant population at Glaslough. Although it was a minor encounter both principals lost their lives as a result of it, Anketell on the field and McKenna in captivity. A metal-detection survey carried out for Dr. Siobhán McDermott as part of a PhD thesis in NUI Galway identified two clusters of metal alloy signals, thought to represent lead shot, outside the E edge of the enclosure, which was McKenna’s position, and on a small N-S ridge c. 200m to the E. 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: 30 August 2017

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch limestone bridge, built c.1855, carrying disused Portadown to Cavan railway line over Mountain Water River. Round arch with rock-faced voussoirs and red brick soffit, curving sloping limestone wing walls and sloping buttresses to both elevations. Roughly hewn limestone blocks built to courses. Chamfered cut-stone imposts, and with chamfered cut-stone string course above arch and to parapet copings.

• Bridge, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch limestone railway bridge, built c.1855, carrying land path over disused Portadown to Cavan railway line. Elliptical arch with rock-faced voussoirs, coursed stone walls and abutments, dressed stone string course above arches, English garden wall-bonded brickwork to arch soffit, and with dressed limestone parapet walls and copings.

• Castle Leslie, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1875–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Entrance gateway to Castle Leslie at west side of demesne, erected c.1878, comprising two pairs of square-plan piers to central vehicular entrance and flanking pedestrian entrances, sinusoidal-curved quadrant plinths walls and railings and similar, but rusticated, outer piers to road. Ashlar limestone to piers, each having moulded plinth, string course and cornice, fluted frieze, and steep concave pyramidal cap topped by rusticated ball finial. Ornate cast-iron railings on squared random rock-faced plinths with carved copings and having low buttresses to demesne side topped by bracing scrolled wrought-iron brackets to rear. Wrought-iron double and single-leaf gates, that to middle entrance having Leslie insignia of demi-griffin head and motto 'GRIP FAST'.

• Castle Leslie, gate lodge, 1875–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey complex-plan limestone-built Jacobean-style gate lodge, built c.1878, two-bay projection to north-east-facing entrance elevation and one-bay projection with dormer window to rear. Now in use as house. Pitched slate roof with red clay-ware sawtooth ridge cresting, ashlar chimneystacks with carved string courses and cornices, carved curvilinear gables to all elevations and over entrance, having carved stone finials. Square-profile cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative brackets and hoppers. Squared coursed rock-faced masonry with ashlar dressed quoins and chamfered plinth course. Carved limestone Leslie insignia over doorway comprising 'J L', demi-griffin and motto 'GRIP FAST', and carved shields with oak leaves and chain device set into recesses having moulded surrounds. Square-headed transom-and-mullion window openings with block-and-start ashlar surrounds, relieving arches above with rock-faced voussoirs, and with timber windows. Square-headed door opening with block-and-start ashlar surround and moulded reveal, replacement timber door, and flight of cut-stone steps with low cut-stone parapets with arrises to copings. Set inside ornate west entrance gateway of Castle Leslie.

• Lych gate, 1890–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Lych gate to graveyard, dated 1892, comprising rectangular-plan structure of square-plan timber posts atop concrete plinth, supporting timber king-post roof with chamfered corners to structural members, pitched tiled roof with pointed timber finials and carved timber bargeboards with quotation from bible and date '1892'. Double-leaf wrought-iron gate to road end of structure with dressed square-plan piers having rounded caps, and with stile to north side. Lych gate gives access to rectangular-plan graveyard, walls of which are of rubble limestone with rock-faced coping stones. Yew avenue to interior, and square-plan carved limestone monument of c.1905 to Whitsitt family, latter having marble urn to top and inscribed marble plaque to front.

• The Firs, house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three-bay two-storey house, built c.1880, with recessed central bay to front, three-bay return to rear, and recent single-storey glazed timber porch to front entrance. Pitched slate roof, with yellow brick chimneystacks, stone eaves course and decorative timber bargeboards with timber finials. Dressed limestone walls built to courses with tuck and flush pointing, and cut-stone quoins, roughcast rendered walls to north and east elevations. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane sliding timber sash windows with cut-stone surrounds and sills. Square-headed door openings with timber doors. Double-leaf wrought-iron gate to road entrance attached to fluted cast-iron piers flanked by wrought-iron railings over cut-stone plinths with chamfered stone copings.

• Castle Leslie, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Demesne walls of Castle Leslie, erected c.1870. Snecked rock-faced limestone and sandstone walls with rock-faced limestone coping. Dipped portions in townland of Tullyree. Sections in poor repair, rubble infill visible in places notably in townland of Glaslough, to north of demesne.

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 20 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

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

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

Name

Drumbanagher · Droim Beannchair

Area

594,858 m² (59.49 ha, 146.99 acres)

Civil parish

Donagh, and its townlands

Barony

Trough

Electoral division

Glaslough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glaslough electoral division: 964 people in 325 households; 76% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloncaw, Derryhoosh, Drumnolan, Glaslough, Glennan

Placenames

Drumbanagher 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.