Drumsheeny
Drumsheeny is a townland in the civil parish of Drumsnat, barony of Monaghan, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is Droim Sionnaigh.
Parcel 335689
- Area
- 4,473 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres)
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 256 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Drumsheeny
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 5 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, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 95.6 ha
- 236 acres
- Land parcels
- 71
- registered freehold, median 7,341 m² (0.73 ha, 1.81 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
71 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumsheeny, from 111 m² to 56,403 m² (5.64 ha, 13.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Drumsheeny 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
29 Jun 2026Conditional
permission to erect a slatted shed with solid lie back area, a new lane and entrance onto the public road
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660266
21 Jun 2026N/a
permission to erect a slatted shed with solid lie back area, a new land and entrance onto the public road
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660255
16 Jun 2026Conditional
retention permission for change of use of school to detached single storey dwelling and detached domestic shed with existing entrance, septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works. and entrance gates and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2660251
3 Jun 2026N/a
permission to erect a slatted shed with solid lie back area
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660229
19 Dec 2025Conditional
planning permission to erect a two storey dormer bungalow dwelling house with detached single storey domestic garage, proprietary waste water treatment system and percolation area, with new site entrance complete with all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560530
16 Oct 2025N/a
Permission for new dwelling two storey dormer bungalow with single car garage and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560417
9 Sept 2025Conditional
permission to erect a storey and a half dwelling, treatment plant, percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560368
3 Apr 2025N/a
permission to erect a slatted shed with solid lie back area
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560138
29 Feb 2024Conditional
permission for construction of a two-storey dwelling, single-storey detached domestic garage, new entrance with gates and piers, new wastewater treatment system together with all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2460074
31 Jan 2024Conditional
permission to construct a two storey type dwelling house with new site entrance, proprietary waste water treatment system & detached domestic garage, along with other associated ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2460032
25 Oct 2023Conditional
permission to erect a single-storey style dwelling house, detached domestic garage, packaged wastewater treatment system/mounded polishing filter, new vehicular entrance, hard/soft landscaping and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2360252
21 Sept 2023Conditional
permission to complete works as previously approved under planning reference 16470 to include construction of a Dormer Style dwelling, single-storey detached domestic garage, new entrance with gates and piers, new wastewater treatment system & all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2360213
15 Mar 2021N/a
permission to construct 1. no. poultry house and 1. no. manure store together with all ancillary structures (to include meal storage bin(s) and soiled water tank(s)) and site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21118
19 Jul 2017Conditional
Permission to construct a single storey dwelling with detached domestic garage, new entrance with gates and piers, wastewater treatment system & all associated works.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17347
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drumsheeny.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumsheeny.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumsheeny.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Drumsheeny, 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 Drumsheeny.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Drumsheeny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Drumsheeny · Droim Sionnaigh
- Area
- 955,667 m² (95.57 ha, 236.15 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumsnat, and its townlands
- Barony
- Monaghan
- Electoral division
- Drumsnat, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,069 people lived in 392 households in the Drumsnat electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballagh, Blackraw, Coolcorragh, Corrataghart, Drumgarve, Togan
- Placenames
- Drumsheeny 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.