Drumgrole
Drumgrole is a townland in the civil parish of Ballybay, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is Droim Dhrol.
Parcel 337447
- Area
- 29,948 m² (2.99 ha, 7.4 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Drumgrole
Planning applications on this parcel
26 May 2025N/a
permission for renovation of existing derelict dwelling, extended floor area, elevational changes, new domestic garage, new sewerage wastewater treatment system and percolation area, use existing entrance laneway onto public road and all associated site development works, Significant further information received relates to submitted, Site layout plan, revised house plans, Dereliction report, Consent letter
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560205
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 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 low, low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2476 (ZIP).
- 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
- 116.7 ha
- 288 acres
- Land parcels
- 35
- registered freehold, median 29,948 m² (2.99 ha, 7.4 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumgrole, from 426 m² to 119,387 m² (11.94 ha, 29.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Drumgrole 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
26 May 2025N/a
permission for renovation of existing derelict dwelling, extended floor area, elevational changes, new domestic garage, new sewerage wastewater treatment system and percolation area, use existing entrance laneway onto public road and all associated site development works, Significant further information received relates to submitted, Site layout plan, revised house plans, Dereliction report, Consent letter
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560205
29 Aug 2022Conditional
retention permission of a single storey detached domestic garage and amended site boundary as previously approved under planning file number 19/107, together with all associated site works
Retention · Monaghan County Council, 22372
18 Dec 2020Conditional
permission to construct 1 no. poultry house together with all ancillary structures (to include meal storage bin(s) and soiled water tank(s)) and site works associated with the above development
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 20567
8 Mar 2019Conditional
Permission to construct a two-storey dwelling, single storey detached domestic garage, new wastewater treatment system, new entrance with gates and piers onto shared access lane together with alteration of existing access on public road & associated works.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19107
17 Aug 2018Conditional
Permission to construct a new single storey detached domestic garage and store adjacent to dwelling house as per previous Grant of Permission Ref: 17/71 and all other associated works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18392
26 Feb 2018Conditional
Permission to construct a one and a half storey dwelling, single-storey detached domestic garage, new entrance gates and piers, connection to mains sewer and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 1872
21 Feb 2017Conditional
permission to demolish derelict house and erect a two storey dwelling, sewerage treatment unit, percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 1771
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 Drumgrole.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumgrole.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumgrole.
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 Drumgrole, 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, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2476 (ZIP).
- 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 Drumgrole with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Drumgrole · Droim Dhrol
- Area
- 1,166,621 m² (116.66 ha, 288.28 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballybay, and its townlands
- Barony
- Cremorne
- Electoral division
- Ballybay Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,593 people lived in 581 households in the Ballybay Rural electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Corkeeran, Cornacreeve, Corrabofin, Drumar, Dunmaurice, Knocknamaddy
- Placenames
- Drumgrole 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.