Drumcoo (Foster)
Drumcoo (Foster) is a townland in the civil parish of Tedavnet, barony of Monaghan, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is Droim Chú (Foster).
Parcel 339437
- Area
- 2,736 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 213 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
- Drumcoo (Foster)
Planning applications on this parcel
18 Jun 2018Conditional
Permission to erect a poultry house and meal storage bins and carry out associated site works, this proposed development is of a scale which requires an Integrated Pollution Prevention Control License and an Environmental Impact Assessment Report
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18274
13 Dec 2017N/a
Permission to erect a poultry house and meal storage bins and carry out associated site works. This proposed development is of a scale which requires an Integrated Pollution Prevention Control Licence and an Environmental Impact Assessment Report. A copy of this report is included with the application. Significant Further information relates to a revised EIAR being submitted.
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 17594
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 Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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
- 70.8 ha
- 175 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 12,305 m² (1.23 ha, 3.04 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumcoo (Foster), from 716 m² to 116,313 m² (11.63 ha, 28.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Drumcoo (Foster) 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
21 May 2026Conditional
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 (including upgraded site entrance) associated with the above development
Extension of duration · Monaghan County Council, 269007
29 Mar 2021Conditional
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 (including new/upgraded site entrance) associated with the above development. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (E.I.A.R.) and Natura Impact Statement (N.I.S.) will be submitted with this planning application.
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21145
14 Jan 2021Conditional
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 (including upgraded site entrance) associated with the above development
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2112
21 Sept 2020Refused
erect a breeders poultry unit adjacent to existing poultry unit, erect a meal bin and insert a wash water tank and all associated works
Extension of duration · Monaghan County Council, 209013
13 Mar 2019Conditional
Permission to construct two storey dwelling, single storey detached dometic garage and new wastewater treatment system together with all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19119
27 Feb 2019Conditional
Permission for development of a single storey extension to the side of the existing dwelling and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 1988
18 Jun 2018Conditional
Permission to erect a poultry house and meal storage bins and carry out associated site works, this proposed development is of a scale which requires an Integrated Pollution Prevention Control License and an Environmental Impact Assessment Report
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18274
13 Dec 2017N/a
Permission to erect a poultry house and meal storage bins and carry out associated site works. This proposed development is of a scale which requires an Integrated Pollution Prevention Control Licence and an Environmental Impact Assessment Report. A copy of this report is included with the application. Significant Further information relates to a revised EIAR being submitted.
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 17594
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 Drumcoo (Foster).
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumcoo (Foster).
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumcoo (Foster).
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 Drumcoo (Foster), about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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 Drumcoo (Foster) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Drumcoo (Foster) · Droim Chú (Foster)
- Area
- 708,371 m² (70.84 ha, 175.04 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tedavnet, and its townlands
- Barony
- Monaghan
- Electoral division
- Sheskin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 683 people lived in 232 households in the Sheskin electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barratitoppy Lower, Carnquill, Derrycrossan, Knocknalun, Tonystackan
- Placenames
- Drumcoo (Foster) 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.