Drumfaldra

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumfaldra, from 291 m² to 168,299 m² (16.83 ha, 41.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Drumfaldra 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Drumfaldra 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 the townland of Drumfaldra.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumfaldra.

Architectural heritage

• Rock Mount, house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c.1830, with outbuildings now incorporated as further accommodation. Original house has pitched slate roof with carved timber bargeboards over rafter ends and to gablet over entrance bay, rendered stepped profile chimneystacks to gable ends and having stepped copings and octagonal clay chimneypots. Render mainly removed to expose rubble limestone walls with squared quoins. Camber-headed window openings with brick voussoirs, stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Segmental-headed window openings to first floor rear with brick voussoirs and square-headed to ground floor with stone lintels. Round-headed doorway to front elevation with brick voussoirs and square-headed to rear with stone lintel, having recent timber door. Block to north end of house is slightly recessed two-storey with similar roof details to house, two openings to first floor and four to ground, with segmental and round-headed window openings with similar details to house, and segmental-headed doorway Further recent block at right angle to north end of recessed block has similar roofing to house, rendered walls, square-headed window and wide segmental-headed door opening. Set in own grounds, having single rubble stone pier to garden entrance to west of house, rubble stone walls to driveway and site entrance.

• Drumfaldra House, house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey house, built c.1830, on site of earlier house, having pedimented breakfront to front (east) elevation, and five-bay two-storey south elevation with pedimented breakfront to middle bay. Outbuildings attached to north elevation forming range to rear. Hipped slate roofs, pitched to pediments, having red brick chimneystacks and slightly projecting timber corbelled eaves. Render removed, exposing rubble limestone walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills throughout, having tooled stone surrounds to front elevation and ground floor breakfront to south elevation. Bipartite windows with central stone mullion to side bays of front elevation and to ground floor of breakfront to south elevation, having four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows with margin lights, replacement uPVC window to ground floor of breakfront to south elevation. Six-over-six pane timber sliding sash window with margin lights to first floor breakfront to front elevation. Mixed six-over-six pane and eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows and replacement uPVC windows to south elevation. Elliptical-headed door opening with carved stone surround having enlarged keystone detailing and fluted curved brackets to simple cornice. Leaded petal fanlight and geometrical leaded sidelights, and timber panelled double-leaf door. Diminishing cut-stone steps. Single-storey range of outbuildings attached to north elevation of house, having hipped corrugated-iron roof, rubble stone and rendered walls, square-headed window opening with eight-over-eight pane window to east elevation. Rubble stone walled garden to south of house, having brick-lined walls to south and west interior elevations, and cut-stone copings. Site entrance to south-east with recent piers and railings. Square-plan three-bay single-storey gate lodge having re-entrant corner, pyramidal tiled roof, rendered walls, and square-headed openings. Wall-mounted cast-iron post box to pier of site entrance, having V. R. Insignia and W. T. Allen maker's mark.

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 Drumfaldra, 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 Drumfaldra.

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

Name

Drumfaldra · Droim Fallach

Area

332,238 m² (33.22 ha, 82.1 acres)

Civil parish

Aghnamullen, and its townlands

Barony

Cremorne

Electoral division

Anny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

391 people lived in 125 households in the Anny electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bowelk, Corwillin, Edenforan, Tamlat

Placenames

Drumfaldra 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.