Drumbrean

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumbrean, from 25 m² to 169,957 m² (17 ha, 42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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 Drumbrean 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.

• 11 Aug 2020Conditional

  permission to widen an existing forestry entrance onto public roadway and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 20321

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 Drumbrean.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumbrean.

Architectural heritage

• Drumbrean Cottage, house, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1780, with three-bay single-storey return to middle of rear, and lean-to single-storey structure to west gable. Hipped slate roof, with paired red brick chimneystacks with decorative cast-iron pots, tall red brick stack to return, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered coursed rubble stone walls, with cut-stone quoins. Square-headed diminishing window openings, with original six-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor, and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to ground floor, with rendered reveals, stone sills and evidence of gauged-brick window surrounds where render has come away. Square-headed window opening to return with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Elliptical-headed main door opening, with original doorcase, to centre of south elevation, having cobweb fanlight and geometrical-glazed sidelights, set in stone door surround of engaged fluted round-plan columns on engaged square-plan plinth, with plain moulded entablature. Original raised-and-fielded panelled door of eight panels, and cast-iron doorbell to wall. Range of single and two-storey stable and farm buildings forming courtyard to rear, with pitched slated roofs, coursed rubble limestone walls, segmental-headed openings with brick surrounds to timber battened doors doors and timber-framed windows. Double-leaf wrought-iron vehicular gate to east of house with square-plan piers, decorative wrought-iron pedestrian gate to south of house flanked by cut-stone square-plan piers. Main approach from south-west with wrought-iron gates on square-plan piers, with curved wall to either side. Located north of Ballybay to Newbliss road to north of Drumkeen Presbyterian Church and Dundalk to Enniskillen Branch of Ulster Railway.

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

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, low (inferred). Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Drumbrean · Droim Bréan

Area

1,078,366 m² (107.84 ha, 266.47 acres)

Civil parish

Aghabog, and its townlands

Barony

Dartree

Electoral division

Aghabog, the unit of the census

Census 2022

318 people lived in 113 households in the Aghabog electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghadrumkeen, Aghnacue, Corleck, Descart, Drumhirk, Killygragy, Mullaghgreenan

Placenames

Drumbrean 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.