Drumlusty

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumlusty, from 386 m² to 121,256 m² (12.13 ha, 29.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Drumlusty 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.

• 19 Dec 2017Conditional

  Permission to demolish and remove existing agricultural building to construct a new single storey type dwellinghouse, waste water treatment system and percolation area, a new vehicular entrance and all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17603

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 Drumlusty.

Recorded monuments

• MO028-126 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise in a low-lying landscape between drumlins. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 35m N-S; 32.5m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank NE-S-NW that survives best at S (Wth 9m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 3.6m), but the perimeter is reduced to a grass-covered scarp NW-NE. There is a berm (Wth c. 4m) around the base of the bank or scarp SSE-WNW, and the entrance (Wth of base 2.7m) is at E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 11 December 2017

• MO028-127 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low ENE-WSW ridge in a low-lying landscape between drumlins. This is a raised subcircular grass-covered area (dims 38.5m ENE-WSW; 34m NNW-SSE) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth of base 6-7m; int. H 0.4-0.5m; ext. H 2-2.5m), with no visible fosse apart from a berm SSE-SW. The entrance is a wide gap (Wth at base 2.2m) at S. The interior has become overgrown since 1967. The asbove description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 11 December 2017

• MO028-131 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the summit of a drumlin. This rath is depicted on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793) and later OS maps. It is a raised and overgrown oval area (dims 42m E-W; 31m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 5.6-9m; int. H 0.4-0.6m; ext. H 2.8-3.4m) separated by a rounded fosse (Wth of top 7-8m; D 0.6-1m from an outer bank (Wth of base 6-7m; ext. H 1-1.4m). The entrance through the inner (Wth of base 2.3m) and outer (Wth of base 3.4m) banks with a causeway (Wth of top c. 4m; H 0.55m) is at ESE. The outer bank functions as a field bank with an outer stone facing E-S-WNW and has a drain outside it E-S-N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 12 December 2017

Architectural heritage

• Drumlusty National School, school, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey school, built c.1850, having gabled entrance porch to front (south-east) elevation, and lean-to addition to south-west gable. Now disused. Pitched slate roof. Rubble stone walls with remains of lime render. Square-headed window openings having red brick surrounds and cut-stone sills throughout, and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Fixed six-pane timber windows to entrance porch. Square-headed door opening having red brick surround and timber battened door. Recess for name plaque over door. Located at crossroads having single stone gate post remaining to front of site.

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 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, low (inferred).

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Drumlusty · Droim Loiscthe

Area

747,395 m² (74.74 ha, 184.69 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmoyne, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Kiltybegs, the unit of the census

Census 2022

716 people lived in 228 households in the Kiltybegs electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Blittoge, Cormoy Lower, Cormoy Upper, Drumhillagh, Drummacavoy, Dunanny, Kiltybegs, Rahans

Placenames

Drumlusty 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.