Drummuck
Drummuck is a townland in the civil parish of Ballybay, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is Droim Muc.
Parcel 341620
- Area
- 5,516 m² (0.55 ha, 1.36 acres)
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 169 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
- Drummuck
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 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 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 low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2378 (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.
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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
- 68.3 ha
- 169 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 9,314 m² (0.93 ha, 2.3 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drummuck, from 2,347 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres) to 88,780 m² (8.88 ha, 21.94 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 Drummuck 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
10 Sept 2025N/a
planning permission to carry out works to the curtilage & site area of same. Said church is listed within the Record of Protected Structures within the current Monaghan County Development Plan, Ref. No. 41401809 & is also listed within the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) with ‘Regional’ rating & Ref. No. 41401826 The works shall include: a) Demolition of former school building to Northern side of site. b) Creation of new vehicular site entrance from public road to Northern Boundary, which includes the partial removal of boundary wall. c) Creation of vehicular access route from said new entrance, to perimeter hard standing area of church building. d) Conversion & adaption of existing tennis court area to lined-out car parking, with additional disabled parking provided to south of church building. e) Re-grading of perimeter driveway / hard standing area to church building, to include low level perimeter railing, drainage works & tar-and-chip type surfacing. f) Replastering & repair of entrance piers to West of site. All along with other associated ancillary site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560371
27 Mar 2024N/a
permission to carry out works to the curtilage & site area of same. Said church is listed within the Record of Protected Structures within the current Monaghan County Development Plan, Ref. No. 41401809 & is also listed within the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) with ‘Regional’ rating & Ref. No. 41401826. The works shall include: a) Demolition of former school building to Northern side of site. b) Creation of new vehicular site entrance from public road to Northern Boundary, which includes the partial removal of boundary wall. c) Creation of vehicular access route from said new entrance, to perimeter hard standing area of church building. d) Conversion & adaption of existing tennis court area to lined-out car parking, with additional disabled parking provided to south of church building. e) Re-grading of perimeter driveway / hard standing area to church building, to include low level perimeter railing, drainage works & tar-and-chip type surfacing. f) Replastering & repair of entrance piers to West of site. All along with other associated ancillary site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2460113
24 May 2023Conditional
retention permission & permission consisting of 1. Retention of existing dry bedded agricultural shed used for the housing of sheep and will consist of 2. Permission to construct a machinery storage shed together with all ancillary site development works, Significant Further Information submitted relates to omission of Machinery storage shed
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2360078
26 Aug 2020N/a
permission to construct a slatted shed for the housing of livestock, incorporating dry bedded areas & attached external handling facility, with new site entrance from public road & new access lane, along with other associated ancillary site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 20342
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 Drummuck.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drummuck.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drummuck.
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 Drummuck, 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2378 (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 Drummuck with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Drummuck · Droim Muc
- Area
- 683,303 m² (68.33 ha, 168.85 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
- Corraskea, Derryvally, Drumgavny, Edenaferkin, Edenaneane, Lisgorran, Shantonagh
- Placenames
- Drummuck 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.