Drumacoon
Drumacoon is a townland in the civil parish of Killeevan, barony of Dartree, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is Droim Mhic Comhainn.
Parcel 345374
- Area
- 16,238 m² (1.62 ha, 4.01 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Drumacoon
Planning applications on this parcel
9 Sept 2026N/a
permission for the development works will consist of the re-contouring of existing undulating agricultural farmland to include the importation of green field soil and stone ( not exceeding 25,000 tonnes) in order to raise the levels of the land together with all ancillary site development works under an Article 27 declaration
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660377
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 moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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
- 39.1 ha
- 97 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 5,439 m² (0.54 ha, 1.34 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumacoon, from 1,435 m² to 85,827 m² (8.58 ha, 21.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Drumacoon 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
9 Sept 2026N/a
permission for the development works will consist of the re-contouring of existing undulating agricultural farmland to include the importation of green field soil and stone ( not exceeding 25,000 tonnes) in order to raise the levels of the land together with all ancillary site development works under an Article 27 declaration
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660377
22 Apr 2026N/a
permission for a development which will consist of the demolition of 2 no. existing poultry houses and replacement with a new poultry house, vertical meal bins, underground precast concrete wash down waters storage tank, associated concrete aprons, litter storage shed, use of existing entrance/exit onto public road together with all ancillary site development works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660151
8 Aug 2024Conditional
permission for a development to consist of a Dormer type dwelling house, access laneway and new vehicular entrance to public road including entrance piers and gates and onsite wastewater treatment plant and raised polishing area and all associated landscaping and site works. Significant Further Information received relates to an amended Site Boundary (Site Plan), Sight Visibility Wayleave Agreements, and Sight Visibility Drawings.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2460283
21 Apr 2020Conditional
permission to construct a new dormer style dwelling house and detached domestic single garage, install new mechanical effluent treatment system, raised/mounded percolation area, new domestic entrance together with all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20134
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 Drumacoon.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumacoon.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumacoon.
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 Drumacoon, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumacoon.
- 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 Drumacoon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Drumacoon · Droim Mhic Comhainn
- Area
- 391,472 m² (39.15 ha, 96.73 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killeevan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dartree
- Electoral division
- Killeevan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 330 people lived in 125 households in the Killeevan electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Davagh, Drumbaragh, Glinch, Guardhill, Killeevan Glebe, Killyfuddy, Shanco
- Placenames
- Drumacoon 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.