Drumcattan

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumcattan, from 1,542 m² to 81,235 m² (8.12 ha, 20.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Drumcattan 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.

• 29 May 2025Conditional

  permission for the construction of a storey and a half style dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, boundary fencing, new domestic entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560215

• 1 Dec 2022Conditional

  permission consisting of the construction of a storey and a half style dwelling house, installation of on-site waste water treatment system, new entrance onto public roadway and all associated site development works. Significant further information/Revised plans submitted includes the following: (1) Addition of domestic garage to the development along the eastern boundary of the site (2) amendments to the site layout (3) elevational changes (4) submission of reports

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 22500

• 2 Jan 2018Conditional

  Permission to retain an extension to the rear of the existing property, with the building line along the front being retained and an extension/conversion of the attic into habitable living space

  Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 183

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 Drumcattan.

Recorded monuments

• MO028-134001 Church
  Description

  Situated in a low-lying landscape. It is depicted as a rectangular structure on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in italic lettering as ‘R. C. Church.’ This is a post-penal Roman Catholic church which was renovated in 1891 but which is now closed. It is in a subtriangular graveyard (dims c. 45-75m E-W; c. 40m N-S) extending E from a NW-SE road, and is defined by masonry walls. It has rather few headstones dating largely from the nineteenth century. There is no evidence that there was a mass-rock here (Ó Gallachair 1957, 119). Date of revised upload: 12 December 2017

• MO028-134002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated in a low-lying landscape. This is a subtriangular graveyard (dims c. 45-75m E-W; c. 40m N-S) extending E from a NW-SE road and associated with a post-Penal Roman Catholic church (MO028-134001-). The graveyard is defined by masonry walls but has rather few headstones dating from the early nineteenth century. There is no evidence that there was a mass-rock here (Ó Gallachair 1957, 119). Date of revised upload: 12 December 2017

Architectural heritage

• Water pump, 1910–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c.1920, with maker's mark to shaft, with domed cap with finial, and curved cowtail handle. Set on metal plate within concrete base, with rectangular cast-iron trough to base with maker's mark, flanked by cast-iron bollards. Rubble stone boundary wall to rear. Located at road junction north of Drumcattan Catholic Church.

• Saint Anne's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1795–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Roman Catholic Church, consisting of three-bay nave with single-storey extension to east gable, dated 1796. Renovated and remodelled 1891. Pitched slate roof having decorative cast=iron ridge cresting, stone coping with cross gable apex finials and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered and ruled-and-lined rendered walls having smooth rendered quoins set on smooth rendered plinth. Slate date plaque to north elevation reads: 'This Chapel was built under the inspection of Rev. Ber. Callan, Pastor of Inishkeen AD 1796'. Second slate date plaque to front (west) elevation reads: 'Remodelled and renovated by J.C. Maguire, Pastor, Inishkeen, A.D. 1891'. Various window openings, pointed-arch window openings to north and south elevations having rendered hood-mouldings and stone sills with one timber Y-traceried windows having lattice glazing (other windows have been replaced with uPVC windows), large pointed-arch window openings to gables having rendered hood-mouldings and stone sills with timber perforated tracery windows. Rear extension having square-headed window openings with stone sills and two-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows with ogee horns. Square-headed door opening to front gable having rendered hood-moulding containing carved faces and timber tongued-and-grooved double-leaf door with fanlight. Semi-circular stoups to either side of door, with hood-mouldings. Square-headed door opening to south elevation of rear extension having recent timber door. Interior has altar furniture raised on timber floor to south-east end. Timber gallery to north-west end, supported by timber columns having recent timber in-fill partition between columns. Timber tongue-and-grooved soffit and exposed timber braced tie-beam roof structure. Smooth rendered walls. Hood-mouldings having head stops to windows. Stone flags to floor. Church set within graveyard and bounded by rubble stone walls with metal gates to west.

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

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Drumcattan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Drumcattan · Droim Chatáin

Area

529,161 m² (52.92 ha, 130.76 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmoyne, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Kiltybegs, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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

Neighbouring townlands

Annagerril, Carricklane, Drumganny, Drumnanaliv, Drumny, Mullaghunshinagh, Tattyboy

Placenames

Drumcattan 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.