Drummulla
Townland in the civil parish of Ematris, barony of Dartree, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Droim Mullaigh
Parcel 354053
- Area
- 3,350 m² (0.33 ha, 0.83 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
- Drummulla
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
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
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
- 69.5 ha
- 172 acres
- Land parcels
- 42
- registered freehold, median 3,392 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres)
- Zoning
- G5
- Recreation/Amenity
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drummulla, from 24 m² to 289,333 m² (28.93 ha, 71.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G5Recreation/Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
26 Feb 2025Conditional
permission for development consist of, the demolition of existing single storey changing facilities and turnstiles. Construction of new two-storey community building, containing a multi-purpose hall, three meeting rooms, ancillary space and replacement changing facilities and turnstiles. It will include for the provision of new site entrance, car parking and hard and soft landscaping, connection to existing watermain and foul main, together with all ancillary and associated site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560066
12 May 2023Conditional
permission for development consisting of the construction of a two-storey community building containing; Main Multi-Purpose room, 2 No meeting rooms, Social room and other ancillary spaces, all adjoined to the existing Rockcorry GAA dressing rooms, provision of car parking including bus parking, provision of hard/soft landscaping together with all ancillary and associated site works.
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2360070
19 Jan 2021Conditional
permission for development consisting of the erection of 6 no. columns with flood lights to serve existing football pitch with all associated and ancillary works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2118
9 Apr 2019Conditional
permission to erect a new 33.05 multi-user telecommunications support structure carrying 9 no. antennas and associated remote radio units, 6 no. communication dishes, 3 no. lighting finials and 6 no. outdoor cabinets all enclosed within a security compound by a 2.4m high palisade fence with a 4m access gate, site access and site works.
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 19158
24 May 2017Conditional
Permission to consist of the construction of a two storey community building containing main multi purpose room, 2 no. meeting rooms, social room and other ancillary spaces, all adjoined to the existing Rockcorry GAA dressing rooms, provision of surface car parking including bus parking, provision of hard/soft landscaping together with all ancillary and associated site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 17246
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 Drummulla.
Recorded monuments
- MO018-047 Standing stone
Description
Located towards the E end of an E-W drumlin ridge. The standing stone is marked only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The stone (L 2.55m Wth 0.3-0.8m; T 0.55m at wide base; T 1m at centre; T 0.2-0.25m at top) is now prostrate and tapers to a rough point at one end. 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. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 19 June 2018
Architectural heritage
- Old Windmill, mill (wind), 1740–1780 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding three-stage cylindrical windmill, built c.1760, in ruins c.1840. Roof now missing. Random rubble stone walls retaining fragments of roughcast surface finish. Square-headed narrow window openings above each doorway at first floor level, rough-hewn stone voussoirs and lintels removed. Square-headed opposing door openings with stone relieving arches over, dressings removed. Interior now floorless, but in-stepping of wall shows former position. Set within raised circular platform on top of hill to north of village of Rockcorry.
- Bridge, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Double-arch limestone road bridge, built c.1780, over Rockcorry River. Random rubble stone walling and parapets, latter with rock-faced copings with margins, and with concrete cutwater to north elevation. Slender stone voussoirs to arches to north elevation, and roughly dressed stone voussoirs to south elevation.
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
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Drummulla.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Drummulla with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Drummulla · Droim Mullaigh
- Area
- 694,842 m² (69.48 ha, 171.7 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ematris, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dartree
- Electoral division
- Dawsongrove, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dawsongrove electoral division: 752 people in 261 households; 74% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Drummulla 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.