Drumcah
Drumcah is a townland in the civil parish of Inishkeen, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is Droim Chatha.
Parcel 354242
- Area
- 26,956 m² (2.7 ha, 6.66 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 84 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
- Drumcah
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 5 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_2820 (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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in 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
- 74.8 ha
- 185 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 17,017 m² (1.7 ha, 4.21 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumcah, from 171 m² to 90,775 m² (9.08 ha, 22.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Drumcah 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
29 May 2025Conditional
Permission consequent on the grant of outline permission ref. 22/174 for development at this site Drumcah, Inniskeen, Co. Monaghan. The development will consist of: a dwelling house, a domestic garage, a domestic waste water treatment system, a new site entrance with all associated site works
Permission consequent, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2542
7 Nov 2024Conditional
permission for a new domestic garage with all associated site development works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 24102
12 Jul 2023Conditional
permission for a two storey dwelling house, a domestic garage, a domestic waste water treatment system, a new site entrance with all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 23155
26 Sept 2022N/a
permission for a domestic garage and all associated site development works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 22429
31 Aug 2022Conditional
permission consisting of a 1½ storey type dwelling house, a domestic garage, a domestic waste water treatment system, a new site entrance and all associated site development works (previously outline planning ref: 22/173)
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 22377
14 Apr 2022Conditional
outline permission consisting of a dwelling house, a domestic garage, a domestic waste water treatment system, a new site entrance with all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 22173
14 Apr 2022Conditional
outline permission for a dwelling house, a domestic garage, a domestic waste water treatment system, a new site entrance with all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 22174
9 Feb 2022Conditional
Demolition of a bungalow house and the construction of a replacement bungalow house with an extension to the rear and side, reconnect to the existing septic tank and all associated site development works. The extension will include a utility room and additional bedrooms. Significant Further information relates to revised site boundaries and an increase in the site area to service the existing septic tank.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2256
8 Dec 2021N/a
permission for a development consisting of the demolition of a bungalow house and the construction of a replacement bungalow house with an extension to the rear and side, reconnect to the existing septic tank and all associated site development works. The extension will include a utility room and additional bedrooms.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21666
8 Dec 2021N/a
permission for a domestic garage and all associated site development works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21667
26 Apr 2021Conditional
permission for a bungalow type dwelling house, a waste water treatment system, a new site entrance with all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21217
24 Jun 2019Conditional
permission for a 2-storey dwelling house, a waste water treatment system, a new site entrance and all associated site works. Significant further information relates to alterations to the house design along with the re-positioning of the proposed dwelling site.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19287
10 Jan 2019Conditional
Outline permission for development of a dwelling house, a domestic garage, a waste water treatment system, a new site entrance and all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 193
15 Oct 2018Conditional
permission for a two storey style dwelling house, a waste water treatment system, a new site entrance and all associated site development works. Significant further information relates to details relating to site lines onto public road and on-site waste water treatment details and alterations to proposed house plans.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18472
29 Mar 2018N/a
Permission to RETAIN (1) alterations and amendments made to existing poultry unit from that previously granted under planning permission reference number 90/145 (2) Alterations made to site layout plan from that previously granted under planning permission reference number 90/145 (3) detached storage building (4) detached services building (5) associated site structures and ancillary site works
Retention · Monaghan County Council, 18130
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 Drumcah.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumcah.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumcah.
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 Drumcah, 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2820 (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 Drumcah with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Drumcah · Droim Chatha
- Area
- 748,400 m² (74.84 ha, 184.93 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inishkeen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Farney
- Electoral division
- Inishkeen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,182 people lived in 409 households in the Inishkeen electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghaglass, Cornagarvoge, Dromore, Drumirril, Drumnagrella
- Placenames
- Drumcah 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.