Drumguill
Drumguill is a townland in the civil parish of Drumsnat, barony of Monaghan, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is Droim Goill.
Parcel 354674
- Area
- 13,077 m² (1.31 ha, 3.23 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
- Drumguill
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
- 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.
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
- 69.9 ha
- 173 acres
- Land parcels
- 36
- registered freehold, median 2,826 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumguill, from 161 m² to 175,084 m² (17.51 ha, 43.26 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 Drumguill 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
3 Sept 2026N/a
permission to construct 1 No. poultry house together with all ancillary structures (to include meal storage bin(s)) and site works. This application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a Licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (E.I.A.R.) will be submitted with this planning application
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660368
11 Jun 2026Conditional
retention of two-storey dwelling house, insert new filter unit and percolation area and exit on to public road by way of new entrance from associated car park and all ancillary works
Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2651
17 Sept 2025N/a
permission to retain two storey dwelling house, insert new filter unit and percolation area and exit on to public road by way of existing entrance and all associated works
Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2578
18 Feb 2025Conditional
planning permission to construct a new two storey dwelling house & detached domestic garage, new domestic entrance, install new mechanical effluent treatment system and subsoil percolation area together with all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2510
20 Dec 2024Refused
retention of a two storey dwelling house as replacement for demolished two storey dwelling house, insert new filter unit and percolation area and exit on to public road by way of existing entrance and all associated works, Significant further information received relates to submitted Water Protection Plan list, Amended site boundaries, letter of consent re farm buildings.
Retention · Monaghan County Council, 24127
31 May 2024Conditional
permission to retain changes to dwelling house and new position of septic tank
Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2454
6 Sept 2023Conditional
permission to erect a one and a half storey dwelling house with a domestic garage, install wastewater treatment system and percolation area, construct new domestic entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 23183
6 Apr 2022Conditional
permission to erect a two storey extension to rear of existing two storey dwelling house and exit onto public road by way of existing entrance
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 22155
28 Oct 2021N/a
permission for development consisting of the construction of a two storey granny flat extension onto existing dwelling house with all new service connected onto existing services together with all ancillary site development works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21600
15 Sept 2021Conditional
permission for 1. amendments to site boundaries from those granted in planning permission ref. 20/214 and 2. the construction of a detached single storey domestic garage and all other associated site development works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21521
15 Jun 2020Conditional
permission for development consisting of the construction of a new bungalow type dwelling house, proprietary waste water treatment unit and polishing filter and construct new entrance onto existing road and all other associated site development works. Significant further information relates to amended site plan and amended site location map.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20214
18 Dec 2019Conditional
permission for a development consisting of the erection of a one and a half storey style dwelling house with a detached domestic garage, install wastewater treatment system and percolation area, construct new domestic entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19562
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 Drumguill.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumguill.
Architectural heritage
- Saint Mary's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1810–1925 · Regional interest
Description
Free-standing gable-fronted Roman Catholic church with Byzantine-Romanesque detailing, built 1810, rebuilt 1924-5 after fire, to designs by Rudolf Butler. T-plan with six-bay nave, easternmost bay slightly recessed, and with single-bay gabled transept having lower ridge. Flat-roofed aisle abutting north elevation, with chapel and boiler shed outshots, flat-roofed porch to west gable, and modern catslide porch abutting east elevation of transept. Pitched slate roof with roll-top blue/black angled ridge tiles, stone Celtic Cross finials and verges on painted eaves corbel blocks, and half-round metal gutters. Cut sandstone bell-cote with Celtic Cross finial and offset, pointed-arch aperture containing single bronze bell with lettering '[Sheridan?]…Dublin 1873'. Rendered chimneystack to east end party wall of nave/chancel and north aisle/sacristy. Painted roughcast walling over napped plinth; strip buttresses to ends of east gable. Round-headed stained-glass casement lancets throughout, single to north aisle east and west elevations, bipartite to porch, tripartite to nave gables, bipartite to nave in round-headed napped surround with oculus above double round-headed lights, with render sills. Square-headed replacement timber battened doors to porches. Front porch has stone stoups and Minton-like herringbone tiled floors with polychrome lozenge-patterned margins. Nave has gallery to west end of nave, round-arch arcade with similar arch to transept. Aisle ends in side chapel with door accessing sacristy to east end of chancel and behind side chapel. Exposed timber roof structure supported on painted stone corbels, with timber sheeted roof over rafters and purlins. Set back from road, with steel gates and rubble and roughcast plinth wall with modern inset plaque inscribed 'Saint Mary’s Church Erected 1810 AD.' Situated on sloping site rising to north-east, with terraced lawn and bitmac pathways, with stone Celtic Cross to priest’s grave to front of transept gable, terraced ditch surrounding west porch and north aisle, rendered modern two-storey house to south-east of church at roadside, modern school-house across road to south, substantial graveyard with rendered stepped wall enclosing graveyard with mostly twentieth-century gravestones and 'Jubilee' mission crucifix, dated 2000, to east end of graveyard.
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
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred). Parts of the land are made ground and water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2278 (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 Drumguill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Drumguill · Droim Goill
- Area
- 698,992 m² (69.9 ha, 172.72 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumsnat, and its townlands
- Barony
- Monaghan
- Electoral division
- Drumsnat, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,069 people lived in 392 households in the Drumsnat electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cabragh, Cooldarragh, Corcreeghy, Drumgarve, Kilnaclay, Mullanavannog, Roosky, Tirmadown
- Placenames
- Drumguill 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.