Aghadrumkeen

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghadrumkeen, from 378 m² to 83,998 m² (8.4 ha, 20.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Aghadrumkeen 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.

• 6 Feb 2025Conditional

  permission for the development will consist of the following: construction of a single story dwelling house, new entrance gates and piers, installation of wastewater treatment system and sand polishing filter with all ancillary & associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560038

• 25 Oct 2019Conditional

  A ten year permission for the development of 8 no. wind turbines, each with a maximum tip height of up to 180 metres; and all associated site development, reinstatement, temporary and ancillary works including turbine foundations, crane hardstands, approximately 5.5 kilometres of site access tracks, permanent upgrade works to the L62012 and L62013 local roads, 11 no. site entrances, underground electricity and communications cabling, site drainage works, a temporary construction compound and a permanent meteorological mast with a maximum height of up to 101 metres. The proposed development will have a 30-year operational life from the date of commissioning of the entire development. The proposed development also includes permanent upgrade works along the R188, R183 and R189 regional roads in the townlands of Rakean, Lismagonway, Aghadrumkeen and Newbliss to accommodate the delivery of wind turbine components. Upgrade works will include the removal of roadside banks and vegetation, re-profiling of a vertical crest, the removal of 1 no. tree and the temporary lowering of a bridge parapet wall, and all associated site development and reinstatement works. This planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report which includes an assessment of the likely impacts of the proposed development, as a whole and in combination with the relevant off-site or secondary developments which will occur as a direct result of the proposed development, including connection to the national electricity grid, upgrade works to turbine component delivery routes and the importation and use of construction materials. The planning application is also accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement. Significant further information relates to revised plans. (NOTE 1ST AND 3RD PARTY APPEAL ON THIS FILE)

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 19486

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 Aghadrumkeen.

Recorded monuments

• MO018-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on top of one of many summits of an E-W drumlin ridge. This is a circular overgrown area (diam. 23.5m WNW-ESE; 23m NNE-SSW) defined by a small but overgrown earth en bank (at W: Wth of base 1.9m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.3m), and outer fosse (Wth c. 1.2m; D c. 0.3m) ENE-SSE. A gap in the scarp at S may be the original entrance. 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: 18 June 2018

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch masonry railway bridge, built c.1855, carrying Dundalk and Enniskillen Branch of former Ulster Railway over road. Segmental arch with rock-faced rusticated sandstone voussoirs and dressed stone soffits. Squared rubble stone parapet walls, with dressed stone copings. Rock-faced rusticated spandrel and squared rubble abutment walls. Squared rubble wing walls, projecting at right angles from north and south elevations, coped with dressed stone blocks, and terminating in rusticated and margined piers. Bridge carrying former railway over river to immediate west, having elliptical arch with rusticated sandstone voussoirs, coursed rubble parapets, stone soffit and plinth, and splayed abutment wall to north-east.

• Drumkeen Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1800–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-cell Presbyterian church, built 1803, renovated and modernised in 1828 and 1889, having five-bay front elevation, and lower recessed two-bay two-storey block to north end, with cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched slate roof with rendered copings, with rendered chimneystack to junction of blocks. Roughcast-rendered walls with rendered quoins. Pointed-arch window openings to long walls, with rendered surrounds and Y-tracery stained-glass windows.. Pointed-arch doorway to west end of front elevation with timber battened door, having plaque overhead. Recessed block has similar roof and walling treatment and square-headed openings with replacement uPVC windows and timber door. Smooth rendered walls to interior, having carved marble memorial plaques to north elevation, flat plastered ceiling with chamfered coving, plaster medallions to light fixtures, nineteenth-century timber pews with trefoil ornament, open choir boxes to north-east corner, nineteenth-century carved timber pulpit to centre of north end approached by steps on west elevation and having carved quatrefoil ornament to canted front. Square-headed door opening from north-east of nave, accessing meeting rooms and sexton's house. Two square-headed timber panelled doors accessing vestibule at south end, with smooth rendered walls and timber panelled dado. Timber stairs from vestibule to gallery. Gallery having carved timber pews and carved quatrefoil balustrade, supported on single fluted cast-iron round-plan column.

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 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).

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Aghadrumkeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Aghadrumkeen · Achadh Droma Chaoin

Area

737,069 m² (73.71 ha, 182.13 acres)

Civil parish

Aghabog, and its townlands

Barony

Dartree

Electoral division

Aghabog, the unit of the census

Census 2022

318 people lived in 113 households in the Aghabog electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghnacue, Corragarry, Corranewy, Descart, Drumbrean, Killygragy, Kinduff

Placenames

Aghadrumkeen 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.