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Drum
An Droim
Village
Road through Drum. The building with the gable towards the road is the Protestant Hall.
Road through Drum. The building with the gable towards the road is the Protestant Hall.
Drum is located in Ireland
Drum
Drum
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 54°06′14″N 7°08′38″W / 54.104°N 7.144°W / 54.104; -7.144
CountryIreland
ProvinceUlster
CountyCounty Monaghan
BaronyDartree
Population
 (2022)
 • Total
190[1]
Time zoneUTC+0 (WET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-1 (IST (WEST))

Drum (Irish: An Droim, meaning 'the ridge')[2] is a village and townland in the west of County Monaghan in Ireland. It is one of the only Protestant-majority settlements in the Republic of Ireland.[3][4]

Location and name

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Drum is situated between some lakes, such as Drum Lough to the north, Quarry Lough to the west, and Long Lough to the south. It is named for the surrounding drumlin terrain. Local people arranged signage at Drum Lough, which has a high duck population.[5]

The village lies on a minor road off the main Monaghan Town to Cootehill road,[5] and the nearest larger settlements are Cootehill and Newbliss, site of the national writers' and artists' retreat facility, the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig.[6]

Character

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Unusually for Ireland, Drum has no Catholic church in the actual village.[5] The nearest Catholic church to the village is St. Joseph's Church, Corrinshigo; also known as Corrinshigo Chapel, parts of which were built c. 1870 and which was significantly altered in the 1960s, and is located less than two miles west of Drum.[7][8]

Drum has a Church of Ireland church, one of the oldest Presbyterian congregations on the island of Ireland (although the current Presbyterian church was only built in the c. 1820s[9][10]), a Free Presbyterian church and a Gospel Hall. The village retains a sense of pre-partition Ulster Scots culture. It has a Protestant Hall, which hosts two Orange Lodges (under the County Monaghan Grand Orange Lodge) and an accordion band; they both host a picnic and march in the village each year.[11][12] A blue plaque on the wall of the Protestant Hall commemorates John Deyell, who later founded a settlement in Canada. There is also a branch of the Royal Black Preceptory, and the Drum Association, a local development association, which shares premises with the Wee Drummers childcare facility. There is a Protestant primary school, while the nearest secondary school is in Cootehill, a 15-minutes drive away. Drum also participates in the Tidy Towns competition. The village shop and the last local public house closed in the 2010s, and the nearest retail facilities are now in Cootehill.[5][6]

Demography

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As of the 2022 Census 54 (28.4%) of the 190 residents are Catholic while 131 (68.9%) indicated they belonged to an "Other religion".[1]

Notable people

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Blue plaque commemorating John Deyell

See also

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References

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  1. 1 2 "Sex, Age and Marital Status". Central Statistics Office. Retrieved 2 August 2026.
  2. ↑ "An Droim/Drum". Placenames Database of Ireland (logainm.ie). Retrieved 7 June 2022.
  3. ↑ "Protestant drum is still beating strong in Border village". The Irish Times. 8 August 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2024. Drum in Co Monaghan [..is..] reckoned to be the Republic's only totally Protestant village
  4. ↑ "Welcome to Drum - the only Protestant village in Republic of Ireland". Belfast Telegraph. 20 July 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2024. Drum does leave a lasting impression - because it's the only Protestant village in the Republic of Ireland
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Little, Ivan (20 July 2016). "Welcome to Drum - the only Protestant village in Republic of Ireland". Belfast Telegraph. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
  6. 1 2 Gerry Moriarty (8 August 2016). "Protestant drum is still beating strong in Border village". The Irish Times.
  7. ↑ Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster - The Counties of Armagh, Cavan and Monaghan (also known as the Pevsner Guide to South Ulster), p. 321. Yale University Press, London, 2013. (Mulligan claims that Corrinshigo Chapel was newly built on an old site in 1964.)
  8. ↑ National Inventory of Architectural Heritage: Corrinshigo Church. (The N.I.A.H. claims that the current Corrinshigo Chapel was built around 1870.) https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/41402202/corrinshigo-catholic-church-corrinshigo-county-monaghan
  9. ↑ National Inventory of Architectural Heritage: Drum Presbyterian Church. https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/41402207/drum-presbyterian-church-cortober-county-monaghan
  10. ↑ Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster - The Counties of Armagh, Cavan and Monaghan (also known as the Pevsner Guide to South Ulster), p. 320. Yale University Press, London, 2013
  11. ↑ "Welcome to Drum - the only Protestant village in Republic of Ireland". Belfast Telegraph. 20 July 2016. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 23 July 2026.
  12. ↑ "Hounding Heather Humphreys about Orange parade a bad look for Irish unity". Belfast Telegraph. 21 September 2025. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 23 July 2026.
  13. ↑ "Stinson, Thomas". Stinson Community Association. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
  14. ↑ "People: Joseph Rutherford Dundas, M.P." Parliament of Canada. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
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