# Acres, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Tedavnet, barony of Monaghan, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Na hAcraí. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 193,482 m² (19.35 ha, 47.81 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,170 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Tedavnet, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/tedavnet.md - Barony: Monaghan - Electoral division: Sheskin, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 683 people lived in 232 households in the Sheskin electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/40994 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170002 - Centre: latitude 54.291551, longitude -7.13635 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Acres, from 504 m² to 100,607 m² (10.06 ha, 24.86 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 314898: 100,607 m² (10.06 ha, 24.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/314898.md - Parcel 321046: 58,283 m² (5.83 ha, 14.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/321046.md - Parcel 4420932: 9,080 m² (0.91 ha, 2.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4420932.md - Parcel 327624: 6,635 m² (0.66 ha, 1.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/327624.md - Parcel 4420936: 3,568 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4420936.md - Parcel 4420924: 3,200 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4420924.md - Parcel 4420916: 3,139 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4420916.md - Parcel 338790: 2,754 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/338790.md - Parcel 337103: 2,540 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/337103.md - Parcel 337140: 2,364 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/337140.md - Parcel 5826448: 700 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5826448.md - Parcel 345704: 504 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/345704.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Acres in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 3 Sept 2025, Monaghan County Council 2570: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission to erect a one and a half storey dwelling house, insert a filter unit and percolation area and exit on to public road by new entrance. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2570/0 - 24 Nov 2023, Monaghan County Council 23235: Refused. Permission, 1 home. permission to erect a one and a half storey dwelling house, insert a filter unit and percolation area and exit on to public road by new entrance. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/23235/0 - 20 Jul 2020, Monaghan County Council 20288: Refused. Permission, 1 home. Permission to construct 2 new dormer/storey and a half style dwellinghouses & detached domestic garages, install new mechanical effluent treatment systems, raised/mounded soil based percolation area, new domestic entrances together with all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/20288/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Acres. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Acres. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Acres. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Acres, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Acres. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/acres-170002.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/acres-170002.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/acres-170002.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Acres with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Dundrumman: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/dundrumman.md - Kilmore West: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/kilmore-west-171206.md - Knockatallan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/knockatallan.md - Milligan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/milligan.md - Sheskin: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/sheskin.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/acres-170002 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/acres-170002