# Aghalaverty, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Monaghan, barony of Monaghan, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Achadh Laifeartaigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 308,597 m² (30.86 ha, 76.26 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,739 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/monaghan.md - Barony: Monaghan - Electoral division: Rackwallace, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 974 people lived in 315 households in the Rackwallace electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/40885 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170025 - Centre: latitude 54.247453, longitude -6.905566 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghalaverty, from 142 m² to 140,426 m² (14.04 ha, 34.7 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5149938: 140,426 m² (14.04 ha, 34.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5149938.md - Parcel 349797: 93,945 m² (9.39 ha, 23.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/349797.md - Parcel 315442: 51,190 m² (5.12 ha, 12.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/315442.md - Parcel 333455: 4,666 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/333455.md - Parcel 335602: 3,928 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/335602.md - Parcel 316476: 2,954 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/316476.md - Parcel 356298: 2,739 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/356298.md - Parcel 4637901: 2,650 m² (0.27 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4637901.md - Parcel 343910: 2,379 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/343910.md - Parcel 331427: 1,947 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/331427.md - Parcel 354856: 848 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/354856.md - Parcel 343679: 396 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/343679.md - Parcel 325102: 142 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/325102.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Aghalaverty 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) 4 applications, newest first. - 30 Oct 2025, Monaghan County Council 2560435: Conditional. Permission. a ten year planning permission is being sought for the proposed development which will consist of the following elements: the installation and operation of 1no. battery energy storage system compound containing battery energy storage containers, 1no. electrical substation and compound, connected to the national grid system via c. 100m of underground cable to the ESB Lisdrum 38kV substation, electrical transformers and inverter units, underground cabling and ducting, boundary fencing, security entrance gates, CCTV, internal access road, associated ancillary site development, landscaping and reinstatement works. The operational lifespan of the development will be 35 years. The site of the proposed development has a total area of 1.03 hectares. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560435/0 - 13 May 2020, Monaghan County Council 20161: Conditional. Permission. permission to construct 2 no. poultry units within existing farm complex together with underground washings tanks, vertical meal bins, use existing agricultural entrance and all ancillary 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 Acts 1994 to 2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (E.I.A.R.) will be submitted with this planning application. Significant further information relates to the submission of an AA screening report, an updated EIAR and a Nutrient Management Assessment Report.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/20161/0 - 4 Feb 2019, Monaghan County Council 1941: N/a. Permission. permission to construct 2 No. Poultry units within existing farm complex together with underground washings tanks, vertical meal bins, use existing agriculture entrance and all ancillary 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 Acts 1994 to 2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) will be submitted with this planning application and the EIAR will be available for inspection or purchase. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/1941/0 - 4 Dec 2018, Monaghan County Council 18562: Conditional. Permission. permission for the construction of a 38kv electricity substation, switchroom and equipment compound with palisade fence; the construction of approximately 400m of site access track and the upgrading of approximately 150m of existing agricultural track and an existing agricultural site entrance; approximately 200m of underground cabling and all associated site development and reinstatement works in the townland of Luppan, County Monaghan; and (ii) the installation of approximately 22km of 38kV electricity cables from the proposed substation to the existing electricity substation in the townland of Lisdrumdoagh, County Monaghan. The electricity cables will comprise approximately 17km of overhead line and approximately 5 km of underground line. Overhead lines will consist of 3 no. cables suspended from wooden poles with a maximum height of 16 metres, and all associated site development and reinstatement works. Underground cables will be located within private lands and within the public roads numbered L5171, L1400 and L1171; will be installed in excavated trenches of approximately 1.2m in depth and will include associated underground ducting, joint bays, communication chamber bays, sheath link boxes and inspection chambers; directional drilling beneath the N12 and Ulster Canal and all associated site development and reinstatement works. A vehicle access track of up to 4m in width will be provided immediately adjacent to underground cables with private lands. 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 the wind farm development permitted pursuant to Monaghan County Council Planning Register Reference 10/110 & An Bord Pleanála Reference PL18.240760 and proposed to be amended by planning reference 17/258 & An Bord Pleanála Reference PL18.300998 (currently under construction). A Natura Impact Statement will also be submitted to the planning authority with the planning application. This application is accompanied by an EIAR. Significant Further information has been submitted.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/18562/0 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 Aghalaverty. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghalaverty. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aghalaverty. ## 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 Aghalaverty, 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 Aghalaverty. - 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/aghalaverty.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/aghalaverty.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/aghalaverty.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Aghalaverty 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) - Clonlonan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/clonlonan.md - Culdaloo: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/culdaloo.md - Fedoo: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/fedoo.md - Feebane: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/feebane.md - Lisdrumdoagh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/lisdrumdoagh.md - Tirfinnog: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/tirfinnog.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/aghalaverty - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/aghalaverty