Alsmeed
Alsmeed is a townland in the civil parish of Muckno, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is Alsmeed.
- Area
- 110 ha
- 272 acres
- Land parcels
- 33
- registered freehold, median 10,341 m² (1.03 ha, 2.56 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Alsmeed, from 66 m² to 137,078 m² (13.71 ha, 33.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Alsmeed 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
29 May 2020Conditional
permission for retention of the following works which differ to that previously approved under planning reference 18430: (i) revised dwelling orientation (ii) finished floor level (iii) amended retaining wall structure together with all associated works
Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20188
14 Sept 2018Conditional
permission the development will consist of the construction of a two-storey dwelling, single-storey detached domestic garage, new entrance with gates and piers, together with new wastewater treatment system and all associated works.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18430
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 Alsmeed.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Alsmeed.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Alsmeed.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Alsmeed, about 1 in 10 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Alsmeed.
- 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 Alsmeed with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Alsmeed · Alsmeed
- Area
- 1,100,203 m² (110.02 ha, 271.87 acres)
- Civil parish
- Muckno, and its townlands
- Barony
- Cremorne
- Electoral division
- Mullyash, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 380 people lived in 132 households in the Mullyash electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghnadamph, Lurganearly, Tavanaskea, Tomogrow
- Placenames
- Alsmeed 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.