# Alts, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Magheracloone, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Na hAillt. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 520,297 m² (52.03 ha, 128.57 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,073 m² (0.71 ha, 1.75 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Magheracloone, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/magheracloone.md - Barony: Farney - Electoral division: Drumcarrow, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 515 people lived in 164 households in the Drumcarrow electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 11% 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/39433 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170074 - Centre: latitude 53.977744, longitude -6.794965 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Alts, from 165 m² to 140,551 m² (14.06 ha, 34.73 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 344382: 140,551 m² (14.06 ha, 34.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/344382.md - Parcel 326096: 76,898 m² (7.69 ha, 19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/326096.md - Parcel 343061: 66,714 m² (6.67 ha, 16.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/343061.md - Parcel 317247: 62,673 m² (6.27 ha, 15.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/317247.md - Parcel 318752: 60,422 m² (6.04 ha, 14.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/318752.md - Parcel 333968: 45,798 m² (4.58 ha, 11.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/333968.md - Parcel 342492: 23,225 m² (2.32 ha, 5.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/342492.md - Parcel 339074: 13,602 m² (1.36 ha, 3.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/339074.md - Parcel 337142: 7,073 m² (0.71 ha, 1.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/337142.md - Parcel 5488621: 6,001 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5488621.md - Parcel 317015: 4,612 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/317015.md - Parcel 3440724: 3,699 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3440724.md - Parcel 323196: 3,588 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/323196.md - Parcel 337143: 3,261 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/337143.md - Parcel 354800: 559 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/354800.md - Parcel 337085: 466 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/337085.md - Parcel 3440731: 165 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3440731.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Alts 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. - 26 Aug 2026, Monaghan County Council 2660354: N/a. Permission, 1 home. permission for development of a single-storey dwelling, wastewater treatment system, site entrance, boundary fencing and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660354/0 - 18 Feb 2026, Monaghan County Council 2660048: Conditional. Permission. permission for a development which will consist of a single storey extension and elevational amendments to an existing dwelling. Also included is the relocation of the site entrance, new access lane and parking area, garage, proposed wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660048/0 - 17 Dec 2025, Monaghan County Council 2560509: N/a. Permission, 1 home. permission for the construction of a single-story dwelling, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, site entrance, boundary fencing, temporary mobile home and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560509/0 - 28 Oct 2021, Monaghan County Council 21602: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. permission for development consisting of retention permission for existing alterations to dwelling previously approved permission by Monaghan County Council under Planning ref 89/356. The works seeking retention include 1) retention of alterations to elevations and floor plan than otherwise approved under previous planning ref 89/356, 2) Retention of alterations of site layout included revised location of site entrance 3) retention of sightline improvement works 4) all ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21602/0 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 Alts. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MO030-023: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO030-023----. Situated on the summit of a drumlin. This rath is marked on McCrea’s map of Co. Monaghan (1793). It is a raised overgrown area (diam. c. 36m N-S) that has been planted with coniferous trees. It is defined by a scarp (at N: H 1.3m), with an outer fosse or drain (Wth of top 2.8m; Wth of base 1.8m; int. D 1.9m; ext. D 0.5m) SE-S where the scarp has a stone facing. There is no identifiable 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. Date of revision: 25 August 2017 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Alts. ## 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 Alts, about 1 in 10 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 Alts. - 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/alts.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/alts.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/alts.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Alts 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) - Aghatamy: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/aghatamy.md - Corlea: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/corlea-170449.md - Drumcarrow: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumcarrow.md - Greaghawillin (Jackson): https://everytownland.com/monaghan/greaghawillin-jackson.md - Lisnaclea: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/lisnaclea.md - Tirnadrola: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/tirnadrola.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/alts - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/alts