Alts

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Alts, from 165 m² to 140,551 m² (14.06 ha, 34.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

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.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 26 Aug 2026N/a

  permission for development of a single-storey dwelling, wastewater treatment system, site entrance, boundary fencing and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2660354

• 18 Feb 2026Conditional

  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

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660048

• 17 Dec 2025N/a

  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

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560509

• 28 Oct 2021Conditional

  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

  Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21602

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Alts.

Recorded monuments

• MO030-023 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  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

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Alts.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

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: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.

No address of the register names Alts with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Alts · Na hAillt

Area

520,297 m² (52.03 ha, 128.57 acres)

Civil parish

Magheracloone, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Drumcarrow, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumcarrow electoral division: 515 people in 164 households; 90% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghatamy, Corlea, Drumcarrow, Greaghawillin (Jackson), Lisnaclea, Tirnadrola

Placenames

Alts 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.