# Ardragh, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Magheross, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Ardráth.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,896,647 m² (189.66 ha, 468.67 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 23,429 m² (2.34 ha, 5.79 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Magheross, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/magheross.md
- Barony: Farney
- Electoral division: Raferagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 447 people lived in 159 households in the Raferagh electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 14% 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/39599
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170133
- Centre: latitude 54.007206, longitude -6.850125 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardragh, from 194 m² to 144,163 m² (14.42 ha, 35.62 acres); 38 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 345412: 144,163 m² (14.42 ha, 35.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345412.md
- Parcel 341533: 112,728 m² (11.27 ha, 27.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/341533.md
- Parcel 322759: 98,900 m² (9.89 ha, 24.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/322759.md
- Parcel 325393: 88,967 m² (8.9 ha, 21.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/325393.md
- Parcel 345083: 88,790 m² (8.88 ha, 21.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345083.md
- Parcel 345407: 88,513 m² (8.85 ha, 21.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345407.md
- Parcel 5798692: 83,691 m² (8.37 ha, 20.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5798692.md
- Parcel 345409: 73,962 m² (7.4 ha, 18.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345409.md
- Parcel 345078: 70,751 m² (7.08 ha, 17.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345078.md
- Parcel 350676: 65,790 m² (6.58 ha, 16.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/350676.md
- Parcel 325390: 64,071 m² (6.41 ha, 15.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/325390.md
- Parcel 324929: 61,189 m² (6.12 ha, 15.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/324929.md
- Parcel 345085: 57,518 m² (5.75 ha, 14.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345085.md
- Parcel 345077: 54,892 m² (5.49 ha, 13.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345077.md
- Parcel 315648: 52,168 m² (5.22 ha, 12.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/315648.md
- Parcel 325394: 50,349 m² (5.03 ha, 12.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/325394.md
- Parcel 332598: 49,303 m² (4.93 ha, 12.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/332598.md
- Parcel 345084: 47,562 m² (4.76 ha, 11.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345084.md
- Parcel 345411: 44,266 m² (4.43 ha, 10.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345411.md
- Parcel 345079: 41,005 m² (4.1 ha, 10.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345079.md
- Parcel 345075: 40,920 m² (4.09 ha, 10.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345075.md
- Parcel 348228: 40,188 m² (4.02 ha, 9.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/348228.md
- Parcel 345080: 36,887 m² (3.69 ha, 9.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345080.md
- Parcel 345408: 35,398 m² (3.54 ha, 8.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345408.md
- Parcel 325395: 34,793 m² (3.48 ha, 8.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/325395.md
- Parcel 355387: 34,084 m² (3.41 ha, 8.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/355387.md
- Parcel 325396: 23,524 m² (2.35 ha, 5.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/325396.md
- Parcel 344248: 23,334 m² (2.33 ha, 5.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/344248.md
- Parcel 5136047: 20,757 m² (2.08 ha, 5.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5136047.md
- Parcel 344126: 18,747 m² (1.87 ha, 4.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/344126.md
- Parcel 324354: 16,986 m² (1.7 ha, 4.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/324354.md
- Parcel 344788: 16,929 m² (1.69 ha, 4.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/344788.md
- Parcel 345082: 15,316 m² (1.53 ha, 3.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345082.md
- Parcel 327001: 13,645 m² (1.36 ha, 3.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/327001.md
- Parcel 326400: 12,245 m² (1.22 ha, 3.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/326400.md
- Parcel 324921: 11,296 m² (1.13 ha, 2.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/324921.md
- Parcel 346137: 8,096 m² (0.81 ha, 2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/346137.md
- Parcel 349496: 5,764 m² (0.58 ha, 1.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/349496.md
- Parcel 345076: 5,557 m² (0.56 ha, 1.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345076.md
- Parcel 349230: 5,121 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/349230.md
- Parcel 326854: 5,019 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/326854.md
- Parcel 331235: 4,459 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/331235.md
- Parcel 330363: 3,825 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/330363.md
- Parcel 330350: 3,668 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/330350.md
- Parcel 345783: 2,898 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345783.md
- Parcel 345281: 2,716 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345281.md
- Parcel 344970: 2,091 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/344970.md
- Parcel 349169: 1,838 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/349169.md
- Parcel 317083: 1,838 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/317083.md
- Parcel 325546: 1,585 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/325546.md
- Parcel 345185: 1,066 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/345185.md
- Parcel 5903639: 1,010 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5903639.md
- Parcel 3588887: 422 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3588887.md
- Parcel 5903669: 194 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5903669.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Ardragh 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)

7 applications, newest first.

- 6 Jul 2026, Monaghan County Council 2660281: N/a. Permission. permission for a development which will consist of 1. Redevelopment of existing two-storey dwelling house, 2. Redevelopment and Change of Use of attached single storey out-building to habitable accommodation with its incorporation into existing dwelling house, 3. Construction of a single storey extension to the side of the dwelling house together with all ancillary site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660281/0
- 19 Dec 2025, Monaghan County Council 2560518: N/a. Permission. permission for development consisting of a new cubicle shed with 3 No. underground slurry storage tanks and new robotic milking parlour area, feed passage and calving pens all housed under a portal frame structure and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560518/0
- 19 Dec 2025, Monaghan County Council 2560520: Conditional. Permission. permission for development consisting of a new cubicle shed with 3 No. underground slurry storage tanks and new robotic milking parlour area, feed passage and calving pens all housed under a portal frame structure and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560520/0
- 6 Dec 2025, Monaghan County Council 2560490: N/a. Permission. permission for development the development will consist of a new cubicle shed with 3 No. underground slurry storage tanks and new robotic milking parlour area, feed passage and calving pens all housed under a portal frame structure and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560490/0
- 14 Jul 2025, Monaghan County Council 2560272: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission for the development will consist of single storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, off existing shared entrance and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560272/0
- 17 Nov 2023, Monaghan County Council 23230: N/a. Permission, 1 home. permission for a bungalow dwelling house, a domestic garage, a domestic waste water treatment system, a new site entrance with all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/23230/0
- 7 Mar 2018, Monaghan County Council 1889: Refused. Retention. Permission to retain ground works and associated deposit of inert material to facilitate use of land as agricultural field. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/1889/0

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## 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 Ardragh.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- MO027-097: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO027-097----. Situated at the NW end of a NW-SE ridge. This is a raised oval grass-covered area (diam. 33m NW-SE; 26m NE-SW) defined by a slight earthen bank best preserved (Wth of base 5.8m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.5m) NW-N, and an outer scarp (at SW: H 2m; at NE: H 2.7m; at SE: H 0.7m) and hedge elsewhere. There is an outer berm (Wth 1.2m) separating the base of the bank from an outer NE-SW field bank (Wth 2m; H 0.3-0.9m ext. H 0.3-1.2m) at NW and a berm (Wth 3m) between the bank and a NE-SW field bank (Wth c. 6m; H 1.2-1.6m) at SE. The original entrance is not identified. 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. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 1 February 2018
- MO027-098: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO027-098----. Located at the SE end of a small NW-SE ridge in a fairly low-lying area between drumlins. A small embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30m) is depicted only on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’. No archaeological feature is visible at ground level in improved pasture. 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: 4 January 2012 Revised by: Claire Breen

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)

- Saint Patrick's Church (Magheross), church/chapel, 1865–1870, Regional interest, registry number 41402727, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO&regno=41402727. Freestanding gable-fronted limestone-built Gothic-style Church of Ireland church, built 1865-8, having four-bay nave and slightly lower half-hexagonal apse to rear (east), two-stage bell-cote and slightly projecting porch to gable-front. Pitched slate roof having stone copings and gable cross finials with cast-iron rainwater goods. Coursed rubble stone walls and lateral buttresses having ashlar sandstone dressings, courses and corbelling below eaves course. Pointed-arch window openings with block-and-start tooled sandstone surrounds and sills with iron lattice glazing. Large traceried rose window with tooled sandstone surround and geometrically patterned stained glass to gable-front. Main entrance has pointed-arch door opening with sandstone surround and timber tongued-and-grooved double-leaf door having decorative cast-iron hinges, and two stone steps. Interior has alabaster-lined walls, marble work by Sibthorp of Dublin and stained glass by Clayton & Bell. Pointed carved stone chancel arch having marble columns with carved stone crocketed capitals. Stone-vaulted soffit to apse. Smooth plastered vaulted ceiling to nave, with exposed timber arch-braced collared truss roof, feet of trusses registering as hanging posts borne on carved stone corbels, in cruck fashion. Tooled stone splayed reveals to windows, having roll mouldings and stained glass. Segmental-arch door opening to west end, having cut-stone surround with carved roll moulding, and timber panelled double-leaf door. Altar raised on six cut-stone steps having encaustic tiles depicting family crest shields set within stone flags. Stone flags to nave. Carved marble baptismal font to west end of nave, carved marble lectern to chancel. Timber pews, recent timber screen to west end of nave. Church is set within graveyard on elevated wooded site and bounded by mature trees.

## 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 Ardragh, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ardragh.
- 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/ardragh.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/ardragh.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/ardragh.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Ardragh 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)

- Cargaghmore: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/cargaghmore.md
- Corvally: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/corvally-170575.md
- Greaghlatacapple: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/greaghlatacapple.md
- Shanco: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/shanco-171635.md
- Sreenty: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/sreenty.md
- Ummerafree: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/ummerafree.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.

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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.

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