# Blittoge, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Donaghmoyne, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Bliotóg. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 703,050 m² (70.31 ha, 173.73 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 40,141 m² (4.01 ha, 9.92 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Donaghmoyne, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/donaghmoyne.md - Barony: Farney - Electoral division: Kiltybegs, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 716 people lived in 228 households in the Kiltybegs electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/39548 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170182 - Centre: latitude 54.004389, longitude -6.646232 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blittoge, from 2,246 m² (0.22 ha, 0.56 acres) to 111,436 m² (11.14 ha, 27.54 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 332875: 111,436 m² (11.14 ha, 27.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/332875.md - Parcel 317343: 78,445 m² (7.84 ha, 19.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/317343.md - Parcel 331807: 76,680 m² (7.67 ha, 18.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/331807.md - Parcel 326086: 68,241 m² (6.82 ha, 16.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/326086.md - Parcel 354628: 54,768 m² (5.48 ha, 13.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/354628.md - Parcel 339258: 54,294 m² (5.43 ha, 13.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/339258.md - Parcel 3996685: 52,655 m² (5.27 ha, 13.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3996685.md - Parcel 321072: 41,434 m² (4.14 ha, 10.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/321072.md - Parcel 321617: 38,849 m² (3.88 ha, 9.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/321617.md - Parcel 331808: 36,112 m² (3.61 ha, 8.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/331808.md - Parcel 330116: 28,871 m² (2.89 ha, 7.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/330116.md - Parcel 320164: 9,285 m² (0.93 ha, 2.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/320164.md - Parcel 333956: 6,823 m² (0.68 ha, 1.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/333956.md - Parcel 4637740: 4,254 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4637740.md - Parcel 338944: 3,017 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/338944.md - Parcel 352398: 2,246 m² (0.22 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/352398.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Blittoge 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 29 Apr 2024, Monaghan County Council 2435: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission for a development consisting of a dormer bungalow dwelling house, a domestic garage, a domestic wastewater treatment system, a new site entrance with all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2435/0 - 29 Apr 2024, Monaghan County Council 2436: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission for development consisting of a dormer bungalow dwelling house, a domestic garage, a domestic waste water treatment system, a new site entrance and all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2436/0 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 Blittoge. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MO028-132: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO028-132----. Located towards the bottom of a SW-facing slope in a little NNW-SSE valley that opens out to a small lake c. 200m to the SSE. This is depicted as an arc of hachures S-W-N only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is a grass-covered area (diam. 40m N-S) defined by a bank (H 0.5m) at S morphing into a scarp with a hedge SW-N (H 2m), but the perimeter is not discernible elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or 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: 12 December 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 Blittoge. ## 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 Blittoge, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Blittoge. - 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/blittoge.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/blittoge.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/blittoge.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Blittoge 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) - Carricklane: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/carricklane.md - Cormoy Upper: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/cormoy-upper.md - Drumlusty: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumlusty.md - Drumneill: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumneill-170918.md - Feegavla: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/feegavla.md - Kiltybegs: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/kiltybegs-171222.md - Momony: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/momony.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/blittoge - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/blittoge