Bocks Middle

75 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bocks Middle, from 63 m² to 82,923 m² (8.29 ha, 20.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 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 Bocks Middle 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.

• 4 Mar 2025Conditional

  permission for a proposed development consisting of a new single storey dwelling, garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560084

• 17 Apr 2024Conditional

  permission for retention of existing entrance piers and wall layout. Entrance piers and walls were previously granted as part of planning permission Ref No. 07/1396

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2430

• 28 Feb 2024N/a

  retention permission for existing entrance piers and wall layout. Entrance piers were previously granted as part of planning permission ref no. 07/1396

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2416

• 22 Mar 2023Conditional

  retention permission consisting of 1. Retention of partially constructed cattle shed with slatted underground slurry tank and will consist of 2. Permission to complete the development together with all ancillary site development works . Significant Further Information/Revised plans have been submitted in respect of this development

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2360022

• 6 Jul 2021N/a

  permission to construct boarding kennels, access off existing entrance, installation of a wash waters holding tank, together with all ancillary and associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21395

• 29 Oct 2019Conditional

  Permission for 1. Retention of infilling of low-lying lands with soil, subsoil and inert material & 2. Permission to infill adjoining lands with soil, subsoil and inert material in order to raise the levels and reclaim the land for agricultural purposes together with all ancillary site development works. The lands will be covered with topsoil and reseeded with grass when completed. Significant information relates to ecological assessment of the site and revised site layout plan.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 19490

• 1 May 2019Conditional

  permission for a dormer style dwelling, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new vehicular entrance, entrance walls and piers together with all ancillary site development works and retention permission for a mobile home located on site for a temporary period of a maximum of 5 years during construction of the proposed dwelling house. Significant Further information relates to retention permission for a single storey agricultural machinery storage shed located on site and permission is sought for the provision of a new entrance and access to the shed at an alternative location with the permanent closure of the existing entrance and access.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19199

• 27 Mar 2019N/a

  1 - permission for a dormer style dwelling, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new vehicular entrance, entrance walls and piers together with all ancillary site development works. 2 - Retention permission for a mobile home located on site for temporary period of a maximum of 5 years during construction of the proposed dwelling house.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19140

• 22 Oct 2018Conditional

  permission to construct alterations and additions to existing two storey dormer style dwelling consisting of; two storey dormer style extension to side elevation, single storey extension to rear elevation, alterations and additions to all elevations and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18487

• 7 Mar 2018Conditional

  Permission to construct a domestic garage to include a games room and storage with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 1886

• 17 May 2017Conditional

  permission to erect a single storey dwelling, attached garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area and associated site works off new entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17233

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 Bocks Middle.

Recorded monuments

• MO027-080 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a S-facing slope. A circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) 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 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. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 31 January 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Bocks Middle.

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 Bocks Middle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Bocks Middle · An Bac Meánach

Area

1,039,261 m² (103.93 ha, 256.81 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmoyne, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Bocks, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bocks electoral division: 779 people in 246 households; 85% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Beagh, Bocks Lower, Bocks Upper, Drumberagh, Drumgowna, Greaghlane

Placenames

Bocks Middle 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.