Camla
Townland in the civil parish of Monaghan, barony of Monaghan, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Camloch
- Area
- 59.4 ha
- 147 acres
- Land parcels
- 0
- registered freehold
- Zoning
- G3
- Landscape Protection/Conservation
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Camla. The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 4 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G3Landscape Protection/Conservation (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
15 Jul 2025N/a
permission for change of use from a three-storey derelict mill to dwelling, to include the following: 1. alterations of existing façade treatments to include openings and materials 2. new carport to side elevation 3. ancillary internal & external refurbishment works 4. upgrade and use of existing agricultural entrance to include new gates & piers 5. new connection to mains water supply 6. new waste water treatment system and all associated site works. Significant information relates to amended site boundary, proposed retaining wall & bridged entrance, amended ground levels & all associated works
Extension of duration · Monaghan County Council, 259007
14 Jan 2020Conditional
permission for change of use from a three-storey derelict mill to dwelling, to include the following: 1. alterations of existing façade treatments to include openings and materials 2. new carport to side elevation 3. ancillary internal & external refurbishment works 4. upgrade and use of existing agricultural entrance to include new gates & piers 5. new connection to mains water supply 6. new waste water treatment system and all associated site works. Significant information relates to amended site boundary, proposed retaining wall & bridged entrance, amended ground levels & all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2010
6 Feb 2019Conditional
permission to construct a dry bedded shed for the housing of livestock, within existing farmyard complex, along with associated ancillary site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 1948
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Camla.
Recorded monuments
- MO009-072 Designed landscape - tree-ring
Description
Situated on top of a hill within the Rossmore estate. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam c. 84m) enclosed by a low bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H c. 1m), with an entrance (Wth 3.3m) at the SW. There is no evidence of an outer fosse. Date of upload: 14 April 2011
- MO009-073 Designed landscape feature
Description
Situated immediately to the W of a S-N stream within the Rossmore estate. This is a circular raised area (diam. c. 30m) surrounded by a high bank (H c. 2m) on the W. The interior slopes down from W to E, and is heavily overgrown. It is probably a landscape feature. Date of upload: 14 April 2011
Architectural heritage
- Camla House, steward's house, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey steward's house, built c.1880, having gabled porch to front (east) elevation, and gabled extension and lean-to extension to rear. Now in use as private house. Pitched slate roof, with red brick chimneystacks having clay pots, and replacement rainwater goods. Harl-rendered walls with painted block-and-start rusticated quoins and plinth course. Smooth render plinth course to rear. Square-headed window openings throughout, having raised render reveals, tooled painted stone sills and timber sliding sash windows, three-over-six pane to first floor to front and six-over-six pane to other square-headed openings, and round-headed window opening to front of porch, with render reveal and sill, and having six-over-six pane window. Square-headed door opening to south elevation of porch, having render reveal and timber panelled door, with two render steps. Square-headed door openings to extensions to rear having render reveals and replacement uPVC doors.
- Camla House, mill (water), 1840–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Detached L-plan split-level former corn mill, built c.1850, two-storey to front (west) elevation and three storey to rear (east) elevation, with attic storey. Pitched replacement slate roof with timber bargeboards and cast-iron rainwater goods. Snecked squared sandstone walls, with dressed block-and-start quoins. Square-headed window openings having tooled sandstone sills and lintels and gauged-brick square-headed window openings with red brick surrounds. Window openings boarded up or having timber fittings. Opening to south elevation having leaded window panes. Square-headed door opening to south elevation, with tooled sandstone surround. Gauged masonry round-headed door openings at basement level and ground floor level to east elevation, with tooled stone voussoirs. Positioning of floors to interior visible by spaces to wall. Wheel-pit and machinery visible to west elevation, mill race also visible to west.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2302 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Camla with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Camla · Camloch
- Area
- 594,431 m² (59.44 ha, 146.89 acres)
- Civil parish
- Monaghan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Monaghan
- Electoral division
- Monaghan Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Monaghan Rural electoral division: 6,411 people in 2,320 households; 62% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyleck, Clonavarn, Gortakeeghan, Killycushil, Tullygrimes
- Placenames
- Camla 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.