# Camla, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Monaghan, barony of Monaghan, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Camloch. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 594,431 m² (59.44 ha, 146.89 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): G3 Landscape Protection/Conservation, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/monaghan.md - Barony: Monaghan - Electoral division: Monaghan Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 6,411 people lived in 2,320 households in the Monaghan Rural electoral division. 62% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 7% 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/40836 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170213 - Centre: latitude 54.234127, longitude -7.006808 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Camla; 4 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - G3 Landscape 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: https://monaghan.ie/planning/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/06/Monaghan-County-Development-Plan-2025-2031-Written-Statement-compressed-files.pdf#page=235 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 15 Jul 2025, Monaghan County Council 259007: N/a. Extension of duration. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/259007/0 - 14 Jan 2020, Monaghan County Council 2010: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2010/0 - 6 Feb 2019, Monaghan County Council 1948: Conditional. Permission. permission to construct a dry bedded shed for the housing of livestock, within existing farmyard complex, along with associated ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/1948/0 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 Camla. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MO009-072: Designed landscape - tree-ring, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO009-072----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO009-073----. 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 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) - Camla House, steward's house, 1870–1890, Regional interest, registry number 41400970, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41400970. 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, registry number 41400971, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41400971. 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. ## 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 Camla, about 1 in 20 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: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2302, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2302.zip (ZIP). - 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/camla.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/camla.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/camla.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballyleck: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/ballyleck.md - Clonavarn: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/clonavarn.md - Gortakeeghan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/gortakeeghan.md - Killycushil: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/killycushil.md - Tullygrimes: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/tullygrimes.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/camla - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/camla