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

Townland in the civil parish of Inishkeen, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Lios na gCoinneal.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 475,326 m² (47.53 ha, 117.46 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 129 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 345 m²
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Inishkeen, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/inishkeen.md
- Barony: Farney
- Electoral division: Inishkeen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,182 people lived in 409 households in the Inishkeen electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/39496
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170214
- Centre: latitude 54.000119, longitude -6.583137 (WGS 84)

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

129 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Candlefort, from 17 m² to 72,624 m² (7.26 ha, 17.95 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 342603: 72,624 m² (7.26 ha, 17.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/342603.md
- Parcel 331147: 47,764 m² (4.78 ha, 11.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/331147.md
- Parcel 316871: 44,575 m² (4.46 ha, 11.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/316871.md
- Parcel 325236: 44,283 m² (4.43 ha, 10.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/325236.md
- Parcel 332073: 31,579 m² (3.16 ha, 7.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/332073.md
- Parcel 331552: 25,994 m² (2.6 ha, 6.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/331552.md
- Parcel 350903: 25,369 m² (2.54 ha, 6.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/350903.md
- Parcel 316276: 22,297 m² (2.23 ha, 5.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/316276.md
- Parcel 332820: 15,504 m² (1.55 ha, 3.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/332820.md
- Parcel 343890: 14,519 m² (1.45 ha, 3.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/343890.md
- Parcel 320729: 14,502 m² (1.45 ha, 3.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/320729.md
- Parcel 343028: 13,041 m² (1.3 ha, 3.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/343028.md
- Parcel 346139: 12,214 m² (1.22 ha, 3.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/346139.md
- Parcel 350325: 11,968 m² (1.2 ha, 2.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/350325.md
- Parcel 347310: 9,060 m² (0.91 ha, 2.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/347310.md
- Parcel 5156475: 5,683 m² (0.57 ha, 1.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5156475.md
- Parcel 332842: 5,402 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/332842.md
- Parcel 344896: 4,040 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/344896.md
- Parcel 3996519: 3,018 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3996519.md
- Parcel 344037: 2,913 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/344037.md
- Parcel 330366: 2,282 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/330366.md
- Parcel 326348: 1,848 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/326348.md
- Parcel 4816874: 1,695 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4816874.md
- Parcel 4843854: 1,602 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4843854.md
- Parcel 341502: 1,074 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/341502.md
- Parcel 330279: 978 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/330279.md
- Parcel 319736: 923 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/319736.md
- Parcel 317231: 831 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/317231.md
- Parcel 342884: 821 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/342884.md
- Parcel 317012: 803 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/317012.md
- Parcel 351169: 800 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/351169.md
- Parcel 322908: 792 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/322908.md
- Parcel 324804: 733 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/324804.md
- Parcel 348656: 733 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/348656.md
- Parcel 325507: 731 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/325507.md
- Parcel 344851: 718 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/344851.md
- Parcel 325049: 714 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/325049.md
- Parcel 350028: 712 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/350028.md
- Parcel 345286: 700 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/345286.md
- Parcel 5453650: 697 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5453650.md
- Parcel 325279: 694 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/325279.md
- Parcel 326254: 674 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/326254.md
- Parcel 344957: 672 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/344957.md
- Parcel 328587: 664 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/328587.md
- Parcel 317111: 659 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/317111.md
- Parcel 331119: 645 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/331119.md
- Parcel 329259: 563 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/329259.md
- Parcel 345621: 552 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/345621.md
- Parcel 326541: 548 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/326541.md
- Parcel 347577: 542 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/347577.md
- Parcel 345518: 537 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/345518.md
- Parcel 328201: 535 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/328201.md
- Parcel 329147: 522 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/329147.md
- Parcel 326904: 514 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/326904.md
- Parcel 327366: 511 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/327366.md
- Parcel 2841230: 464 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2841230.md
- Parcel 4655376: 460 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4655376.md
- Parcel 329035: 453 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/329035.md
- Parcel 328588: 453 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/328588.md
- Parcel 324828: 426 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/324828.md
- Parcel 332401: 378 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/332401.md
- Parcel 325752: 368 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/325752.md
- Parcel 353298: 367 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/353298.md
- Parcel 329168: 361 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/329168.md
- Parcel 342435: 345 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/342435.md
- Parcel 346002: 312 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/346002.md
- Parcel 5310221: 306 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5310221.md
- Parcel 5621274: 296 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5621274.md
- Parcel 321571: 280 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/321571.md
- Parcel 336813: 272 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/336813.md
- Parcel 348444: 271 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/348444.md
- Parcel 338838: 261 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/338838.md
- Parcel 326263: 258 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/326263.md
- Parcel 327421: 258 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/327421.md
- Parcel 320819: 255 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/320819.md
- Parcel 342695: 252 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/342695.md
- Parcel 326255: 247 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/326255.md
- Parcel 340615: 241 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/340615.md
- Parcel 316158: 240 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/316158.md
- Parcel 353660: 240 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/353660.md
- Parcel 354270: 228 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/354270.md
- Parcel 327518: 219 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/327518.md
- Parcel 341341: 218 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/341341.md
- Parcel 348735: 217 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/348735.md
- Parcel 346796: 213 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/346796.md
- Parcel 324286: 213 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/324286.md
- Parcel 329495: 213 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/329495.md
- Parcel 328246: 211 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/328246.md
- Parcel 335563: 208 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/335563.md
- Parcel 322484: 208 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/322484.md
- Parcel 351640: 207 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/351640.md
- Parcel 335260: 207 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/335260.md
- Parcel 327902: 205 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/327902.md
- Parcel 317992: 203 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/317992.md
- Parcel 327978: 201 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/327978.md
- Parcel 327992: 198 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/327992.md
- Parcel 352929: 197 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/352929.md
- Parcel 319780: 197 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/319780.md
- Parcel 329338: 196 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/329338.md
- Parcel 353657: 195 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/353657.md
- Parcel 351540: 195 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/351540.md
- Parcel 346598: 193 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/346598.md
- Parcel 338546: 193 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/338546.md
- Parcel 326128: 185 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/326128.md
- Parcel 5988781: 184 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5988781.md
- Parcel 3419952: 175 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3419952.md
- Parcel 324088: 167 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/324088.md
- Parcel 323433: 165 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/323433.md
- Parcel 343984: 164 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/343984.md
- Parcel 321576: 160 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/321576.md
- Parcel 317998: 155 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/317998.md
- Parcel 353302: 152 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/353302.md
- Parcel 349670: 151 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/349670.md
- Parcel 4103665: 150 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4103665.md
- Parcel 315803: 149 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/315803.md
- Parcel 351170: 149 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/351170.md
- Parcel 341908: 148 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/341908.md
- Parcel 346673: 144 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/346673.md
- Parcel 334527: 143 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/334527.md
- Parcel 4853818: 143 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4853818.md
- Parcel 326784: 136 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/326784.md
- Parcel 4853816: 132 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4853816.md
- Parcel 345689: 129 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/345689.md
- Parcel 4962677: 123 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4962677.md
- Parcel 4843852: 93 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4843852.md
- Parcel 4672354: 79 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4672354.md
- Parcel 339824: 62 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/339824.md
- Parcel 342849: 52 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/342849.md
- Parcel 342565: 17 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/342565.md

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

No zone of a development plan covers Candlefort 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)

8 applications, newest first.

- 14 Feb 2025, Monaghan County Council 2560046: Conditional. Permission. permission for a development to consist of a new modular\prefabricated classroom with toilet facilities to the existing childcare facility and all ancillary & associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560046/0
- 14 Jan 2025, Monaghan County Council 2560016: N/a. Permission. permission for development will consisting of a new prefabricated classroom with toilet facilities to the existing childcare facility and all ancillary & associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560016/0
- 17 Feb 2023, Monaghan County Council 2354: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission for demolition of existing flat roof rear addition, erection of proposed two storey rear extension, front single storey flat roof bay window, internal alterations and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2354/0
- 9 Dec 2022, Monaghan County Council 22507: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission for development consisting of proposed vehicular access to existing dwelling incorporating removal of existing concrete block front boundary wall and construction of footpath crossing together with associated site works. Significant further information received in relation to revised site layout plan.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/22507/0
- 4 Jun 2021, Monaghan County Council 21332: Conditional. Retention. retention permission for development consisting of the retention of granny flat to side of existing dwelling adjacent to Daniel McNello's public house, connections to existing services, alterations and additions and all associated site works. This existing building is listed as a Protected Structure in the Monaghan County Council Development Plan ref. no. 41402904 and the NIAH reg. no. 41309011.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21332/0
- 8 Sept 2020, Monaghan County Council 20359: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission for alteration and extension of existing two storey dwelling to include (a) demolition of existing flat roof rear extension, existing garage, store and boiler house, together with alterations to existing dwelling (b) provision of new two storey and single storey rear extensions with single storey side and front porch extensions (c) new external store and terraced garden area with all associated siteworks. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/20359/0
- 31 Aug 2020, Monaghan County Council 20347: Conditional. Retention. permission for a development consisting of (a) retention permission for demolition of existing roadside wall, formation of new vehicle driveway and construction of garden wall and access gate inside site boundary and (b) permission to complete works to provide new vehicle entrance onto public road to include dropped kerb and regrading of existing footpath, together with new entry piers and walls and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/20347/0
- 18 May 2020, Monaghan County Council 20168: N/a. Permission, 1 home. permission for demolition of existing roadside wall and formation and construction of a new vehicle entrance and driveway, including entry piers and walls together with all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/20168/0

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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 Candlefort.

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

- MO029-028: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO029-028----. Situated on the summit of an E-W drumlin ridge. It is depicted as a small circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 20m) on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’, and as a small oval enclosure on the 1907 edition. This is a subcircular area (dims 26.3m E-W; 23.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank and hedge with traces of an external fosse. There is no identifiable entrance. It may be a landscape feature. Archaeological testing (07E0028) c. 100m to the W at the nearest point in Edenamo townland produced no related material (Rohan 2008). 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: 29 August 2017 Amended: 15 January 2020
- MO029-029: Cross - Wayside cross, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO029-029----. Described on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map in gothic lettering as a 'Stone Cross'. It is built into the N-facing boundary wall at the main junction in Inishkeen village. It is a black painted cross (H 1.2m; span 0.64m) with the following inscription in gold across the head, transom and shaft 'IHS This cross was erected by Captain Coll MacMahon as a memorial of himself and his family & desires of prayeres of all the faithfull christians Sept the 2D Anno Domini 1729'. A bird with leaves around it, fills the lower part of the shaft. (Ua Cuinn 1908, 83) Date of upload: 14 April 2011
- MO029-032: Pound, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO029-032----. Located on a shelf towards the bottom of a N-facing slope and Immediately NE of the motte and bailey (MO029-033001-). It is depicted as a rectangular enclosure divided in two by an E-W cross-wall and described as a 'Pound' in italic letters on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is a rectangular enclosure (dims c. 20m N-S; c. 20m E-W) with high stone walls that had a wide round-headed entrance through a large arch in the W wall. Only the lower courses of the N and E walls survive now. Date of upload: 14 April 2011
- MO029-033001: Castle - motte and bailey, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO029-033001-. Located on a shelf towards the bottom of a N-facing slope and c. 300m N of a W-E section of the River Fane. It is also c. 200m S of the site of St Daigh’s early monastery (MO029-031001-). This is a flat-topped conical mound (diam. of top 13.6m E-W; 11m N-S; H c. 8m). The base is surrounded by a flat-bottomed fosse (at SW: Wth of top c. 3m; D c. 0.5m) SE-W-NE and an outer earth and stone bank. There is a small enclosure (diam. 7.8m E-W) defined by a broad earthen bank (at W: Wth of base 2.2m; int. H 0.5m) with an entrance at E (Wth 1.5m) on top towards the W edge of the summit. The bailey is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 35.6m E-W; 33.5m N-S) just to the E defined by a scarp (at NE: Wth 5.5m; H 2m) that merges into the slope E-S-W. The motte is planted in mature beech with alder and ash. There is reputed to be a souterrain (MO029-032001-) in the base of the mound. Archaeological testing (08E0358) c. 140m to the E produced no related material. (Clarke 2011) 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: 29 August 2017 Amended: 16 January 2020
- MO029-033002: Souterrain, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO029-033002-. There is a report that the motte at Inishkeen (MO029-03001-) contains an underground passage that was open in the early nineteenth century. An old man describes how as a boy he entered ‘a large passage lined with stones and covered with large flags. He came to a recess or small chamber where he found a well of water’ (Reade 1874-5, 326). 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: 29 August 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)

- House, 1840–1860, Regional interest, registry number 41309010, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO&regno=41309010. Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1850, having further bay to west built as outbuilding. Now used for storage. Pitched corrugated-iron roof, red brick chimneystack in stretcher bond. Corrugated-iron and asbestos roofing to rear. Whitewashed rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening set in windbreak with flat concrete roof with replacement battened timber door, set on stone platform approached by two cement rendered steps. Door opening to rear of outbuilding part blocked up. Ancillary buildings to west of house and detached stone outbuilding to east with painted battened timber door. Located on sloping site facing north on to road and main junction of Inishkeen, bounded to west by rubble wall.
- Daniel McNello and Company, public house, 1770–1790, Regional interest, registry number 41309011, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO&regno=41309011. Attached eight-bay two-storey public house, former post office and dispensary, built c.1780, now in multiple use as public house and private accommodation. Six-bay public house to west and two-bay private dwelling to east. Pitched slate roof, gabled to east and west, with replacement slates and clay ridge-tiles, having some cast-iron rainwater goods and some replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled cement rendered chimneystacks having terracotta pots. Rubble stone walls, having timber brackets to rendered eaves course and rendered sill course to first floor windows. Square-headed window openings with brick quoins and painted moulded timber window surrounds, with three-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with variety of horns to first floor of north elevation, and replacement uPVC windows to ground floor. One six-over-six pane timber sliding sash window to east of shopfront, having painted stone sills, exposed brick quoins and gauged brick arch to opening. Square-headed display window and square-headed door opening to two most easterly bays introduced in early twentieth century. Late nineteenth-century carved timber shopfront to pub having ornate foliate console brackets to timber entablature. Painted 'DANIEL MCNELLO & CO.' lettering to fascia. Square-headed raised and fielded double-leaf door opening on either side of shopfront, separated by carved timber engaged pilasters and panelled stall-riser below replacement uPVC windows. Exposed screen wall to west with rendered and painted coping over integral gauged brick segmental-arch opening, and gauged brick camber-headed door opening having timber battened door, exposed screen wall continuing to west. Single-storey ancillary buildings to east, likely to have been farm buildings, later used for commercial purposes, now in use as private accommodation. Nineteenth-century two-bay two-storey roughcast extension to rear, with M-profile roof and rendered rectangular plan chimneystacks, square-headed window openings with original three-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor south elevation, nineteenth-century sash windows to west and south elevations, and recent single-storey extensions to west and south (rear) elevations. Located prominently facing north at Finnegan's Cross at the main intersection of Inishkeen village.
- Shrine/oratory/grotto, 1940–1960, Regional interest, registry number 41309013, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO&regno=41309013. Freestanding memorial shrine, built c.1950, containing plaster statue of the Pieta, re-erected from unknown location. Gable-fronted rectangular-plan concrete housing with pitched concrete roof having carved stone cross to apex. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with concrete-rendered corner piers to east elevation having tooled stone crenellations. Pointed-arch door opening with chamfered surround and replacement uPVC door. Stylised diamond-shaped window openings to north and south elevations, having stained glass with flower motif tracery. Plaster statue on plinth of the Pieta, with Mary holding Christ after the Crucifixion. Guarded by timber gate of pointed arches and crucifixes to interior.
- MacMahon Memorial Cross, monument, 1725–1730, Regional interest, registry number 41309020, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO&regno=41309020. Stone cross embedded in south face of stone wall, at south-west side of central junction in Inishkeen village, dated 1729. Latin cross shape, with carved and painted text. IHS monogram, with Greek cross inscribed below, to upper portion of monument face. Silhouette of bird flanked by two flowers in relief within oval recess to base. Inscription reads 'this cr / oss was erected by / captain coll mac / mahon as a memorial of him self and his / family & / desires / prayers / of all the / faithfull / christians / septr the / 2D anno / domini / 1729'.
- Bridge, 1885–1900, Regional interest, registry number 41309021, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO&regno=41309021. Single-arch limestone railway bridge, built 1886, carrying Carrickmacross branch of Great Northern Railway over River Fane. Now disused. Splayed abutment walls, pilaster buttresses flanking arch to each elevation, having rusticated quoins. Tooled coping to parapets and abutments and tooled string course and impost course. Rock-faced rusticated snecked limestone to bridge walls and to external elevations of abutment walls, rubble limestone to interior elevations of abutment walls. Segmental-headed arch with archivolt formed of red brick laid in header courses, and red brick soffit.

## 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 Candlefort, 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2819, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2819.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/candlefort.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/candlefort.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/candlefort.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Candlefort 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)

- Comraghs: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/comraghs.md
- Drumnagrella: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumnagrella.md
- Edenamo: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/edenamo.md
- Inishkeen Glebe: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/inishkeen-glebe.md
- Lacklom: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/lacklom.md
- Lannat: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/lannat.md
- Mucker: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/mucker.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.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/candlefort
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/candlefort