# Capragh, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Donaghmoyne, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan; in Irish An Chabrach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 589,833 m² (58.98 ha, 145.75 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 13,025 m² (1.3 ha, 3.22 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: Donaghmoyne, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 704 people lived in 229 households in the Donaghmoyne electoral division. 93% 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/39383 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170219 - Centre: latitude 53.998098, longitude -6.68312 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Capragh, from 1,260 m² to 221,607 m² (22.16 ha, 54.76 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 339257: 221,607 m² (22.16 ha, 54.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/339257.md - Parcel 316049: 86,483 m² (8.65 ha, 21.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/316049.md - Parcel 333953: 74,821 m² (7.48 ha, 18.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/333953.md - Parcel 330039: 69,155 m² (6.92 ha, 17.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/330039.md - Parcel 3996712: 45,399 m² (4.54 ha, 11.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3996712.md - Parcel 332873: 42,978 m² (4.3 ha, 10.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/332873.md - Parcel 336842: 13,397 m² (1.34 ha, 3.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/336842.md - Parcel 350906: 12,654 m² (1.27 ha, 3.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/350906.md - Parcel 342092: 10,826 m² (1.08 ha, 2.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/342092.md - Parcel 4190484: 3,944 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4190484.md - Parcel 316461: 2,567 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/316461.md - Parcel 4103973: 1,996 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4103973.md - Parcel 332621: 1,614 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/332621.md - Parcel 4992226: 1,260 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4992226.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Capragh 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. - 11 Oct 2024, Monaghan County Council 2460378: Conditional. Retention. permission and retention permission for development consisting of 1) Retention of use of house, ancillary building to rear and grounds as child / young person education / therapy facility; 2) Retention of development details departing from approved planning application Reg. Ref.: 001167, consisting of: a) Orientation and position details of the house and ancillary building to rear; b) Plan and elevation details of the house and ancillary building to rear; c) Details of site entrance, driveway, hardstanding and site frontage to R179 road; and d) Details of landscaping works to rear of the house; and 3) Retention of fencing to outdoor play / therapeutic area to front of the house. Permission will be sought for: 1) Enlargement of parking area (to serve existing activities), where same enlargement will comprise permeable surfacing; 2) Provision of additional site landscaping; and 3) All associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460378/0 - 14 May 2024, Monaghan County Council 2460168: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission for the construction of a two storey dwelling, single-storey detached domestic garage, new entrance with gates and piers, septic tank and percolation area, together with all associated ancillary site works and services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460168/0 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 Capragh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Capragh. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Capragh, outbuilding, 1800–1840, Regional interest, registry number 41403148, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41403148. Detached two-storey multiple-bay outbuilding to north-east of ruinous house, built c.1820, having single-storey outbuilding attached to north-west gable. Pitched slate roof. Snecked dressed stone walls. Square-headed openings having red brick surrounds and cut-stone sills. Elliptical-arch door opening having cut-stone voussoirs. Elliptical-arch carriage entrance having cut-stone voussoirs, proud keystone, and timber battened double-leaf door. Single-storey outbuilding having pitched corrugated-iron roof, rubble stone walls with quoins and square-headed openings. Cut-stone carriage arch to north-west edge of yard having red brick soffit, slate coping, and cut-stone voussoirs, adjoining rubble stone wall to a former outbuilding having red brick surrounds to openings. Rock-faced rusticated stone gate piers with pyramidal cappings and metal gate to yard. Set back from road and west of Lough Capragh. Entrance gate and ruinous gate lodge to south-west comprising ashlar gate piers with pyramidal cappings and cast-iron gate. ## 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 Capragh, about 1 in 5 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. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Capragh. - 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/capragh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/capragh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/capragh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Capragh 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) - Donaghmoyne: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/donaghmoyne.md - Dundrockan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/dundrockan.md - Longfield Etra: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/longfield-etra.md - Longfield Otra: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/longfield-otra.md - Rahans: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/rahans-171596.md - Rossdreenagh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/rossdreenagh.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/capragh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/capragh