Carn

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carn, from 14 m² to 85,953 m² (8.6 ha, 21.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 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 Carn 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.

• 8 Sept 2025Conditional

  permission to carry out the following works: to change the house design and also relocate the site entrance both previously approved under P 23/143 together with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2574

• 15 Jun 2023Conditional

  permission to construct a new storey & a half style dwelling and detached domestic garage, install new mechanical effluent treatment system, mounded / raised percolation area, develop existing entrance onto public rad together with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 23143

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 Carn.

Recorded monuments

• MO009-032 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on top of a drumlin. It is described as a ‘Carn’ in italic (1834) and gothic (1907) lettering on different editions of the OS 6-inch map. It was described in 1948 as: elliptical in shape from S to E, and c. 2 feet (0.6m) above the ground level with a shallow depression in the centre (OSFM). It had been removed by 1967. 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: 13 December 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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

Landslides

Susceptibility 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_2425 (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.

No address of the register names Carn with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Carn · An Carn

Area

226,737 m² (22.67 ha, 56.03 acres)

Civil parish

Tehallan, and its townlands

Barony

Monaghan

Electoral division

Tehallan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tehallan electoral division: 905 people in 307 households; 84% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghnasedagh, Cavanreagh, Coolmuckbane, Golree, Knockboy, Liscarney, Tullynanure

Placenames

Carn 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.