Carnaveagh
Carnaveagh is a townland in the civil parish of Aghnamullen, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is Carn na bhFiach.
- Area
- 187.6 ha
- 463 acres
- Land parcels
- 51
- registered freehold, median 20,688 m² (2.07 ha, 5.11 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carnaveagh, from 12 m² to 154,701 m² (15.47 ha, 38.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 44 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Carnaveagh 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
15 May 2025Conditional
permission to erect a single storey dwelling, treatment plant, percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560188
15 May 2025Conditional
permission to install new treatment plant, percolation area, and revise site boundary to existing single storey dwelling as previously approved application no. 07/440, and all associated site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560187
30 Sept 2024Conditional
permission for the intensification of use of 2 No. existing poultry houses together with all ancillary structures and site works associated with the above development on an existing poultry farm. This application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a Licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994-2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (E.I.A.R.) will be submitted with this planning application
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2460366
16 Oct 2019Conditional
permission to construct two bungalow type dwellings, each with proprietary waste water treatment systems, new site entrances onto public road, detached domestic garages & associated ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19481
3 May 2019Refused
permission to construct two bungalow type dwellings, each with proprietary waste-water treatment systems, new site entrances onto public road, detached domestic garages & associated ancillary site works.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19203
19 Oct 2018Refused
permission to construct two bungalow type dwellings, each with proprietary waste-water treatment systems, new site entrances onto public road, detached domestic garages & associated ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18486
17 Apr 2018Conditional
Permission to construct a dry bedded shed for the housing of livestock, together with manure pit & associated ancillary site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18150
22 Jun 2017Conditional
Permission to construct 1 no. poultry house together with all ancillary structures (to include meal storage bin(s) and soiled water tank(s) etc.) and site works (including new site entrance) associated with the development. This application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a license under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (licensing) regulations 1994-2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment report (E.I.A.R) will be submitted with this planning application
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 17300
19 Apr 2017Conditional
Permission to demolish existing derelict dwelling and construct a new dormer style dwellinghouse, install a new mechanical effluent treatment system and mounded polishing filter, construct/develop new domestic entrance together with all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17184
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 Carnaveagh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carnaveagh.
Architectural heritage
- Carnaveagh House, house, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay three-storey house with attic over raised basement, built c.1790, having five-bay rear (north) elevation. Pitched slate roof, with recent roof-lights to rear pitch. Rendered chimneystacks to gable ends, with ceramic pots, and having moulded stone detail to base of chimneys, and with having terracotta ridge tiles and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls, with exposed rubble stone to basement level. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills and timber sliding sash windows, having four-over-eight paneto second floor, and twelve-over-twelve to ground and first floors. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills and small pane timber casement and fixed windows to basement. Round-headed window openings, with cut-stone sills, having six-over-nine pane timber sliding sash windows with spoked top-lights to ground and first floors of west gable. Round-headed window openings, with cut-stone sills, having multi-pane windows to upper west gable. Square-headed window opening, with cut-stone sill, having six-pane fixed timber window to west gable. Segmental-headed door opening, having timber panelled door, flanked by painted round-plan Ionic-style columns with fluting to base of capitals, in turn flanked by matching square-plan pilasters with similar capitals, supporting classical entablature having swag ornament and elaborate segmental cobweb fanlight. Cut-stone steps over basement area, with recent railings. Detached single and two-storey outbuildings to south, having pitched and barrel-shaped corrugated-iron roofs, pitched slate roofs, rubble stone walls, and some timber fittings. Set back from road in own grounds. Site entrance to west, having recent gates, rendered round-plan piers with domed caps, rendered flanking walls with cast-iron letter box, and recent pedestrian gate to north.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Carnaveagh, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Carnaveagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Carnaveagh · Carn na bhFiach
- Area
- 1,875,582 m² (187.56 ha, 463.47 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghnamullen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Cremorne
- Electoral division
- Creeve, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 705 people lived in 230 households in the Creeve electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrickatee, Carrickaveilty, Creeve, Drumcreeghan, Edenforan, Mullananalt
- Placenames
- Carnaveagh 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.