Carrachor

0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrachor. The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Carrachor 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.

• 15 May 2026Conditional

  planning permission to change the house type previously approved under P.22/386 (Subsequently Amended Unser P. 24/79, together with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2637

• 23 Jul 2025Conditional

  permission to extend existing poultry unit, erect a new manure store, connect to storage tanks, reposition meal bins, open new entrance on to public road and all associated site works, Significant further Information received relates to submitted, amended drawings, Business letters for removing animal products, Environmental planners report

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2557

• 20 Dec 2024Conditional

  Permission for construction of a two-storey type dwelling including a mechanical aeration system, percolation area, creation of new access onto public road, plus all associated site works. Significant Further Information received relates to a Flood Risk Assessment report.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 24125

• 25 Jul 2024Conditional

  planning permission to modify the site boundaries of previously site ref. 20/88 and relocate the position of the previously approved percolation area together with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2478

• 25 Jul 2024Conditional

  permission to modify the site boundaries of previously approved site ref. P22/386 and relocate the position of the previously approved site entrance together with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2479

• 6 Sept 2022Conditional

  permission to construct a new two storey dwelling house and detached domestic double garage, install new mechanical effluent treatment system, subsoil percolation area, construct new entrance onto public roadway, together with all ancillary site works. Significant further information received in relation to the submission of a flood risk assessment report and revised site characterisation report

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 22386

• 22 Apr 2022Refused

  Permission to construct a two storey dwelling and detached domestic double garage, install new mechanical effluent treatment system & moulded polishing filter, construct new domestic entrance together with all ancillary site works

  Extension of duration · Monaghan County Council, 229012

• 12 Mar 2020Conditional

  carry out the following works (1) construct a dormer style dwelling house with detached domestic garage, new domestic entrance new effluent Treatment system and subsoil polishing filter; (2) modify the boundaries of previously approved development and also relocate the location of previously approved septic tank and percolation area of development approved under P16/389, together with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2088

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 Carrachor.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carrachor.

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-arch road bridge, built c.1860, carrying road over River Blackwater. Segmental arches with gauged tooled sandstone voussoirs, V-shaped roughly-dressed tooled sandstone cutwaters, having render capping to central pier. Squared masonry to spandrel walls, coursed rubble parapet walls with masonry coping, tooled sandstone string courses to base of parapet to each elevation. Gunnelled soffits. Abutments and central pier reinforced with concrete.

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

At the centre of the townland of Carrachor, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrachor.

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.

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

Name

Carrachor · An Cheathrú Chorr

Area

259,011 m² (25.9 ha, 64 acres)

Civil parish

Tedavnet, and its townlands

Barony

Monaghan

Electoral division

Scotstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,208 people lived in 402 households in the Scotstown electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Agheracalkill, Bough, Coolkill West, Foremass, Killycarnan South

Placenames

Carrachor 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.