# Carrachor, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Tedavnet, barony of Monaghan, Co. Monaghan; in Irish An Cheathrú Chorr. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 259,011 m² (25.9 ha, 64 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Tedavnet, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/tedavnet.md - Barony: Monaghan - Electoral division: Scotstown, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/40936 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170236 - Centre: latitude 54.281218, longitude -7.080944 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrachor; 9 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 8 applications, newest first. - 15 May 2026, Monaghan County Council 2637: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2637/0 - 23 Jul 2025, Monaghan County Council 2557: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2557/0 - 20 Dec 2024, Monaghan County Council 24125: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/24125/0 - 25 Jul 2024, Monaghan County Council 2478: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2478/0 - 25 Jul 2024, Monaghan County Council 2479: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2479/0 - 6 Sept 2022, Monaghan County Council 22386: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/22386/0 - 22 Apr 2022, Monaghan County Council 229012: Refused. Extension of duration. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/229012/0 - 12 Mar 2020, Monaghan County Council 2088: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2088/0 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 Carrachor. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carrachor. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Bridge, 1850–1870, Regional interest, registry number 41400802, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41400802. 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. ## 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 Carrachor, about 1 in 20 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrachor. - 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/carrachor.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/carrachor.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/carrachor.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Carrachor 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) - Agheracalkill: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/agheracalkill.md - Bough: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/bough.md - Coolkill West: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/coolkill-west-170372.md - Foremass: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/foremass.md - Killycarnan South: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/killycarnan-south.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/carrachor - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/carrachor