Carrivetragh
Carrivetragh is a townland in the civil parish of Clones, barony of Dartree, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is An Cheathrú Íochtarach.
- Area
- 73.8 ha
- 182 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 3,357 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrivetragh, from 489 m² to 255,833 m² (25.58 ha, 63.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Carrivetragh 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
16 Sept 2026N/a
planning permission to construct a storey & a half / dormer type dwelling house, with detached domestic garage, proprietary wastewater treatment system, upgraded site entrance & new site access section, together with other associated ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2660399
12 Aug 2026N/a
permission for demolition of existing structure, construction of a one and half storey dwelling with single storey rear attachment, new site entrance, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2660338
13 Mar 2024Conditional
planning permission to construct a general-purpose agricultural shed & slatted shed for the housing of livestock, along with other associated ancillary site works, Significant Further Information relates to, Nutrient Management Plan, Letter from Wards Consultancy Services, proposed tank drawing
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2460092
19 Dec 2017Conditional
Permission to construct an agricultural machinery store adjacent to existing farmyard complex, use existing agricultural entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 17602
7 Feb 2017Conditional
permission to erect 2 No. poultry houses and meal storage bins, and carry out associated site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 1737
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 Carrivetragh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carrivetragh.
Architectural heritage
- Mill (wind), 1770–1790 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding round-plan three-stage windmill, built c.1780. Now ruinous and roofless. Random rubble limestone walls, tapering inwards towards top from base of first floor, tooled stone coping with projecting bolts which secured wooden top. Square-headed window openings, fittings removed. Square-headed door openings to east and south-east elevations at ground floor and first floor level, gauged stone relieving arches over, fittings removed. Joist sockets to interior walls marking locations of floors. Set in pasture on hill.
- Bensons Bridge, bridge, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
Description
Double-arch humpback limestone bridge, built c.1800, carrying road over stream. Round arches, having dressed stone voussoirs and gunnelled soffits. Arch to west now dry and having cement to river bed. Arches and central pier reinforced with concrete. V-shaped cutwaters of squared stone with conical caps to each elevation. Random rubble stone to spandrels and parapets, portions of dressed stone copings to parapets.
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 Carrivetragh, about 1 in 5 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 moderately high, moderately low, low. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrivetragh.
- 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 Carrivetragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Carrivetragh · An Cheathrú Íochtarach
- Area
- 737,924 m² (73.79 ha, 182.34 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clones, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dartree
- Electoral division
- Clones Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,612 people lived in 603 households in the Clones Rural electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cavan, Gortnawinny, Tirnahinch Far
- Placenames
- Carrivetragh 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.