Carrowhatta
Townland in the civil parish of Tedavnet, barony of Monaghan, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Ceathrú Tháite
- Area
- 51.4 ha
- 127 acres
- Land parcels
- 51
- registered freehold, median 2,146 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres)
- Zoning
- G5
- Recreation/Amenity
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowhatta, from 76 m² to 206,082 m² (20.61 ha, 50.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G5Recreation/Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
3 Jun 2026Conditional
permission to retain and extend existing domestic garage to rear of existing two storey dwelling house and exit on to public road by existing entrance and all ancillary works. Previous planning 14/330
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2648
2 Jun 2026N/a
permission for the retention of a single-story dwelling (comprising of 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1 home office, living area and kitchen) permission to install new proprietary waste water system and following percolation area serving the above mentioned development, use existing domestic entrance onto public roadway together with all ancillary site works
Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2644
1 Apr 2026Conditional
permission for the construction/placement of a modular classroom building to the east of the school site, the construction associated steps/ramps and all associated site works. The board of management Urbleshanny National School have submitted significant further info/revised plans, plans submitted relates to revision to the site boundaries, the addition of the retention of an Astro all weather football pitch, gas tank storage unit, covered seating area, the addition of additional parking, additional technical details and clarification information and all associated site works. Significant further information received included revised drawings, Construction and Environmental Management plan, and a Environmental protection plan checklist
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660123
27 Mar 2026N/a
permission for development at Carrowhatta Td., Scotstown, Monaghan, Co. Monaghan. The development consists of; the construction/placement of a modular classroom building to the east of the school site, the construction associated steps/ramps and all associated site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660114
8 Aug 2025Conditional
permission for development consisting of; the construction of a pedestrian entrance to the north of the roadside boundary, the construction of a storage building and all associated site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560316
24 Jul 2025Conditional
permission will consists of; Alterations to the previous granted house plan, garage plan and site layout under the previously granted planning application planning ref 23/41 and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560287
3 Feb 2023Conditional
permission to erect a single-storey dwelling house with attic storage space, detached domestic garage structure, packaged wastewater treatment system & mounded polishing filter, new vehicular entrance, fencing, landscaping and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2341
29 Apr 2021Conditional
permission to erect a two storey style dwelling house with detached domestic garage structure, packaged wastewater treatment system & mounded polishing filter, new vehicular entrance, fencing, landscaping and associated site works. Significant further information relates to an increase in the extent of site curtilage and additional landscaping/planting proposals
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21234
21 Oct 2020Conditional
permission for development consisting of the erection of a single storey come two storey dwelling house, insert a filter unit and percolation area and open new entrance on to the public road
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20437
31 Aug 2018Conditional
Permission to demolish centre core of existing building (furniture factory) and create a new communal area to service new units with new elevations, exit on to public road by existing entrance and connect to public sewer from new pumped sump and associated works and erect new sign. Significant further information relates to amendment to development description. Permission to demolish centre core of existing building to allow sub division into individual units, connect to existing septic tanks and pump to public sewer.
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18414
11 Apr 2018N/a
Permission to RETAIN works on the changing of existing showrooms to new offices with the provision of new windows on the front and rear elevations and all associated works and exit on to public road by existing entrance
Retention · Monaghan County Council, 18141
26 May 2017Conditional
Permission to construct a new GP hall to the rear of existing school, new single storey extension to contain classroom, link corridor & wc, alterations to existing hall to incorporate two new classrooms, resource room and all associated site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 17251
3 May 2017N/a
Permission to construct a new GP Hall to the rear of existing school, new link corridor & wc, alterations to existing hall to incorporate 2 new classrooms, resource room and all associated site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 17209
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 Carrowhatta.
Recorded monuments
- MO009-003 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on a prominent rise and at the SW end of a NE-SW ridge. It is c. 90m E of where a W-E branch of the Blackwater River joins the main N-S section of the stream within the village of Scotstown. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 31m NW-SE; 30m NE-SW) transformed into a tree-ring and planted with coniferous trees. It is defined by an earthen bank with bushes and an external stone facing, and there area traces of an outer fosse that may have been deepened SSE-W. There are entrance gaps at SSE and SW, the latter, now blocked, has a causeway over the fosse and is probably the original entrance 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: 12 December 2017
Architectural heritage
- Bridge, 1790–1795 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch bridge, dated 1791, carrying road over River Blackwater. Segmental arch with tooled sandstone voussoirs and gunnelled soffit. Coursed limestone rubble walls to spandrel and parapets. Inscribed limestone date-plaque within recessed oval panel to interior of east parapet wall. Recent pedestrian bridge built abutting east elevation. Water-pipe attached to soffit.
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
- About 1 in 20 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrowhatta.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Carrowhatta with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Carrowhatta · Ceathrú Tháite
- Area
- 513,926 m² (51.39 ha, 126.99 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tedavnet, and its townlands
- Barony
- Monaghan
- Electoral division
- Scotstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Scotstown electoral division: 1,208 people in 402 households; 82% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bough, Coolkill West, Cussee, Drumdesco, Edenbrone, Stracrunnion, Teraverty
- Placenames
- Carrowhatta 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.