# Cloghfin, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Errigal Trough, barony of Trough, Co. Monaghan; in Irish An Chloch Fhionn. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,163,845 m² (116.38 ha, 287.59 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 19,800 m² (1.98 ha, 4.89 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Errigal Trough, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/errigal-trough.md - Barony: Trough - Electoral division: Bragan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 318 people lived in 104 households in the Bragan electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 11% 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/40389 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170294 - Centre: latitude 54.348838, longitude -7.042565 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghfin, from 792 m² to 178,741 m² (17.87 ha, 44.17 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 315800: 178,741 m² (17.87 ha, 44.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/315800.md - Parcel 315074: 163,670 m² (16.37 ha, 40.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/315074.md - Parcel 350135: 113,661 m² (11.37 ha, 28.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/350135.md - Parcel 315799: 112,497 m² (11.25 ha, 27.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/315799.md - Parcel 355219: 72,669 m² (7.27 ha, 17.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/355219.md - Parcel 319303: 70,248 m² (7.02 ha, 17.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319303.md - Parcel 355218: 56,080 m² (5.61 ha, 13.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/355218.md - Parcel 5472482: 49,842 m² (4.98 ha, 12.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5472482.md - Parcel 355230: 42,358 m² (4.24 ha, 10.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/355230.md - Parcel 355227: 42,093 m² (4.21 ha, 10.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/355227.md - Parcel 318098: 38,670 m² (3.87 ha, 9.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/318098.md - Parcel 315460: 37,379 m² (3.74 ha, 9.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/315460.md - Parcel 355217: 36,895 m² (3.69 ha, 9.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/355217.md - Parcel 355532: 28,064 m² (2.81 ha, 6.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/355532.md - Parcel 335989: 19,800 m² (1.98 ha, 4.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/335989.md - Parcel 319933: 16,494 m² (1.65 ha, 4.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319933.md - Parcel 345967: 15,636 m² (1.56 ha, 3.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345967.md - Parcel 325429: 15,130 m² (1.51 ha, 3.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/325429.md - Parcel 2483017: 10,032 m² (1 ha, 2.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2483017.md - Parcel 4097055: 8,532 m² (0.85 ha, 2.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4097055.md - Parcel 4106614: 6,662 m² (0.67 ha, 1.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4106614.md - Parcel 4356585: 5,896 m² (0.59 ha, 1.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4356585.md - Parcel 3719003: 5,536 m² (0.55 ha, 1.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3719003.md - Parcel 4612665: 4,760 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4612665.md - Parcel 339461: 4,571 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/339461.md - Parcel 326200: 3,172 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/326200.md - Parcel 352164: 1,873 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/352164.md - Parcel 353077: 1,315 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/353077.md - Parcel 327956: 792 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/327956.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Cloghfin 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) 3 applications, newest first. - 19 May 2022, Monaghan County Council 22224: Conditional. Retention. permission for a development consisting of the retention of 1) a domestic garage with loft accommodation to a different size and scale than previously approved under reference 06/279, 2) an additional chimney to the RHS gable of the dwelling house, 3) subsequent elevational changes and 4) a higher ridge height to the dwelling than previously approved under reference 06/279. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/22224/0 - 4 Dec 2018, Monaghan County Council 18562: Conditional. Permission. permission for the construction of a 38kv electricity substation, switchroom and equipment compound with palisade fence; the construction of approximately 400m of site access track and the upgrading of approximately 150m of existing agricultural track and an existing agricultural site entrance; approximately 200m of underground cabling and all associated site development and reinstatement works in the townland of Luppan, County Monaghan; and (ii) the installation of approximately 22km of 38kV electricity cables from the proposed substation to the existing electricity substation in the townland of Lisdrumdoagh, County Monaghan. The electricity cables will comprise approximately 17km of overhead line and approximately 5 km of underground line. Overhead lines will consist of 3 no. cables suspended from wooden poles with a maximum height of 16 metres, and all associated site development and reinstatement works. Underground cables will be located within private lands and within the public roads numbered L5171, L1400 and L1171; will be installed in excavated trenches of approximately 1.2m in depth and will include associated underground ducting, joint bays, communication chamber bays, sheath link boxes and inspection chambers; directional drilling beneath the N12 and Ulster Canal and all associated site development and reinstatement works. A vehicle access track of up to 4m in width will be provided immediately adjacent to underground cables with private lands. This planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report which includes an assessment of the likely impacts of the proposed development, as a whole and in combination with the relevant off-site or secondary developments which will occur as a direct result of the proposed development, including the wind farm development permitted pursuant to Monaghan County Council Planning Register Reference 10/110 & An Bord Pleanála Reference PL18.240760 and proposed to be amended by planning reference 17/258 & An Bord Pleanála Reference PL18.300998 (currently under construction). A Natura Impact Statement will also be submitted to the planning authority with the planning application. This application is accompanied by an EIAR. Significant Further information has been submitted.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/18562/0 - 7 Nov 2018, Monaghan County Council 18519: Conditional. Retention. permission to retain two radio towers, for the purpose of low frequency medium wave broadcasting for a period of five years. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/18519/0 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 Cloghfin. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cloghfin. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloghfin. ## 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 Cloghfin, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cloghfin. - 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/cloghfin.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/cloghfin.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/cloghfin.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Cloghfin 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) - Corryarbeg: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/corryarbeg.md - Crossnacaldoo: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/crossnacaldoo.md - Derryhellan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/derryhellan.md - Derrykinnigh Beg: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/derrykinnigh-beg.md - Derrykinnigh More: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/derrykinnigh-more.md - Tonintlieve: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/tonintlieve.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/cloghfin - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/cloghfin