Clontask
Townland in the civil parish of Drummully, barony of Dartree, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Cluain tSeasc
- Area
- 34 ha
- 84 acres
- Land parcels
- 6
- registered freehold, median 10,602 m² (1.06 ha, 2.62 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clontask, from 2,262 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres) to 272,553 m² (27.26 ha, 67.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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
No zone of a development plan covers Clontask 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
9 Feb 2022Conditional
permission to construct a new bungalow style dwelling house and detached domestic garage, install new mechanical effluent treatment system, subsoil percolation area, construct new domestic entrance together with all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2254
27 Oct 2017Conditional
Permission to construct a slatted shed for the housing of livestock, along with associated ancillary site works, using existing site access
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17513
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 Clontask.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Clontask.
Architectural heritage
- Saint Alphonsus's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1839–1849 · Regional interest
Description
Free-standing gable-fronted Roman Catholic Church, dated 1844, and designed by William Dargan, comprising single-cell four-bay nave, and lower single-storey gabled sacristy recessed to altar end with lean-to addition to rear of latter. Pitched slate roof, with cast-iron rainwater goods, terracotta ridge tiles, tooled stone copings having cruciform finial to gable-front (north-east). Snecked masonry belfry abutting wall to altar end, with bell-cote having cruciform finial and cast-iron bell. Rendered chimneystack to sacristy. Harl-rendered walls having painted dressed stone plinth course and block-and-start quoins. Decorative render plaques over doorway to front, with cruciform symbol to top, and inscribed date plaque below. Lancet windows to front and long elevations, with painted dressed stone surrounds and sills, small-pane timber sliding sash windows having Y-tracery to fanlights, sixteen-over-sixteen pane with render hood-mouldings to gable-front and twenty-four-over-twenty-four pane to long elevations. Pointed-arch doorway to gable-front having painted chamfered tooled stone surround, render hood-moulding, double-leaf timber battened door and glazed tympanum with Y-tracery. Recent timber porch to interior. Tiled floor to entry porch having commemorative inscription. Smooth plaster to nave walls, exposed timber king-post trusses to roof. Two rows of pews on timber floors flanking central tiled aisle. Marble platform having two nosed steps carrying marble font, altar, lectern and chair. Recent timber confessionals flanking entry porch to rear, with timber gallery over. Blocked windows to rear of altar, with stained glass. Church set within graveyard with harl-rendered wall enclosing site. Double-leaf cast-iron gate flanked by square-plan dressed stone piers with pointed caps, and recent single-leaf pedestrian gate to south-east of main gate.
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 high, 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 Clontask.
- 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 Clontask with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Clontask · Cluain tSeasc
- Area
- 339,518 m² (33.95 ha, 83.9 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drummully, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dartree
- Electoral division
- Drummully, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Drummully electoral division: 136 people in 44 households; 82% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Clontask 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.