Colgagh

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Colgagh, from 2,452 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres) to 73,168 m² (7.32 ha, 18.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Colgagh 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.

• 24 May 2026Conditional

  permission for development consisting of to construct a new two storey dwelling house, ancillary garage, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter, new entrance onto public road and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2660211

• 20 Dec 2023Conditional

  permission for the construction of a general purpose room extension to the rear of the school to include a servery and store, alterations to existing toilets and all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2360329

• 5 May 2021Conditional

  permission for the construction of an extension to the rear of the school to provide a classroom with toilet facilities, alterations to existing staffroom and store and all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21244

• 9 Jan 2020Conditional

  permission for a 2-storey/single storey type dwelling house, a waste water treatment system, a new site entrance with all associated site works. Significant further information relates to alterations to the house design along with re-positioning of the site entrance and waste water treatment system and alterations to the northern site boundaries.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 202

• 26 Jan 2018Conditional

  permission for the construction of a general purpose room extension to the rear of the school to include a servery and store, alterations to existing toilets and all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 1830

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Colgagh.

Recorded monuments

• MO029-002 Enclosure
  Description

  Set in a low-lying landscape. It is depicted as a small circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 20m) only on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’. No archaeological feature is visible at ground level in an overgrown area. 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: 28 August 2017

• MO029-003 Enclosure
  Description

  Set in a low-lying landscape. It is depicted as a small circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 15m) only on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’. No archaeological feature is visible at ground level in pasture. 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: 28 August 2017

Architectural heritage

• House, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1850, with outbuilding attached to north-east gable of house, and farmyard to north-east. Hipped slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods and red brick chimneystacks. Formerly rendered rubble stone walls to front (south-east) and side elevations with recent brick surrounds to openings, and lined-and-ruled cement render to rear elevation. Square-headed window openings with replacement timber sliding sash windows to front and side elevation, one replacement timber sliding sash window to rear elevation, and remaining rear window openings having timber casement windows. Round-headed door opening with replacement timber door and spoked fanlight. Farmyard adjacent to house comprising two ranges, eight-bay single-storey outbuilding to north-west range, having chamfered corner to east, multiple-bay two-storey and single-storey outbuildings to north-east range. Pitched slate roofs with cast-iron rainwater goods. Render removed exposing rubble stone walls and red brick surrounds to openings. Square-headed window and door openings with timber fittings. Elliptical-arch carriage arches to two-storey building, one having cut-stone voussoirs and partially blocked. Disused pigsty to front garden, with rubble stone walls. Rubble stone boundary walls, with wrought-iron pedestrian gate with rubble stone piers, one rendered. Great Northern Railway ran alongside house, former railway bridge stands between house and nearby former corn mill and Fane River.

• Mill (water), 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Ruinous shell of detached two-bay three-storey water-powered corn mill, built c.1800, having two-storey rear elevation. Roof missing, gables remaining. Rubble stone walls. Square-headed openings with stone lintels, round-arch openings to front and rear elevations with dressed stone voussoirs. Internal water-wheel pit at south end, no machinery remaining. Situated on west bank of Fane River. The Great Northern Railway ran adjacent to the mill to west, mill is accessed under remaining railway bridge.

• Bridge, 1845–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch stone railway bridge, built 1849, carrying embanked Dundalk to Enniskillen line over roadway to neighbouring corn mill. Round arch having rock-faced rusticated voussoirs and chamfered impost course. Cut-stone abutments having rock-faced rusticated quoins. Brick soffit to arch. Cut-stone walls, with chamfered string course to parapets. Splayed buttressing walls with cut-stone copings to embankments.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 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 Colgagh.

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.

No address of the register names Colgagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Colgagh · An Chalgach

Area

810,284 m² (81.03 ha, 200.23 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmoyne, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Kilmurry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilmurry electoral division: 669 people in 207 households; 91% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughrim Beg, Keenoge, Kilmurry, Magoney, Tattyboy

Placenames

Colgagh 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.