# Colgagh, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Donaghmoyne, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan; in Irish An Chalgach.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 810,284 m² (81.03 ha, 200.23 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 22,215 m² (2.22 ha, 5.49 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Donaghmoyne, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/donaghmoyne.md
- Barony: Farney
- Electoral division: Kilmurry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 669 people lived in 207 households in the Kilmurry electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/39524
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170349
- Centre: latitude 54.033957, longitude -6.626285 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

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); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 326088: 73,168 m² (7.32 ha, 18.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/326088.md
- Parcel 315538: 61,328 m² (6.13 ha, 15.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/315538.md
- Parcel 347178: 49,286 m² (4.93 ha, 12.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/347178.md
- Parcel 320166: 42,511 m² (4.25 ha, 10.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/320166.md
- Parcel 320363: 41,859 m² (4.19 ha, 10.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/320363.md
- Parcel 317355: 40,488 m² (4.05 ha, 10 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/317355.md
- Parcel 350899: 40,292 m² (4.03 ha, 9.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/350899.md
- Parcel 320905: 37,352 m² (3.74 ha, 9.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/320905.md
- Parcel 320398: 36,117 m² (3.61 ha, 8.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/320398.md
- Parcel 342474: 35,125 m² (3.51 ha, 8.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/342474.md
- Parcel 350107: 33,134 m² (3.31 ha, 8.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/350107.md
- Parcel 332659: 24,067 m² (2.41 ha, 5.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/332659.md
- Parcel 5447603: 23,478 m² (2.35 ha, 5.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5447603.md
- Parcel 344374: 20,952 m² (2.1 ha, 5.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/344374.md
- Parcel 320321: 19,850 m² (1.99 ha, 4.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/320321.md
- Parcel 352400: 19,754 m² (1.98 ha, 4.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/352400.md
- Parcel 335380: 17,155 m² (1.72 ha, 4.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/335380.md
- Parcel 357102: 13,750 m² (1.38 ha, 3.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/357102.md
- Parcel 318868: 12,993 m² (1.3 ha, 3.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/318868.md
- Parcel 356108: 11,162 m² (1.12 ha, 2.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/356108.md
- Parcel 353476: 10,589 m² (1.06 ha, 2.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/353476.md
- Parcel 321709: 7,736 m² (0.77 ha, 1.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/321709.md
- Parcel 323529: 7,438 m² (0.74 ha, 1.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/323529.md
- Parcel 321618: 6,497 m² (0.65 ha, 1.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/321618.md
- Parcel 352649: 3,717 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/352649.md
- Parcel 323301: 2,452 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/323301.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

5 applications, newest first.

- 24 May 2026, Monaghan County Council 2660211: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660211/0
- 20 Dec 2023, Monaghan County Council 2360329: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360329/0
- 5 May 2021, Monaghan County Council 21244: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21244/0
- 9 Jan 2020, Monaghan County Council 202: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/202/0
- 26 Jan 2018, Monaghan County Council 1830: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/1830/0

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## 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 Colgagh.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- MO029-002: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO029-002----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO029-003----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- House, 1840–1860, Regional interest, registry number 41402901, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO&regno=41402901. 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, registry number 41402905, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO&regno=41402905. 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, registry number 41402906, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO&regno=41402906. 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.

## 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 Colgagh, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- 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, 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/colgagh.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/colgagh.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/colgagh.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Colgagh 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)

- Aughrim Beg: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/aughrim-beg.md
- Keenoge: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/keenoge.md
- Kilmurry: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/kilmurry.md
- Magoney: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/magoney.md
- Tattyboy: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/tattyboy.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.

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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.

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