# Comertagh, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Magheracloone, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Coimeartach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 695,400 m² (69.54 ha, 171.84 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 41,517 m² (4.15 ha, 10.26 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Magheracloone, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/magheracloone.md - Barony: Farney - Electoral division: Drumcarrow, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Drumcarrow electoral division: 515 people in 164 households; 90% of households own their home; 39% 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/39436 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170351 - Centre: latitude 53.976542, longitude -6.840621 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Comertagh, from 679 m² to 187,035 m² (18.7 ha, 46.22 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 324738: 187,035 m² (18.7 ha, 46.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/324738.md - Parcel 325884: 112,675 m² (11.27 ha, 27.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/325884.md - Parcel 325885: 86,234 m² (8.62 ha, 21.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/325885.md - Parcel 325886: 69,950 m² (6.99 ha, 17.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/325886.md - Parcel 330290: 58,886 m² (5.89 ha, 14.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/330290.md - Parcel 345049: 43,868 m² (4.39 ha, 10.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345049.md - Parcel 330291: 39,167 m² (3.92 ha, 9.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/330291.md - Parcel 344043: 36,597 m² (3.66 ha, 9.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/344043.md - Parcel 344133: 19,701 m² (1.97 ha, 4.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/344133.md - Parcel 330346: 2,499 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/330346.md - Parcel 347315: 2,429 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/347315.md - Parcel 323194: 679 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/323194.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Comertagh 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 5 Jun 2025, Monaghan County Council 2560224: Conditional. Permission. permission to change the layout and elevational treatment of 6 No. glamping pods previously granted under Planning Reference 24/60279, together with all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560224/0 - 5 Aug 2024, Monaghan County Council 2460279: Conditional. Permission. permission for development of a glamping site comprising of 6 no. glamping pods, ancillary storage building, internal paths, car parking area, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new entrance/exit onto public road together with an ancillary site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460279/0 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 Comertagh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MO030-020: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO030-020----. Located on a small N-S ridge. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 28m E-W; 27.6m NE-SW) defined by a slight earthen bank (at S: Wth of base 2.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.85m) which is incorporated into a field bank and hedge W-N but reduced to a scarp (at ENE: H 1.7m) over much of the perimeter. There is no visible fosse but there is an entrance (Wth of base 2.5m) at S, convenient to a farmyard, which is c. 70m to the SE. 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 revised upload: 25 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Comertagh. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 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: Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Comertagh. - 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/comertagh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/comertagh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/comertagh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Comertagh 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) - Beagh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/beagh-170168.md - Cornalaragh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/cornalaragh.md - Doagh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/doagh.md - Greaghlone: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/greaghlone.md - Raferagh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/raferagh.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/comertagh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/comertagh