Comertagh

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Comertagh, from 679 m² to 187,035 m² (18.7 ha, 46.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Comertagh 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.

• 5 Jun 2025Conditional

  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

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560224

• 5 Aug 2024Conditional

  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

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2460279

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 Comertagh.

Recorded monuments

• MO030-020 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  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

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Comertagh.

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 10 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; 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: 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 Comertagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Comertagh · Coimeartach

Area

695,400 m² (69.54 ha, 171.84 acres)

Civil parish

Magheracloone, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Drumcarrow, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Beagh, Cornalaragh, Doagh, Greaghlone, Raferagh

Placenames

Comertagh 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.