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

Townland in the civil parish of Inishkeen, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Na Comhracha.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 841,307 m² (84.13 ha, 207.89 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 31,965 m² (3.2 ha, 7.9 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Inishkeen, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/inishkeen.md
- Barony: Farney
- Electoral division: Inishkeen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,182 people lived in 409 households in the Inishkeen electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/39498
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170352
- Centre: latitude 53.99121, longitude -6.572927 (WGS 84)

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

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Comraghs, from 20,321 m² (2.03 ha, 5.02 acres) to 159,229 m² (15.92 ha, 39.35 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 321820: 159,229 m² (15.92 ha, 39.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/321820.md
- Parcel 350486: 71,066 m² (7.11 ha, 17.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/350486.md
- Parcel 321978: 59,860 m² (5.99 ha, 14.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/321978.md
- Parcel 322168: 59,254 m² (5.93 ha, 14.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/322168.md
- Parcel 320859: 57,840 m² (5.78 ha, 14.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/320859.md
- Parcel 315080: 56,910 m² (5.69 ha, 14.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/315080.md
- Parcel 351060: 45,751 m² (4.58 ha, 11.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/351060.md
- Parcel 4391846: 39,851 m² (3.99 ha, 9.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4391846.md
- Parcel 4391849: 37,593 m² (3.76 ha, 9.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4391849.md
- Parcel 351316: 31,965 m² (3.2 ha, 7.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/351316.md
- Parcel 323872: 31,498 m² (3.15 ha, 7.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/323872.md
- Parcel 347342: 26,144 m² (2.61 ha, 6.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/347342.md
- Parcel 353639: 25,314 m² (2.53 ha, 6.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/353639.md
- Parcel 342145: 25,032 m² (2.5 ha, 6.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/342145.md
- Parcel 320827: 24,544 m² (2.45 ha, 6.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/320827.md
- Parcel 324370: 23,913 m² (2.39 ha, 5.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/324370.md
- Parcel 346452: 22,937 m² (2.29 ha, 5.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/346452.md
- Parcel 4391842: 22,286 m² (2.23 ha, 5.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4391842.md
- Parcel 344303: 20,321 m² (2.03 ha, 5.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/344303.md

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

No zone of a development plan covers Comraghs 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)

3 applications, newest first.

- 20 Dec 2022, Monaghan County Council 22523: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission for development consisting of a bungalow dwelling house, a domestic garage, a domestic wastewater treatment system, a new site entrance with all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/22523/0
- 6 Sept 2022, Monaghan County Council 22385: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission consisting of a 2-storey dwelling house, a domestic garage, a domestic waste water treatment system with site access via an existing laneway to include all associated site development works. Significant further information received in relation to the re-positioning of the proposed domestic garage on site.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/22385/0
- 13 Jan 2021, Monaghan County Council 218: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission for development consisting of proposed two storey dwelling house, vehicular access via existing right of way from public road, installation of proprietary waste water treatment system/ percolation area together with associated site works. Significant further information relates to flood risk assessment, relocation of dwelling house and waste water treatment system together with revised site boundary to east.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/218/0

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 Comraghs.

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

- MO032-016: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO032-016----. Situated at the summit of a NW-SE drumlin ridge, this rath is depicted on McCrea’s map of Co. Monaghan (1793). It is a subcircular grass-covered area (dims 28m E-W; 23.2m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 3.8-5.8m; int. H 0.3-0.7m; ext. H 1.1-1.3m) with some bushes, which is incorporated into a field bank with an outer stone facing NNW-NE, and a complete outer fosse (Wth of top 3.3-5.2m; Wth of base 1.2-2.8m; ext. D 0.2-0.5m). A gap at N is blocked by a tree but the original entrance (Wth of base 1.1m) is at S. A grass-covered depression (L 5.5m NNE-SSW; Wth 1.3-1.5m; max. D 0.7m) inside the bank at NW and another hollow (L 4m) 2m to the SW could represent two collapsed portions of a souterain. 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: 27 July 2017
- MO032-016001: Souterrain, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO032-016001-. Situated at the summit of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. A grass-covered depression (L 5.5m NNE-SSW; Wth 1.3-1.5m; max. D 0.7m) inside the bank of rath (MO032-016----) at NW and another hollow (L 4m) 2m to the SW are likely to represent two collapsed portions of a souterain. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 27 July 2017
- MO032-055: Rock art, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO032-055----. 'Comraghs 1' in Blaze O' Connor's 'Inventory of Rock Art panels' - see O' Connor B. 2006, 267, 'Inscribed Landscapes contextualising prehistoric rock art in Ireland'. Unpublished PHD thesis, University College Dublin. Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- MO032-056: Rock art, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO032-056----. 'Comraghs 2' in Blaze O' Connor's 'Inventory of Rock Art panels' - see O' Connor B. 2006, 267, 'Inscribed Landscapes contextualising prehistoric rock art in Ireland'. Unpublished PHD thesis, University College Dublin. Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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 Comraghs.

## 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 Comraghs, 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: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2820, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2820.zip (ZIP).
- 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/comraghs.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/comraghs.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/comraghs.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Comraghs 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)

- Ballintra: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/ballintra.md
- Candlefort: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/candlefort.md
- Drumirril: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumirril.md
- Drumnagrella: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumnagrella.md
- Lacklom: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/lacklom.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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