Conaghy

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Conaghy, from 1,127 m² to 85,705 m² (8.57 ha, 21.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Conaghy 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Conaghy in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Conaghy.

Recorded monuments

• MO012-045 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  A circular earthwork is shown on a hill at Conaghy on McCrea's map of County Monaghan (1793) in the National Library of Ireland (MS 161.10). This is probably the same as the 'fort of the Cú (hounds) …situated beside Mac Mahon's castle' (MO012-046----) known in the folk traditions (IFC: Schools’ MSS: 946, 59: https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes ). The hill is easily identified but the exact positions of either the castle or the rath are not known. . 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 29 January, 2018

• MO012-046 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  A local tradition recorded in the Schools Collection of the Irish Folklore Commission relates that the ruins of Mahon’s castle were on land then (1930s) owned by George Manly, on top of a hill in Conaghy. See this web-page accessed on 20/04/2016. http://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4723854/4719271 Another page records that the castle was beside a fort http://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4723854/4719305 There is no other record of this castle. Conagh (5) is marked on the Down Survey (1656-8) map parish map, for which see this web-page http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#bm=Dartry&c=Monaghan but no structures are depicted there. No fort or castle at Conaghy is know from the OS 6-inch maps, but a fort is indicated there on William McCrea’s map of Co. Monaghan (1793) on top of a hill. The hill is easily identified but the exact positions of either the castle or ringfort are not known. 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 20 April 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Conaghy.

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 Conaghy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Conaghy · Conachadh

Area

736,274 m² (73.63 ha, 181.94 acres)

Civil parish

Killeevan, and its townlands

Barony

Dartree

Electoral division

Killeevan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killeevan electoral division: 330 people in 125 households; 94% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boughill, Cavanavally, Derryleggan, Gransha Beg, Gransha More, Kilnamaddy, Nook

Placenames

Conaghy 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.