# Coolskeagh, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Donaghmoyne, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Cúil na Sceitheach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 540,384 m² (54.04 ha, 133.53 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 8,922 m² (0.89 ha, 2.2 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Donaghmoyne, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/donaghmoyne.md - Barony: Farney - Electoral division: Broomfield, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 831 people lived in 264 households in the Broomfield electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 12% 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/39669 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170382 - Centre: latitude 54.085376, longitude -6.690383 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolskeagh, from 794 m² to 156,407 m² (15.64 ha, 38.65 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 342625: 156,407 m² (15.64 ha, 38.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/342625.md - Parcel 347489: 34,030 m² (3.4 ha, 8.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/347489.md - Parcel 350187: 31,123 m² (3.11 ha, 7.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/350187.md - Parcel 356427: 28,364 m² (2.84 ha, 7.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/356427.md - Parcel 350892: 27,767 m² (2.78 ha, 6.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/350892.md - Parcel 344434: 22,014 m² (2.2 ha, 5.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/344434.md - Parcel 343251: 15,809 m² (1.58 ha, 3.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/343251.md - Parcel 321704: 14,888 m² (1.49 ha, 3.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/321704.md - Parcel 344771: 14,082 m² (1.41 ha, 3.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/344771.md - Parcel 350456: 13,867 m² (1.39 ha, 3.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/350456.md - Parcel 320578: 13,644 m² (1.36 ha, 3.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/320578.md - Parcel 1531400: 11,514 m² (1.15 ha, 2.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1531400.md - Parcel 318452: 10,348 m² (1.03 ha, 2.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/318452.md - Parcel 334910: 9,651 m² (0.97 ha, 2.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/334910.md - Parcel 2399938: 9,144 m² (0.91 ha, 2.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2399938.md - Parcel 333848: 8,699 m² (0.87 ha, 2.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/333848.md - Parcel 352282: 7,859 m² (0.79 ha, 1.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/352282.md - Parcel 322954: 6,427 m² (0.64 ha, 1.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/322954.md - Parcel 332367: 5,848 m² (0.58 ha, 1.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/332367.md - Parcel 5552192: 5,810 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5552192.md - Parcel 323785: 5,377 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/323785.md - Parcel 1531523: 5,292 m² (0.53 ha, 1.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1531523.md - Parcel 4243151: 4,079 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4243151.md - Parcel 337441: 2,534 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/337441.md - Parcel 4729073: 2,145 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4729073.md - Parcel 349220: 1,954 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/349220.md - Parcel 321657: 1,611 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/321657.md - Parcel 4243149: 1,435 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4243149.md - Parcel 2413990: 1,410 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2413990.md - Parcel 4243150: 794 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4243150.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Coolskeagh 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) 4 applications, newest first. - 29 Apr 2022, Monaghan County Council 22194: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission for a development consisting of the demolition of existing vehicle repair/valet garage and replacement with a storey and a half dwelling house, single storey domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, use of existing long established entrance and access lane from public road currently serving the vehicle repair/valet garage to alternatively serve the proposed dwelling house, provision of passing layby on existing laneway, implementation of comprehensive landscaping works together with all ancillary site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/22194/0 - 6 Apr 2021, Monaghan County Council 21161: Conditional. Permission. Retention permission for development of site to consist of retention of single storey storage shed to serve existing vehicle repair workshop and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21161/0 - 16 Apr 2019, Monaghan County Council 19179: Refused. Retention, 1 home. permission for retention of a mobile home and all ancillary site development works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/19179/0 - 19 Jun 2017, Monaghan County Council 17295: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Permission for the upgrading of existing septic tank system with new waste water treatment system and percolation area to serve the existing dwelling. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/17295/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Muckno Lake, site code 000563 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MO025-020: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO025-020----. Situated at the SE end of a NW-SE ridge with a parallel ridge c. 170m to the NE. This is an oval grass-covered area (dims 42.5m E-W; 34.5m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth c. 3; int. H c. 0.5-1m; ext. H c. 1.5m) with some bushes. There is no visible fosse and there is a large entrance (Wth 4m) at SE, which might be the original one. 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: 27 February 2018 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) - Coolskeagh Bridge, bridge, 1845–1850, Regional interest, registry number 41402509, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41402509. Single-arch skewed limestone railway bridge, built c.1849, carrying road over Dundalk to Enniskillen line. Elliptical arch, with rusticated voussoirs, chamfered margined and brush-hammered string course, snecked cut-stone walls having chamfered cut-stone copings to parapet walls, rock-faced rusticated rusticated walls. Skewly-laid red brick vault to soffit. West side infilled, with south end of west parapet removed to facilitate new road parallel to former road. - Bridge, 1845–1850, Regional interest, registry number 41402520, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41402520. Single-arch limestone railway bridge, built 1849, carrying embanked Dundalk to Enniskillen line over road. Round arch having rock-faced rusticated voussoirs, and chamfered margined and brush-hammered impost course. Snecked cu0- stone abutments with rock-faced rusticated stone quoins to abutments. Brick soffit to arch. Snecked cut-stone walls and splayed buttressing walls with curved cut-stone coping. railway line and embankment now gone and bridge stands proud over road. - Bridge, 1845–1850, Regional interest, registry number 41402521, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41402521. Single-arch stone former railway bridge, built 1849, carrying embanked Dundalk to Enniskillen railway line over road. Round arch having rock-faced rusticated voussoirs, chamfered margined and brush-hammered impost course. Snecked cut-stone abutments with rock-faced rusticated stone quoins to abutments. Brick soffit to arch. Snecked cut-stone walls and splayed buttressing walls with chamfered cut-stone coping. Embankment has been removed. ## 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 Coolskeagh, about 1 in 20 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. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coolskeagh. - 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/coolskeagh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/coolskeagh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/coolskeagh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Coolskeagh 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) - Annadrumman: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/annadrumman.md - Annalittin: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/annalittin.md - Drumgoose: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumgoose.md - Gorteens: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/gorteens.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/coolskeagh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/coolskeagh