Davagh Otra

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Davagh Otra, from 854 m² to 183,311 m² (18.33 ha, 45.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Davagh Otra 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.

• 2 Jun 2021Conditional

  permission to erect a single storey type dwelling house with detached single storey domestic garage, proprietary waste water treatment system and percolation area, with new entrance complete with all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21315

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 Davagh Otra.

Recorded monuments

• MO006-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a shoulder of the N-facing slope of a N-S drumlin ridge. A small rectangular enclosure is depicted on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map and a small subcircular enclosure is shown on the 1907 edition. No archaeological feature is visible at ground level in pasture except for a slight irregularity in the field bank at E. It is known locally as a 'fort' and, according to local reports, crosses have been found here. 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: 29 August 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 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 Davagh Otra.

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

Name

Davagh Otra · Dabhach Uachtarach

Area

557,648 m² (55.76 ha, 137.8 acres)

Civil parish

Errigal Trough, and its townlands

Barony

Trough

Electoral division

Anketell Grove, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Anketell Grove electoral division: 1,278 people in 400 households; 86% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Davagh Etra, Drumconnelly, Tamlat, Tonyfinnigan, Tonynumery

Placenames

Davagh Otra 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.