# Derrygola, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Errigal Trough, barony of Trough, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Doire Ghabhla. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,107,741 m² (110.77 ha, 273.73 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 21,065 m² (2.11 ha, 5.21 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Errigal Trough, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/errigal-trough.md - Barony: Trough - Electoral division: Anketell Grove, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/40313 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170660 - Centre: latitude 54.344905, longitude -7.009909 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrygola, from 500 m² to 129,932 m² (12.99 ha, 32.11 acres); 30 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 357185: 129,932 m² (12.99 ha, 32.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/357185.md - Parcel 319445: 96,035 m² (9.6 ha, 23.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319445.md - Parcel 351927: 93,057 m² (9.31 ha, 22.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/351927.md - Parcel 354029: 65,550 m² (6.56 ha, 16.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/354029.md - Parcel 356323: 54,104 m² (5.41 ha, 13.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/356323.md - Parcel 318783: 52,622 m² (5.26 ha, 13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/318783.md - Parcel 354908: 51,675 m² (5.17 ha, 12.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/354908.md - Parcel 317406: 49,138 m² (4.91 ha, 12.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/317406.md - Parcel 319144: 47,273 m² (4.73 ha, 11.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319144.md - Parcel 341478: 43,096 m² (4.31 ha, 10.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/341478.md - Parcel 354477: 42,905 m² (4.29 ha, 10.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/354477.md - Parcel 319140: 41,000 m² (4.1 ha, 10.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319140.md - Parcel 354186: 40,083 m² (4.01 ha, 9.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/354186.md - Parcel 357160: 35,321 m² (3.53 ha, 8.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/357160.md - Parcel 318770: 33,106 m² (3.31 ha, 8.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/318770.md - Parcel 338513: 31,293 m² (3.13 ha, 7.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/338513.md - Parcel 326448: 30,553 m² (3.06 ha, 7.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/326448.md - Parcel 354710: 21,611 m² (2.16 ha, 5.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/354710.md - Parcel 319050: 20,518 m² (2.05 ha, 5.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319050.md - Parcel 319024: 19,278 m² (1.93 ha, 4.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319024.md - Parcel 319446: 18,636 m² (1.86 ha, 4.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319446.md - Parcel 319139: 16,240 m² (1.62 ha, 4.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319139.md - Parcel 357188: 16,191 m² (1.62 ha, 4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/357188.md - Parcel 319935: 14,210 m² (1.42 ha, 3.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319935.md - Parcel 352967: 12,416 m² (1.24 ha, 3.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/352967.md - Parcel 357187: 4,326 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/357187.md - Parcel 354704: 4,222 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/354704.md - Parcel 319148: 4,102 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319148.md - Parcel 5515912: 3,673 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5515912.md - Parcel 4166726: 2,880 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4166726.md - Parcel 350305: 2,645 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/350305.md - Parcel 354711: 2,405 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/354711.md - Parcel 350945: 2,209 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/350945.md - Parcel 323371: 1,485 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/323371.md - Parcel 4824739: 579 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4824739.md - Parcel 357186: 500 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/357186.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Derrygola 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) 6 applications, newest first. - 7 Aug 2025, Monaghan County Council 2560307: Conditional. Permission. planning permission to construct 1 No. Poultry House, together with all ancillary structures (to include meal storage bins, soiled water tank etc.) and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560307/0 - 11 Dec 2024, Monaghan County Council 249024: Conditional. Extension of duration. permission to construct 3 new poultry units together with underground washing tanks, vertical meal bins, use existing agricultural entrance and all ancillary site works within existing farmyard complex. This application relates to a development, which Is for the purposes of an activity requiring a Licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency Acts 1994 to 2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) will be submitted with this planning application. Significant Further information relates to a revised EIAR Report.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/249024/0 - 2 Apr 2019, Monaghan County Council 19148: Conditional. Permission. permission to construct 3 new poultry units together with underground washing tanks, vertical meal bins, use existing agricultural entrance and all ancillary site works within existing farmyard complex. This application relates to a development, which Is for the purposes of an activity requiring a Licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency Acts 1994 to 2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) will be submitted with this planning application. Significant Further information relates to a revised EIAR Report.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/19148/0 - 4 Dec 2018, Monaghan County Council 18562: Conditional. Permission. permission for the construction of a 38kv electricity substation, switchroom and equipment compound with palisade fence; the construction of approximately 400m of site access track and the upgrading of approximately 150m of existing agricultural track and an existing agricultural site entrance; approximately 200m of underground cabling and all associated site development and reinstatement works in the townland of Luppan, County Monaghan; and (ii) the installation of approximately 22km of 38kV electricity cables from the proposed substation to the existing electricity substation in the townland of Lisdrumdoagh, County Monaghan. The electricity cables will comprise approximately 17km of overhead line and approximately 5 km of underground line. Overhead lines will consist of 3 no. cables suspended from wooden poles with a maximum height of 16 metres, and all associated site development and reinstatement works. Underground cables will be located within private lands and within the public roads numbered L5171, L1400 and L1171; will be installed in excavated trenches of approximately 1.2m in depth and will include associated underground ducting, joint bays, communication chamber bays, sheath link boxes and inspection chambers; directional drilling beneath the N12 and Ulster Canal and all associated site development and reinstatement works. A vehicle access track of up to 4m in width will be provided immediately adjacent to underground cables with private lands. This planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report which includes an assessment of the likely impacts of the proposed development, as a whole and in combination with the relevant off-site or secondary developments which will occur as a direct result of the proposed development, including the wind farm development permitted pursuant to Monaghan County Council Planning Register Reference 10/110 & An Bord Pleanála Reference PL18.240760 and proposed to be amended by planning reference 17/258 & An Bord Pleanála Reference PL18.300998 (currently under construction). A Natura Impact Statement will also be submitted to the planning authority with the planning application. This application is accompanied by an EIAR. Significant Further information has been submitted.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/18562/0 - 7 Nov 2018, Monaghan County Council 18518: N/a. Permission. permission to construct 2 new poultry units together with underground washings tanks, vertical meal bins, use existing agricultural entrance and all ancillary site works.This application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a Licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) will be submitted with this application.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/18518/0 - 18 Jun 2018, Monaghan County Council 18271: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Permission to erect a two storey dwelling & attached domestic garage, construct a new domestic entrance, install an effluent treatment system with raised/mounded soil percolation area and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/18271/0 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 Derrygola. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derrygola. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derrygola. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: 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 Derrygola. - 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/derrygola.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/derrygola.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/derrygola.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Derrygola 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) - Brackagh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/brackagh-170194.md - Cornanure: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/cornanure-170500.md - Davagh Etra: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/davagh-etra.md - Dernalosset: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/dernalosset.md - Killybreen: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/killybreen.md - Killycarran: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/killycarran.md - Kilnagullan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/kilnagullan.md - Sogher: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/sogher.md - Tamlat: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/tamlat-171691.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/derrygola - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/derrygola