Derrynaloobinagh
Townland in the civil parish of Ballybay, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Doire na Leamhánach
- Area
- 79.6 ha
- 197 acres
- Land parcels
- 79
- registered freehold, median 1,674 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
79 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrynaloobinagh, from 5 m² to 70,572 m² (7.06 ha, 17.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 40 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Landscape Protection/Conservation (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 12 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M2Town Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Community Services/Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R4Strategic Residential Reserve
Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1Industry/Enterprise/Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1Proposed Residential B (New/proposed residential)
Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
23 Jan 2026Refused
permission for the development which consists of the alteration, extension and refurbishment of existing single-storey storage units, the construction of a new single- storey yard store, the installation of new timber panel fence to the northwest boundary, upgrade surface finishes to the yard area and designated car parking spaces, the installation of a new silt tank, oil water separator tank & stormwater infiltration system together with all associated and ancillary site works. Significant further information received relates to submitted Site layout plan, Traffic Impact report and Flood Risk Assessment
Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2660011
29 Mar 2025Conditional
permission for development which will consist of the construction of a detached two storey building to accommodate a takeaway on the ground floor and an apartment on the first floor, relocation of existing entrance, and all associated site works, Significant further information received relates to submitted flood risk assessment report and revised drawings for ventilation extractor fan.
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560127
20 Dec 2019Conditional
permission for a proposed development consisting of the construction of a footpath connecting the existing footpath at Meadow View Estate to the entrance to the Ballybay Wetlands Centre off the R183, the works will include Road Pavements, Kerbs, Footways and Paved Areas with Accommodation works to include site entrance and Earthworks, Installation of Ducts, Drainage and Attenuation. An Appropriate Assessment Screening Report has been completed on the proposals and concluded the following; "No impacts are likely, as a result of the proposed works, on the conservation objectives or overall integrity of any Natura 2000 site." An Environmental Impact Assessment Screen Report has been completed on the proposals and concluded the following; "There will be no significant direct or indirect impacts by virtue of the location of the proposed development on the receiving environment."
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 198010
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Derrynaloobinagh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derrynaloobinagh.
Architectural heritage
- The Manse, manse, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey Presbyterian manse, built 1895, with gabled entrance breakfront with gabled timber open porch to front, flanked by canted bay windows, and with two-storey return to rear. Hipped sprocketed slate roof with grey clayware ridge tiles, projecting eaves supported by corbelled brackets. Ornamental timber bargeboards with tracery and round-topped finial to breakfront. Centrally placed pair of stepped yellow brick chimneystacks, and replacement rainwater goods. Slate roofs to bay windows and porch. Painted smooth rendered walls with painted block and start quoins, and painted plinth course. Square-headed window openings to canted bays and to side elevations, latter having moulded render surrounds. Segmental-arch window openings to first floor, and round-arched window to first floor of breakfront, with rendered surrounds. Replacement uPVC windows throughout. Round-arched stair-light window to rear elevation with timber-framed misted coloured glass window having replacement uPVC secondary glazing. Segmental arched front door opening with rendered architrave surround incorporating key-stone detail, having timber panelled door and glazed overlight. Set within own grounds with three-bay two-storey outbuilding to rear having hipped slate roof, rubble stone walls with red brick quoins, square-headed openings with red brick surrounds, segmental carriage arch opening to east bay, and battened timber doors and shutters. Gateway to south comprising modern smooth rendered wall and piers.
- House, 1900–1920 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey with half-dormer house, built c.1910, with gabled dormer window to entrance bay and with single-storey open porch, and single-storey with half-dormer return, flanked by single-storey lean-to bays at rear. Half-hipped natural slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, overhanging eaves with exposed joists, timber bargeboards to gables, red brick on stretcher bond chimneystacks towards ends of ridge, and cast-iron profile guttering and rainwater goods. Hipped natural slate roof to porch supported by rendered round columns. Roughcast rendered walls with painted brick block and start quoins, and moulded string-course above ground floor. Smooth rendered walling to porch area. Square-headed window openings with painted brick block and start surrounds, painted sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed door opening with overlight and flanked by side-lights in slight square-headed recess, with timber panelled door. Set within its own grounds, with three-bay two-storey outbuilding to rear having hipped slate roof, rubble stone walls with red brick quoins and square-headed openings with red brick surrounds. Gateway to south-west comprising cast-iron square-profile gate piers with railings of wrought-iron. Smooth rendered boundary wall to south of property. Located to west of Ballybay town.
- Ballybay Second Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1830–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding six bay two-storey gable-fronted church, dated 1834 and remodelled 1888, having pediment over front (south) elevation. Pitched slate roof to front elevation, hipped to rear, with cut sandstone string course, cast-iron rainwater goods and carved sandstone date plaque to pediment. Rubble stone walls with cut sandstone quoins to rear and cut sandstone quoin bands to front elevation. Tudor arch window openings to ground floor and pointed to first floor, having cut limestone hood-mouldings, stops and sills to first floor openings and to ground floor front, and having bipartite timber Y-tracery windows throughout. Recessed Tudor arch door opening to front elevation under cut sandstone hood-moulding and stops with carved sandstone surround to double-leaf timber battened door, with recent concrete steps with inlaid inscribed sandstone plaques. Tudor arch door opening with cut limestone surround having timber battened door to rear elevation. Graveyard to site. Double-leaf wrought-iron gates with flanking square-profile limestone piers, rubble stone boundary wall with cut sandstone coping and wrought-iron gates to front of site.
- Hall Street National School, hall, school, 1875–1885 · Regional interest
Description
Detached six-bay single-storey former temperance hall and national school, built 1878, in use as hall, with two-bay single-storey extension, 1883, to north-west and single-storey lean-two extension at rear. Pitched natural slate roof with overhanging eaves with exposed joists, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with painted tooled masonry block-and-start quoins, and smooth rendered plinth. Roundels to front elevation with moulded surrounds reading 'HALL STREET NATIONAL SCHOOL A.D. 1883' and 'THE TEMPERANCE HALL A.D. 1878'. Further date-stone to east gable inscribed '1885'. Square-headed window openings with rendered patent surrounds and two-over-two pane horned timber sliding sash windows, and pained sills. Square-headed door openings to end bays with rendered patent surrounds and replacement battened timber door with overlights. Set within own grounds, with dressed stone wall to road frontage having rubble-faced, chamfered coping surmounted by railings of wrought iron; centred pedestrian gateway giving access to stone steps and Y-planned pathway. Former teacher’s house to north, of three bays and two storeys, with coursed rubble limestone walls with sandstone quoins, pitched slate roof and with cast-iron railings and gate to front to rubble limestone wall. Ballybay Second Presbyterian Church to west. Located west of Ballybay town centre.
- Hall Street National School, school master's house, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey former school house, built c.1870, with single-bay two-storey return to rear. Pitched slate roof with grey clayware ridge tiles and smooth-rendered chimneystacks, and having replacement rainwater goods. Coursed limestone walls with block-and-start quoins to front elevation, and with roughcast rendered walls to rear elevation with smooth rendered gable walls. Square-headed window openings having rendered surrounds surmounted by pediments, additional red brick block-and-start surrounds, and replacement timber casement windows, and two-over-two pane horned timber sliding sash windows to rear elevation. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber panelled door with overlight. Set within own grounds to rear of former Hall Street National School/Temperance Hall. Coursed rubble limestone wall surmounted by railings of cast-iron, and centred pedestrian gateway comprising gate and piers of cast iron. Located west of Ballybay town centre.
- House, 1865–1875 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay former gasworks manager's house, built c.1870, having single-storey to front, street, elevation and two-storey to rear with slightly lower projecting middle bay. Pitched slate roof, overhanging to gables, with red brick chimneystacks. Coursed squared snecked sandstone walls to front elevation with cut limestone plinth and quoins, over rubble sandstone base. Other walls are pebble-dashed. Square-headed window openings, front having red brick surrounds and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, and rear having replacement uPVC. Square-headed entrance doorway having red brick surround and timber panelled door with overlight, approached by two steps. Gateway to east comprising coursed brick and roughly dressed limestone piers with recent double-leaf metal gate.
- Bridge, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch former railway-over-river bridge, built c.1850, now disused. Notably tall round-headed arch with margined rock-faced limestone voussoirs, coursed, dressed stone to soffits and parapets, random rubble to abutments. Dressed rubble stone copings to parapets, with cast-iron railings above. Single carriageway with overgrown vegetation to deck. Bridge spans Drumore River to north-west of town centre. Water tower (41307039) immediately to east of bridge, former Ballybay railway station (41307006) to north-east. Water supply pump mechanism to water pump from Drumore River extant to east buttress of railway bridge.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2427 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Derrynaloobinagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Derrynaloobinagh · Doire na Leamhánach
- Area
- 795,697 m² (79.57 ha, 196.62 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballybay, and its townlands
- Barony
- Cremorne
- Electoral division
- Ballybay Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballybay Rural electoral division: 1,593 people in 581 households; 63% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annaneese, Corfad, Corkeeran, Cornamucklaglass, Corrybrannan, Derryvally
- Placenames
- Derrynaloobinagh 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.