Desert

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Desert, from 3,716 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres) to 199,213 m² (19.92 ha, 49.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Desert 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 Desert 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 Desert.

Recorded monuments

• MO006-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated towards the W end of a low E-W ridge in a low-lying landscape, and it is also in a loop of the W-E Mountain Water River with the stream c. 100-200m to the NW, SW and SE. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) is depicted on the 1834 edition of OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’. There is no evidence of an antiquity apart from a slight curve (Chord c. 20m N-S) in a field bank that represents the W edge of the monument, but a NE-SW field bank traverses its interior. 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

• MO006-034 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in the valley of the Mountain Water River at a point where it has just turned from a W-E course to N-S. According to local information this is the site of a ‘fort’, but it is an unlikely location and there is no visible evidence of an antiquity. Date of revised upload: 29 August 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, 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 Desert.

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

Name

Desert · An Díseart

Area

289,083 m² (28.91 ha, 71.43 acres)

Civil parish

Donagh, and its townlands

Barony

Trough

Electoral division

Emyvale, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Emyvale electoral division: 1,158 people in 446 households; 67% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghaboy, Aghnagap, Letloonigan, Portinaghy, Pullis, Stramore

Placenames

Desert 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.