Dian
Townland in the civil parish of Donaghmoyne, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan; in Irish An Daingean
- Area
- 46.5 ha
- 115 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 10,743 m² (1.07 ha, 2.65 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dian, from 1,574 m² to 92,625 m² (9.26 ha, 22.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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
No zone of a development plan covers Dian 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
4 Aug 2017Conditional
permission to erect a storey and a half style dwelling house, wastewater treatment system, form new entrance onto public road and relocate existing percolation area serving adjoining dwelling house and all associated site development works. Significant Further Information has been submitted relating to revisions to site and site boundary and elevational changes
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17382
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 Dian.
Recorded monuments
- MO028-042 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located towards the SE end of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. This is a circular area (diam. 28m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (at SE: Wth 4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 2.6m) N-SE and a complete outer fosse (at SE: Wth of top 6m; Wth of base 2m; ext. D 0.7m), with a counterscarp bank (at SE: Wth 7m; ext. H 2m) that runs into the natural scope surviving N-SE. It is cut SW of the centre by a NW-SE farm lane, and it is grass-covered NE of this feature and overgrown SW of it 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: 6 December 2017
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dian.
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 low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dian.
- 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 Dian with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Dian · An Daingean
- Area
- 465,058 m² (46.51 ha, 114.92 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donaghmoyne, and its townlands
- Barony
- Farney
- Electoral division
- Kilmurry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilmurry electoral division: 669 people in 207 households; 91% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolcair, Drumaconvern, Drumillard, Edengilrevy, Kilnacranfy, Lisnamoyle Etra
- Placenames
- Dian 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.