# Donagh, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Donagh, barony of Trough, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Domhnach.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 691,793 m² (69.18 ha, 170.95 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,239 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 11 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Donagh, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/donagh.md
- Barony: Trough
- Electoral division: Glaslough, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 964 people lived in 325 households in the Glaslough electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/40765
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170711
- Centre: latitude 54.313023, longitude -6.915665 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Donagh, from 51 m² to 93,694 m² (9.37 ha, 23.15 acres); 33 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 340141: 93,694 m² (9.37 ha, 23.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/340141.md
- Parcel 335082: 66,447 m² (6.64 ha, 16.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/335082.md
- Parcel 335040: 65,215 m² (6.52 ha, 16.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/335040.md
- Parcel 333895: 61,962 m² (6.2 ha, 15.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/333895.md
- Parcel 335083: 47,408 m² (4.74 ha, 11.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/335083.md
- Parcel 333896: 40,537 m² (4.05 ha, 10.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/333896.md
- Parcel 340139: 39,036 m² (3.9 ha, 9.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/340139.md
- Parcel 340138: 36,893 m² (3.69 ha, 9.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/340138.md
- Parcel 353107: 17,113 m² (1.71 ha, 4.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/353107.md
- Parcel 5219014: 16,966 m² (1.7 ha, 4.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5219014.md
- Parcel 6225569: 12,955 m² (1.3 ha, 3.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6225569.md
- Parcel 339967: 8,423 m² (0.84 ha, 2.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/339967.md
- Parcel 321314: 4,384 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/321314.md
- Parcel 5842481: 4,279 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5842481.md
- Parcel 4347865: 4,011 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4347865.md
- Parcel 2728593: 3,668 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2728593.md
- Parcel 349831: 3,281 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/349831.md
- Parcel 3641801: 3,239 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3641801.md
- Parcel 318464: 3,150 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/318464.md
- Parcel 4090244: 3,140 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4090244.md
- Parcel 317762: 3,007 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/317762.md
- Parcel 338506: 2,989 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/338506.md
- Parcel 3641762: 2,838 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3641762.md
- Parcel 349957: 2,750 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/349957.md
- Parcel 334851: 2,643 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/334851.md
- Parcel 315673: 2,046 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/315673.md
- Parcel 333148: 1,930 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/333148.md
- Parcel 332485: 1,723 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/332485.md
- Parcel 314930: 1,119 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/314930.md
- Parcel 4391039: 864 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4391039.md
- Parcel 5577292: 470 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5577292.md
- Parcel 4347365: 294 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4347365.md
- Parcel 354498: 197 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/354498.md
- Parcel 5500419: 153 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5500419.md
- Parcel 336901: 51 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/336901.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Donagh 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)

11 applications, newest first.

- 11 Oct 2023, Monaghan County Council 2360236: Conditional. Permission. permission for a development consisting of amendments to the previously approved planning (Reg. Ref. 20285) including a new detached two storey dwelling with single storey elements, single storey garage, entrance gates and piers, a revised wastewater treatment system and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360236/0
- 27 Jun 2022, Monaghan County Council 22294: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission consisting of the construction of a new agricultural entrance with all associated site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/22294/0
- 30 May 2022, Monaghan County Council 22242: N/a. Permission, 1 home. permission for construction of a new agricultural entrance with all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/22242/0
- 7 Apr 2022, Monaghan County Council 22156: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission to demolish existing dwelling house and adjoining outbuildings and to construct a new replacement dwelling house with attached domestic garage, 2 no. detached buildings for ancillary/storage use, install approved proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area, together with all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/22156/0
- 3 Feb 2022, Monaghan County Council 229004: Refused. Extension of duration. Permission to demolish existing dwelling house and adjoining outbuildings and to construct a new replacement dwelling house with attached domestic garage, 2 No detached buildings for ancillary/storage use, install approved proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area, together with all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/229004/0
- 13 Aug 2021, Monaghan County Council 21462: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission to construct a new two storey dwelling with attached 1.5 storey domestic garage, new access lane, new entrance and new waste water treatment system together with all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21462/0
- 17 Jul 2020, Monaghan County Council 20285: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Permission to erect a two-storey dwelling, single-storey detached domestic garage, new wastewater treatment system, new entrance with gates & piers together with all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/20285/0
- 8 May 2020, Monaghan County Council 2082: N/a. Permission, 1 home. erect a two-storey dwelling, single-storey detached domestic garage, new wastewater treatment system, new entrance with gates & piers together with all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2082/0
- 10 Mar 2020, Monaghan County Council 2081: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. erect a two-storey dwelling, single-storey detached domestic garage, new wastewater treatment system, new entrance with gates & piers together with all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2081/0
- 4 Jul 2017, Monaghan County Council 17314: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Permission to construct a one and a half storey dwelling, new entrance with gate piers, wastewater treatment system and all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/17314/0
- 23 Mar 2017, Monaghan County Council 17134: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Permission to demolish existing dwelling house and adjoining outbuildings and to construct a new replacement dwelling house with attached domestic garage, 2 No detached buildings for ancillary/storage use, install approved proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area, together with all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/17134/0

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## 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 Donagh.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- MO007-007001: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO007-007001-. Located on top of a broad hill. The medieval parish church of Donagh is listed as Dunagh in the ecclesiastical taxation (1302-06) of Pope Nicholas IV (Shirley 1879, 289), and the names of some of the clergy are known from 1451 (Leslie 1929, 293-300). It is sometimes confused (McKenna 1920, 267-80) with the church of Domhnach maighe dá Chlaoine – the church between the bogs - at Donagh, Co. Fermanagh (Ó Maolagain and Ó Gallachobhair 1955 141). The church of was described as ruinous in 1622 but by the end of the century the parochial centre for Protestant worship had been moved to Glaslough (MO007-014001-), c. 2km to the ENE. There is no evidence of the medieval church although it is probably partly incorporated in the walls of the double mortuary enclosure (ext. dims 13.7m E-W; 7.55m N0S) of the Johnston family that has masonry walls (Wth 0.6-0.7m; max. H 2.8m). There are entrances to both chambers in the N wall, and there is an inscribed stone (Wth 0.6m; H 0.33m) dated 176? on the outside of the W wall. The earliest graveslab within is the central of five against the W wall of the W chamber commemorating Baptist Johnston dated 1710. In 1939 the presence of a possible broken out window in the E wall and another towards the E end of the S wall was noted. A cut stone fragment from a doorway together with a stone mullion (H 1.14m) from a glazed window were also recorded (Paterson et al. 1939, 26). The doorway arch (dims 0.91m x 0.26m x 0.2m) along with a stone corbel (dims 0.66m x 0.25m x 0.28m) with the head of a cleric carved relief was acquired by Monaghan County Museum during the 1970s (Walsh 1979, 117), and in the 1980s a fragment (dims 0.21m x 0.12m x 0.12m) of a cut stone window jamb decorated with a keel moulding of late 12th early 13th century date was also acquired (Walsh 1983, 170). Part of the head of a ringed cross (MO007-014010-) recorded in the 1930s (Paterson et al. 1939) was donated to the County Museum. The graveyard is a sub-triangular area (dims c. 57m E-W; c. 53m N-S) with the base on the S side and with the SE angle missing. It is defined by earthen banks and scarps with hedges, and the headstones, dating largely from the late eighteenth century to the mid nineteenth century, have been recorded (McCarney 1957). The graveyard is now owned by Monaghan County Council, and there is parking for about three cars outside. Within the graveyard there is a cup-marked stone (MO007-014009-), the Donagh cross (MO007-014003-), two cross-bases (MO007-014002-; MO007-014005-), two seventeenth century graveslabs (MO007-014007-; MO007-014008-), and a cross-shaped headstone dated 1666 (MO007-014006-). 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. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of revised upload: 8 November 2016
- MO007-007002: Cross, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO007-007002-. A stepped-pyramidal cross-base (dims of base 0.7m; x 0.51m; dims of top 0.45m x 0.33m; H 0.42m;) with a water filled socket (dims 0.33m x 0.22m; D 0.17m) is known locally as the 'Wart Well', and is in the SSE quadrant of Donagh graveyard (MO007-007004-). It is just E of the graveslab (MO007-007007-) of Phelim Mac Kenna. This cross-base was probably the base of the Donagh Cross (MO007-007003-) in the NW quadrant of the graveyard. According to local tradition the water in the cross-base never dries up and cures warts. In order to obtain a cure people come to the wart well with a coin and asks the well to cure the wart. The coin is then placed on the wart. This procedure is repeated three times and afterwards a coin is left in the water of the cross- base. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 8 November 2016
- MO007-007003: Cross, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO007-007003-. In 1911 the head of the 17th century Donagh cross was unearthed inside the ruins of the ‘Old Church’ (MO007-007001-) and was then set into a concrete base in the NW quadrant of the graveyard (MO007-007004-) (Bigger 1916-17, 6). It consists of a solid-ringed cross (H 1.4m; span 0.9m; T 0.1m) with sunken quadrants on both faces and a tapering shaft (dims at base 0.43m x 0.25m). The W face is undecorated, but the E face has a crucifixion carved in false relief surrounded by a sunburst motif running around the ring of the cross. A legend, now covered in lichen and illegible, has been carved along the shaft. The figure ‘6’ can be seen at the top of the shaft just below the feet of Christ and may be related to the date that the cross was originally erected, which was either 1606 or 1636. The carving style of the figure ‘6’ is very similar to other 17th century representations of the figure in the graveyard. The probable base (MO007-007002-) of the Donagh Cross is located in the SE quadrant of the graveyard and is known locally as the ‘Wart Well’. Traditionally, the Donagh cross is thought to have been found in a bog and buried in Donagh graveyard for safe keeping, and also that it may have been the old market cross of the old Glaslough village, which was in the townland of Tullyree. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 8 November 2016
- MO007-007004: Graveyard, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO007-007004-. Located on top of a broad hill. The site of the medieval parish church of Donagh (MO007-007001-) is within a sub-triangular graveyard (dims c. 57m E-W; c. 53m N-S) defined by earthen banks and scarps with hedges. The base of the triangle is on the S side and with the SE angle missing. The headstones, dating largely from the late eighteenth century to the mid nineteenth century, have been recorded (McCarney 1957). A fragment of a doorway arch (dims 0.91m x 0.26m x 0.2m) along with a stone corbel (dims 0.66m x 0.25m x 0.28m) with the possible head of a cleric carved relief were acquired by Monaghan County Museum during the 1970s (Walsh 1979, 117). During the 1980s a fragment (dims 0.21m x 0.12m x 0.12m) of a cut stone window jamb decorated with a keel moulding of late 12th early 13th century date was also acquired (Walsh 1983, 170). Part of the head of a ringed cross (MO007-007010-) was also donated to the museum. The graveyard is now owned by Monaghan County Council with parking for about three cars outside. Within the graveyard is a cup-marked stone (MO007-014009-), the Donagh cross (MO007-014003-), two cross-bases (MO007-014002-; MO007-014005-), two seventeenth century graveslabs (MO007-014007-; (MO007-014008-), and a cross-shaped headstone dated 1666 (MO007-014006-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 8 November 2016
- MO007-007005: Cross, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO007-007005-. A pyramid-shaped sandstone cross-base that had been built into the wall of the 18th century burial chambers standing on the site of the medieval church (MO007-007001-) was recently removed from the wall and is now standing in the graveyard (MO007-007004-) a few meters N of the W end of the Johnston burial chamber (Moloney 2004, 351). This cross-base (dims of base 0.58m x 0.38m; dims of top 0.43m x 0.28m; H 0.48m) may have supported in its socket (dims 0.28m x 0.13m; D 0.15m) the cross head (MO007-014010-) that was recorded in 1939 (Paterson, Gaffikin & Davies 1939, 28) and which is now housed in the Monaghan County Museum (accession no. 2002:4). The fragment is from a perforated ringed cross (surviving H c. 0.6m; surviving span c. 0.33m; T c. 6cm) and is carved on one side with a crucifixion and two incomplete figures. The reverse has some crudely-fashioned bosses. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 8 November, 2016
- MO007-007006: Headstone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO007-007006-. Situated in the SE corner of Donagh graveyard (MO007-007004-) and just W of the graveslab of Philemy McKenna (MO007-007007-) is a cross-shaped headstone (H 0.8m; span 0.52m) with a rectangular cross-section (dims of base 0.21m x 0.13m) leaning to the E. The legend in false relief reads: 1666 / ART O / CONALLEN / HIS CROSS / AND B / VRIAL / PLACE (Shirley 1879, 295; McCarney 1957, 198) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 8 November 2016
- MO007-007007: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO007-007007-. Situated in the SE corner of Donagh graveyard (MO007-007004-) is the graveslab of Philemy McKenna, which is surrounded by iron railings. It is now set up as an altar-tomb supported on four piers, but the table (L 1.81m; Wth 0.87m) with a high moulded edge (H 7cm) also has a drain-hole near the SE corner, so it was probably intended to be displayed in this fashion. The inscription in false relief has been read (Shirley 1879, 295) as: HERE LYETH THE / BODY OF / PHILEMY MAK / KENNA DEC / ASED THE 15 OF / APRIL 1666 (Shirley 1879, 295; McCarney 1957, 196). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 8 November, 2016
- MO007-007008: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO007-007008-. Located c. 3m outside the W wall of the mortuary enclosure on the site of the medieval parish church of Donagh (MO007-007001-). The graveslab (L 1.77m; Wth 0.83m; T 0.13m) has an inscription in false relief: HERE LYETH THE / BODY OF IOHN / SANDERS DEC / EASED THE 25 / IVNE 1666. (Shirley 1879, 295; McCarney 1957, 201) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 8 November, 2016
- MO007-007009: Cupmarked stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO007-007009-. Located c. 8m E of the burial enclosure on the site of the parish church of Donagh (MO007-007001-) is a stone (dims 0.51m x 0.13-0.16m; H 0.23-0.26m) set up as a headstone with a single cup-mark (diam. 0.1m; D 2.5cm) on its E face. Compiled by: Michael Moore See the attached image Date of upload: 8 November, 2016
- MO007-007010: Cross, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO007-007010-. A fragment of the head of a cross that was recorded in 1939 at Donagh graveyard (MO007-007004-) (Paterson, Gaffikin & Davies 1939, 28) is now housed in the Monaghan County Museum (accession no. 2002:4). The fragment is from a perforated ringed cross (surviving H c. 0.6m; surviving span c. 0.33m; T c. 6cm) and is carved on one side with a crucifixion and two incomplete figures. The reverse has some crudely-fashioned bosses (ibid.). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 8 November, 2016

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Donagh, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Donagh.
- 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/donagh.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/donagh.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/donagh.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

- Donagh, Glaslough: 5 sales, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/donagh-glaslough.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Cloncaw: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/cloncaw.md
- Mullaghbane: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/mullaghbane.md
- Rossarrell: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/rossarrell.md
- Srananny: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/srananny.md
- Tullycallick: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/tullycallick.md

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