# Downs, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clontibret, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan; in Irish An Dún. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 368,385 m² (36.84 ha, 91.03 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 36,073 m² (3.61 ha, 8.91 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Clontibret, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/clontibret.md - Barony: Cremorne - Electoral division: Clontibret, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Clontibret electoral division: 792 people in 263 households; 87% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/40540 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170722 - Centre: latitude 54.196642, longitude -6.862737 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Downs, from 1,187 m² to 100,891 m² (10.09 ha, 24.93 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 331648: 100,891 m² (10.09 ha, 24.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/331648.md - Parcel 342937: 96,408 m² (9.64 ha, 23.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/342937.md - Parcel 331649: 62,274 m² (6.23 ha, 15.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/331649.md - Parcel 343041: 36,844 m² (3.68 ha, 9.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/343041.md - Parcel 340322: 35,302 m² (3.53 ha, 8.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/340322.md - Parcel 333625: 33,548 m² (3.35 ha, 8.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/333625.md - Parcel 4900279: 1,933 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4900279.md - Parcel 4900280: 1,187 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4900280.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Downs 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) 1 application, newest first. - 7 Apr 2025, Monaghan County Council 2560141: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission for the construction of a single storey dwelling, domestic garage, domestic greenhouse, new access, installation of a wastewater treatment system and percolation area & all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560141/0 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 Downs. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Downs. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Downs. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 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 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 Downs. - 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/downs.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/downs.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/downs.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Downs 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) - Cornabrandy: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/cornabrandy.md - Creeve: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/creeve-170586.md - Dromore: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/dromore-170727.md - Glasdrumman West: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/glasdrumman-west.md - Moysnaght: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/moysnaght.md - Shanemullagh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/shanemullagh.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/downs - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/downs