Dunaldron
Dunaldron is a townland in the civil parish of Monaghan, barony of Monaghan, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is Dún Allaráin.
- Area
- 30.9 ha
- 76 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 3,401 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dunaldron, from 26 m² to 50,525 m² (5.05 ha, 12.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Dunaldron 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
28 Oct 2022Conditional
permission to amend site boundary, dwelling position and finished floor level to that as previously approved under planning reference no. 20/105 together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 22470
20 Mar 2020Conditional
permission for a development consisting of the demolition of existing dwelling and erection of a replacement two-storey dwelling, single storey attached domestic garage, new wastewater treatment system, gates & piers and all associated site works. Significant further information relates to revised site line boundary
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20105
24 Jul 2019N/a
Permission for the demolition of existing dwelling and erection of a replacement two-storey dwelling, single-storey attached domestic garage, new wastewater treatment system, gates & piers and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19341
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 Dunaldron.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Dunaldron.
Architectural heritage
- House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Three-bay single-storey vernacular farmhouse, built c.1800, with outbuildings extending from gable ends. No longer in use. Pitched corrugated-iron roof covering thatch, having one red brick chimneystack to gable end of house. Coursed rubble stone walls, with some lime render, and limewashed. Square-headed window openings, some with red brick reveals, and one-over-one pane and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, having stone sills. Square-headed timber battened door to house and to eastern outbuilding. Located facing former road to Monaghan Town, now disused lane.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Dunaldron, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2375 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Dunaldron with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Dunaldron · Dún Allaráin
- Area
- 309,058 m² (30.91 ha, 76.37 acres)
- Civil parish
- Monaghan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Monaghan
- Electoral division
- Monaghan Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 6,411 people lived in 2,320 households in the Monaghan Rural electoral division. 62% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymacforban, Corness, Drumhirk, Rakeeragh, Tamlat
- Placenames
- Dunaldron 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.