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

Townland in the civil parish of Killanny, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Dún Eilte.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 705,987 m² (70.6 ha, 174.45 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,366 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Killanny, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/killanny.md
- Barony: Farney
- Electoral division: Ballymackney, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,001 people lived in 335 households in the Ballymackney electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/39273
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170955
- Centre: latitude 53.979618, longitude -6.633684 (WGS 84)

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

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dunelty, from 154 m² to 270,527 m² (27.05 ha, 66.85 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 320853: 270,527 m² (27.05 ha, 66.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/320853.md
- Parcel 347334: 108,378 m² (10.84 ha, 26.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/347334.md
- Parcel 6230625: 53,768 m² (5.38 ha, 13.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6230625.md
- Parcel 316134: 42,754 m² (4.28 ha, 10.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/316134.md
- Parcel 334963: 39,453 m² (3.95 ha, 9.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/334963.md
- Parcel 354654: 25,755 m² (2.58 ha, 6.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/354654.md
- Parcel 5027329: 12,973 m² (1.3 ha, 3.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5027329.md
- Parcel 340554: 10,285 m² (1.03 ha, 2.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/340554.md
- Parcel 349248: 10,252 m² (1.03 ha, 2.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/349248.md
- Parcel 356286: 8,307 m² (0.83 ha, 2.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/356286.md
- Parcel 326322: 7,249 m² (0.72 ha, 1.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/326322.md
- Parcel 346647: 5,270 m² (0.53 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/346647.md
- Parcel 334439: 4,437 m² (0.44 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/334439.md
- Parcel 337696: 4,145 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/337696.md
- Parcel 318623: 3,878 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/318623.md
- Parcel 325925: 3,402 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/325925.md
- Parcel 329272: 3,366 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/329272.md
- Parcel 5027365: 2,910 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5027365.md
- Parcel 320458: 2,140 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/320458.md
- Parcel 350427: 2,026 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/350427.md
- Parcel 5992120: 2,007 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5992120.md
- Parcel 344395: 1,817 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/344395.md
- Parcel 3995821: 1,284 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3995821.md
- Parcel 322970: 1,091 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/322970.md
- Parcel 349513: 920 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/349513.md
- Parcel 319808: 819 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/319808.md
- Parcel 346442: 735 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/346442.md
- Parcel 340234: 578 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/340234.md
- Parcel 322160: 532 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/322160.md
- Parcel 322567: 247 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/322567.md
- Parcel 329439: 242 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/329439.md
- Parcel 6230671: 225 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6230671.md
- Parcel 5992098: 154 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5992098.md

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

No zone of a development plan covers Dunelty 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)

5 applications, newest first.

- 25 Mar 2026, Monaghan County Council 2620: Conditional. Permission. permission for (1) alterations and renovations to an existing single storey dwellinghouse (2) single storey extension & a storey and a half extension to the side & rear of existing dwelling house (3) a new domestic garage (4) to relocate the existing site entrance on the private laneway & (5) a new domestic waste water treatment system. to include new site boundaries with all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2620/0
- 30 Mar 2021, Monaghan County Council 21148: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission for a development consisting of amendments to previously granted planning application 19/329 which includes a new two storey house design, repositioning the house onsite, ancillary garage and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21148/0
- 17 Jul 2019, Monaghan County Council 19329: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission for a two storey style dwelling house, a waste water treatment system, a new site entrance and all associated site development works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/19329/0
- 5 Jun 2019, Monaghan County Council 19256: Conditional. Permission. permission to relocate and upgrade existing septic tank and percolation area and all associated site development works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/19256/0
- 26 Nov 2018, Monaghan County Council 18547: N/a. Permission, 1 home. permission for a two storey style dwelling house, a waste water treatment system, a new site entrance and all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/18547/0

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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 Dunelty.

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

- MO031-062: Souterrain, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO031-062----. Located in a low-lying position between drumlins to the W and E. According to tradition there was an underground passage or souterrain in Dunelty. However, details are lacking and the precise location is not known. 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: 31 July 2017
- MO031-063001: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO031-063001-. Situated on top of a drumlin. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 30m E-W) defined by an earthen bank that has been removed but is traceable as a slight rise (at E: Wth 3.6m). It is surrounded by a fosse (at W: Wth of top 10.4m; Wth of base 4m; int. D 1.6m; ext. D 1m) that only survives WSW-N, but it can be traced as a vegetation change all around (at E: Wth 3.4m). Outside the fosse is a complete and overgrown outer earthen bank (Wth 1.5m at W to 2.6m at E; int. H 0.4m at E to 1m at W; ext. H 1.4-1.5m). There are gaps in the outer bank at E and SE but an original entrance cannot be identified. On the site of the inner bank at NE is a small rectangular, grass-covered house site (int. dims 3m x 2m) defined by a slight earthen bank (Wth 1m; H 0.25m) with no discernible entrance. 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: 31 July 2017
- MO031-063002: Hut site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO031-063002-. Located on the site of the inner bank of rath (MO031-062001-) at NE is a small rectangular, grass-covered house site (int. dims 3m x 2m) defined by a slight earthen bank (Wth 1m; H 0.25m) with no discernible entrance. Date of upload: 14 April 2011

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)

- Bridge, 1885–1890, Regional interest, registry number 41403117, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO&regno=41403117. Remains of stone railway bridge, built 1886, formerly carrying embanked Carrickmacross branch line over road. Formerly beam bridge, deck now removed. Snecked rock-faced rusticated cut-stone abutments having rusticated and margined quoins and chamfered cornice, with dressed stone terminal piers. Splayed snecked cut-stone wing walls to each side with moulded brick copings. Embankment now removed.
- Bridge, 1885–1890, Regional interest, registry number 41403149, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO&regno=41403149. Single-arch railway bridge, built 1886, carrying accommodation track over former Carrickmacross Branch railway line. Elliptical arch. Snecked rock-faced rusticated stone walls, piers and parapets having cut-stone string course and copings to parapet walls. Red brick stretcher bond soffit, with headers forming archivolt. Gauged brick copings to parapet walls terminating at north and south ends with cut-stone piers with cut-stone copings.

## 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 Dunelty, about 1 in 10 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. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2737, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2737.zip (ZIP).
- 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/dunelty.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/dunelty.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/dunelty.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Dunelty 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)

- Ballingarry: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/ballingarry.md
- Drumgristin Upper: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumgristin-upper.md
- Essexford (Co. Louth): https://everytownland.com/louth/essexford.md
- Garlegobban: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/garlegobban.md
- Kiltybegs: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/kiltybegs-171222.md
- Lisnakelly: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/lisnakelly.md
- Redbog (Co. Louth): https://everytownland.com/louth/redbog.md
- Rosslough (Co. Louth): https://everytownland.com/louth/rosslough.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.

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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.

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