# Dunseark, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killeevan, barony of Dartree, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Dún Sadhairc. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 588,547 m² (58.85 ha, 145.43 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 9,210 m² (0.92 ha, 2.28 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Killeevan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/killeevan.md - Barony: Dartree - Electoral division: Newbliss, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 918 people lived in 322 households in the Newbliss electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 6% 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/40236 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170965 - Centre: latitude 54.145315, longitude -7.203746 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dunseark, from 90 m² to 123,746 m² (12.37 ha, 30.58 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4877319: 123,746 m² (12.37 ha, 30.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4877319.md - Parcel 5664141: 113,755 m² (11.38 ha, 28.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5664141.md - Parcel 343750: 83,182 m² (8.32 ha, 20.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/343750.md - Parcel 5080098: 79,924 m² (7.99 ha, 19.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5080098.md - Parcel 316658: 60,840 m² (6.08 ha, 15.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/316658.md - Parcel 345981: 51,713 m² (5.17 ha, 12.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345981.md - Parcel 332025: 28,370 m² (2.84 ha, 7.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/332025.md - Parcel 346472: 18,287 m² (1.83 ha, 4.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/346472.md - Parcel 316084: 12,820 m² (1.28 ha, 3.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/316084.md - Parcel 344537: 5,600 m² (0.56 ha, 1.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/344537.md - Parcel 346101: 3,937 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/346101.md - Parcel 345331: 2,529 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345331.md - Parcel 351547: 2,330 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/351547.md - Parcel 4920940: 1,659 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4920940.md - Parcel 335763: 1,035 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/335763.md - Parcel 5080173: 274 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5080173.md - Parcel 5080157: 132 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5080157.md - Parcel 5080167: 90 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5080167.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Dunseark 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. - 8 May 2018, Monaghan County Council 18193: Conditional. Permission. Permission to construct 2 new poultry units together with underground washings tanks, vertical meal bins, use existing agricultural entrance and all ancillary site works beside existing farmyard complex. This application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a Licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency Acts 1994 to 2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (E.I.A.R.) will be submitted with this planning application. Significant Further Information relates to additional technical information being submitted.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/18193/0 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 Dunseark. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MO017-031: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO017-031----. Situated on a summit at the W edge of a plateau. This is a raised circular grass-covered area (diam. 40m E-W; c. 38m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 3m; int. H c. 0.6m N-E) that is largely reduced to a scarp (H c. 1.8m at N to c. 3m at W) and hedge, with traces of an outer fosse most evident S-W-N (Wth c. 1.8m; ext. D 0.3m). A gap (Wth of base 2m) in the bank at NNE could be the original 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. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 8 May 2018 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 Dunseark. ## 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 Dunseark, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dunseark. - 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/dunseark.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/dunseark.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/dunseark.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Dunseark 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) - Aghnamard: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/aghnamard.md - Crossbane: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/crossbane.md - Drumswords: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumswords.md - Mullaghboy: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/mullaghboy-171494.md - Rabows: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/rabows.md - Racaulfield: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/racaulfield.md - Radeerpark: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/radeerpark.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/dunseark - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/dunseark