# Eden Island, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Donagh, barony of Trough, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Éadan an Oileáin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 475,566 m² (47.56 ha, 117.51 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 15,153 m² (1.52 ha, 3.74 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): G3 Landscape Protection/Conservation, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Donagh, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/donagh.md - Barony: Trough - Electoral division: Enagh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Enagh electoral division: 548 people in 181 households; 87% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 7% 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/40693 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170970 - Centre: latitude 54.2718, longitude -6.945103 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Eden Island, from 461 m² to 111,556 m² (11.16 ha, 27.57 acres); 25 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 347206: 111,556 m² (11.16 ha, 27.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/347206.md - Parcel 320721: 68,314 m² (6.83 ha, 16.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/320721.md - Parcel 328276: 67,185 m² (6.72 ha, 16.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/328276.md - Parcel 325333: 62,702 m² (6.27 ha, 15.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/325333.md - Parcel 4537564: 59,043 m² (5.9 ha, 14.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4537564.md - Parcel 331755: 38,161 m² (3.82 ha, 9.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/331755.md - Parcel 344642: 23,747 m² (2.37 ha, 5.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/344642.md - Parcel 343654: 15,153 m² (1.52 ha, 3.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/343654.md - Parcel 332922: 8,813 m² (0.88 ha, 2.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/332922.md - Parcel 5756447: 2,970 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5756447.md - Parcel 335375: 2,519 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/335375.md - Parcel 315554: 1,493 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/315554.md - Parcel 6021815: 727 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6021815.md - Parcel 6021846: 609 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6021846.md - Parcel 4956226: 461 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4956226.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - G3 Landscape Protection/Conservation (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape): Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://monaghan.ie/planning/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/06/Monaghan-County-Development-Plan-2025-2031-Written-Statement-compressed-files.pdf#page=235 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 4 Dec 2018, Monaghan County Council 18562: Conditional. Permission. permission for the construction of a 38kv electricity substation, switchroom and equipment compound with palisade fence; the construction of approximately 400m of site access track and the upgrading of approximately 150m of existing agricultural track and an existing agricultural site entrance; approximately 200m of underground cabling and all associated site development and reinstatement works in the townland of Luppan, County Monaghan; and (ii) the installation of approximately 22km of 38kV electricity cables from the proposed substation to the existing electricity substation in the townland of Lisdrumdoagh, County Monaghan. The electricity cables will comprise approximately 17km of overhead line and approximately 5 km of underground line. Overhead lines will consist of 3 no. cables suspended from wooden poles with a maximum height of 16 metres, and all associated site development and reinstatement works. Underground cables will be located within private lands and within the public roads numbered L5171, L1400 and L1171; will be installed in excavated trenches of approximately 1.2m in depth and will include associated underground ducting, joint bays, communication chamber bays, sheath link boxes and inspection chambers; directional drilling beneath the N12 and Ulster Canal and all associated site development and reinstatement works. A vehicle access track of up to 4m in width will be provided immediately adjacent to underground cables with private lands. This planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report which includes an assessment of the likely impacts of the proposed development, as a whole and in combination with the relevant off-site or secondary developments which will occur as a direct result of the proposed development, including the wind farm development permitted pursuant to Monaghan County Council Planning Register Reference 10/110 & An Bord Pleanála Reference PL18.240760 and proposed to be amended by planning reference 17/258 & An Bord Pleanála Reference PL18.300998 (currently under construction). A Natura Impact Statement will also be submitted to the planning authority with the planning application. This application is accompanied by an EIAR. Significant Further information has been submitted.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/18562/0 - 12 Apr 2018, Monaghan County Council 18144: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Permission to construct a dormer style dwelling house including a proprietary wastewater treatment system & mounded polishing filter, new vehicular entrance accessing site plus associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/18144/0 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 Eden Island. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MO009-026: Designed landscape - tree-ring, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO009-026----. Situated at the S end of a small N-S ridge, on the E-facing slope. It is in a loop of the SW-NE Blackwater River that curves around it from SW (c. 70m distant)-E-NE (c. 140m distant). This southern end of the townland probably was an island at one time with the river taking the direct route NW of the monument. A large oval wood is depicted as on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map and it had become a field by the 1907 edition. This is an oval grass-covered area (dims c. 95m NE-SW; c. 70m NW-SE) defined by a field bank and hedge. It was probably a landscape feature created by the Bessmount estate, and Bessmount House is c. 700m to the SSE on the other side of the river. It is matched by the enclosure at Lisnanore (MO009-029----) c. 700m to the E. Rath (MO009-027----) is c. 50m to the NNW. 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: 13 December 2017 - MO009-027: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO009-027----. Situated at the N end of a small N-S ridge, with a SE-NW section of the Blackwater River curving around it from SW (c. 1600m distant)-E-NE (c. 170m distant). This is a raised oval grass-covered area (dims 37m NNW-SSE; 30.4m ENE-WSW) defined by a scarp (Wth 0.2-1m; H 1.3-2m) and hedge, with slight traces of a fosse (Wth of base 2.6m; D 0.2m) SSW-WNW. There is an entrance gap at S, and a modern ramp entrance at SE. 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: 13 December 2017 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 Eden Island. ## 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 low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2372, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2372.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/eden-island.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/eden-island.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/eden-island.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Eden Island 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) - Crumlin: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/crumlin-170619.md - Drumrutagh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumrutagh.md - Kilnadreen: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/kilnadreen.md - Knockaconny: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/knockaconny.md - Mullamurphy: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/mullamurphy.md - Straghan or Cornasore: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/straghan-or-cornasore.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/eden-island - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/eden-island