Eldron
Townland in the civil parish of Drumsnat, barony of Monaghan, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Eanaigh Ealdrain
- Area
- 22.7 ha
- 56 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 3,209 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Eldron, from 150 m² to 88,755 m² (8.88 ha, 21.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Eldron 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
17 Sept 2019Conditional
permission to construct a new free range poultry unit together with underground washing tank, vertical meal bin, use existing agricultural entrance, together with all ancillary site works. Significant further information relates to the submission of a soil analysis report and Nutrient Management Plan.
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 19435
3 Oct 2018Conditional
Permission to construct a single storey Montessori Pre School building, install a new mechanical effluent treatment system & soild polishing filter, construct new entrance onto public roadway, together with on site staff parking, set down parking/turning area and all ancillary site works. Significant further information relates to the submission of a map indicating the location of existing community/social facilities, the demonstration of the demand for a Montessori preschool, including age profile of the children, the clarification that no alternative pre-school is available locally. A revised site plan indicating existing on site waste water treatment system serving applicants adjoining dwelling,the clarification of hours of operation and comment on the potential noise/disturbance have also been submitted.
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18456
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 Eldron.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Eldron.
Architectural heritage
- Bridge, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch railway bridge, built c.1860, carrying road over Portadown and Cavan Branch of Ulster Railway. Three-centred arch having rock-faced rusticated and margined grey sandstone voussoirs, and cut-stone soffits. Splayed wings terminating in projecting piers to abutments, roughly-dressed rubble to spandrel walls, parapet walls, abutments and wings. Rock-faced rusticated platbands at impost level and to base of parapet, and rock-faced rusticated coping to wings. Coursed dressed stone to interior of parapet walls.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Eldron.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Eldron with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Eldron · Eanaigh Ealdrain
- Area
- 227,156 m² (22.72 ha, 56.13 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumsnat, and its townlands
- Barony
- Monaghan
- Electoral division
- Clones, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Clones electoral division: 517 people in 180 households; 88% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrowbarra, Carrowbarra Island, Gortmore North, Keenog, Mullabrack, Skeagh
- Placenames
- Eldron 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.