Elvey
Townland in the civil parish of Errigal Trough, barony of Trough, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Oilbhe
- Area
- 39 ha
- 96 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 34,994 m² (3.5 ha, 8.65 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Elvey, from 2,609 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres) to 109,297 m² (10.93 ha, 27.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Elvey 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
4 Mar 2022N/a
Replacement of an existing 7.3m high support pole carrying associated antennae for a 30m high free standing communications structure with its associated antennae, communication dish, ground equipment, fencing and all associated site development works. The development will continue to form part of existing 3G and 4G Broadband Network.
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2291
7 Feb 2022Conditional
permission to retain and complete renovations to residential store and exit onto public road by way of existing entrance
Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2249
7 Jul 2021Refused
Retain & complete renovations to residential store and exit onto public road by way of existing entrance
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21399
17 May 2021Conditional
permission to erect a 27m high lattice telecommunications support structure together with antennas, dishes and associated equipment and to remove the existing 15m monopole telecommunication struture
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21276
30 Jul 2018Conditional
Retention of an existing 15 metre high telecommunications support structure carrying telecommunications equipment, together with existing equipment container and associated equipment within a fenced compound as previously granted under local authority reference 12.49. The development will continue to form part of Meteor Mobile Communications Ltd existing and future telecommunications and broadband network.
Retention · Monaghan County Council, 18355
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 Elvey.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Elvey.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Elvey.
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, 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 Elvey.
- 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 Elvey with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Elvey · Oilbhe
- Area
- 390,108 m² (39.01 ha, 96.4 acres)
- Civil parish
- Errigal Trough, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trough
- Electoral division
- Figullar, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Figullar electoral division: 556 people in 170 households; 73% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Astrish Beg, Derrykinard, Gorticleave, Killydonagh, Killyfaragh, Mullaghcor, Mullananallog
- Placenames
- Elvey 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.