Enagh
Townland in the civil parish of Magheracloone, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan; in Irish An tEanach
- Area
- 101.8 ha
- 251 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 20,427 m² (2.04 ha, 5.05 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Enagh, from 2,757 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres) to 148,021 m² (14.8 ha, 36.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
6 Nov 2025N/a
planning permission for a development which will consist of a proposed agricultural storage shed and all ancillary site development works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560445
7 Mar 2025Conditional
permission for the construction of a two-storey style dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, boundary fencing, new domestic entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560091
11 Apr 2023Conditional
****APPEALED - ABP - Decision: Granted****(1) Excavation of the former (Drumgoosat) underground mine by open cast mining methods for the purposes of gypsum extraction. (2) The continued ongoing restoration of the existing Knocknacran Open-Cast Mine. (3) The continuation of use and refurbishment of the existing Knocknacran Processing Plant. (4) Further development of a Community Sports Complex (permitted under Reg. Ref. 20/365) and associate works. Please see copy of site notice for more details.
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2360045
15 Feb 2023Conditional
Permission consisting of a two-storey style dwelling, domestic garage, advanced waste water treatment system and percolation area, new entrance walls and piers, and all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2348
27 Jan 2022N/a
permission for a development consisting of (1) excavation of the former (Drumgoosat) underground mine by open cast mining methods for the purposes of gypsum extraction at Knocknacran (East & West) and Drumgoosat, Co. Monaghan. Development will include the construction of a Cut-and-Cover Tunnel under the Carrickmacross to Kingscourt regional road (R179) for the transport of gypsum (by haulage truck and covered conveyor) to the existing processing plant area at Knocknacran, and for the transport of overburden and interburden (by haulage truck) to the existing Knocknacran Open-Cast Mine site for ongoing restoration purposes. The construction of the proposed tunnel will necessitate a temporary realignment of the R179 during the tunnel construction period to allow the R179 to remain in constant use. Development will also include: the demolition of one house and three unoccupied houses and sheds in the townlands of Knocknacran (East & West), Co. Monaghan; and the pumping of water from the existing Drumgoosat underground workings via an existing borehole on the Knocknacran West Mine site. (2) The continued ongoing restoration of the existing Knocknacran Open-Cast Mine located in the townlands of Derrynascobe, Derrynaglah, Enagh, Knocknacran (East & West) and Drummond, Co. Monaghan, permitted under Reg. Ref. 17/217 and operating subject to Industrial Emissions (IE) Licence P0519-04 and Mining Lease M139. The proposed development includes a modification to the existing (approved) restoration plan to return the existing Knocknacran Open-Cast Mine to near ground levels. (3) The continuation of use and refurbishment of the existing Knocknacran Processing Plant area, including water treatment facilities and associated infrastructure (including discharge pipeline to the River Bursk) in the townlands of Enagh, Derrynaglah, Drummond, Derrynascobe and Clontrain, Co. Monaghan. The proposed development will include a replacement vehicular access to the existing Knocknacran Open-Cast Mine and Knocknacran Processing Plant area site from the L4816. (4) The further development of a Community Sports Complex (permitted under Reg. Ref. 20/365) located in the townlands of Drummond, Derrynaglah and Knocknacran West, Co. Monaghan which provided for a playing pitch, dressing rooms, welfare facilities, ….View Scanned Files for complete description. Significant further information received in relation to the submission of technical reports.
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2234
28 Apr 2017Conditional
permission for the continuation of extraction of gypsum from a permitted open cast mine previously permitted under planning 07/430 to 2033 over an area of 54.86 hectares including progressive restoration and all associated site works. This application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 17217
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 Enagh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Enagh.
Architectural heritage
- Cormey Bridge, bridge, 1730–1770 · Regional interest
Description
Double-arch stone road bridge, built c.1750, spanning River Lagan, with recent concrete abutments. Punch-dressed stone parapet and rendered coping. Coursed rubble stone spandrels. Slightly deformed semi-circular arches with irregular cut-stone voussoirs, random rubble soffit partially rendered over coursed-squared rubble stone abutments. Dressed stone V-cutwaters to both faces on concrete footings. Rubble stone abutments and wing walls.
- Cormey Bridge, bridge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Two-arch stone bridge, built c.1820, carrying road north-south over River Lagan. Rubble stone walls and parapet walls. Segmental arches with dressed stone voussoirs. V-cutwater to west elevation, poured concrete plinth to central pier and to abutments.
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 high, 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 Enagh.
- 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 Enagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Enagh · An tEanach
- Area
- 1,017,689 m² (101.77 ha, 251.48 acres)
- Civil parish
- Magheracloone, and its townlands
- Barony
- Farney
- Electoral division
- Enagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Enagh electoral division: 819 people in 236 households; 90% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barleyhill (Co. Meath), Cormey (Co. Cavan), Derryleeg, Derrynaglah, Drummond
- Placenames
- Enagh 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.