Enagh
Townland in the civil parish of Donagh, barony of Trough, Co. Monaghan; in Irish An tAonach
- Area
- 54.1 ha
- 134 acres
- Land parcels
- 34
- registered freehold, median 2,838 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Enagh, from 448 m² to 152,424 m² (15.24 ha, 37.66 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
No zone of a development plan covers Enagh 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
23 Jan 2026Conditional
planning permission to construct a single-storey extension to the side of an existing dwelling, construct a single-storey detached domestic garage, ancillary internal & external refurbishments together with all associated works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660012
4 Nov 2020Conditional
permission for a change of house type and amended boundaries to that approved under planning file no. 19/34 together with all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20475
30 Jan 2019Conditional
permission to construct a two storey detached dwelling, detached domestic garage, new vehicular entrance onto public road, driveway, waste water treatment system and percolation area, landscaping and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 1934
4 Dec 2018Conditional
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.
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18562
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
- MO009-009 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located at the summit of a small N-S drumlin ridge. A circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30m) is depicted only on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 28m NE-SW; c. 26m NW-SE) defined by a broad but low earthen bank. 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: 12 December 2017
- MO009-057 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located towards the bottom of the S-facing spine of a small N-S drumlin ridge. A circular enclosure is depicted on a map of the Glaslough estate in Monaghan County Museum. No archaeological feature is visible at ground level in pasture. 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: 14 July 2017
- MO009-080 Fulacht fia
Description
Situated in a relatively low-lying position in an undulating landscape with drumlins. Archaeological testing (12E0068) in advance of an improvement of the N2 Monaghan to Emyvale road identified a burnt mound in two of spreads of broken and burnt stones ((dims 3m x 1.1m; T 0.15m: diam. 0.7m) and a small pit (diam. 1m; D 0.13m) filled with the same material. It was resolved under the same licence and sample of hazel charcoal produced a C14 date of 3073 +- 30 (1415-1266 cal. BC) (O’Hara 2012a, 6, 18) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21 January 2020 O’Hara, R. 2012a N2 Monaghan to Emyvale Road Improvement Scheme. Stage 1, Stage 2. Licence No. 12E0068. Unpublished report, Archer Heritage Planning
- MO009-081 Burnt pit
Description
Situated in a relatively low-lying position in an undulating landscape with drumlins. Archaeological testing (12E0068) in advance of an improvement of the N2 Monaghan to Emyvale road identified an isolated oval pit (dims 2m x 1m; D 0.35m) filled with a matrix of broken and burnt stone in a charcoal-rich soil. It was completely excavated under the same licence. (O’Hara 2012a, 6, 18) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21 January 2020 O’Hara, R. 2012a N2 Monaghan to Emyvale Road Improvement Scheme. Stage 1, Stage 2. Licence No. 12E0068. Unpublished report, Archer Heritage Planning
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Enagh.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2331 (ZIP).
- 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 tAonach
- Area
- 540,616 m² (54.06 ha, 133.59 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trough
- Electoral division
- Enagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 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.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Griggy, Mullabrack (Scott), Mullaloughan, Tirnaneill, Tonygarvey
- 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.