# Esker, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Errigal Trough, barony of Trough, Co. Monaghan; in Irish An Eiscir. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 428,918 m² (42.89 ha, 105.99 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 24,645 m² (2.46 ha, 6.09 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Errigal Trough, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/errigal-trough.md - Barony: Trough - Electoral division: Derrygorry, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 292 people lived in 104 households in the Derrygorry electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/40572 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170999 - Centre: latitude 54.406915, longitude -7.036927 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Esker, from 1,916 m² to 57,501 m² (5.75 ha, 14.21 acres); 7 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 319262: 57,501 m² (5.75 ha, 14.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319262.md - Parcel 325308: 57,209 m² (5.72 ha, 14.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/325308.md - Parcel 345883: 52,213 m² (5.22 ha, 12.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345883.md - Parcel 325168: 42,472 m² (4.25 ha, 10.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/325168.md - Parcel 345884: 42,104 m² (4.21 ha, 10.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345884.md - Parcel 345752: 38,309 m² (3.83 ha, 9.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345752.md - Parcel 325169: 36,308 m² (3.63 ha, 8.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/325169.md - Parcel 345885: 31,687 m² (3.17 ha, 7.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345885.md - Parcel 325171: 31,174 m² (3.12 ha, 7.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/325171.md - Parcel 325170: 24,645 m² (2.46 ha, 6.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/325170.md - Parcel 345886: 18,777 m² (1.88 ha, 4.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345886.md - Parcel 325167: 15,075 m² (1.51 ha, 3.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/325167.md - Parcel 319839: 8,278 m² (0.83 ha, 2.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319839.md - Parcel 3995872: 8,145 m² (0.81 ha, 2.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3995872.md - Parcel 3995871: 7,216 m² (0.72 ha, 1.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3995871.md - Parcel 345391: 4,537 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345391.md - Parcel 337589: 4,394 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/337589.md - Parcel 346683: 2,651 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/346683.md - Parcel 315207: 1,916 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/315207.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Esker in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 3 Mar 2017, Monaghan County Council 179003: Conditional. Extension of duration. The construction of a bunaglow type dwelling, a detached domestic garage, a waste water treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/179003/0 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 Esker. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Esker. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Esker. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Esker, about 1 in 20 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Esker. - 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/esker.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/esker.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/esker.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Esker 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) - Ardginny: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/ardginny.md - Cavan (Moutray): https://everytownland.com/monaghan/cavan-moutray.md - Corgreenan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/corgreenan.md - Derrygorry: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/derrygorry.md - Drumbirn: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumbirn.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/esker - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/esker