Faraghy
Townland in the civil parish of Magheross, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Farachadh
- Area
- 82.3 ha
- 203 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 24,312 m² (2.43 ha, 6.01 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Faraghy, from 1,006 m² to 89,332 m² (8.93 ha, 22.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Faraghy 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
6 Apr 2022Conditional
permission for a development consisting of changes to the house granted under Planning Permission Reference Number 19296 and all associated site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 22154
27 Jun 2019Conditional
permission for a 2-storey dwelling house, a waste water treatment system, a new site entrance with all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19296
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 Faraghy.
Recorded monuments
- MO027-048 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a NE-facing slope overlooking Lough Namachree, which his c. 300m to the N. A circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) is faintly depicted on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’. Traces of a bank could be preserved in a curve of a field bank NE-SE. 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. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 31 January 2018
- MO027-065 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located at the outer edge of a shelf on a W-facing slope with SE-NW stream c. 90m to the SW. It is depicted faintly as a circular feature on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’ and as a subrectangular hachured feature on the 1907 edition. This is a grass and scrub-covered D-shaped area (dims 18m NW-SE; 15m NE-SW) defined by the grass-covered foundations of walls (at NE: Wth 0.6m; H 0.2-0.6m) on the NE and SE sides and by a slight earthen bank (at SW: Wth 3.4m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1m) with an external stone-facing elsewhere. The entrance is a wide gap (Wth 4.8m) at SSE. This was probably a rath that was damaged even before the 1834 OS map was made, leaving only the perimeter at SW. 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. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 31 January 2018
- MO027-066 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on a terrace just below the summit of a broad NW-SE drumlin ridge on the SW side. This was described in 1967 as a circular grass-covered area with rock outcrop (diam. 26.5m N-S; 25m E-W) defined by a slight earthen bank best preserved E-SW (Wth 3.5m). It had been removed by 1995 (OSAP). 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: 31 January 2018
- MO027-067 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located at the crest of the NE-facing slope of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. This was described in 1967 as a D-shaped grass and furze-covered area (dims 19.2m N-S; c. 19m E-W) defined by an overgrown earth and stone bank (at E: Wth 1.6m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.1m). There was no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. The perimeter is cut by an E-W field bank and townland boundary with Ouvry at S (L c. 17m) and it did not survive S of this feature. Much of it N of the townland boundary had been removed by 2000 (OSAP). 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. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 31 January 2018
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Faraghy.
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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Faraghy.
- 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 Faraghy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Faraghy · Farachadh
- Area
- 823,108 m² (82.31 ha, 203.39 acres)
- Civil parish
- Magheross, and its townlands
- Barony
- Farney
- Electoral division
- Raferagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Raferagh electoral division: 447 people in 159 households; 91% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Faraghy 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.