Feebane
Townland in the civil parish of Monaghan, barony of Monaghan, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Fiodh Bán
- Area
- 35.7 ha
- 88 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 9,510 m² (0.95 ha, 2.35 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Feebane, from 379 m² to 81,432 m² (8.14 ha, 20.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Feebane 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
8 Dec 2025Conditional
permission for retention of existing dwellinghouse and wastewater treatment and their position on site where these vary from the granted planning file No 7138, retain sunroom and kitchen extension along with separate utility room and coal/fuel store along with adjoining bedroom accessed from courtyard. Retain shed buildings adjoining dwellinghouse along with trailer unit used for storage. Retain entrances and accesses to the site, dwelling house and sheds along with all walls, fences, gates, walls, hedges ramps, steps and surface finishes. Retain pumphouse and fuel storage tanks along with parking area for one truck unit. Retain site boundary and fence positions. Retain agricultural gate to small front field/access to wastewater area. Retain disused pumphouse. Removal of 2n trailer units, Removal of truck parking area and associated fuel storage tanks, closing up of roadside access with new fence and hedge. Replacement /Proposed new wastewater treatment system with associated percolation area. Significant information included visual inspection of existing wastewater treatment system report and Site characterisation assessment report.
Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 25103
30 Oct 2025Conditional
a ten year planning permission is being sought for the proposed development which will consist of the following elements: the installation and operation of 1no. battery energy storage system compound containing battery energy storage containers, 1no. electrical substation and compound, connected to the national grid system via c. 100m of underground cable to the ESB Lisdrum 38kV substation, electrical transformers and inverter units, underground cabling and ducting, boundary fencing, security entrance gates, CCTV, internal access road, associated ancillary site development, landscaping and reinstatement works. The operational lifespan of the development will be 35 years. The site of the proposed development has a total area of 1.03 hectares
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560435
9 Dec 2020Conditional
Permission for development consisting of the installation of additional electrical equipment in the ESB substation to facilitate the connection of the battery storage facility (Planning Ref 18/5). This will include a 100k V Busbar extension, a 110k V transformer bat and a 110kV coupler bay (a previously granted under Planning Ref 20/143). The extension of the existing ESB substation control building to facilitate the new connection. The installation of approx. 210m of 110kV underground ducting cables between the ESB substation and the battery storage site. The extension of the existing access road and all associated ancillary infrastructure required for the project.
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 20531
16 Sept 2020Conditional
Permission to consist of alterations to the development of a Battery Storage Facility which was previously granted permission by Monaghan County Council (Planning Register 18/5). The development comprises the construction of a battery energy storage facility to include one single storey electrical compound, containerised battery storage modules on concrete support structures, electrical transformer/inverter station modules, electrical ducting, cable racking and cabling, access tracks, security fencing and CCTV security monitoring system, lighting protection poles, communications equipment and ancillary infrastructure. The alterations to the original permission include an amended application site boundary of 1.474Ha, a reduction in the number of containerised battery modules from 58 down to 10, reduction in the number of associated inverters and transformers, new internal road configuration, reconfiguration and reorientation of the control building, additional ancillary electrical infrastructure, regrading of site levels to accommodate excess soils arising from excavation works, a landscape berm and other enabling works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 20373
29 Apr 2020Conditional
permission for a development consisting of the installation of additional electrical equipment in the ESB substation to facilitate the connection of the Battery Storage Facility (Planning Ref 18/5) including a 110kV busbar extension, a 110kV transformer bay and a 110kV coupler bay, the installation of approx. 185m of 110kV underground ducting and cables between the ESB substation and the Battery Storage Site, the erection of palisade fencing around the 110kV cable route between the two sites, and the extension of the existing access road due to the installation of the 110kV cable and palisade fencing
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 20143
7 Apr 2020Conditional
Permission to construct proposed new bungalow type dwelling house, proprietary wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, construct new entrance onto road and all other associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20122
19 Dec 2018Conditional
permission to construct a free-range laying type poultry house, together with all ancillary structures including vertical meal bin, washings tank, attached egg/equipment stores, manure elevator & detached maure store, with associated ancillary site works, using existing shared access lane onto public road
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18594
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 Feebane.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Feebane.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Feebane.
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, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Feebane.
- 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 Feebane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Feebane · Fiodh Bán
- Area
- 356,939 m² (35.69 ha, 88.2 acres)
- Civil parish
- Monaghan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Monaghan
- Electoral division
- Rackwallace, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rackwallace electoral division: 974 people in 315 households; 92% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghalaverty, Coolmain, Culdaloo, Derry, Killymarly, Lisdrumdoagh
- Placenames
- Feebane 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.