Gallanagh

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gallanagh, from 15 m² to 192,269 m² (19.23 ha, 47.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 18 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Landscape Protection/Conservation (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Industry/Enterprise/Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4Strategic Residential Reserve
  Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Recreation/Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 5 Dec 2025Conditional

  planning for a development which will consist of retaining existing access to existing dormer dwelling and all associated site works

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2560488

• 18 Dec 2024Conditional

  permission to retain as built domestic garage, existing septic tank and soakaway and exit on to public road and all associated works

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 24121

• 18 Jan 2023Conditional

  permission to install a new packaged waste water treatment plant with tertiary treatment system and infiltration area with all ancillary and associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2316

• 15 Dec 2022N/a

  permission consisting of the installation of a new packaged wastewater treatment plant with tertiary treatment system and infiltration area with all ancillary and associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 22517

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Gallanagh.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gallanagh.

Architectural heritage

• Water pump, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast iron water-pump, erected c.1900, now disused. Cylindrical fluted shaft and moulded plinth. Fluted domed cap surmounted with acorn finial, and tap fixing to side. Cast-iron lion's head mask forming spout to west side. Set in concrete base to east side of road on south approach to Milltown.

• Post box, 1900–1915 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron post box with hinged door, installed c.1901-10, with banded margin surround, projecting letter slot embossed with raised 'POST OFFICE' insignia, ER VII royal cipher to upper portion, 'W.T.Allen & Co. London' foundry cast to bottom. Set into roughcast rendered section of eastern gateway to Gallanagh House, north-west of Monaghan Town.

• Bridge, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch sandstone road-over-railway bridge, built c.1860. Part of Portadown & Cavan branch of Ulster Railway. Elliptical arch with margined rock-faced voussoirs, parapets, abutments and plinths. Dressed rock facing to soffit, tooled squared rubble copings to parapets. Single carriageway track to deck. Bridge located to north-west of Monaghan town.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Gallanagh, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2301 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.

No address of the register names Gallanagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Gallanagh · Gallánach

Area

507,686 m² (50.77 ha, 125.45 acres)

Civil parish

Monaghan, and its townlands

Barony

Monaghan

Electoral division

Monaghan Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

6,411 people lived in 2,320 households in the Monaghan Rural electoral division. 62% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cornecassa Demesne, Crover, Drumgarran, Kilnacloy, Mullaghadun, Newgrove

Placenames

Gallanagh 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.