Golan
Townland in the civil parish of Donagh, barony of Trough, Co. Monaghan; in Irish An Gabhlán
- Area
- 212.9 ha
- 526 acres
- Land parcels
- 53
- registered freehold, median 23,532 m² (2.35 ha, 5.81 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Golan, from 142 m² to 295,983 m² (29.6 ha, 73.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Golan 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
9 Sept 2022N/a
permission for a ten year application to open a gravel quarry, with associated new internal access roadway, overburden stockpile storage, installation of wheel wash, silt trap and petrol interceptor, new entrance / exit onto the R186, security gates and piers with all ancillary and associated works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 22397
10 Jun 2021Conditional
permission to extend 1 no. poultry house, together with all ancillary structures, (to include soiled water tank(s)), and all associated site works associated with the proposed development. Significant further received 13/8/2021.
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21342
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
- Special Protection Area: Slieve Beagh SPA 004167
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Golan.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Golan.
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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Golan.
- 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 Golan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Golan · An Gabhlán
- Area
- 2,129,099 m² (212.91 ha, 526.11 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trough
- Electoral division
- Killylough, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killylough electoral division: 614 people in 203 households; 93% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Caldavnet, Crossnacaldoo, Derrykinnigh Beg, Knocknagrave, Tonyclea, Tonysillogagh
- Placenames
- Golan 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.