Gragarnagh
Townland in the civil parish of Aghnamullen, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan; in Irish An Ghrágarnach
- Area
- 87.3 ha
- 216 acres
- Land parcels
- 34
- registered freehold, median 24,124 m² (2.41 ha, 5.96 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gragarnagh, from 684 m² to 69,695 m² (6.97 ha, 17.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Gragarnagh 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
10 Dec 2025Conditional
permission for the development of a new extension to the side and rear of the existing dwelling house, a new front porch and all associated site development works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560495
23 Dec 2021Refused
outline permission for a development consisting of 2 no. new dwelling houses, effluent treatment plant and percolation areas, 2 no. new domestic entrances onto the public road and all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21707
18 Aug 2021Conditional
permission to construct a new bungalow style dwelling house & detached domestic garage, install new mechanical effluent treatment system, new raised/mounded percolation area, construct new entrance onto public roadway together with all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21467
31 Oct 2019Conditional
Permission to import fill material onto lands, alterations to ground levels and all associated site works. Significant Further Information relate to flood risk assessment, Ecological Impact Assessment, revised alterations to the ground levels, new open cut interceptor drain and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19495
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 Gragarnagh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gragarnagh.
Architectural heritage
- Mill (water), 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey corn mill, built c.1800, having lean-to addition to front (north) elevation, comprising two-bay corn mill to east end, two-bay kiln to centre, and single-bay store to west end. External water-wheel to east gable. Now disused and derelict. Remains of pitched slate roof and lean-to slate roof, both with exposed rafter ends. Coursed rubble limestone walls. Square-headed openings, with some timber battened fittings, and some remains of timber sliding sash windows. Cast-iron and timber water-wheel, remains of timber trough, and machinery to interior. Set off farm track.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2525 (ZIP).
- 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 Gragarnagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Gragarnagh · An Ghrágarnach
- Area
- 872,525 m² (87.25 ha, 215.61 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghnamullen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Cremorne
- Electoral division
- Carrickatee, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Carrickatee electoral division: 378 people in 118 households; 89% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annahaia, Carrickinare, Lisduff, Sra, Tossy
- Placenames
- Gragarnagh 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.