# Gransha More, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clones, barony of Dartree, Co. Monaghan; in Irish An Ghráinseach Mhór. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 882,973 m² (88.3 ha, 218.19 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,652 m² (0.57 ha, 1.4 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clones, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/clones.md - Barony: Dartree - Electoral division: St. Tierney, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 390 people lived in 140 households in the St. Tierney electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/40272 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 171083 - Centre: latitude 54.19948, longitude -7.158922 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gransha More, from 276 m² to 146,877 m² (14.69 ha, 36.29 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 334228: 146,877 m² (14.69 ha, 36.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/334228.md - Parcel 317573: 105,898 m² (10.59 ha, 26.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/317573.md - Parcel 319766: 85,727 m² (8.57 ha, 21.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319766.md - Parcel 350015: 71,715 m² (7.17 ha, 17.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/350015.md - Parcel 344581: 46,215 m² (4.62 ha, 11.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/344581.md - Parcel 315750: 37,870 m² (3.79 ha, 9.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/315750.md - Parcel 338580: 33,953 m² (3.4 ha, 8.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/338580.md - Parcel 316711: 30,868 m² (3.09 ha, 7.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/316711.md - Parcel 348353: 26,730 m² (2.67 ha, 6.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/348353.md - Parcel 331918: 23,994 m² (2.4 ha, 5.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/331918.md - Parcel 320520: 20,127 m² (2.01 ha, 4.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/320520.md - Parcel 317369: 17,301 m² (1.73 ha, 4.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/317369.md - Parcel 1531487: 16,692 m² (1.67 ha, 4.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1531487.md - Parcel 331959: 15,285 m² (1.53 ha, 3.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/331959.md - Parcel 338978: 14,830 m² (1.48 ha, 3.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/338978.md - Parcel 3996183: 13,713 m² (1.37 ha, 3.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3996183.md - Parcel 345359: 12,318 m² (1.23 ha, 3.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345359.md - Parcel 351957: 11,568 m² (1.16 ha, 2.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/351957.md - Parcel 331840: 7,936 m² (0.79 ha, 1.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/331840.md - Parcel 338617: 7,931 m² (0.79 ha, 1.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/338617.md - Parcel 325254: 6,164 m² (0.62 ha, 1.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/325254.md - Parcel 327204: 5,652 m² (0.57 ha, 1.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/327204.md - Parcel 340444: 5,528 m² (0.55 ha, 1.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/340444.md - Parcel 346946: 5,168 m² (0.52 ha, 1.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/346946.md - Parcel 5251243: 4,913 m² (0.49 ha, 1.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5251243.md - Parcel 5092214: 4,449 m² (0.44 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5092214.md - Parcel 5468573: 3,925 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5468573.md - Parcel 2402685: 3,693 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2402685.md - Parcel 5468570: 3,558 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5468570.md - Parcel 335823: 3,495 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/335823.md - Parcel 339612: 3,251 m² (0.33 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/339612.md - Parcel 2441034: 2,923 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2441034.md - Parcel 5251242: 2,825 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5251242.md - Parcel 334988: 1,973 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/334988.md - Parcel 324868: 1,943 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/324868.md - Parcel 335622: 1,869 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/335622.md - Parcel 2441021: 1,857 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2441021.md - Parcel 5182325: 1,364 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5182325.md - Parcel 325379: 1,070 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/325379.md - Parcel 3996184: 930 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3996184.md - Parcel 4862978: 721 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4862978.md - Parcel 326037: 443 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/326037.md - Parcel 1531488: 276 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1531488.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Gransha More in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 17 Feb 2021, Monaghan County Council 2172: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission for a development consisting of the erection of a fully serviced two storey dwelling, domestic garage, new entrance with piers and gates, sewerage treatment facilities and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2172/0 - 28 May 2020, Monaghan County Council 20187: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission for a dormer style extension to the rear of existing bungalow dwelling house including demolition of single storey rear annex and elevational changes and alterations to all elevations consisting of wall finishes, windows, rooflights and a new wastewater treatment plant with raised mound polishing filter and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/20187/0 - 23 Mar 2020, Monaghan County Council 20107: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission to (1) retain existing modular home (on a temporary basis) with connection to existing wastewater treatment system & (2) construct a two-storey type dwelling house and to install proprietary wastewater treatment system with new site entrance & site access together with associated ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/20107/0 - 19 Dec 2018, Monaghan County Council 18589: Conditional. Permission. permission to construct a free range poultry unit, together with vertical meal bins, underground washing tank, roof water polishing area, develop existing agricultural entrance and all ancillary site works. Significant Further Information relates to the submission of nutrient management plan.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/18589/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Gransha More. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MO012-093: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO012-093----. Situated in a low-lying landscape between drumlins and on the S side of the N54 Clones to Monaghan town road. This is a circular grass-covered earthen platform (diam. c. 45-50m) delineated by a slight bank which has been largely reduced to a scarp. It is within a subrectangular cemetery (dims c. 90m N-S; c. 65m E-W) and a Presbyterian church is overlying the perimeter of the rath at E. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 30 January 2018 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Stone Bridge Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1820–1840, Regional interest, registry number 41401220, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41401220. Free-standing gable-fronted Presbyterian church, built c.1830, on site of earlier structure, having two-bay long walls, lower gabled porch to gable-front, and with later single-storey addition to east. Pitched slate roof having replacement rainwater goods, air vents and red terracotta ridge tiles, projecting gable eaves and external truss detail. Roughcast rendered walls having smooth rendered quoins set on smooth rendered plinth. Pointed-arch window openings, each with smooth rendered surround, stone sill and timber double-light window with quatrefoil over. Square-headed openings addition, having stone sills and uPVC windows. Pointed-arch door opening to east elevation of porch having timber door with iron strap hinges. Interior has rendered walls, timber battened wainscoting and ceiling, two rows of timber pews, carved timber pulpit with brass lamp stands, decorative pointed-arch timber panelled backdrop with render hood-moulding terminating in moulded capitals behind pulpit. Carved timber table and chairs to front of pulpit. Timber architraves to square-headed door openings having timber panelled doors. Church set within graveyard in rural setting. - Gransha National School, school, 1880–1885, Regional interest, registry number 41401223, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41401223. Detached three-bay single-storey school, dated 1884, having projecting gabled entrance bay to front (west) elevation. No longer in use. Hipped slate roof, pitched to entrance projection, with clay ridge tiles, roughcast rendered chimneystack, and with tooled limestone coping to front gable. Coursed squared limestone and sandstone walls having dressed block-and-start sandstone quoins and plinth course. Limestone plaque to front inscribed 'Gransha[?] National School AD 1884'. Gauged-brick square-headed window openings, boarded up with corrugated-iron sheeting, having red brick surrounds and sandstone sills. Gauged-brick square-headed door opening to front with red brick surround and sheet timber door, and sandstone step. Remains of former outbuilding to rear (east), overgrown, having coursed rubble stone walls. Rendered rubble stone wall to front with render capping. - Bridge, 1855–1865, Regional interest, registry number 41401253, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41401253. Single-span skew railway bridge, built c.1860, carrying Portadown and Cavan Branch of Ulster Railway over road. Superstructure of span removed. Rock-faced rusticated stone abutments with rusticated margined quoins and tapered buttresses. Roughly-coursed squared stone parapet walls flanking carriageway, having dressed limestone copings and rendered brick plat-bands to base of parapets. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Gransha More, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gransha More. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/gransha-more.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/gransha-more.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/gransha-more.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Gransha More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Conaghy: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/conaghy.md - Edenaforan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/edenaforan.md - Garran: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/garran-171034.md - Gransha Beg: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/gransha-beg.md - Latgallan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/latgallan.md - Nook: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/nook.md - Tircooney: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/tircooney.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/gransha-more - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/gransha-more