Greaghlatacapple

77 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greaghlatacapple, from 31 m² to 82,812 m² (8.28 ha, 20.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 48 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Greaghlatacapple 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.

• 15 Oct 2024Conditional

  permission to construction of 3 No. handball alleys with run-off and all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2460380

• 11 Aug 2024N/a

  permission for a dormer style dwelling house, single storey domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, entrance walls and piers together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2460290

• 3 Jul 2024Conditional

  permission for (a) to construct a single storey type dwelling house (b) to install a proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area and to connect to existing group water scheme (c) to use an existing entrance to the adjacent house to serve the new dwelling which will include repositioning of one existing wing wall and also relocating the fence line and entrance pier on the site north-east of the application site (d) all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2464

• 31 May 2024Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of the retention of portal frame agricultural storage shed; and permission for completion of works for same and all associated site works

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2460198

• 31 Aug 2023N/a

  permission for three handball alleys with run-off and all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 23179

• 7 Aug 2023N/a

  permission to construct a dormer style dwelling house, single storey domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, entrance walls and piers together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2360166

• 4 Jan 2023N/a

  development consisting of the erection of an electricity generating wind turbine with hub height of 80 metres and a maximum tip height of 130 metres, hardstanding area, site entrance and access road together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 233

• 7 Nov 2022N/a

  permission consisting of the erection of one electricity generating wind turbine with hub height of 80 metres and a maximum tip height of 130 metres, hardstanding area, site entrance and access road together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 22476

• 12 Oct 2022N/a

  permission consisting of the erection of one electricity generating wind turbine with hub height of 80 metres and a maximum tip height of 130 metres, hardstanding area, site entrance and access road together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 22449

• 17 Jun 2022Conditional

  permission consisting of upgrading facilities to increase access to all floors of the building by the provision of an external lift, accessible toilet, connection to existing foul and stormwater service and internal renovations to facilitate circulation within the building.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 22274

• 11 Apr 2022Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of the construction of a dormer dwelling, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, boundary fencing, new entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 22165

• 22 Dec 2021Refused

  permission for a development consisting of a dormer style dwelling house, single storey domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, entrance walls and piers together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21703

• 4 Mar 2021Conditional

  permission for development consisting of to erect a 1.2 metre high fence with gates and lighting around existing football pitch and all associated site works.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2199

• 7 Nov 2019Conditional

  permission for the construction of a two storey dwelling house, a wastewater treatment system and all associated site works. Significant further information relates to re-positioning of the proposed dwelling on-site.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19501

• 30 Aug 2019Conditional

  permission for development consisting of classroom and resource room extension to north end (front of school) with connection to existing services and associated site works.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 19406

• 31 Jul 2019N/a

  permission for a development consisting of a classroom and resource room extension to north end (front of school) with connection to existing services and associated site works.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 19355

• 6 Feb 2019Conditional

  permission for retention of an existing temporary mobile home, hardcore surfaced lands, connection to existing septic tank and percolation area currently serving existing two storey dwelling. 2) To demolish existing habitable two storey dwelling and existing sheds and replace with a two storey style dwelling, upgrade existing septic tank to a new wastewater treatment system and use existing entrance onto public road and all associated site works.

  Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 1946

• 5 Sept 2018Conditional

  Permission to construct dormer type detached dwelling, domestic garage, new vehicular entrance onto public road, proprietary waste water treatment system, polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18415

• 21 Jul 2017N/a

  To construct a dormer style detached dwelling, detached domestic garage, new vehicular entrance onto public road, waste water treatment system, percolation area, and associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17361

• 18 May 2017Conditional

  Permission to install 48 square metres of solar panels onto the south-west of the existing community centre pitched roof and all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 17235

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 Greaghlatacapple.

Recorded monuments

• MO027-099 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the SW summit of a broad E-W drumlin ridge. This is a circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 29.6m NNW-SSE) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4-6m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 1.5m), and an outer fosse (Wth of base 1.6-2.6m; ext. D 0.2m) WNW-E-S that has an outer field bank (at NW: Wth 1.4m; int. H 1m; ext. H 0.6m) outside it SW-N-NE. There is an entrance (Wth of base 1.4m) and causeway (Wth of top 1.9m) at N leading to a gap in the field bank, but there is also an entrance (Wth of base 1.5m) at S where the fosse is not evident. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 1 February 2018

• MO027-116 Mass-rock
  Description

  Situated at the tip of a S-N spur on the N-facing slope of a hill. This is a subrectangular piece of rock outcrop (dims 6m N-S; 5m E-W at N; 2.5m E-W at S; H 0.5-1m) that is highest the SW corner where there is an indentation (dims 1.2m N-S; 0.7m) with a small shelf (H 0.7m) that serves as an altar. It is known as ‘Carraig na h-Altóra’ (Ó Gallachair 1957, 121) and was conserved in AD 2000 with a commemorative plaque. Mass is celebrated annually around the end of July. See the attached images _1 from NE; _2 from S Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 20 June, 2016

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Greaghlatacapple.

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

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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Greaghlatacapple.

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.

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

Name

Greaghlatacapple · Gréach Leacht an Chapaill

Area

1,422,391 m² (142.24 ha, 351.48 acres)

Civil parish

Magheross, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Drumgurra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumgurra electoral division: 742 people in 242 households; 90% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardragh, Corduff, Lisnafeddaly, Shanco, Ummerafree

Placenames

Greaghlatacapple 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.