Guardhill
Guardhill is a townland in the civil parish of Killeevan, barony of Dartree, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is Gardaill.
- Area
- 43 ha
- 106 acres
- Land parcels
- 35
- registered freehold, median 2,111 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Guardhill, from 25 m² to 113,647 m² (11.36 ha, 28.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Guardhill 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 2026N/a
permission for the development works will consist of the re-contouring of existing undulating agricultural farmland to include the importation of green field soil and stone ( not exceeding 25,000 tonnes) in order to raise the levels of the land together with all ancillary site development works under an Article 27 declaration
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660377
30 Apr 2026N/a
permission for amendments to the development will consist of: • Revisions to the new indoor playing arena with attached two storey structure. • Revisions to the entrance onto the public road. • Revisions to the signage. • Amendments to the site layout including all associated and ancillary site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660170
22 Apr 2026N/a
permission for a development which will consist of the demolition of 2 no. existing poultry houses and replacement with a new poultry house, vertical meal bins, underground precast concrete wash down waters storage tank, associated concrete aprons, litter storage shed, use of existing entrance/exit onto public road together with all ancillary site development works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660151
8 Aug 2024Conditional
permission for a development to consist of a Dormer type dwelling house, access laneway and new vehicular entrance to public road including entrance piers and gates and onsite wastewater treatment plant and raised polishing area and all associated landscaping and site works. Significant Further Information received relates to an amended Site Boundary (Site Plan), Sight Visibility Wayleave Agreements, and Sight Visibility Drawings.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2460283
20 May 2024Conditional
permission for a two storey extension to the existing childcare facility comprising of preschool and afterschool rooms, signage, connection to the existing wastewater treatment system, provision of additional car parking spaces together with all ancillary site works, Significant Further Information relates to, Revised site layout plan, Revised Location plan and Road Safety Audit
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2460182
25 Oct 2023Conditional
permission for development consisting of: • Construction of a single storey new indoor playing arena with attached two storey structure consisting changing rooms, meeting rooms, social room, gym and ancillary rooms. • Construction of new outdoor playing field with soil retaining structures, boundary fencing, flood lighting and all required ancillary works. • Construction of new internal access roadways, car parking together with associated hard and soft landscaping. • Widening of existing access route, installation of new culvert to link existing access route to proposed internal roadways. • Installation storm water drainage system including attenuation tank. • Installation of proprietary wastewater treatment system. • Signage to proposed building. Significant Further Information submitted relates to Revised Site Services Plan, Revised site layout plan, Site Drainage Plan, Landscaping Plan, Flood Risk Assessment
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2360253
1 Feb 2023Conditional
permission for development consisting of erecting a new perimeter floodlighting system to the perimeter of existing GAA pitch together with all ancillary site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2335
28 Jan 2021Conditional
permission for a development consisting of amendments/modifications to previously approved planning permission, reference number 18/84 comprising: omit approved single storey extension to the northern side of the existing two storey club rooms, new single storey building on the northern side of existing clubrooms consisting of changing and club rooms (in place of approved two-storey building) including new signage to this building, new external fire escape stairs serving first floor dormer at southern gable of existing clubrooms, re-location of bunded gas underground storage tank, new northern boundary wall treatment opposite new building frontage, removal of existing main pitch vehicular entrance wing walls to accommodate sight visibility splays and replacement walls behind sight splays, new vehicular parking spaces adjacent to main pitch area, and all associated site and landscape works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2134
5 Mar 2018Conditional
Permission to construct (1) A single storey extension to the northern side of the existing two storey (Dormer) club rooms with associated elevational changes (2) The construction of an adjoining two storey building on the northern side of existing clubrooms to be used as changing rooms, toilets, gymnasium including new signage fixed to building and new first floor linked corridor connection to dormer roof section of existing clubrooms. (3) New external fire escape stairs serving first floor dormer at southern gable of existing clubrooms. (4) Re-location of bunded gas underground storage tank. (5) New northern boundary wall treatment opposite new building frontage. (6) Removal of existing main pitch vehicular entrance wing walls to accommodate sight visibility splays and replacement walls behind sight splays. (7) New vehicular parking spaces adjacent to main pitch area (8) All associated site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 1884
20 Apr 2017Conditional
permission to consist of a single storey pre-school extension to right hand side of existing building comprising of additional space for pre-school care and additional sanitary & store accommodation. Significant Further Information consists of an additional waste water treatment plant module to provide additional capacity and an additional percolation area. Additional car-parking spaces and an enlargement of an existing play area.
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 17189
16 Feb 2017Conditional
Outline Permission for a single storey extension to the northern side of the existing two storey club rooms with associated elevational changes. An adjoining two storey building on the northern side of existing clubrooms to be used as changing rooms, toilets, gymnasium including new signage fixed to building and all associated site works
Outline permission · Monaghan County Council, 1761
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 Guardhill.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Guardhill.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Guardhill.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Guardhill, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Guardhill.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Guardhill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Guardhill · Gardaill
- Area
- 430,080 m² (43.01 ha, 106.28 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killeevan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dartree
- Electoral division
- Killeevan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 330 people lived in 125 households in the Killeevan electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Guardhill 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.