Lappan

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lappan, from 419 m² to 122,259 m² (12.23 ha, 30.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Lappan 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.

• 3 Jun 2026Conditional

  permission to retain existing cattle shed and silo pit, erect a cattle house with slatted tank, machinery shed, feed store and handling yard adjacent to existing farm buildings and exit on to public road by way of modified existing entrance and all associated works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2646

• 5 Nov 2025Refused

  permission to retain existing cattle shed and silo pit, erect a cattle house with slatted tank, machinery shed, feed store and handling yard adjacent to existing farm buildings and exit on to public road by way of existing entrance and all associated works. Significant Further information received includes structural plans, site layout, newspaper notice, and water protection plan form.

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2595

• 15 Oct 2025N/a

  permission to erect a cattle house with slatted tank, machinery shed, feed store and handling yard adjacent to existing farm buildings and exit on to public road by way of existing entrance and all associated works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2588

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 Lappan.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lappan.

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Lappan.

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 Lappan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Lappan · An Lapán

Area

410,883 m² (41.09 ha, 101.53 acres)

Civil parish

Tehallan, and its townlands

Barony

Cremorne

Electoral division

Castleshane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castleshane electoral division: 1,013 people in 332 households; 88% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Garran Itra, Groves Lower, Lisconduff, Tamlat

Placenames

Lappan 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.