# Latroe, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killeevan, barony of Dartree, Co. Monaghan; in Irish An Leacht Rua. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 444,853 m² (44.49 ha, 109.93 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 24,391 m² (2.44 ha, 6.03 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killeevan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/killeevan.md - Barony: Dartree - Electoral division: Newbliss, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 918 people lived in 322 households in the Newbliss electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 6% 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/40243 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 171286 - Centre: latitude 54.169506, longitude -7.164275 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Latroe, from 2,615 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres) to 151,730 m² (15.17 ha, 37.49 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 325474: 151,730 m² (15.17 ha, 37.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/325474.md - Parcel 316427: 103,553 m² (10.36 ha, 25.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/316427.md - Parcel 351412: 81,705 m² (8.17 ha, 20.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/351412.md - Parcel 344589: 24,558 m² (2.46 ha, 6.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/344589.md - Parcel 343345: 24,224 m² (2.42 ha, 5.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/343345.md - Parcel 340128: 20,569 m² (2.06 ha, 5.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/340128.md - Parcel 348195: 12,448 m² (1.24 ha, 3.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/348195.md - Parcel 341228: 2,615 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/341228.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Latroe 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 21 Feb 2023, Monaghan County Council 239001: Conditional. Extension of duration. Permission to construct 2 No. poultry houses together with all ancillary structures (to include meal bins(s), and soiled water tank(s)) and ancillary site works (to include a new/upgraded site entrance) associated with the above development. This application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a Licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) will be submitted with this application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/239001/0 - 30 Jul 2018, Monaghan County Council 18359: Conditional. Permission. Permission to construct 2 No. poultry houses together with all ancillary structures (to include meal bins(s), and soiled water tank(s)) and ancillary site works (to include a new/upgraded site entrance) associated with the above development. This application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a Licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) will be submitted with this application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/18359/0 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 Latroe. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Latroe. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Bridge, 1855–1860, Regional interest, registry number 41401706, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41401706. Single-arch railway bridge, built c.1858, carrying road over Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway. Elliptical arch, with rock-faced rusticated sandstone voussoirs and squared rubble stone to soffit. Margined edge to voussoirs and quoins to arch. Rock-faced rusticated platband at impost level running under arch. Tapered buttresses flanking arch to each elevation. Coursed squared rubble stone to spandrels, buttresses and parapets, rock-faced coping to parapets. Cutting partly infilled. - Bridge, 1855–1860, Regional interest, registry number 41401734, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41401734. Single-arch limestone railway bridge, built c.1858, carrying accommodation track over Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway. Elliptical arch with rock-faced rusticated voussoirs with margined edges and coursed rock-faced rusticated stone to soffits. Chamfered rusticated stone platbands running through arch at impost level. Tapered buttresses flanking arch, continuing to form wing walls terminating in projecting piers, having rusticated and margined quoins. Roughly coursed squared stone to buttresses with rock-faced rusticated and margined stone quoins. Roughly coursed squared stone to spandrel and parapet walls, and rock-faced rusticated copings to 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 Latroe, 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 Latroe. - 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/latroe.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/latroe.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/latroe.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Latroe 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) - Cappog: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/cappog-170217.md - Corkeeran: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/corkeeran-170435.md - Davagh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/davagh.md - Killeevan Glebe: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/killeevan-glebe.md - Killycoonagh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/killycoonagh.md - Killygone: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/killygone.md - Lisnagore: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/lisnagore.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/latroe - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/latroe