Losset
Townland in the civil parish of Magheracloone, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan; in Irish An Losaid
- Area
- 73.2 ha
- 181 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 22,677 m² (2.27 ha, 5.6 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Losset, from 16 m² to 296,742 m² (29.67 ha, 73.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Losset 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
14 Oct 2025Refused
retention of internal alterations to previous approved plans under 20/155 including the following: 1. Conversion of attic of 528.41sq.m. floor area for the provision of 9 no. bedrooms, associated stairs and lift core. 2. Alterations to previously approved layout of ground floor in relation to 11 no. bedrooms, storage and staircase locations. 3. Alterations to previously approved layout on first floor in relation to bedroom, storage and staircase locations. 4. Repurposing of existing ground floor meeting room (62.00sq.m.) to additional kitchen and laundry facilities. 5. All associated site development work Significant further information received relates to submitted, Bus time table, site layout plan, Certificate of compliance and Environmental Protection Checklist
Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2560410
5 Sept 2025Conditional
Retention permission is sought for the following: • Provision of a weighbridge; • Expansion of plastic film storage area to 1,800 sq.m; • Provision of moveable retaining concrete ‘A’ walls to plastic film storage area; • Provision of a Komatsu excavator machine; and • Removal of a kiln. Planning permission is sought for: • An increase in the volume of waste plastic to be accepted at the existing facility from 4,800 tonnes per annum to 23,000 tonnes per annum; • Demolition of existing storage building; • Expansion of plastic film storage area by an additional 865 sq.m; • Erection of new screen walls to the expanded plastic film storage area; • Repositioning of moveable retaining concrete ‘A’ walls within expanded plastic film storage area; • Erection of 2 no. external canopies on the production building; and • All associated site and development works. The proposed development relates to an activity which will require a review of the existing Waste Facility Permit No. WFP-MN-12-0001-08 issued by Monaghan County Council, Significant Further Information received relates to submitted, Environmental Noise Survey, Proposed Services layout, response to Traffic & Transport issues, water protection plan checklist, site layout plan
Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2560365
10 Jan 2025Refused
retention permission and planning permission for development at the existing ENVA Waste Processing Facility at Losset, Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan. Retention permission is sought for the following: • Provision of a weighbridge; • Expansion of plastic film storage area to 1,300 sq.m; • Provision of moveable retaining concrete ‘A’ walls to plastic film storage area; • Provision of a Komatsu excavator machine; and • Removal of a kiln. Planning permission is sought for: • An increase in the volume of waste plastic to be accepted at the existing facility from 4,800 tonnes per annum to 23,000 tonnes per annum; • Erection of 2 no. external canopies on the production building; and • All associated site and development works. The proposed development relates to an activity which will require a review of the existing Waste Facility Permit No. WFP-MN-12-0001-08 issued by Monaghan County Council
Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2560009
19 Dec 2024N/a
retention permission and planning permission for development at the existing ENVA Waste Processing Facility at Lossets, Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan. Retention permission is sought for the following: • Provision of a weighbridge; •Expansion of plastic film storage area to 1,300 sq.m; •Provision of moveable retaining concrete ‘A’ walls to plastic film storage area; • Provision of a Komatsu excavator machine; and • Removal of a kiln. Planning permission is sought for: • An increase in the volume of waste plastic to be accepted at the existing facility from 4,800 tonnes per annum to 23,000 tonnes per annum; •Erection of 2 no. external canopies on the production building and all associated site and development works. The proposed development relates to an activity which will require a review of the existing Waste Facility Permit No. WFP-MN-12-0001-08 issued by Monaghan County Council
Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2460468
8 Jun 2022N/a
permission to construct a single storey warehouse building with associated stores, toilets and staff facilities, 1st floor offices, PV solar roof panels, signage, concrete yard area, new vehicular entrance onto public road, driveway, waste water treatment system and percolation, landscaping and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 22253
8 Jun 2022Conditional
permission for a development consisting of the erection of acoustic fencing to areas around the facility, change of hours of operation from previously approved planning ref. no. 02/513, condition no. 3 to 24 hours Monday to Friday and 8am on Saturday, and associated site works. Significant further information received in relation to noise mitigation measures to the existing building
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 22254
8 May 2020Conditional
permission for development consisting of works to an existing hotel including change of use ground floor storage to 11.no bedrooms, erection of a small extension to ground floor , demolition of part first floor to form external courtyard, change of use of first floor events rooms to 40 no. bedrooms, associated alterations to elevations with associated site works and retention permission for the upgrade and completion of the treatment system from WwTP to 290 P.E with associated site works.
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 20155
16 Nov 2018Conditional
permission for a bungalow dwelling house, a waste water treatment system, a new site entrance with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18535
15 Mar 2017Conditional
Permission to consist of works to an existing hotel including change of use of a ground floor night club area to 7no. Bedrooms, kids play zone, games room, toilets and storage areas, demolition of various storage areas to rear, alterations to all elevations including reconfiguration of the existing main entrance, extensions to side and rear, demolition of single storey dwelling and replacement and relocation of same with two storey dwelling to southeast of site, rearrangement of the existing car parking areas, revisions to the existing main vehicular entrance, landscaping and all associated site development works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 17115
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 Losset.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Losset.
Architectural heritage
- Lough Fea House, gate lodge, 1840–1845 · Regional interest
Description
Detached two-bay single-storey gate lodge with attic storey, dated 1842, having projecting gabled bay to north end of front (west) elevation, forming full-height return to rear, gabled entrance porch to north elevation, lower single-storey addition to rear gable, and recent flat-roofed extension to rear, to south of rear returns. Pitched slate roofs having cut-stone barges and kneelered gables. Red brick and cut-stone chimneystack. Snecked dressed stone walls with tooled stone quoins. Carved stone date plaque to entrance porch gable. Square-headed window openings, some double, some triple-light, having chamfered stone surrounds and mullions. Carved stone label-mouldings to windows to front and south elevations. Some quarry-glazed windows, some fixed timber windows. Square-headed door opening with chamfered stone surround, having recent timber door. Two single-storey outbuildings to rear having pitched slate roofs with cut-stone copings, rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings with some timber fittings. and rubble stone wall enclosure to rear. Set back from road at T-junction on western boundary of Lough Fea estate. Estate entrance to north having cast-iron double-leaf gate, flanked by octagonal-plan cut-stone piers with carved caps, in turn flanked by matching railings on cut-stone plinth walls. Site entrance to south having wrought-iron double-leaf gate, cut-stone piers with rubble stone caps, flanked by rubble stone boundary walls.
- Losset House, house, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Three-bay two-storey house, built c.1860, having projecting bay to south end of front (east) elevation, forming return to rear, and with single and two-storey additions to rear, with recent conservatory. Yard with outbuildings to rear. Pitched slate roof with cut-stone barges and chimneystacks. Snecked dressed stone walls with raised cut-stone quoins. Square-headed window openings, some two-light, having tooled chamfered surrounds and sills, with replacement uPVC windows throughout. Square-headed door opening with tooled chamfered surround and replacement timber door. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding to north range of yard, rebuilt to west end, four-bay outbuilding to south range of yard, rebuilt to south elevation, both having pitched slate roofs, rubble stone walls, elliptical carriage arches, and square-headed window and door openings with timber fittings. Snecked dressed stone walls and blind two-light windows to east gables, having chamfered stone surrounds and mullions. Cobbled yard, having well to centre. Rubble stone boundary wall to rear of yard, partly rebuilt. Site entrance to east having rubble stone boundary walls.
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).
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Losset with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Losset · An Losaid
- Area
- 732,248 m² (73.22 ha, 180.94 acres)
- Civil parish
- Magheracloone, and its townlands
- Barony
- Farney
- Electoral division
- Enagh, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clonsedy, Corduff (kelly), Cornacarrow, Corrybrackan, Drumcargy, Drumgoosat, Nure More
- Placenames
- Losset on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.