Loughoony

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Loughoony, from 444 m² to 286,735 m² (28.67 ha, 70.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Loughoony 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Loughoony in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Loughoony.

Recorded monuments

• MO012-006 Crannog
  Description

  Situated close to the NE shore of Lough Oony, a rectangular lough (max. dims c. 500m NE-SW; c. 280m NW-SE) that is now shrunken a little. Lough Oony appears to have been a centre of the MacMahons in the Middle Ages. There are references in the Annals of Ulster to Lough Uaithne from AD 719 when two of the sons of the King of Oriel were murdered there. In 851 Cairil of Lough Uaithne was killed at the oratory of St Tigernach’s church in Clones, and in 1025 Farney was raided by the men of Fermanagh, who killed 17men on the shore of Lough Uaithne (AU; Smyth 1954, 3). Two islands are depicted on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. This northern crannog was connected to the shore c. 30m to the N in 1983 by a modern causeway of logs, but it is surrounded by deep water, especially W-N. The crannog is a circular island (diam. 46m N-S; 41m E-W; H 0.4m over the water) now largely grass-covered, but evidence of a kerb was noted. There was no evidence of piles, palisades or structural timbers in 1983, but erosion exposed the matrix of small angular stones and charcoal. Crannog (MO012-007----) is c. 50m to the S. 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. Date of revision: 29 January 2018 Revised by: Michael Moore This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 1/1982).

• MO012-007 Crannog
  Description

  Situated close to the tip of a promontory on the SE shore of Lough Oony, a rectangular lough (max. dims c. 500m NE-SW; c. 280m NW-SE) that is now shrunken a little. There are references to Lough Uaithne in the Annals of Ulster from AD 719 to 1025 when the men of Fermanagh killed 17 people on the lake shore (Smyth 1954, 3). Two islands are depicted on the 1834 and 2907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. This southern feature is an oval wooded area (dims 23m E-W; 18m N-S; H 0.5m of the water) connected by swampy ground to the SE shore. Two oak piles were identified in 1983 and erosion of the perimeter revealed a matrix of small stones and brushwood matting with some animal bones and charcoal. Crannog (MO012-006----) is c. 50m to the N. 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: 29 January 2018

Architectural heritage

• Loughoony House, house, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan five-bay house, built c.1790, having multiple-bay two-storey return slightly partly recessed to east end of front (south) elevation, return having lean-to extensions to rear. Hipped slate roof with replacement rainwater goods, and paired moulded eaves brackets to overhanging eaves to front and side (west) elevations, clay ridge tiles, roof-light, and dressed sandstone chimneystacks. Coursed dressed sandstone to front and west elevations with shallow round-headed recesses to door and window openings with gauged tooled stone surrounds, voussoirs and sills. Harl render to rear and east elevations, with render plinth course. Square-headed six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to stone facades and one to east end of return. Square-headed replacement uPVC windows elsewhere. Double-leaf timber panelled door opening to front, flanked by sandstone columns supporting moulded lintel cornice and fronted by stone flag and having cast-iron boot-scrapers. Square-headed replacement uPVC door to rear. Colonnaded outbuilding to rear having pitched slate roof, rendered rubble stone walls and elliptical-arch openings between round Doric-style columns. Replacement square-plan stone-clad piers and boundary walls to south-west of house, having cast-iron post box inserted.

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; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Loughoony · Loch Uaithne

Area

352,285 m² (35.23 ha, 87.05 acres)

Civil parish

Clones, and its townlands

Barony

Dartree

Electoral division

St. Tierney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

St. Tierney electoral division: 390 people in 140 households; 86% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghagaw, Bullogbrean, Drumcru (Renwick), Drummully, Lismeagh, Shankill

Placenames

Loughoony 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.