# Maghernacloy, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Magheracloone, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Machaire na Cloiche.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 620,582 m² (62.06 ha, 153.35 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 11,921 m² (1.19 ha, 2.95 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Magheracloone, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/magheracloone.md
- Barony: Farney
- Electoral division: Drumboory, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 571 people lived in 179 households in the Drumboory electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/39423
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 171432
- Centre: latitude 53.917921, longitude -6.701468 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Maghernacloy, from 135 m² to 129,868 m² (12.99 ha, 32.09 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 336516: 129,868 m² (12.99 ha, 32.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/336516.md
- Parcel 342293: 91,727 m² (9.17 ha, 22.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/342293.md
- Parcel 344749: 78,379 m² (7.84 ha, 19.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/344749.md
- Parcel 342736: 61,297 m² (6.13 ha, 15.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/342736.md
- Parcel 344316: 57,738 m² (5.77 ha, 14.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/344316.md
- Parcel 323677: 42,427 m² (4.24 ha, 10.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/323677.md
- Parcel 322060: 37,034 m² (3.7 ha, 9.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/322060.md
- Parcel 339753: 35,405 m² (3.54 ha, 8.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/339753.md
- Parcel 355948: 11,943 m² (1.19 ha, 2.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/355948.md
- Parcel 337886: 11,921 m² (1.19 ha, 2.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/337886.md
- Parcel 334975: 11,594 m² (1.16 ha, 2.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/334975.md
- Parcel 327127: 6,650 m² (0.67 ha, 1.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/327127.md
- Parcel 321536: 5,244 m² (0.52 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/321536.md
- Parcel 346237: 5,119 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/346237.md
- Parcel 4166615: 3,415 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4166615.md
- Parcel 6124995: 1,205 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6124995.md
- Parcel 356916: 1,141 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/356916.md
- Parcel 356370: 493 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/356370.md
- Parcel 6124977: 135 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6124977.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Maghernacloy 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)

1 application, newest first.

- 18 Feb 2025, Monaghan County Council 2560048: Conditional. Permission. permission for a development which will consist of refurbishment of existing derelict building to a habitable unit and connection to existing services and septic tank and percolation area, off existing entrance. Significant Further Information received relates to a change of site boundaries. (Recorded Monument MO 034:026 and protected structure). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560048/0

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## 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 Maghernacloy.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- MO034-026: House - fortified house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO034-026----. Situated on a broad hill. Land at Maghernacloy, consisting of nineteen tates in seventeen townlands, which became known as Hadsor’s fee-farm, was granted by Richard Devereux, the third Earl of Essex, to John Hadsor of Keppock (Cappoge), Co. Louth (LH018-003003-) in 1618 (MacDermott 2002). The Anglo-Norman family of Hadsor, originally called de Hedesor from a place in Worcestershire now called Hadzor, were associated with Co. Louth from the late twelfth century, where they were tenants of the Peppard family. Richard Hadsor was lord of Cappoge from 1586 until his death in 1635 but he was also a propagandist for English settlement in Ireland and an advisor to the English government on Irish affairs (Hodgers 2005). Richard probably secured the grant of the manor of Moymuck, which included Maghernacloy, for his youngest half-brother John in 1618, possibly in the name of John’s wife, Katherine Fleming of Gernonstown, Slane, which family had held land in Farney (Hodgers 2009, 104-5). The terms were reasonable, and included the requirement to build a strong house ‘after the English manner’ within ten years. (Manning 2007, 209-13) The house is not depicted on a map of 1634 by John Raven, but it had probably been built by the outbreak of the rebellion in 1641, although it is not mentioned in military exploits in the area during 1648 (Hodgers 2009. 112-3). John Hadsor had inherited Cappoge, but as he was implicated in the rebellion he forfeited all his property before he died in 1657 (ibid. 114-8). The fee-farm was granted by the Commonwealth to Col. Thomas Sadler who sold his interest to the Brownlow family, of Brownlows Derry, near Lurgan, Co. Armagh. After the Williamite and Jacobite war (1689-91) Thomas Clinton, a Jacobite and a relative of the Brownlows, took a lease on Maghernacloy from Arthur Brownlow. Arthur has the distinction of sitting in the Catholic Parliament of James II (1689) and subsequent ascendency Parliaments of William (1692-3, 1695-9) and Anne (1703-11) as a member for Co. Armagh (Johnston-Liik 2002, vol. 3, 291-1). He was also an Irish scholar and acquired the Book of Armagh in 1707 from its hereditary keepers, the MacMoyre family, and it has been in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin since 1853. The Clinton family retained the lease on Maghernacloy into the nineteenth century (McDermott 2002, 784). The castle was finally abandoned in the 1970s, but it was restored as a dwelling after 2000. The castle is a rectangular four-bay, two story structure (ext. dims c. 18m NW-SE; c. 8.25m NE-SW) over a basement at the NW end with a two storey tower (dims 6m NW-SE: 6.25m NE-SW) offset to the SW and SE from the S angle and a stairs tower (ext. dims 4.3m NW-SE; 3.5m NE-SW) projecting NE towards the SE end of the NE side. The wall-walk and stepped crenelations on the parapet are largely original, but all the windows and external doorways were replaced as well as the floors and the roof, probably in the eighteenth century, and the S tower may have been added at that time. The original doorway was adjacent to the stairs tower and is indicated by the machicolation on the parapet. The stairs tower has a newel stairs with pointed doorways. Six chimney stacks are supported from the first floor by corbels on the external walls. One is on the NW end wall, one on the NE wall which must have heated the hall or large public room, one on the NE wall of the attached tower, probably in a bedroom, and three on the SE end wall. (Manning 2007, 213-16) Limited excavation (04E0513) carried out in advance of the restoration of the castle as a dwelling uncovered a number of sherds of 18th century pottery (Campbell 2007). Further monitoring under the same licence took place in 2007 which established that the basement extended under the entire house (Campbell 2010). 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 17 June 2017

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Maghernacloy Castle, castle/fortified house, 1610–1840, National interest, registry number 41403420, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO&regno=41403420. Detached multiple-bay two-storey over basement castellated house, built c.1620, having full-height projecting bay to south-east corner and full-height projecting staircase block to centre of north elevation, remodelled in late Georgian period. Pitched slate roof with castellated parapets forming battlement. Square-plan cast-iron hoppers and down-pipes. Machicolations to east elevation, north elevation and single chute to west elevation. Rubble stone walls with lime render. Late Georgian round-headed door opening, having cut-stone surround to south elevation with fluted and scrolled keystone and cut-stone cornice with spoked fanlight, and recent timber panelled door. with granite steps. Timber battened door to east elevation, and half-glazed timber battened door to staircase block. Square-headed window openings with tooled stone sills, and timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane with exposed box frames to ground and first floor, eight pane timber-framed window to south elevation basement level, two-pane timber-framed windows and three-over-six pane sash window to staircase north elevation, and three-over-six pane sash window to first floor of south-east projecting bay. Standing on elevated and exposed site approached from main road by long inclining avenue. Complex of outbuildings to north-west of castle including single-bay, two-storey former horse-powered threshing mill aligned north-east/south-west in farmyard having replacement corrugated-metal roof, rubble stone walls with dressed quoins and square-headed openings with dressed stone jambs. Gables of mill abutted by multiple-bay single-storey farm buildings. No machinery survives.

## 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 Maghernacloy, about 1 in 5 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 Maghernacloy.
- 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/maghernacloy.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/maghernacloy.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/maghernacloy.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Maghernacloy 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)

- Coolderry: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/coolderry-170366.md
- Feahoe: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/feahoe.md
- Liscarnan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/liscarnan.md
- Mullaghrafferty: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/mullaghrafferty.md
- Mullyore: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/mullyore.md
- Tomiska: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/tomiska.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.

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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.

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