# Miskish More, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Inishkeen, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Mioscais Mhór. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 308,104 m² (30.81 ha, 76.13 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 46,495 m² (4.65 ha, 11.49 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Inishkeen, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/inishkeen.md - Barony: Farney - Electoral division: Inishkeen, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,182 people lived in 409 households in the Inishkeen electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% 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/39518 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 171444 - Centre: latitude 54.024727, longitude -6.603381 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Miskish More, from 3,792 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres) to 121,532 m² (12.15 ha, 30.03 acres); 8 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 341121: 121,532 m² (12.15 ha, 30.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/341121.md - Parcel 341120: 74,319 m² (7.43 ha, 18.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/341120.md - Parcel 334176: 51,767 m² (5.18 ha, 12.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/334176.md - Parcel 334178: 41,224 m² (4.12 ha, 10.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/334178.md - Parcel 334177: 15,538 m² (1.55 ha, 3.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/334177.md - Parcel 317105: 3,792 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/317105.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Miskish More 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) 3 applications, newest first. - 29 Jan 2026, Monaghan County Council 264: N/a. Permission. permission for the re-construction and configuration of in-stream stone structures, which are already in-situ and includes the loosening of existing spawning gravels. Natural materials that are already in the river will be sufficient to complete the works. Works will be conducted at intermittent locations along a total river length of 1.5km. The purpose of these works is to improve breeding conditions, and general habitat, for Atlantic salmon and wild brown trout stocks. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/264/0 - 18 Jul 2025, Monaghan County Council 2555: N/a. Permission. permission for development consisting of:- The works for the re-construction and configuration of in-stream stone structures, which are already in-situ and includes the loosening of the existing spawning gravels. Natural materials that are already in the river will be sufficient to complete the works. Works will be conducted at intermittent locations along a total river length of 1.5km. The purpose of these works is to improve breeding conditions, and general habitat, for Atlantic salmon and wild brown trout stocks. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2555/0 - 24 Jun 2021, Monaghan County Council 21376: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission to consist of a dormer bungalow type dwelling house, a domestic waste water treatment system, a new site entrance with all associated site development works. Significant further information relates to alterations to the house design along with re-positioning of the proposed dwelling on the site.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21376/0 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 Miskish More. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MO029-012: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO029-012----. Located towards the bottom of the NW-facings spine of a NW-SE drumlin ridge, overlooking a NW-SE section of the Farne River, which is c. 150m to the SW. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 32m NW-SE) that slopes down steeply to the SW. It is defined by an earthen ban k (at SE: Wth of base 2.4m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.85m) ENE-SSW and a slight scarp elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or entrance, but there is a triangular enclosure (ext. dims 10m N-S; 8m E-W) defined by a moss-covered stone spread (at W: Wth 1.4m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.9m) abutting the inside of the bank at E, which is probably the remnants of a field system. 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: 28 August 2017 - MO029-013: Cupmarked stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO029-013----. A roughly triangular stone with two cupmarks had been built into the wall of a lane at Miskish More, which was moved to the National Museum of Ireland for safety in 1949. It is described as having a triangular surface ’35 inches along the base and 29.9 inches from base to apex. The stone is ‘18.5 inches thick (dims c. 0.9m x c. 0.75m x c. 0.47m)’ (Raftery 1953) and had two cupmarks on its large surface. One (diam. c. 4cm; D c. 2.5cm) was unadorned but the other (diam. c. 2.5cm; D c. 2.5cm) had seven concentric circles (ext. diam. c. 0.4m). 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 revised upload: 8 February 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Miskish More. ## 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 Miskish More, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2778, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2778.zip (ZIP). - 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/miskish-more.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/miskish-more.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/miskish-more.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Miskish More 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) - Knocknagarnaman: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/knocknagarnaman.md - Magoney: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/magoney.md - Miskish Beg: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/miskish-beg.md - Tattyboy: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/tattyboy.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/miskish-more - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/miskish-more