Monage
Townland in the civil parish of Ematris, barony of Dartree, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Maigh nOis
- Area
- 33.1 ha
- 82 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 1,816 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monage, from 924 m² to 74,063 m² (7.41 ha, 18.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 5 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 Monage 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
9 Apr 2021Conditional
permission for a development consisting of a new two-storey dwelling, associated detached external store, opening of a new vehicular entrance to site and wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with all associated site development works. Significant further information relates to revised drawings.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21177
9 Apr 2021Conditional
permission for a development consisting of the decommissioning of existing septic tank and provision of a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with all associated site development works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21178
10 Jun 2020Conditional
permission for development consisting of 1) to retain the as built house from that previously granted under planning permission ref. no 98/711. 2) To construct a dormer style extension onto the rear and a single-storey extension onto the side of the existing dwelling house, domestic garage, install a new sewerage treatment unit & percolation area, proposed field gate entrance and all associated site development works. Significant further information related to the omitting proposed field gate entrance and alternations to proposed garage plans & elevations.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20207
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 Monage.
Recorded monuments
- MO023-001 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located towards the top of the S-facing slope of a drumlin overlooking the Inner Lough, which is to the S. This is a circular area (diam. 35m E-W; 34m N-S) planted with coniferous trees that slopes down to the SE. It is defined by an earthen bank (at ENE: Wth of base 3.5m; Wth of top 1.2m; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 1.35m) that is incorporated into a field bank S-NNW. There is no visible fosse and the original entrance is not identified. A silage pit immediately to the SE has deposited a large bank of spoil outside the monument on the S side 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: 19 June 2018
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Monage.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Monage.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Monage with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Monage · Maigh nOis
- Area
- 331,175 m² (33.12 ha, 81.84 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ematris, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dartree
- Electoral division
- Dawsongrove, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dawsongrove electoral division: 752 people in 261 households; 74% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carsan, Dawson Grove Demesne, Drumintin, Fairfield Demesne, Tanmacnally
- Placenames
- Monage 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.