# Mountcarmel, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Aghnamullen, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Achadh an Toir. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 738,075 m² (73.81 ha, 182.38 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 89,596 m² (8.96 ha, 22.14 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): the national planning file did not answer - Civil parish: Aghnamullen, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/aghnamullen.md - Barony: Cremorne - Electoral division: Cormeen, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 527 people lived in 174 households in the Cormeen electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 16% 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/40014 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 171466 - Centre: latitude 54.086167, longitude -6.981451 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountcarmel, from 9,564 m² (0.96 ha, 2.36 acres) to 270,839 m² (27.08 ha, 66.93 acres); 24 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 343094: 270,839 m² (27.08 ha, 66.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/343094.md - Parcel 342651: 102,423 m² (10.24 ha, 25.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/342651.md - Parcel 350799: 101,802 m² (10.18 ha, 25.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/350799.md - Parcel 351114: 90,946 m² (9.09 ha, 22.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/351114.md - Parcel 356629: 88,246 m² (8.82 ha, 21.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/356629.md - Parcel 345017: 63,800 m² (6.38 ha, 15.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345017.md - Parcel 329112: 11,476 m² (1.15 ha, 2.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/329112.md - Parcel 337640: 9,564 m² (0.96 ha, 2.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/337640.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Mountcarmel 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) The national planning file did not answer. Try again later. ## 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 Mountcarmel. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MO023-010: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO023-010----. Located towards the bottom of the N-facing slope of a NE-SW drumlin ridge. It is depicted as a circular enclosure with trees on the perimeter and a house just to the W on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’, and it is represented as a small hachured feature on the 1907 edition. This is a circular area (diam. 27.3m NW-SE: 27m NE-SW) planted in trees, which is defined by a slight earthen bank. The perimeter is skirted by a farm lane E-SW. 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 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) - Mount Carmel, house, 1800–1840, Regional interest, registry number 41402334, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41402334. Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey house, built c.1820. Four-bay north elevation formed by full-height wing to north end of rear (west) elevation, with lower two-storey flat-roofed return to re-entrant corner to rear elevation. External staircase to south elevation of rear wing. Hipped slate roof to main block, pitched slate roof to rear wing, with paired red brick chimneystacks with clay pots, red brick eaves course, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Exposed coursed rubble limestone walls. Square-headed window openings, having red brick block-and-start surrounds, tooled stone sills, and timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six panes to front and south elevations, and to one opening of north elevation, replacement timber windows to other side and to rear. Elliptical-arch door opening with red brick block-and-start surround, having replacement timber panelled door with spoked fanlight and sidelights, with cut-stone sills and plinth blocks, and with panelled timber pilasters flanking door opening. Square-headed pitching door to first floor of rear wing, having red brick block-and-start surround and timber battened door, approached by rendered staircase. Yard to south-west comprising multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding to south of house, forming east range, detached L-plan multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to west of yard with detached single-bay single-storey outbuilding to north-east of this, having pitched slate roofs, rubble stone walls with cut-stone quoins, square-headed openings with red brick surrounds and timber fittings, slit openings to west range, elliptical-headed carriage arch with double-leaf timber battened door to east elevation of east range. Camber-arch carriage opening forming yard entrance between house and east range, with red brick voussoirs, and rubble stone walls topped with slates. House and yard set in extensive grounds, with recent gates and fencing. ## 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 Mountcarmel, 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 Geological Survey did not answer. - Terrain model: the Geological Survey did not answer. - 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/mountcarmel.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/mountcarmel.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/mountcarmel.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Mountcarmel 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) - Cormeen: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/cormeen-170460.md - Cortannel: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/cortannel.md - Drumlood: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumlood.md - Killyliss: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/killyliss.md - Leagh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/leagh-171294.md - Lisnagalliagh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/lisnagalliagh.md - Tattybrack: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/tattybrack.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/mountcarmel - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/mountcarmel