# Newbliss, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killeevan, barony of Dartree, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Cúil Darach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 852,269 m² (85.23 ha, 210.6 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,546 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): G3 Landscape Protection/Conservation, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killeevan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/killeevan.md - Barony: Dartree - Electoral division: Newbliss, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 918 people lived in 322 households in the Newbliss electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/40249 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 171567 - Centre: latitude 54.154021, longitude -7.146574 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newbliss, from 30 m² to 146,040 m² (14.6 ha, 36.09 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 348306: 146,040 m² (14.6 ha, 36.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/348306.md - Parcel 323406: 125,577 m² (12.56 ha, 31.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/323406.md - Parcel 351510: 94,452 m² (9.45 ha, 23.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/351510.md - Parcel 349318: 94,039 m² (9.4 ha, 23.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/349318.md - Parcel 324227: 70,579 m² (7.06 ha, 17.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/324227.md - Parcel 347885: 61,315 m² (6.13 ha, 15.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/347885.md - Parcel 322664: 57,535 m² (5.75 ha, 14.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/322664.md - Parcel 323925: 56,202 m² (5.62 ha, 13.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/323925.md - Parcel 346822: 38,934 m² (3.89 ha, 9.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/346822.md - Parcel 329394: 19,408 m² (1.94 ha, 4.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/329394.md - Parcel 357054: 13,379 m² (1.34 ha, 3.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/357054.md - Parcel 323440: 11,166 m² (1.12 ha, 2.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/323440.md - Parcel 322784: 8,299 m² (0.83 ha, 2.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/322784.md - Parcel 325349: 7,427 m² (0.74 ha, 1.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/325349.md - Parcel 316526: 5,404 m² (0.54 ha, 1.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/316526.md - Parcel 4332089: 3,871 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4332089.md - Parcel 341388: 3,781 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/341388.md - Parcel 4619239: 3,015 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4619239.md - Parcel 352548: 2,977 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/352548.md - Parcel 2419469: 2,548 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2419469.md - Parcel 346414: 2,546 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/346414.md - Parcel 355142: 2,515 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/355142.md - Parcel 330272: 1,396 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/330272.md - Parcel 325120: 1,391 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/325120.md - Parcel 5440038: 1,356 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5440038.md - Parcel 321936: 1,293 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/321936.md - Parcel 325776: 1,097 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/325776.md - Parcel 5604428: 987 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5604428.md - Parcel 5005299: 851 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5005299.md - Parcel 331458: 778 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/331458.md - Parcel 2419468: 620 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2419468.md - Parcel 5287833: 548 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5287833.md - Parcel 5287743: 434 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5287743.md - Parcel 4619003: 397 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4619003.md - Parcel 5287748: 394 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5287748.md - Parcel 344335: 283 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/344335.md - Parcel 5630656: 265 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5630656.md - Parcel 347275: 236 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/347275.md - Parcel 5630686: 129 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5630686.md - Parcel 5630685: 92 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5630685.md - Parcel 5980908: 30 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5980908.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - G3 Landscape Protection/Conservation (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape): Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://monaghan.ie/planning/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/06/Monaghan-County-Development-Plan-2025-2031-Written-Statement-compressed-files.pdf#page=235 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 8 applications, newest first. - 7 Feb 2025, Monaghan County Council 258: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission to construct 2 new storey & a half style dwelling house's & detached domestic garage's, install new individual mechanical effluent treatment systems & sand polishing filters, develop new combined domestic entrance together with all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/258/0 - 19 Jul 2024, Monaghan County Council 2460253: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission to demolish existing outbuildings & construct 3no. two-storey detached dwellings, 4no. two-storey semi-detached dwellings, new vehicular access with communal parking, pedestrian footpath, associated openspace, connections to mains services including water, Storm & foul sewage, new boundary treatments together with all ancillary site works, Significant further information relates to submitted Roads Safety Audit, Flood Risk Assessment, Proposed lighting design & proposed drawings. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460253/0 - 28 Sept 2020, Monaghan County Council 20393: Refused. Permission. permission for development consisting of to construct a new poultry unit, install an array of PV/Solar panels on both roof elevations together with vertical meal bins, underground washings tank, use existing agricultural entrance and all ancillary site works. Significant Additional Information relates to an appropriate assessment screening report.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/20393/0 - 10 Jan 2020, Monaghan County Council 204: Conditional. Retention. retention permission for a development consisting of a single storey mobile unit comprising staff canteen and sanitary facilities, connection to existing public foul water system together with all ancillary site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/204/0 - 25 Oct 2019, Monaghan County Council 19486: Conditional. Permission. A ten year permission for the development of 8 no. wind turbines, each with a maximum tip height of up to 180 metres; and all associated site development, reinstatement, temporary and ancillary works including turbine foundations, crane hardstands, approximately 5.5 kilometres of site access tracks, permanent upgrade works to the L62012 and L62013 local roads, 11 no. site entrances, underground electricity and communications cabling, site drainage works, a temporary construction compound and a permanent meteorological mast with a maximum height of up to 101 metres. The proposed development will have a 30-year operational life from the date of commissioning of the entire development. The proposed development also includes permanent upgrade works along the R188, R183 and R189 regional roads in the townlands of Rakean, Lismagonway, Aghadrumkeen and Newbliss to accommodate the delivery of wind turbine components. Upgrade works will include the removal of roadside banks and vegetation, re-profiling of a vertical crest, the removal of 1 no. tree and the temporary lowering of a bridge parapet wall, and all associated site development and reinstatement works. This planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report which includes an assessment of the likely impacts of the proposed development, as a whole and in combination with the relevant off-site or secondary developments which will occur as a direct result of the proposed development, including connection to the national electricity grid, upgrade works to turbine component delivery routes and the importation and use of construction materials. The planning application is also accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement. Significant further information relates to revised plans. (NOTE 1ST AND 3RD PARTY APPEAL ON THIS FILE). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/19486/0 - 28 Nov 2018, Monaghan County Council 18556: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission to construct 2 new storey & a half style dwellinghouse's & detached domestic garage's, install new individual mechanical effluent treatment systems & sand polishing filters, develop new combined domestic entrance together with all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/18556/0 - 20 Apr 2018, Monaghan County Council 18158: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Permission to construct a bungalow style dwellinghouse & detached domestic garage, install a new mechanical effluent treatment system & mounded soil polishing filter, construct new domestic entrance together with all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/18158/0 - 31 Jan 2017, Monaghan County Council 1726: Conditional. Permission. permission for a single storey extension comprising a storage area to the rear of existing single storey light industrial unit together with all ancillary site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/1726/0 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 Newbliss. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MO017-073: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO017-073----. Situated on a small W-E spur towards the bottom of the E-facing slope of a drumlin and within view of the site of Newbliss House, which is c. 440m to the NE. A circular enclosure (ext. diam. c. 25m) is depicted on the line of the straight W perimeter of a D-shaped wood (dims c. 90m N-S; c. 80m E-W) on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. This is a grass-covered circular area (diam. 29m E-W; 27m N-S) defined by a grass-covered earthen bank (at ENE: Wth of base 2.2m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.4m) that survives best N-E-S, and traces of an outer fosse of drain (at ENE: Wth 1.3m; D 0.2m). An entrance is not identified and old tree stumps are present. It was adapted as a tree ring, but it was probably a rath originally. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 9 May 2018 - MO017-074: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO017-074----. Situated on top of a drumlin and within view of the site of Newbliss House, which is c. 240m to the NNE. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 45m E-W; 43.9m N-S) defined by a grass-covered earthen bank (at S: Wth of base 2.5m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.4m) with some bushes that is best preserved at SE, where there is an external drain (Wth 1.1m D 0.2m). The original entrance is not identified but the most likely is at NNW (Wth of base 1.8m), and there were old trees stumps in the interior in 1969. A grass-covered depression (dims c. 10m N-S; c. 4m E-W) in the N interior is not likely to be a souterrain. Although it is depicted as a large tree-riing on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map, it is probably a rath in origin. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 9 May 2018 - MO017-075: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO017-075----. Located at the summit of a drumlin and at the SE angle of a wood. This enclosure would have been within view of Newbliss House, c. 450m to the NW before a wood was established on the NW-facing slope of the hill before 1834 (OS map). This is a circular, grass-covered and domed area (diam. c. 27m) that is planted in beech trees. It is defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 2-4m; int. H 0.5m; ex.t H 1.5m), which forms the boundary with Teer townland N-S-W, but the bank is barely present W-N within the wood. The bank survives best SE-W and there are slight traces of an outer fosse, which is particularly evident at SW. An original entrance is not identified. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 9 May 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) - Newbliss House, gate lodge, 1850–1870, Regional interest, registry number 41305017, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41305017. Entrance gateway, erected c.1860, to now demolished Newbliss House. Comprises two pairs of panelled rendered piers with plinths and stepped pyramidal caps, decorative cast-iron double-leaf vehicular gate flanked by similar single-leaf pedestrian gates, cast-iron railings to south side on curved plan atop cut limestone plinth. Detached two-bay single-storey L-plan gate lodge to west with single-bay addition to south, pitched slate roof with smooth rendered chimneystack, brackets to eaves, cast-iron rainwater goods, roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered block-and-start quoins and plinth, square-headed openings with replacement fittings. - Newbliss Church (Killeevan), church/chapel, 1840–1845, Regional interest, registry number 41305018, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41305018. Freestanding Church of Ireland church, built 1841, having two-stage entrance tower with belfry and needle spire, single transept to north, and vestry to south. Pitched fibre-cement slate roof, re-roofed c.1990, with terracotta ridge tiles, cut-stone copings to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Octagonal-plan cut-stone chimneystack to vestry. Random-coursed rubble limestone walls, except for belfry to tower, with cut-stone eaves course and angle buttresses. Bottom stage of tower gabled to each face, formerly pinnacled. Single-light lancet windows to nave and west face of tower, and triple-light with round-headed lights to east gable and to transept, having cast-iron lattice windows. Blind roundels to second stage of tower, with hood-mouldings. Pointed-arch louvred openings to each face of belfry. Elliptical-headed latticed window to vestry. Pointed-arch door opening to north face of tower, with double-leaf timber panelled door with decoratively carved details, set in carved stone surround, with cast-iron bootscrape. Square-headed timber battened door to vestry. Interior has gallery, vaulted plaster ceiling with ribs and bosses, plain pine pews, plain timber communion rails, and ornate timber pulpit, carved stone baptismal font, and some marble wall plaques. Balcony supported on clustered cast-iron columns. Sandstone flags to floor of vestibule. Cantilevered sandstone open-well staircase with wrought-iron uprights and ramped timber handrail. Ladder to south side, with lean-to slate coping. Mausoleum accessed via tunnelled entrance situated beneath transept. Driveway from public road through gateway with cut-stone piers having gable detail to all faces, and cast-iron double-leaf gates with quadrant cut-stone walls with copings. Site bounded by bank and hedging. ## 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 Newbliss, about 1 in 20 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: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Newbliss. - 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/newbliss.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/newbliss.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/newbliss.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Newbliss 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) - Clondinnery: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/clondinnery.md - Drumee: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumee.md - Drumloo North: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumloo-north.md - Drumloo South: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumloo-south.md - Lisalea: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/lisalea.md - Lisdarragh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/lisdarragh.md - Teer: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/teer.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/newbliss - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/newbliss