Oram

88 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oram, from 35 m² to 152,141 m² (15.21 ha, 37.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

• G5Recreation/Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 14 Jan 2025Conditional

  permission to erect a single storey dwelling with proprietary waste water treatment system and percolation area with all ancillary works, Significant Further Information relates to submitted Location Map, proposed drawings, Letter of consent

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560014

• 21 Mar 2024N/a

  permission to erect a single storey dwelling with proprietary waste water treatment system and percolation area with all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2460102

• 27 Feb 2024N/a

  permission consisting of new dwelling proprietary wastewater treatment system raised soil polishing filter and new entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2460069

• 15 Mar 2023Conditional

  permission to construct a two storey style dwelling house, a single storey domestic garage, new connection to the public sewer, new entrance onto public road and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2360012

• 29 Mar 2021Conditional

  erect a single storey dwellinghouse with detached single storey domestic garage, proprietary waste water treatment system and percolation area, new site entrance, complete with all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21143

• 24 Aug 2017Conditional

  The construction of a storey and a half dwelling with detached garage, installation of a septic tank and percolation area, with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17404

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Oram.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Oram.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Patrick's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding T-plan Catholic Church, built c.1830, having three-bay nave, with recent flat-roofed boiler house to north elevation. Pitched slate roof having clay roof ridge cresting, stone copings and carved cross gable apex finials with cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted smooth rendered walls throughout. Pointed-arch window openings having painted stone sills with metal-framed stained-glass windows. Main entrance comprises pointed-arch door opening having replacement timber double-leaf door, approached by stone steps and modern metal railings. Pointed-arch door openings to east and west gables having timber double-leaf doors. Church is set back from road within site containing graveyard. Square-plan painted rendered gate piers to front (south) boundary with cast-iron gates and painted roughcast rendered walls. Hedgerow to remaining boundaries. Interior has timber panelled roof with exposed timber king-post trusses and carved timber cornice. Smooth rendered walls, moulded dado rail. Timber Stations of the Cross hanging to walls of nave and transept. Modern pine pews to nave and transepts. Gallery to south of nave with timber panelled balcony, supported on two cast-iron round-plan columns. Free-standing marble altar on stepped platform, surrounded by communion rail. Marble reredos to wall behind altar flanked by engaged fluted pilasters with moulded cornice. Square-headed timber panelled door from north-west accessing sacristy. Free-standing baptismal font at junction of nave and eastern transept. Timber confessional box to east and west transept. Plaster hood-mouldings to pointed-arch window openings.

• Hall, 1940–1960 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey dance hall, built c.1950, having three bays to rear. Now disused. Pitched corrugated-iron roof, gabled to north-east and south-west. Painted corrugated-iron cladding to walls over timber frame. Single-storey lean-to extension to north-east with corrugated-iron roof and cement rendered walls. Square-headed window openings, having timber battened side-hung shutters. Square-headed door opening to north-west elevation, having timber battened door with over-light, opening to two concrete steps. Rectangular timber name plate over door, with pediment detail, lettering gone. Located on Castleblayney to Newtownhamilton road, opposite Saint Patrick's Church and former Oram national school.

• School, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey school, built c.1870, with three-bay single-storey block to north end. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles and rendered chimneystacks to gable ends. Projecting pairs of roof timbers to eaves. Smooth rendered walls to main building, roughcast rendered walls to lower block. Square-headed window and door openings to main building blocked up and rendered, five bays to east, four bays to west, evidence of door to central bay of east elevation. Square-headed window openings to lower block, having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with concrete sills. Square-headed door opening to east elevation of lower block, with timber battened door. Situated east of Saint Patrick's Church in grounds of graveyard in village of Oram, on bend of Castleblayney to Newtownhamilton road.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Oram.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.

No address of the register names Oram with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Oram · Eoroim

Area

1,035,881 m² (103.59 ha, 255.97 acres)

Civil parish

Muckno, and its townlands

Barony

Cremorne

Electoral division

Church Hill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

748 people lived in 262 households in the Church Hill electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drumleek North, Erryroe, Formil, Lisdonny, Liseenan, Tullycaghny, Tullynamalra

Placenames

Oram 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.