Peast

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Peast, from 132 m² to 134,040 m² (13.4 ha, 33.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Peast 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.

• 13 Nov 2025Conditional

  retention permission & permission for development. The development will consist of; Retention of existing attic to habitable accommodation, permission for flat roof extensions to the front and rear elevations, extension of the existing domestic garage, internal and external additions and alterations, and all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560455

• 6 Nov 2025N/a

  permission to apply for retention permission & permission of development. The development will consist of; Retention of existing attic to habitable accommodation, Permission for flat roof extensions to the front and rear elevations, extension of the existing domestic garage, internal and external additions and alterations, and all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560447

• 8 Mar 2023Conditional

  permission consisting of a two storey extension to an existing dwelling house complete with a new sewerage treatment unit, percolation area with all ancillary site works including the reconfiguration of existing laneway to existing farm. Significant Further Information relates to updated Site Characterisation form, percolation system details, site location map indicating water supply and site section drawings

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2378

• 16 Feb 2023N/a

  permission for development of a two storey extension to an existing dwelling house complete with a new storage treatment unit, percolation area with all ancillary site works including the reconfiguration of existing laneway to existing farm yard

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2352

• 20 Jan 2022Refused

  permission consisting of a two storey extension to an existing dwelling house complete with a new sewerage treatment unit, percolation area with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2220

• 13 Jan 2020Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of the construction of a single storey extension to the front of an existing dwelling house and for associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 206

• 9 Dec 2019Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of the construction of a part single storey, part two storey dwelling house, waste water treatment unit and percolation area and new entrance onto the public road

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19548

• 24 Jan 2018Conditional

  Permission to develop single storey dwelling, garage, waste water treatment system, associated percolation area, entrance, driveway and all associated siteworks.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 1827

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 Peast.

Recorded monuments

• MO027-089 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated at the SE end of a slight NW-SE ridge that is on a NE-facing slope overlooking a small dry closed valley. A small embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 25m) with a farm lane curving around it NE-S and farm buildings just to the W is depicted 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 D-shaped enclosure with straight sides at W and N on the 1907 edition. This is a subcircular area (dims c. 30m N-S; c. 26m E-W) defined by field banks, and is used as a haggard. 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: 1 February 2018

• MO027-090 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a shelf on a NE-facing slope. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 29m NE-SW; 29m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (at SW: Wth of base 6.2m; int. H 1m, ext. H 2.2m) separated by a flat-bottomed fosse (at SW: Wth of top 5m; Wth of base 2.8m; ext. D 1.6m) from an outer flat-topped bank (at SW: Wth of base 7m; Wth of top 4.4m; ext. H 0.6m) S-W, but the inner bank is reduced to a slight feature (at NE: Wth 2m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.4m) NW-E-S and the outer features do not survive elsewhere. A small house site (ext. dims 5m NW-SE; 4m NE-SW) defined by small earthen bank (Wth 1m; H 0.7-0.8m) abuts the outside of the outer bank at 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: 1 February 2018

• MO027-090001 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Located on a shelf on a NE-facing slope and abutting the outer face of the outer bank of rath (MO027-090----) at SW. This is a rectangular area (ext. dims 5m NW-SE; 4m NE-SW) defined by small earthen bank (Wth 1m; H 0.7-0.8m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 1 February 2018

• MO027-091 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a slight NW-SE ridge on a shelf which is on a NE-facing slope. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 30m E-W; 27.5m N-S) that slopes down slightly to the SE (H 1.4m) defined by a grass and scrub-covered earthen bank (Wth 4-4.6m; int. H 0.4-1.3m; ext. H 1.2-1.3m). There is no visible fosse, but the entrance (Wth of base 2m) is at ESE 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: 1 February 2018

• MO028-094 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a hillock. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 26m NW-SE; 24m NE-SW) defined by a small earthen bank (Wth 1.4-2.7m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.9-1.3m) with some bushes that is reduced to a scarp (at NE: Wth 3m; H 0.7m) over much of the perimeter. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. The monument is overlain by a NW-SE field bank towards the perimeter at 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. Date of revision: 8 December 2017

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Peast.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Peast.

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.

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

Name

Peast · Péist

Area

853,939 m² (85.39 ha, 211.01 acres)

Civil parish

Magheross, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Drumgurra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumgurra electoral division: 742 people in 242 households; 90% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghacloghan, Bocks Upper, Coolfore, Drumgowna, Greaghdrumneesk, Killarue

Placenames

Peast 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.