Rackwallace

66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rackwallace, from 68 m² to 100,430 m² (10.04 ha, 24.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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 Rackwallace 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.

• 12 Mar 2025Conditional

  permission to construct a standalone single storey structure consisting of i.)1No. Additional Classroom, ii.) 2 No. SET Room, iii.) Sanitary Accommodation, iv.) Removal of existing prefabricated classrooms and associated siteworks

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560099

• 26 Feb 2025N/a

  permission to construct a standalone single storey structure consisting of i.)1No. Additional Classroom, ii.) 2 No. SET Room, iii.) Sanitary Accommodation, iv.) Removal of existing prefabricated classrooms and associated siteworks.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560067

• 22 Feb 2021Conditional

  permission for development consisting of to decommission existing septic tank and percolation area serving existing school and install proprietary waste water treatment unit and polishing filter and all other associated site development works.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2178

• 27 Jan 2021Conditional

  permission for the demolition of existing dwelling and outbuilding and the construction of 1 No. storey and half type replacement dwelling with detached domestic garage, alterations to existing site entrance, provision of mechanical effluent treatment system with associated percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2130

• 15 Jun 2020Conditional

  permission to construct a two storey dwelling house, with detached domestic garage, new site entrance & proprietary waste water treatment system along with other associated ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20213

• 2 Oct 2019Conditional

  permission to construct a new two storey dwelling house with detached domestic garage, provide new mechanical effluent treatment system, raised/mounded percolation area, new domestic entrance, together with all ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19458

• 6 Aug 2019Conditional

  permission to construct a new two storey dwelling, one and a half storey detached domestic garage, new entrance with gates & piers, new wastewater treatment system and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19364

• 19 Jul 2018Conditional

  permission to construct a two-storey dwelling, new wastewater treatment system, new entrance with piers and gates and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18339

• 18 Sept 2017Conditional

  Permission to construct a two-storey dwelling together with attached single-storey domestic garage, new entrance with gates and piers, wastewater treatment system and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17444

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 Rackwallace.

Recorded monuments

• MO014-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located just E of the summit of a drumlin. This is a subcircular grass and rush-covered area (dims 39.4m NW-SE; 35.4m NE-SE) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at E: Wth of base 6.8m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H c. 4m), and an outer fosse (at E: Wth of base 3.7m; ext. D 0.7m) which has a field bank outside it WSW-N-ENE. The entrance (Wth of base 4.5m) which has been widened, and causeway (Wth of top 2m; H c. 0.5m) are at ESE. The interior has become overgrown since 1968 (OSAP: 1995). 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 23 February 2018

• MO014-014001 Church
  Description

  Located towards the bottom of a NW-facing slope with a small SSW-NNE stream c. 80m to the NW. This is the site of the parish church of what has become Monaghan parish prior to the building of a church (MO009-060012-) in the town after 1601. It is not listed in the ecclesiastical taxation (1302-06) of Pope Nicholas IV, but a church of Lochdaye or Laghty, meaning the Long Fort of Mac Mahon is known from 1427 (McKenna 1920, 1, 17-8; Leslie 1929, 228). However, from the end of the fifteenth century the church is called Rackwallace, and it may be on an ancient site as the abbot of Armagh is described as of ‘Rath Mac Malais’ in 834 and 838 (Shirley 1879, 309). In 1622 when the church ‘of Rackwallace’ is described in Spottiswood’s visitation as ‘new built but indifferently repaired’ the church in Monaghan town (MO009-066012-) is probably intended (Leslie 1929, 228-33). The names of some of the clergy are known from 1532 (ibid.). Only the graveyard is depicted and named on the 1835 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. The foundations of the W end of a plain rectangular structure (dims c. 15m E-W; 4m N-S) were visible in 1968 (SMR file) in a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 40m NNW-SSE; c. 40m ENE-WSW) defined by earthen banks. It is thought that burial ceased c. 1930 and most of the headstones are lost but some dating from 1710 to 1794 have been recorded (Ó Dubhtaigh 1962 160-1). A skeleton found N of graveyard indicates that the graveyard was originally more extensive (ibid. 159). (McKenna 1920, 1, 16-38) 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: 25 November 2016 Revised by: Michael Moore

• MO014-014002 Graveyard
  Description

  a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 40m NNW-SSE; c. 40m ENE-WSW) defined by earthen banks. It is thought that burial ceased c. 1930 and most of the headstones are lost but some dating from 1710 to 1794 have been recorded (Ó Dubhtaigh 1962 160-1). A skeleton found N of graveyard indicates that the graveyard was originally more extensive (ibid. 159). (McKenna 1920, 1, 16-38) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 24 November 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Rackwallace.

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 Rackwallace with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Rackwallace · Ráth Mhic Mhalais

Area

1,253,248 m² (125.32 ha, 309.68 acres)

Civil parish

Monaghan, and its townlands

Barony

Monaghan

Electoral division

Rackwallace, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rackwallace electoral division: 974 people in 315 households; 92% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghnagap, Aghnaglogh, Ardaghy, Cordevlis, Cormurphy, Corrinshigo, Corvally, Creeve, Legnacreeve

Placenames

Rackwallace 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.