# Ralaghan, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Errigal Trough, barony of Trough, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Ráth Lachan. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 662,278 m² (66.23 ha, 163.65 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 28,755 m² (2.88 ha, 7.11 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Errigal Trough, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/errigal-trough.md - Barony: Trough - Electoral division: Figullar, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 556 people lived in 170 households in the Figullar electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 9% 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/40747 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 171604 - Centre: latitude 54.375377, longitude -6.936856 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ralaghan, from 1,001 m² to 128,137 m² (12.81 ha, 31.66 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 346689: 128,137 m² (12.81 ha, 31.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/346689.md - Parcel 326943: 107,062 m² (10.71 ha, 26.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/326943.md - Parcel 357333: 89,873 m² (8.99 ha, 22.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/357333.md - Parcel 319846: 85,442 m² (8.54 ha, 21.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319846.md - Parcel 319427: 68,905 m² (6.89 ha, 17.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319427.md - Parcel 5926022: 56,363 m² (5.64 ha, 13.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5926022.md - Parcel 3462620: 30,896 m² (3.09 ha, 7.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3462620.md - Parcel 5926030: 29,896 m² (2.99 ha, 7.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5926030.md - Parcel 317476: 28,755 m² (2.88 ha, 7.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/317476.md - Parcel 5926004: 9,391 m² (0.94 ha, 2.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5926004.md - Parcel 335460: 7,464 m² (0.75 ha, 1.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/335460.md - Parcel 326194: 5,498 m² (0.55 ha, 1.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/326194.md - Parcel 334599: 5,257 m² (0.53 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/334599.md - Parcel 334621: 4,288 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/334621.md - Parcel 317477: 4,053 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/317477.md - Parcel 5926020: 3,050 m² (0.31 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5926020.md - Parcel 343684: 1,001 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/343684.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ralaghan 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) 1 application, newest first. - 29 Oct 2025, Monaghan County Council 2560431: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission for a development which will consist of the construction of 1 No. Two storey dwelling, detached single storey domestic garage, new site entrance onto public road, provision of effluent treatment system with associated percolation area and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560431/0 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 Ralaghan. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ralaghan. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ralaghan. ## 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 Ralaghan, 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 low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ralaghan. - 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/ralaghan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/ralaghan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/ralaghan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ralaghan 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) - Cavan (Cope): https://everytownland.com/monaghan/cavan-cope.md - Dernahinch: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/dernahinch.md - Drumarrell: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumarrell.md - Figullar: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/figullar.md - Kilfahavon: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/kilfahavon.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/ralaghan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/ralaghan