Reduff

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Reduff, from 1,805 m² to 229,167 m² (22.92 ha, 56.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Reduff 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.

• 22 Nov 2017Conditional

  Permission to construct a single storey style dwelling house, new sewerage wastewater treatment system, and new entrance onto private laneway and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17558

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 Reduff.

Recorded monuments

• MO024-040 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on the NW-facing spine of a small NW-SE drumlin ridge, which rises like a rib through the interior of the monument. This is a subcircular grass and scrub-covered area (dims 39m NW-SE; 33m NE-SW) that slopes down steeply to the NW (H 4.3m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 10m; int. H 1.8m; ext. H 1.5m) SE-S that morphs into a scarp (at NW: Wth 1.5m; H 1.8m) with some bushes elsewhere. There is no visible fosse, although a berm (Wth 2.4m) separates the bank from a NE-SW field wall at SE. The original entrance is not identified. 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: 30 January 2018

• MO027-009 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Situated on a broad SE-NW ridge or spur in a low-lying landscape with a small E-W stream curving around the point on the N side and turning S into a mill-pond. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 4.3m) defined by a rounded fosse (Wth of top 4.2-4.5m; int. D 0.5-0.6m; ext. D 0.9-1m) and an outer bank (Wth of base 4.5-5.6m; ext. H 0.4-0.7m) with bushes (max. ext. diam. 18.6m NW-SE). There is a causeway (Wth of top 1.2m; H 0.6m) and entrance (Wth 2.6m) through the bank at WNW marked by stones. 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: 30 January 2018

Architectural heritage

• Farm Hill, farmyard complex, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard comprising house, with yard of outbuildings to rear, built c.1800. Detached three-bay two-storey house, having gabled porch with chamfered corners to front (south-east) elevation. and rear return having lower pitched roof, partly catslide over single-storey projection to rear (north-west) elevation. Pitched slate roofs, with red brick chimneystacks with clay pots, rendered copings, clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods, having terracotta ridge tiles and painted masonry chimneystack to return with clay pot. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls to front elevation and south-west gable, roughcast rendered elsewhere. Round-headed window opening to front of porch, square-headed elsewhere, with painted masonry and painted tooled stone sills, and replacement uPVC windows throughout. Square-headed timber panelled door to porch, with dressed stone steps. Yard to rear of house, having multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding with attic storey to south-west range, multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to north-east range, and detached single and two-storey outbuildings to north-west boundary of yard. Pitched slate roofs with red brick eaves courses, and painted rubble stone walls. Diamond-shaped openings to first floor of north-east range, square-headed openings to ground floor and other ranges. Elliptical-arch and depressed three-centred carriage openings to north-west and south-west ranges. Timber battened fittings, wrought-iron gate to north-west range. Cast-iron pump to yard. Yard entrances to north-west boundary and to north corner, each having wrought-iron gate. Rubble stone boundary walls to front garden, having cast-iron gate piers.

• Mill (water), 1790–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Mill complex, comprising two-storey corn mill, built c.1800, having three-bay first floor and five-bay ground floor, with lower three-bay two-storey flax mill of c.1890 recessed to west gable end, slightly lower two-bay two-storey grain store to west gable end, and lower two-storey block of two workers' houses having three-bay first floor and five-bay ground floor. Built into slope, buildings having single-storey rear (north) elevation. Pitched slate roofs throughout, with clay ridge tiles and concrete copings to mills and store, and red brick chimneystacks and eaves course to worker's houses, with clay tiles to ridge. Rubble stone walls with vestiges of render, and having squared stone quoins, rubble quoins to workers' houses. Two blocked elliptical carriage arches to corn mill, one with traces of former gable, and evidence of former openings to first floor. Square-headed window openings, some with stone sills, some with timber battened shutters, some boarded up. Square-headed door openings, with timber battened doors. Camber-arch opening to front (south) elevation of flax mill with projecting cast-iron breast-shot waterwheel.

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 5 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 Reduff.

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

Name

Reduff · An Ráith Dhubh

Area

849,086 m² (84.91 ha, 209.81 acres)

Civil parish

Aghnamullen, and its townlands

Barony

Cremorne

Electoral division

Bellatrain, the unit of the census

Census 2022

272 people lived in 81 households in the Bellatrain electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghmakerr, Beagh, Drumillard, Tooa, Tullyglass, Tullynamalra

Placenames

Reduff 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.