Scarvy

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Scarvy, from 3,166 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres) to 306,255 m² (30.63 ha, 75.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Scarvy 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Scarvy in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Scarvy.

Recorded monuments

• MO017-002 Standing stone
  Description

  Situated in a low-lying landscape with hills to the W and E. This stone has a rectangular base (dims c. 0.95m; x c. 0.65m; H 1.72m) that is roughly aligned NE-SW and a pointed top. 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: 8 May 2018

• MO017-076 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  Located on a slight rise towards the bottom of a NW-facing slope, with Scarvy House c. 300m to the NE. It is depicted as an oval wooded enclosure only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is an oval area (dims c. 41m N-S; 24m E-W) planted with trees that is defined by a slight scarp (H c. 0.7-1m). There is no visible fosse or entrance. It is known locally as a ‘fort’ but it is more probably a tree-ring. Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• MO017-077 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  Located on a hillock with higher ground to the E and S and within view of Scarvy House c. 240m to the NNW. It is depicted as an oval wooded enclosure only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is an oval grass-covered area (dims 35m NW-SE; 24m NE-SW) defined by a low earthen bank (Wth c. 2m; int. H c. 0.2m; ext. H c. 0.7-1m) planted with deciduous trees, and slight traces of an outer fosse. There is no identifiable entrance and it is likely to be an ornamental tree-ring. Date of upload: 14 April 2011

Architectural heritage

• Scarvy House, gate lodge, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1840, having gabled portico to front (west) elevation. Hipped slate roof, with rendered chimneystack and clay ridge tiles, with cast-iron ridge to porch. Coursed rubble stone walls, having painted rendered plinth course, and painted dressed stone quoins. Gauged red brick square-headed window openings, with painted masonry sills, red brick surrounds, timber mullions and octagonal pattern glazing bars. Opening to north elevation blocked. Portico supported by paired cast-iron columns to front corners. Segmental-headed door opening to front, set within recessed segmental-headed panel. Square-headed door openings to north and south elevations of interior of porch. Stone flagged platform to front of door. Square-headed timber battened door to rear. Double-leaf cast-iron gates to road, flanked by square-plan decorative cast-iron piers with ball finials, having matching curvilinear railings on dressed sandstone plinth wall, terminating in square-plan dressed sandstone piers.

• Scarvy House, country house, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house with half-basement, built c.1840, having pro-style tetrastyle portico to front (north-west) elevation, three-bay north-east and two-bay south-west elevations. Hipped M-profile slate roof, with dressed sandstone chimneystacks with clay pots. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Overhanging eaves having decorative paired eaves brackets. Coursed rubble stone walls, having painted dressed stone plinth course and corner pilaster quoins. Dressed stone block-and-start quoins to basement level to north-east, south-west and rear elevations, and harl-rendered to south-west elevation. Square-headed window openings, with dressed stone block-and-start and painted render surrounds, render sill and timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to ground floor, and six-over-three pane to first floor and basement level. Dressed stone block-and-start surrounds and cast-iron railings to basement level windows. Replacement uPVC windows to south-west elevation. Paired round-plan Doric-style columns to portico, with respondent square-plan engaged pilasters, supporting entablature with laurel wreaths and string course, moulded cornice over. Segmental-headed door opening, flanked by paned sidelights, and having decorative fanlight, all set into painted dressed stone surround, with panelled pilasters to doorway and panelled lintels to doorway and sidelights, and with double-leaf timber panelled door. Door opening on to flagged sandstone platform, having dressed sandstone steps, flanked by carved stone eagles. Square-headed door opening to south-west elevation with painted dressed stone surround and single-leaf timber panelled door. Garden to north and rear of house, having cast-iron single-leaf pedestrian gate flanked by cast-iron columns.

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 Scarvy.

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

Name

Scarvy · Scairbhigh

Area

585,610 m² (58.56 ha, 144.71 acres)

Civil parish

Killeevan, and its townlands

Barony

Dartree

Electoral division

Newbliss, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Newbliss electoral division: 918 people in 322 households; 76% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clontreat, Coolnalong, Drumcru (Dickson), Golanduff, Rabows, Racaulfield, Skeachorn, Tullyreas

Placenames

Scarvy 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.