# Searkin, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killeevan, barony of Dartree, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Sadhaircín. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 479,312 m² (47.93 ha, 118.44 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 13,807 m² (1.38 ha, 3.41 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killeevan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/killeevan.md - Barony: Dartree - Electoral division: Newbliss, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 918 people lived in 322 households in the Newbliss electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/40255 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 171630 - Centre: latitude 54.138041, longitude -7.189079 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Searkin, from 723 m² to 62,367 m² (6.24 ha, 15.41 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 326044: 62,367 m² (6.24 ha, 15.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/326044.md - Parcel 333944: 51,033 m² (5.1 ha, 12.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/333944.md - Parcel 332026: 50,441 m² (5.04 ha, 12.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/332026.md - Parcel 339479: 48,418 m² (4.84 ha, 11.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/339479.md - Parcel 5488135: 47,627 m² (4.76 ha, 11.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5488135.md - Parcel 343743: 39,334 m² (3.93 ha, 9.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/343743.md - Parcel 329884: 26,226 m² (2.62 ha, 6.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/329884.md - Parcel 4785586: 22,441 m² (2.24 ha, 5.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4785586.md - Parcel 5488136: 20,614 m² (2.06 ha, 5.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5488136.md - Parcel 5130565: 18,817 m² (1.88 ha, 4.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5130565.md - Parcel 5488137: 17,403 m² (1.74 ha, 4.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5488137.md - Parcel 315285: 15,308 m² (1.53 ha, 3.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/315285.md - Parcel 357122: 12,306 m² (1.23 ha, 3.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/357122.md - Parcel 316654: 8,325 m² (0.83 ha, 2.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/316654.md - Parcel 5488236: 7,755 m² (0.78 ha, 1.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5488236.md - Parcel 4356605: 7,471 m² (0.75 ha, 1.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4356605.md - Parcel 4429700: 6,025 m² (0.6 ha, 1.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4429700.md - Parcel 4103242: 4,987 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4103242.md - Parcel 325803: 2,923 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/325803.md - Parcel 4992073: 2,905 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4992073.md - Parcel 344108: 2,887 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/344108.md - Parcel 4851674: 2,796 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4851674.md - Parcel 5138252: 835 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5138252.md - Parcel 336407: 723 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/336407.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Searkin 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) 4 applications, newest first. - 20 Mar 2025, Monaghan County Council 2560113: Conditional. Permission. planning permission to demolish 1 No. existing poultry house and to construct 1 No. Poultry house together with all ancillary structures and site works associated with the above development on an existing poultry farm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560113/0 - 28 Mar 2024, Monaghan County Council 2460114: Refused. Permission. permission to demolish 1 no. existing poultry house and to construct 1 No. Poultry house together with all ancillary structures and site works associated with the above development on an existing poultry farm. Significant Further Information received relates to an E.I.A. Screening Statement and various reports.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460114/0 - 23 Sept 2020, Monaghan County Council 20387: Conditional. Retention. Retention of 1 no. existing storage shed for use as a general agricultural purpose/biomass storage shed and 2 number Biomass Heat units with integrated boiler and associated plant rooms, together with all ancillary structures and associated site works. This application relates to a development which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a licence under IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2013. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/20387/0 - 2 Feb 2017, Monaghan County Council 1732: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission to convert existing dormer dwelling to a storey and a half dwelling, replace flat roof with pitched roof at rear and form pitched roof porch at front and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/1732/0 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 Searkin. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Searkin. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Searkin. ## 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 Searkin, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Searkin. - 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/searkin.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/searkin.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/searkin.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Searkin 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) - Crossbane: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/crossbane.md - Drumcrow: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumcrow.md - Drumswords: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumswords.md - Killyleg: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/killyleg.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/searkin - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/searkin