# Selloo, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Clones, barony of Monaghan, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Suí Lú.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 262,719 m² (26.27 ha, 64.92 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 46,375 m² (4.64 ha, 11.46 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Clones, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/clones.md
- Barony: Monaghan
- Electoral division: Clones, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 517 people lived in 180 households in the Clones electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 7% 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/1166786
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 171633
- Centre: latitude 54.250795, longitude -7.125622 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Selloo, from 4,377 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres) to 165,080 m² (16.51 ha, 40.79 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 315895: 165,080 m² (16.51 ha, 40.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/315895.md
- Parcel 324688: 81,618 m² (8.16 ha, 20.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/324688.md
- Parcel 327930: 11,133 m² (1.11 ha, 2.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/327930.md
- Parcel 324552: 4,377 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/324552.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Selloo 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.

- 9 Jun 2021, Monaghan County Council 21339: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Permission to erect a single storey extension to the rear of existing storey and a half dwelling house and exit onto public road by way of existing entrance. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21339/0

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## 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 Selloo.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- MO008-011: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO008-011----. Located at the S end of a small N-S ridge. This is an early ecclesiastical site, the name of which ‘Selloo’ probably derives from Suidhe Lugha – Lua’s seat. Lua is probably short for Molua (Smyth 1953), who is the patron of Drumsnat parish, the parish church of which (MO013-002003-) is c. 5km to the SE. St Molua of Kyle, Co. Laois (LA015-023001-) was a sixth century saint descended of the Corca Oiche sept of the Ulaidh. According to a twelfth century life influenced by Augustinian interests he was educated at the monastery of Bangor, Co. Down, before moving to Drumsnat and finally settling at Kyle (Ó Riain 2011, 490-3). Although Selloo is in a part of Clones parish within Monaghan barony, this is probably the site of the church that St. Molua established in Monaghan that became associated with Drumsnat. A burial ground is represented by a rectangular grass-covered area (dims c. 20m NE-SW: c. 15m NW-SE) defined by field walls at NW and SW and occasional stones on the line of the perimeter elsewhere. The crude base of a cross and two bullaun stones were in the interior until 1968 at least. This is the burial ground that was thought to have been used exclusively for children after c. 1800 (Smyth 1953, 63) but there are no grave-markers. A shallow drainage trench dug across it N-S during 1983 unearthed bones and a fragment of a decorated shaft of a high cross (Harbison 1992, vol. 1, 167) that is now in the County Monaghan Museum. The burial ground is a within a circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 80-85m) defined by a scarp that is best preserved WNW-NE (at N: Wth c. 5m; H c. 1m) and E-SW. The enclosure is overlain by field banks that approach from NE, SE, SW and NW and meet around the burial ground at its centre. (Brindley 1988, 49-50) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 30 August 2017
- MO008-011001: Children's burial ground, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO008-011001-. Located at the S end of a small N-S ridge. At the centre of the early church site (MO008-011----) is a rectangular grass-covered area (dims c. 20m NE-SW: c. 15m NW-SE) defined by field walls at NW and SW and occasional stones on the line of the perimeter elsewhere. This is the burial ground that was thought to have been used exclusively for children after c. 1800 (Smyth 1953, 63) but there are no grave-markers. A shallow drainage trench dug across it N-S during 1983 unearthed bones and a fragment of a decorated shaft of a high cross (MO008-011003-) that is now in the County Monaghan Museum, but two bullaun stones (MO0008-011004-) and the base of a cross (MO008-011005-) are missing from the burial ground. (Brindley 1988, 49-50) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). Revised by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 30 August 2017
- MO008-011002: Ecclesiastical enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO008-011002-. Located at the S end of a small N-S ridge. The early church (MO008-011----) that was probably founded by St. Molua in the sixth century is within a circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 80-85m) defined by a scarp that is best preserved WNW-NE (at N: Wth c. 5m; H c. 1m) and E-SW. The enclosure is overlain by field banks that approach from NE, SE, SW and NW and meet around the burial ground (MO008-011001-) at its centre. (Brindley 1988, 49) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 30 August 2017
- MO008-011003: Cross - High cross, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO008-011003-. Portion of the decorated shaft of sandstone high cross (H 0.2m; Wth 0.18m; T 0.1m) was discovered in a drain across the children’s burial ground at the early church site (MO008-011----) in 1983. One face has a panel of fretwork but while the opposite face was prepared for carving no pattern was executed; the shorter sides were intended to be plain. It is now in Monaghan County Museum. (Brindley 1988, 50; Harbison 1992, 167; No. 201) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 30 August 2017
- MO008-011004: Bullaun stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO008-011004-. Brindley (1988, 49-50) records that two small stones with shallow depressions, possibly bullaun stones or mortars, were noted in 1968 as being incorporated in the ruined wall of the children's burial ground (MO008-011001-). These have not been located. Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 12 April 2017
- MO008-011005: Cross, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO008-011005-. The rectangular base of a cross was kept at the childrens’ burial ground (MO008-011001-) in the early church site (MO008-011----) until 1968 at least, but it was not noted in 1983. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 30 August, 2017

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## 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 Selloo, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Selloo.
- 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/selloo.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/selloo.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/selloo.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Selloo 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)

- Cavanacross: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/cavanacross.md
- Drumgoast: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumgoast.md
- Drumummery: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumummery.md
- Kilcreen: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/kilcreen.md
- Knocknagrat: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/knocknagrat.md
- Mullaglassan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/mullaglassan.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.

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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.

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