Sogher
Townland in the civil parish of Errigal Trough, barony of Trough, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Sochar
- Area
- 33.6 ha
- 83 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 5,996 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sogher, from 155 m² to 65,254 m² (6.53 ha, 16.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Sogher 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
7 Sept 2017Conditional
Permission to construct a single storey style dwelling house with attic accommodation/storage space including on-site proprietary wastewater treatment system and polishing filter accessed by existing entrance currently serving land plus ancillary site works (previous planning ref no P17/171)
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17424
12 Apr 2017Conditional
Outline Permission to construct a single storey dwelling house including on-site proprietary wastewater treatment system and polishing filter accessed by existing entrance currently serving land plus ancillary site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17171
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Sogher.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Sogher.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Sogher.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Sogher.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Sogher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Sogher · Sochar
- Area
- 335,916 m² (33.59 ha, 83.01 acres)
- Civil parish
- Errigal Trough, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trough
- Electoral division
- Anketell Grove, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Anketell Grove electoral division: 1,278 people in 400 households; 86% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Brackagh, Davagh Etra, Derrygola, Dunmadigan, Killybressal
- Placenames
- Sogher 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.