# Thornhill, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Drumsnat, barony of Monaghan, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Cnoc na Sceiche. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 162,655 m² (16.27 ha, 40.19 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 81,328 m² (8.13 ha, 20.1 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Drumsnat, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/drumsnat.md - Barony: Monaghan - Electoral division: Drumsnat, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,069 people lived in 392 households in the Drumsnat electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/40651 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 171725 - Centre: latitude 54.228023, longitude -7.073623 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Thornhill, from 7,413 m² (0.74 ha, 1.83 acres) to 155,242 m² (15.52 ha, 38.36 acres); 9 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 349820: 155,242 m² (15.52 ha, 38.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/349820.md - Parcel 315745: 7,413 m² (0.74 ha, 1.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/315745.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Thornhill 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) No planning application touches the townland of Thornhill in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## 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 Thornhill. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Thornhill. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Thornhill House, house, 1810–1830, Regional interest, registry number 41401205, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41401205. Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, having central full-height bow-fronted bay to four-bay north elevation, and lean-to extension to south elevation. Hipped slate roof to front (east), side (north) and rear (west) elevations, and M-profile pitched slate roof to south. Rendered chimneystacks with clay pots, cast-iron rainwater goods, clay ridge tiles, moulded painted eaves course and paired timber eaves supports to overhanging eaves. Ashlar masonry limestone and sandstone walls, having tooled block-and-start quoins and rusticated plinth course, harl-rendered to south. Timber sliding sash windows throughout. Round-headed window opening to rear, having render sill and nine-over-nine pane window, square-headed elsewhere. Six-over-six pane and three-over-six pane to rear. Other elevations have painted gauged-brick lintels and block-and-start surrounds, tooled sandstone sills and six-over-six pane windows. Round-headed painted render scoop-recessed entrance to front, having moulded rusticated stone voussoirs and render enlarged keystone over, elliptical-headed door opening with double-leaf timber panelled door and spoked fanlight, opening onto stone paving. Square-headed door opening to rear, with painted gauged brick voussoirs and block-and-start brick surround, with replacement timber door and over-light. Square-headed door opening to south, having render reveal and timber panelled door. Outbuildings to rear of house arranged around courtyard, having hipped slate roofs with mixed cast-iron and replacement rainwater goods and having clay ridge tiles, random rubble limestone and sandstone walls, gauged-brick square-headed window openings having red brick surrounds, masonry sills, some with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and some with timber fittings, gauged-brick square-headed door openings, with red brick surrounds, timber battened doors or blocked openings, and gauged-brick segmental-headed openings, some having double-leaf timber battened doors, some blocked. Harl-rendered wall enclosing yard to south of house, having segmental carriage arch with single-leaf cast-iron gate flanked by rendered piers. ## 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 Thornhill, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Thornhill. - 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/thornhill.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/thornhill.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/thornhill.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Thornhill 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) - Aghnamallagh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/aghnamallagh.md - Brookvale: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/brookvale.md - Carrowbarra: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/carrowbarra.md - Mullanacross: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/mullanacross-171527.md - Skeagh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/skeagh.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/thornhill - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/thornhill