Tirfinnog
Townland in the civil parish of Monaghan, barony of Monaghan, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Tír Fheannóg
- Area
- 37.8 ha
- 94 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 24,315 m² (2.43 ha, 6.01 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tirfinnog, from 460 m² to 84,293 m² (8.43 ha, 20.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Tirfinnog 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
3 Jun 2026N/a
planning permission to construct a poultry house, for laying-hens, with detached manure store, vertical meal bins, washings tank & other associated ancillary site works including alterations to existing site access from public road
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660232
29 Nov 2021Conditional
permission for proposed single-storey extension to side of existing 2-storey house and all associated works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21658
27 May 2020Conditional
permission to construct a broiler type poultry house, together with all ancillary structures including vertical meal bin & underground washings tank, together with associated ancillary site works & new site access from public road. Significant further information relates to the inclusion of an appropriate assessment screening report.
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 20185
26 Feb 2020Conditional
permission to construct a slatted shed for the housing of livestock, to include vertical feed silo & incorporating the demolition of former dwelling house & attached out-houses, along with other associated ancillary site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2070
1 May 2019N/a
permission to construct a broiler type poultry house, together with all ancillary structures including vertical meal bin & underground washings tank, together with associated ancillary site works & new site access from public road. Significant further information relates to the submission of a flood risk assessment.
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 19201
23 Jan 2017N/a
permission to construct 2 No. Poultry units within existing farm complex together with underground washings tanks, vertical meal bins, and use existing agricultural entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 1716
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 Tirfinnog.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tirfinnog.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tirfinnog.
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, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tirfinnog.
- 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 Tirfinnog with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Tirfinnog · Tír Fheannóg
- Area
- 378,455 m² (37.85 ha, 93.52 acres)
- Civil parish
- Monaghan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Monaghan
- Electoral division
- Rackwallace, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rackwallace electoral division: 974 people in 315 households; 92% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghabrick, Aghalaverty, Aghintamy, Clonlonan, Corrawillin, Lisdrumdoagh
- Placenames
- Tirfinnog 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.