Togan
Townland in the civil parish of Drumsnat, barony of Monaghan, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Tógán
- Area
- 69.9 ha
- 173 acres
- Land parcels
- 47
- registered freehold, median 5,030 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Togan, from 44 m² to 64,180 m² (6.42 ha, 15.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Togan 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
29 Jun 2026Conditional
permission to erect a slatted shed with solid lie back area, a new lane and entrance onto the public road
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660266
21 Jun 2026N/a
permission to erect a slatted shed with solid lie back area, a new land and entrance onto the public road
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660255
3 Apr 2025N/a
permission to erect a slatted shed with solid lie back area
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560138
10 Mar 2022Conditional
permission to relocate the position of and modify the site boundaries of previously approved dwelling ref P.21/568 together with all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 22106
11 Oct 2021Conditional
permission to construct a bungalow style dwelling house and detached domestic garage, install new mechanical effluent treatment system, subsoil percolation area, develop existing entrance onto public road together with all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21568
31 Jan 2020Conditional
permission to construct a replacement dwelling which includes retaining and repurposing the original building contiguous to the existing farm yard for agricultural use and construction of a new one and a half storey dwelling, single storey detached domestic garage, improvements to existing access roadway together with new wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2036
16 Dec 2019N/a
permission to construct a replacement dwelling which includes retaining and repurposing the original building contiguous to the existing farm yard for agricultural use and construction of a new one and a half storey dwelling, single storey detached domestic garage, improvements to existing access roadway together with new wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19559
23 Jan 2019Conditional
permission to construct a slatted shed for the housing of livestock, along with associated ancillary site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 1923
31 Aug 2018Refused
Permission to construct a one and half storey dwelling, single storey detached domestic garage, together with new wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18411
27 Jun 2018Refused
Permission for extension to two existing poultry houses and underground tanks collecting waste water. Significant further Information relates to the submission of a water protection plan, nutrient management plan and assessment and site boundary adjustment plan
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18291
13 Dec 2017Conditional
Permission to erect a two storey dwelling house, insert a filter unit and percolation area and exit on to public road
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17595
1 Mar 2017N/a
permission to erect a two-storey dwelling house, insert a filter unit and percolation and exit on to public road
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 1792
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 Togan.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Togan.
Architectural heritage
- Brookside Cottage, house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay two-storey vernacular house, built c.1850, with gabled porch to front elevation, and single-storey ancillary farm buildings to south and rear (west). Now vacant. Pitched natural slate roof, with cast-iron rainwater goods, having two centrally-placed polychrome red and yellow brick chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls, having smooth-rendered quoins. Square-headed window openings with rendered and painted reveals and painted stone sills, having side-margined one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to front and rear elevations. Square-headed door opening with rendered reveals and replacement timber door, with concrete path to east. Low boundary wall, having limestone coping, terminating in square-plan gate piers, having wrought-iron pedestrian gate. Double-leaf decorative cast-iron vehicular gate to south-east, with square-plan piers. Single-storey outbuildings to south and west, and two-storey outbuilding to west, some with pitched replacement slate roofs, some with pitched and lean-to corrugated-iron roofs, with cast-iron rainwater goods, some roughcast rendered and some coursed rubble stone walls, square-headed openings, some with visible red brick surrounds, having timber battened doors and timber fixed and sliding sash windows. Segmental-arch vehicular entrance, with red brick reveal, part in-filled with cement blocks, having timber battened door and recent square-headed window opening with fixed timber window.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Togan.
- 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 Togan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Togan · Tógán
- Area
- 699,433 m² (69.94 ha, 172.83 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumsnat, and its townlands
- Barony
- Monaghan
- Electoral division
- Kilmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilmore electoral division: 508 people in 187 households; 91% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballagh, Drumgarve, Drumsheeny, Gortnana, Kilnaclay, Kiltubbrid, Leck
- Placenames
- Togan 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.