Tooa

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tooa, from 23 m² to 190,667 m² (19.07 ha, 47.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Tooa 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.

• 31 Mar 2022Conditional

  widening of the R181 regional road and upgrade to the horizontal and vertical alignment on the R181 and adjoining junctions. The upgrades will include provision for a widened verge, regarded batters, crash barriers and drainage works where required. Upgrade to the visibility splays on all road junctions where they meet the R181. Relocation of all affected 3rd party utilities where required along the R181 to facilitate the new alignment. The junction between the L7130-0 and the R181 is within the curtilage of a protected structures.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 228003

• 13 Aug 2020Conditional

  permission for widening of the R181 regional road and an upgrade to the horizontal and vertical alignment on the R181 and adjoining junctions. The upgrades will include provision for a widened verge, regraded batters, crash barriers and drainage works where required. Upgrade to the visibility splays on all road junctions where they meet the R181. Relocation of all affected 3rd party utilities where required along the R181 to facilitate the new alignment and all associated site works in the townlands of Drumillard, Tooa, Crossduff, Dooraa, Tullyglass, Tullyrain, Shantonagh Bellatrain DED, Lisirril, Fairtahy,Carrickadooey, Corlat, Corhelshinagh, Lisinisky, Corracharra, Lisnadarragh and Corgreagh

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 208004

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Tooa.

Recorded monuments

• MO027-007001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated just off the crest of an E-W drumlin ridge on the N side. This is a subcircular grass and scrub-covered area (dims 36m NE-SW; 30m NW-SE) that slopes down to the NE (H 3.2m). It is defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 7m; int. H 1.9m; ext. H 1.4m) S-SW that is reduced to a scarp (at NE: Wth 2m; H 1.5m) elsewhere. There is an outer fosse (at SW: Wth of top 5.6m; Wth of base 1m; D 1.4m) with an outer counterscarp bank (ext. H 0.6m) SE-S-NW that morphs into an outer stone-faced bank or scarp (at NE: H 1.1m) abutting the base of the original bank NW-NE. There is an entrance (Wth of base 1.4m) at NE, the lowest point of the interior. There are two conjoined circular hut-sites on a slight E-W rib inside the perimeter at N. The W hut (int. diam. 4m) is defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.5m; H 0.2-0.3m) and is just W of the E hut (int. diam. 7m) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.5m; H 0.1-0.3m). No entrance features can be identified in either hut. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 30 January 2018

• MO027-007002 Hut site
  Description

  Situated just off the crest of an E-W drumlin ridge on the N side and on a slight E-W rib inside the perimeter or rath (MO027-007001-) at N. This hut (int. diam. 4m) is defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.5m; H 0.2-0.3m) with no visible entrance, and is just W of the larger hut-site (MO027-007003-). Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 30 January 2018

• MO027-007003 Hut site
  Description

  Situated just off the crest of an E-W drumlin ridge on the N side and on a slight E-W rib inside the perimeter or rath (MO027-007001-) at N. This hut (int. diam. 7m) is defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.5m; H 0.1-0.3m) with no visible entrance, and is just E of the smaller hut-site (MO027-007002-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 30 January 2018

• MO027-008 Earthwork
  Description

  Located on the S-facing slope of an E-W drumlin ridge and overlooking Shantonagh House, which is c. 450m to the SSE. A circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) is depicted only on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map with trees on the perimeter but it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’. It is an overgrown mound (diam. c. 15m), and it may have been a landscape feature, although there is no evidence that it was planted with trees. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 30 January 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred). Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tooa.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.

No address of the register names Tooa with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Tooa · Tuath

Area

1,162,872 m² (116.29 ha, 287.35 acres)

Civil parish

Aghnamullen, and its townlands

Barony

Cremorne

Electoral division

Bellatrain, the unit of the census

Census 2022

272 people lived in 81 households in the Bellatrain electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Crossduff, Dooraa, Drumillard, Lisacullion, Reduff, Shantonagh, Tullyglass

Placenames

Tooa 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.