Tossy
Tossy is a townland in the civil parish of Aghnamullen, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is Ceathrú an tSosaidh.
- Area
- 91.5 ha
- 226 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 5,329 m² (0.53 ha, 1.32 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tossy, from 1,267 m² to 123,185 m² (12.32 ha, 30.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Tossy 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
13 Jul 2026N/a
planning permission to construct 1 No. Poultry House, together with all ancillary structures (to include meal bin(s) and soiled water tank(s)), and all associated site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660296
3 Mar 2025Conditional
permission for alterations and two storey extension to the front of the existing school building comprising of 5 no. teaching bases, sanitary facilities, administrative spaces. Works also include the removal of an existing prefabricated structure, alterations to the site layout and all associated site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560083
19 Feb 2025N/a
permission for the alterations and two storey extension to the front of the existing school building comprising of 5 no. teaching bases, sanitary facilities, administrative spaces. Works also include the removal of an existing prefabricated structure, alterations to the site layout and all associated site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560054
6 Jul 2022Conditional
permission consisting of a classroom extension to the existing preschool building and all associated site works.
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 22304
18 May 2018Conditional
Permission to construct 4 number single storey temporary classrooms detached from existing school to rear of school, provision of new set down area to front of school and parking area to side of school, upgrading existing wastewater treatment system and percolation area and connection to existing services and ancillary site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18206
25 Apr 2017Conditional
Permission to erect (1)single storey multi-purpose community resource centre with childcare facility (2) outdoor amenity space and sensory garden (3) playground (4) new entrance to public road with entrance gates, pieres and public footpath (5) 2 no. car parks (6) perimeter fencing and boundary treatment (7) waste water treatment plant followed by raised mound sand polishing filter and all associated site works. Significant Further Information has been received submitted - (i) amendment to the development boundary and site area, (ii) alterations to the site layout plan including the relocation of the building, playground and site entrance and all associated site works, (iii) amendments to the proposed waste water treatment system and percolation area including the planting of willows
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 17198
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 Tossy.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tossy.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tossy.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Tossy, about 1 in 10 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tossy.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Tossy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Tossy · Ceathrú an tSosaidh
- Area
- 914,727 m² (91.47 ha, 226.03 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghnamullen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Cremorne
- Electoral division
- Carrickatee, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 378 people lived in 118 households in the Carrickatee electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annahaia, Carrickatee, Gragarnagh, Lisduff, Ullinagh
- Placenames
- Tossy 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.