# Urcher, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Kilmore, barony of Monaghan, Co. Monaghan; in Irish An tUrchar.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 663,134 m² (66.31 ha, 163.86 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,634 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Kilmore, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/kilmore.md
- Barony: Monaghan
- Electoral division: Caddagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Caddagh electoral division: 544 people in 181 households; 90% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 9% 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/40431
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 171852
- Centre: latitude 54.167605, longitude -6.970758 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Urcher, from 16 m² to 68,230 m² (6.82 ha, 16.86 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 355159: 68,230 m² (6.82 ha, 16.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/355159.md
- Parcel 327671: 55,224 m² (5.52 ha, 13.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/327671.md
- Parcel 5844289: 52,300 m² (5.23 ha, 12.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5844289.md
- Parcel 347457: 50,373 m² (5.04 ha, 12.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/347457.md
- Parcel 347455: 48,921 m² (4.89 ha, 12.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/347455.md
- Parcel 339496: 48,309 m² (4.83 ha, 11.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/339496.md
- Parcel 347941: 42,019 m² (4.2 ha, 10.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/347941.md
- Parcel 326694: 32,166 m² (3.22 ha, 7.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/326694.md
- Parcel 347459: 27,079 m² (2.71 ha, 6.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/347459.md
- Parcel 326696: 25,689 m² (2.57 ha, 6.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/326696.md
- Parcel 4190151: 23,932 m² (2.39 ha, 5.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4190151.md
- Parcel 347462: 20,017 m² (2 ha, 4.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/347462.md
- Parcel 347456: 18,111 m² (1.81 ha, 4.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/347456.md
- Parcel 326695: 14,960 m² (1.5 ha, 3.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/326695.md
- Parcel 353984: 12,943 m² (1.29 ha, 3.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/353984.md
- Parcel 347809: 12,713 m² (1.27 ha, 3.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/347809.md
- Parcel 356793: 9,871 m² (0.99 ha, 2.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/356793.md
- Parcel 3996470: 8,625 m² (0.86 ha, 2.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3996470.md
- Parcel 318365: 7,264 m² (0.73 ha, 1.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/318365.md
- Parcel 347942: 6,901 m² (0.69 ha, 1.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/347942.md
- Parcel 352461: 4,020 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/352461.md
- Parcel 347813: 3,634 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/347813.md
- Parcel 6132208: 3,611 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6132208.md
- Parcel 347461: 3,266 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/347461.md
- Parcel 320496: 3,257 m² (0.33 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/320496.md
- Parcel 347458: 3,137 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/347458.md
- Parcel 318310: 2,844 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/318310.md
- Parcel 345105: 2,690 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/345105.md
- Parcel 322551: 2,426 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/322551.md
- Parcel 4777371: 2,307 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4777371.md
- Parcel 331911: 2,293 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/331911.md
- Parcel 342829: 2,266 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/342829.md
- Parcel 347454: 2,022 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/347454.md
- Parcel 5686162: 1,969 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5686162.md
- Parcel 333700: 1,946 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/333700.md
- Parcel 326697: 949 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/326697.md
- Parcel 347460: 741 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/347460.md
- Parcel 6132205: 417 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6132205.md
- Parcel 5686136: 300 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5686136.md
- Parcel 5840249: 211 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5840249.md
- Parcel 5825280: 203 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5825280.md
- Parcel 316672: 169 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/316672.md
- Parcel 5825269: 16 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5825269.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Urcher 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)

5 applications, newest first.

- 10 Mar 2023, Monaghan County Council 2360009: Conditional. Permission. permission for development consisting of a redesigned two-storey dwelling and associated single car garage from the dwelling and garage granted under application number 2289, the repositioning of the vehicular entrance to the site and changes to the approved wastewater treatment system and polishing filter together with all associated site development works. All other aspects of the development to remain as previously approved. Significant further information received relates to moving the entrance back to the original position under 22/89.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360009/0
- 3 Mar 2022, Monaghan County Council 2289: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. erect a storey and a half dwelling, treatment plant, percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2289/0
- 8 Oct 2021, Monaghan County Council 21565: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Permission to consist of the construction of 1 No. two storey dwelling, new site entrance onto public road, provision of effluent treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21565/0
- 14 Jun 2019, Monaghan County Council 19272: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. permission to retain as built bungalow style dwelling house and domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, all associated site works, the revised position of the site and site boundaries. As the position of all of these items of work and features differ to that granted planning permission under planning reference number 02/330.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/19272/0
- 23 Apr 2019, Monaghan County Council 19183: Conditional. Permission. permission for a development consisting of 1) Proposed change of use of structure known as Cahans Meeting House (Protected Structure) from former place of worship to museum and general purpose spaces. Proposed installation of new heating and electrical systems, tea station in entrance lobby and associated construction and conservation works and internal decoration. 2) Proposed change of use of school house building located on the site from store and lecture hall to WC facilities at ground floor and meeting room space at first floor. Proposed installation of new heating and electrical systems, and associated construction and conservation works. Proposed repair works to roofs, windows and walls including re-rendering. 3) Proposed site works to include new car park and entrance onto adjacent roadway and alterations to existing hedge to allow for sight lines. New Pathways between car park and meeting house and school house building and lighting of same. Proposed new wastewater treatment system and percolation area. All associated works in relation to the above works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/19183/0

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## 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 Urcher.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Urcher.

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Urcher National School, school, 1810–1815, Regional interest, registry number 41401805, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO&regno=41401805. Detached three-bay single-storey school-house, dated 1812, now disused, having lower recessed gabled single-bay porch to east end, and three-bay single-storey lean-to extension to south. Pitched slate roof with stone ridge tiles and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered coursed rubble stone walls, having brick eaves course. Painted date plaque to east gable. Square-headed window openings with stone sills and brick block-and-start window surrounds, having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to main building and timber-framed windows to porch. Square-headed timber battened door to porch with over-light. Lean-to structure to south, having corrugated-iron roof, cast-iron rainwater goods, cement rendered walls and square-headed window openings with timber casement windows. Ruin of detached mid-nineteenth-century outbuilding to south-west. Situated at corner of rural junction, with Cahans Presbyterian Church located one kilometre south.
- School master's house, 1845–1855, Regional interest, registry number 41401806, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO&regno=41401806. Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1850, now vacant, having lean-to porch to rear (north-west) elevation. Pitched slate roof, with paired red brick chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods, and some timber bargeboards. Limewashed coursed rubble stone walls, roughcast render to rear. having brick eaves course and brick quoins. Square-headed window openings with brick block-and-start surrounds, one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, rendered reveals and painted stone sills. Square-headed door opening to front (south-east) elevation, not visible due to overgrowth. Gateway to road having square-plan rendered piers with steel gate, replacing wrought-iron double-leaf gate. Situated directly south of former Urcher school, with Cahans Presbyterian Church located one kilometre south.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: About 1 in 20 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: Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Urcher.
- 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/urcher.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/urcher.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/urcher.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Urcher 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)

- Bannaghbane: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/bannaghbane.md
- Corvoam: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/corvoam.md
- Drumgreeny: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumgreeny.md
- Lisnaveane: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/lisnaveane-171395.md
- Loyst: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/loyst.md
- Slieveroe: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/slieveroe.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.

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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.

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