Donaghmoyne

65 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Donaghmoyne, from 51 m² to 368,017 m² (36.8 ha, 90.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 40 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Donaghmoyne 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.

• 9 Nov 2022Conditional

  permission consisting of the following: 1. Demolish existing clubrooms and dressing rooms and construct proposed new 2 storey clubroom building consisting of 6 No. dressing with ancillary toilets and showers, players gym, physio room, toilets, kitchen and dining area 2. Construct new astro turf playing pitch with 2.40m high metal perimeter fencing and associated netting (combined height 6.40m), 4 No. 12m high columns with 2 floodlights per column 3. Proposed new shop, field maintenance equipment shed, ladies / gents / disabled access toilet block 4. New car parking and all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 22482

• 26 Jan 2022Refused

  permission to (1) Demolish existing clubrooms and dressing rooms and construct proposed new 2 storey clubroom building consisting of 6 no. dressing rooms with ancillary toilets and showers, players gym, physio room, toilets, kitchen and dining area (2) Construct new astro turf playing pitch with 2.40m high metal perimeter fencing and associated netting (combined height 6.40m), 4 no. 12m high columns with 2 floodlights per column (3) Proposed new shop, field maintenance equipment shed, ladies/gents & disabled access toilet block (4) New front training field (5) New parking area and all associated site works. Significant further information received in relation to flood risk assessment report and road safety audit report.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2227

• 13 Oct 2021Conditional

  permission for single storey living unit attached to existing dwelling, new front porch and planning permission to retain rear first floor extension including elevation changes and detached domestic garage and associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21573

• 19 Feb 2020Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of (a) construction of 5 no. tennis courts with full ITF Class 1 professional court sports lighting and associated fencing, (b) construct 2 no. mini courts with practice walls with associated court sports lighting and associated fencing, (c) construct a pavilion, (d) construct an equipment storage shed, (e) construct raised viewing platforms to south east of mini courts, (f) construct 2.4 metre high screen UPC coated paladin type fence along periphery of tennis courts, (g) construct a new entrance from existing Golf Club carpark to tennis club, (h) develop site boundary treatment, landscaping and all associated site works. Significant further information relates to revised plans

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2062

• 7 Jul 2017Conditional

  Retention/permission to demolish derelict house & to build new two storey dwelling house, with new entrance onto roadway consisting of new piers & wing walls, also new septic tank and percolation area, including all necessary site development works previously granted planning permission under reference no. 16/185, note house was increased in floor area

  Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17328

• 20 Jan 2017Conditional

  permission for (1) Construction of new first floor extension above existing single storey club rooms incorporating new meeting rooms, toilets and access stairwell. (2) Extension of existing main senior playing field. (3) Extension of existing secondary playing field incorporating new walking track surround. (4) Construction of 4 no. pitch side dugouts (two to each pitch). (5) Construction of perimeter fencing to both playing fields. (6) New high level flood lighting and ballstops to both playing pitches. (7) Construction of new property/site boundary treatments including new retaining walls. (8) New access lane between existing car park and secondary playing field. (9) Miscellaneous ground improvement works to the grounds/pitches, landscaping and all associated site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 1711

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 Donaghmoyne.

Recorded monuments

• MO028-116001 Church
  Description

  Located at the N end of a slight N-S ridge. According to the Tripartite Life of St Patrick, an uncertain source, a church was founded here by Victor, who was made its bishop by St. Patrick. The shrine of St Adhamhnán was removed from here in AD 830 (Shirley 1879, 352-3), although how it got there is a mystery since Donaghmoyne has no connection with the biographer and ninth successor of St Colum Cille as abbot of Iona (Ó Canann 2004, 38-9). Donaghmoyne became a parish church, and is recorded in the foundation of the Crutched friars of St John the Baptist in Ardee (LH017-101022-) in 1207. It was still held by the friars at the Suppression in 1540 and it is listed as Domnachmagen in the ecclesiastical taxation (1304-06) of Pope Nicholas IV (Shirley 1879, 289, 354). The names of some of the clergy are known from 1410, and in 1622 the church was described as ruinous, although it was rebuilt in 1641 (Leslie 1929, 172-6). (McKenna 1920, 1, 373-97) The rebuilt church is the one depicted on the 1834 ed. of the OS 6-inch map immediately NW of the centre of a subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 75m NE-SW; c. 20m NW-SE at SW to c. 70m NW-SE at NE) defined by masonry walls, although the graveyard may have been truncated by a N-S road at the W side. Archaeological testing (99E0697) uncovered some of the walls of this church (Moore 2000; 2002), which can now be traced as a rough grass-covered area (int. dims c. 15m E-W; 6.8m N-S) defined by low mounds at N (Wth 2.2m; H 0.2m) and S (Wth c. 5m) but it is interrupted by graves. The graveyard is thought to be the burial place of Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna (?1680-1756), a Gaelic poet. The headstones date from c. 1745-2005, but some mausoleums at the S edge of the graveyard are thought to date to c. 1715. These are simple rectangular structures (dims c. 4m x c. 3m) with stone-vaulted roofs, half-buried in the graveyard. The present Church of Ireland church building dedicated to St Patrick is at the N edge of the graveyard and was built c. 1830, but it is now closed. 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 30 November 2016

• MO028-116002 Graveyard
  Description

  An irregular-shaped graveyard (map dims. c. 105m N-S; c. 60m E-W) with a church (MO028-116001-) depicted on 1st ed. OS 6-inch map immediately NW of centre but indicated as 'Church Site of' on the subsequent ed. Church reputedly founded by Victor, who was made its bishop by St. Patrick. Shrine of St Adamnan removed from here in AD 830. Rebuilt in 1641 after being ruinous in 1622. No visible surface traces. (Leslie 1929, 175-6, 289) Reference: Leslie, J.B. 1929 Clogher Clergy and Parishes. Printed Enniskillen. Date of upload: 14 April 2011

• MO028-117 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located just off the crest of a shelf on a SE-facing slope. This is a grass-covered circular area (diam. 40m E-W: 36m N-S) defined by a grass-covered earthen bank that is best preserved (at W: Wth 11m; int. H 1.8m; ext. H 1.4m) SW-WNW but it is reduced largely to a low bank (at E: Wth 10m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.6m) or scarp (at N: Wth 2.8m; H 0.6m; at S: H 1.7m) elsewhere. There are slight traces of a fosse, but the original entrance is not identified. 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. Date of revision: 11 December 2017

• MO028-118001 Castle - motte and bailey
  Description

  This is a National Monument occupying almost all of a NW-SE drumlin ridge (Harbison 1970, 200). Morris (1908-11, 265-8) speculates that in origin this monument was a power centre for the three McColla kings who broke the power of the Ulaidh and established Airgialla as the dominant power in south Ulster in the mythological early history of Ireland. In time the Airgialla became the O’Carroll kings of Oriel, and when Murrough O’Carroll, king of Oriel, died c. 1188 a peaceful Anglo-Norman settlement of much of the territory seems to have occurred (Otway-Ruthven 1968, 52). Farney, as well as the even more remote Monaghan baronies of Cremorne and Dartree, was included with Ardee in the grant to Peter Pipard c. 1190 (ibid. 70) and a castle, undoubtedly the motte and inner bailey, is recorded as being built at Domhnaigh Maighen in 1193. In 1228-34 labour services were recruited by Ralph FitzNicholas, the custodian of Pipard minors, to fortify the castle of Dunelamein. The older castle had been burnt and this castle was mandated to be a stone castle. By 1244 the stone castle was completed and FitzNicholas’ son, Ralph, was proprietor, probably through marriage with a Pipard ward. However, it proved difficult to hold this outpost and in 1302 the Pipards surrendered the grant of Farney to the King, effectively abandoning it to the native Irish inhabitants (Orpen 1908, 263-5). Subsequent leases to Walter de Cusack in 1317, John Clinton in 1333, and Roger de Gernon in 1372, the last with instructions to build or re-build the castle, failed to secure Farney. In 1401 Eochaidh Mac Mahon even held the lease, specifically without Donaghmoyne castle, but Farney was confirmed to a Roger de Gernon in 1414. The lease of ‘Donaghmyne and Farney’ in 1424 to John Saynleg is the last until 1572 when the barony was let to the first Earl of Essex. By this time the castle was entirely forgotten, and when the second earl built a castle as a strong-point in Farney in 1628-33 he built it at Carrickmacross (MO031-034----), c. 4 km to the S. The motte with its two baileys is one of the most impressive medieval earthwork monuments in the country, although it has always been shrouded in deciduous woodland. Just NE of the motte is a pond (diam. c. 25m; D 1.5m) that holds no water at the moment and which may be natural as there are two other ponds further N, but this one has a slight bank on its rim NE-S. The motte is a truncated conical mound with a rather rectangular flat top (diam. of base c. 45m; H 8.8m at NW to c. 12m at SW; dims of top 17.8m NW-SE; c. 15m NE-SW) encased in the masonry of the castle (MO028-118002-). The base of the motte is surrounded by a fosse (at NW: Wth of top 24m; Wth of base 2m; ext. D 6m) and outer bank (at NW: Wth of base 11.8m; Wth of top 2m; ext. H 2.7m), both of which are most massive at W-N, across the natural ridge. The outer bank of the motte is absent ENE-S where there is a raised and subrectangular, flat-topped inner bailey (dims 35-40m NW-SE; 28m NE-SW; H at SW 6.6m over 8.5m), with traces of a stone facing on the SW side of the summit and traces of a bank on the perimeter at N. The fosse and outer bank of the motte surround the NE and SW sides of the inner bailey, but on the SE side there is only the fosse. This fosse also forms the W edge of the outer subrectangular and grass-covered bailey (dims 74-83m WNW-ESE; 32-52m N-S) which is on a more E-W alignment as this end of the ridge turns slightly to the N. The outer baily is defined by scarps (at N: Wth 6.8m, H 3m; at E: Wth 6m; H 1.7m; at S: Wth 3.5m; H 2m) and the S part of the interior slopes down markedly to the S. The stonework of the castle encases the top of the motte, provides a masonry causeway between the motte and the inner bailey, and perhaps the remains of a gatehouse is on the SE side of the inner bailey. A local community group cleared the monument of scrub in 1994-5 and the first detailed survey was undertaken by Kieran O’Conor, while remote sensing surveys of the outer bailey were conducted by Kevin Barton and Joseph Fenwick. The latter highlighted a possible perimeter trench for the outer bailey, which was confirmed in excavation (99E0044) by Eoghan Moore. Beneath a disturbed topsoil (D c. 0.5m) much of the S part of the outer bailey had been devoted to industrial purposes and vast quantities of slag were recovered as well as two working surfaces, one of which is interpreted as a forge. Excavation of the ditch between the inner and outer baileys revealed what may be an abutment for a wooden bridge connecting the two baileys. Excavation of the outer bank of the motte showed that there was no palisade on it or around the pond. (Moore 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003) 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. This is a National Monument in state ownership: No. 382 See the attached image of the survey by Kieran O'Conor in Moore (1999, Fig. 3) Revised by: Michel Moore Date of revision: 11 December 2017

• MO028-118002 Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castle
  Description

  This is a National Monument situated on a NW-SE ridge (Harbison 1970, 200). When Murrough O’Carroll, king of Oriel, died c. 1188 a peaceful Anglo-Norman settlement of much of the territory that became Co. Louth seems to have occurred (Otway-Ruthven 1968, 52). Farney, as well as the even more remote Monaghan baronies of Cremorne and Dartree, was included with Ardee in the grant to Peter Pipard c. 1190 (ibid. 70), and a castle, undoubtedly the motte and inner bailey (MO028-118001-), is recorded as being built at Domhnaigh Maighen in 1193. In 1228-34 labour services were recruited by Ralph FitzNicholas, the custodian of Pipard minors, to fortify the castle of Dunelamein. The older castle had been burnt and this new castle was mandated to be a stone castle. By 1244 the stone castle was completed and FitzNicholas’ son, Ralph, was proprietor, probably through marriage with a Pipard ward. However, it proved difficult to hold this outpost and in 1302 the Pipards surrendered the grant of Farney to the King, effectively abandoning it to the native Irish inhabitants (Orpen 1908, 263-5). Subsequent leases to Walter de Cusack in 1317, John Clinton in 1333, and Roger de Gernon in 1372, the last with instructions to build or re-build the castle, failed to secure Farney. In 1401 Eochaidh Mac Mahon even held the lease, specifically without Donaghmoyne castle, but Farney was confirmed to a Roger de Gernon in 1414. From then on the castle is no longer mentioned in leases of the barony, and the lease of ‘Donaghmyne and Farney’ in 1424 to John Saynleg is the last until 1572 when the barony was let to the first Earl of Essex. By this time the castle was entirely forgotten, and when the second earl built a castle as a strong-point in Farney in 1628-33 he built it at Carrickmacross (MO031-034----). The motte (MO028-118001-) is a truncated conical mound (diam. of base c. 45m; H 8.8m at NW to c. 12m at SW) with a rather rectangular flat top encased in the masonry of the castle (dims 17.8m NW-SE; c. 15m NE-SW). The walls are c. 1.5m thick and only the basal courses survive internally, although externally the walls extend down the top of the motte (at NW: H c. 2m). There is a surviving portion (L c. 2m; H 2m; T 1.2m) of a NE-SW cross-wall, and outside the castle structure at SE is a fallen fragment of a barrel vault (dims c. 2m x 2m; T c. 1m) with plank centring on the underside. A ramp extends down the side of the motte at SE and crosses the fosse to the inner bailey (dims 35-40m NW-SE; 28m NE-SW; H at SW 6.6m over 8.5m) by a stone-faced causeway (L 9.5m; Wth 4m; H 2-3m), with a wall (Wth 0.8m; H 0.4m) surviving on the NE side. There are traces of a stone wall on the perimeter of the inner bailey at SW, and a cairn (diam. c. 9m; H 1m over the bailey) on the SE side of this bailey may have been a gatehouse associated with the masonry castle. Excavation (99E0044) in the fosse connecting with the outer bailey recovered evidence of what might have been a wooden bridge here. (Moore 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002) 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. This is a National Monument in state ownership: No. 382 See the attached image of the survey by Kieran O'Conor in Moore (1999, fig. 3) Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 11 December 2017

• MO028-119 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located towards the bottom of the SE-facing slope of the spine of a NW-SE ridge, and within Castle Mannan Golf course. This is a grass-covered oval area (dims 29.2m NW-SE; 22m NE-SW) planted in beech trees which is defined by a grass-covered but eroded earthen bank (at NW: Wth 12m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1.2m) W-N-SE, and by a scarp (at SE: Wth 5m; H 1.6m) elsewhere. The bank is separated by an outer fosse (at NW: Wth of top 5.4m; D 0.9m) W-N from an outer field bank (at NW: Wth 3.2m; ext. H 0.4m) that surrounds the whole monument but is reduced to a scarp for much of its course. There is an entrance gap (Wth of base 1.8m) at SW. 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. Date of revision: 11 December 2017

• MO028-121 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Located in woodland on a level, low-lying landscape. It is marked on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as ‘Tober Bridget’. It now supplies water to local houses and there is no evidence of any antiquity. It is noted in the local folklore (IFC Schools manuscripts, 931, 30) but there is no pattern associated with it. See this web-page accessed on 11/12/2017: https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4758584/4756655 Date of revised upload: 11 December 2017

• MO028-151 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated at the crest of the SE-facing slope of a short NW-SE drumlin ridge. A slightly raised oval and grass-covered feature (dims c. 45m N-S; c. 38m E-W) defined by a wide bank (Wth c. 5-8m) is visible on Google Earth (29/01/2019). It overlain by a NW-SE field bank N of the centre, and it was first reported by Jean Chrales Caillère. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 March 2020

Architectural heritage

• Donaghmoyne House, gate lodge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1820, with upper floor partly accommodated in roof-space, single-bay return to rear, and having recent gabled porch to front (north) elevation. Now in use as house. Pitched slate roof with cement copings. Red brick chimneystacks to gable ends. Render removed, exposing limestone rubble walls, with cut-stone eaves course. Square-headed tripartite window openings having lined-and-ruled render block-and-start surrounds and label-mouldings with arch detail, and replacement timber windows. Standing at entrance to Donaghmoyne House. Snecked dressed limestone boundary wall to road with cut-stone copings and plinths, and cut-stone square-plan piers.

• Saint Patrick's Church (Donaghmoyne), church/chapel, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Board of First Fruits Gothick-style Church of Ireland church, built 1827, comprising four-bay nave with diminished chancel, vestry to south, and three-stage tower to west. Now derelict. Pitched natural slate roof with limestone verges and coping. Squared and snecked sandstone walls, with diagonal buttresses with saddle-backed coping. Tower has tooled quoins, string courses, and needle pinnacles to corners of crenellated parapet. Pointed-arch windows with painted timber frames, stop-ended hood-mouldings, splayed surrounds and flush sills, Y-tracery (mostly blocked up), Tower belfry stage louvred. Second stage of tower has square-headed bipartite casements with splayed surrounds. Pointed-arch entrance, similarly detailed, with painted timber moulded panelled double-leaf door with similar tympanum. Interior undergoing renovation. Tudor chancel arch, exposed timber roof structure having recent timber rafters, and rendered walls. Terracotta tiles to entrance porch, concrete floor elsewhere. Pointed-arch door openings with chamfered reveals from nave to entrance porch, and from nave to vestry, that to porch having timber panelled door. Situated within terraced boundary wall enclosing graveyard dotted with mature specimen trees. Wrought-iron double-leaf gate hinged to square-plan tooled limestone piers aligned in front of tower.

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

At the centre of the townland of Donaghmoyne, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2665 (ZIP).

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 Donaghmoyne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Donaghmoyne · Domhnach Maighean

Area

2,312,977 m² (231.3 ha, 571.55 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmoyne, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Donaghmoyne, the unit of the census

Census 2022

704 people lived in 229 households in the Donaghmoyne electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghavilla, Annahaia, Capragh, Cordrummans Lower, Dundrockan, Garrifly, Laragh, Lisgall, Lisnagunnion, Longfield Etra, Longfield Otra, Tonyellida, Tullynacross

Placenames

Donaghmoyne 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.