Derrynagrew
Townland in the civil parish of Tedavnet, barony of Monaghan, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Doire na gCraobh
Parcel 2433705
- Area
- 271 m²
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it, 145 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- R2 Existing Residential (Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031) The objective
- Townland
- Derrynagrew
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2332 (ZIP).
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 43.8 ha
- 108 acres
- Land parcels
- 62
- registered freehold, median 1,863 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrynagrew, from 3 m² to 61,220 m² (6.12 ha, 15.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 43 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Community Services/Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Landscape Protection/Conservation (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
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 Jul 2026N/a
permission for the development consisting of amendments to the size and layout of a previously approved domestic garage (ref. 22/168) to include a store in the attic space with dormer windows accessed from a higher site level, elevational changes and all associated site works. Planning permission is also sought to amend the height and material of the existing entrance piers and walls and new entrance gates at the public road
Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2660326
29 Jul 2026Refused
permission for a development which will consist of an agricultural shed, access lane and all associated site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660327
16 Mar 2026Conditional
permission for a development to consist of:- Proposed material alterations and a new 90 m² extension to the rear of the existing single-storey dwelling. - The reconfiguration of the existing roof profile on the East-West axis to incorporate a new front gable and to facilitate the accommodation of 2 no. bedrooms, a bathroom, and a playroom within the roof space. - Internal alterations including the installation of a new staircase in the existing entrance hall, comprehensive thermal upgrades, and - All associated site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660092
31 Mar 2025Refused
permission for a development which consists of 1) Retention & 2) Permission for the following 1) Retention of 7 no. static mobile homes, the conversion of an agricultural building to an apartment, & the retention of previous agricultural building to multi purpose rooms attached to an existing barn. 2) Planning Permission is also sought for a new waste water treatment system to service the site.
Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560131
5 Jul 2023N/a
Permission to construct a new two-storey detached building which will incorporate a drive-through restaurant with ancillary facilities. The development will also consist of permission for reconfiguration of existing site drainage infrastructure, installation of a new attenuation tank, provision of associated parking areas and reconfiguration of the existing vehicle parking and circulation routes associated with the existing Circle K Service Station along with connection to existing services, hard and soft landscaping works, lighting and all associated site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2360141
19 Jun 2023Conditional
permission for development consisting of a single storey extension to an existing detached dwelling, conversion of the attic space to accommodation use, new dormer window and rooflights, amendments to the façade, amendments to the site layout including an extended car parking area, new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works. The application also includes the retention of an existing garage structure
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2360118
29 Mar 2023Conditional
Retention Permission for temporary detached single-story accommodation, connection to previously approved waste-water treatment plant and percolation area (Reg. Ref. 22/168) and all associated site works. The temporary accommodation will be in use during the construction phase of a previously approved dwelling (Reg. Ref. 22/168)
Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2360030
19 Apr 2022Conditional
permission for development of a pay-to-use portable waste compactor for the acceptance of residual and food waste and a pay-to-use portable compactor for mixed dry recyclables
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 22177
12 Apr 2022Conditional
permission for development consisting of the demolition of an existing house and garage, the erection of a detached two storey dwelling with a single storey element, new detached garage, amendments to the site layout, waste-water treatment plant with percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 22168
15 Dec 2021Conditional
outline planning permission sought for erection of new two storey type dwelling house, connection to public foul sewer via existing foul sewer infrastructure spur connection left on site, connection to public water supply via existing watermain infrastructure serving adjoining developments, storm connection to existing storm sewer infrastructure serving existing developments, access from public road to site via existing service road and all associated site works. ITM co-ordinates of site 667400/835671
Outline permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21682
15 Jul 2020Conditional
permission for works which are to be retained, which relate to the provision of new wastewater arrangements for this development, comprise A) the decommissioning of an existing on-site foul effluent treatment system and B) the installation of a pump station, four 8,000 gallon storm tanks and a sump chamber as well as sewer pipe connection between the existing buildings on this site and the public road. Permission is also being sought as part of this application for the retention of an 125mm OD diameter rising main sewer pipe which runs beneath Local Road L-16302 between St. Patrick's Direct Provision Centre and the public sewerage system at Ballyalbany Crossroads Monaghan Town, via the townlands of Tattygare, Telaydan and Mullaghmore East (a total length of 900 metres), along with all ancillary works
Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20281
1 May 2019Conditional
permission to upgrade & alter location of existing site access, situated to the rear (North East) of the dwelling house located within the church grounds, together with associated ancillary site works.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19200
21 Mar 2018Conditional
Permission to construct 2 no. ESB Substations to service the existing site; a mono-pitched extension to the rear of the existing Dry Goods Store; and the provision of additional staff car parking facilities to the West of the existing yoghurt plant together with all associated site works.
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18119
26 Jul 2017Conditional
The provision of a new hard standing carpark area to the south-east of existing yoghurt plant, to provide additional parking facilities for staff members, vehicular access barriers, together with kerbing, lining and associated site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 17360
30 Jun 2017Conditional
Permission to construct a new mono-pitch roof structure and walls over part of an existing 3m high walled bund area, to create a new building containing a wastewater treatment system, and 2No. external storage tanks (4m diameter x 4.7m high & 4.7m diameter x 13m high). Also the provision of 2No. self bunded chemical storage tanks (3m diameter x 4.7m high) with associated scrubber stack (0.58m diameter x 7.6m high) together with all other associated ancillary site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 17312
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 Derrynagrew.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derrynagrew.
Architectural heritage
- The Manse, manse, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1880, with canted bay windows to end bays under same continuous hipped roof incorporating entrance to centre. Full-height two-storey addition to rear, single-storey outbuilding to north-east corner and detached outbuilding to north. Pitched slate roof to house with black clay tile ridge, polychromatic brick chimneystacks having dog-tooth brick detailing beneath over-sailing caps, overhanging eaves and verges with replacement uPVC fascia and replacement metal rainwater goods. Hipped slate roof to ground floor front elevation over bay windows and entrance, with moulded yellow brick cornice held on heavy timber beam which spans space between bay windows and has cast-iron columns supporting it either side of doorway. Flemish-bonded red brick walls exposed to front, south-west, façade with cut sandstone plinth, and ruled-and-lined smooth cement render to sides and rear. Segmental-headed window openings to first floor front, and square-headed openings elsewhere, all having stone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed, four-panelled timber door in painted smooth-render surround with overlight, surmounted by moulded render cornice held by scrolled and leaf-decorated consoles on pilasters. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding to north of house having two-storey middle bay, hipped slate roof and smooth rendered walls, with segmental-headed doorways and pitching door, latter to first floor of middle bay, with square-headed timber battened doors, and central square-headed double-leaf metal vehicular door. House set in spacious terraced lawned gardens with stone steps leading to main entrance doorway.
- Murdock Memorial Hall, hall, 1880–1885 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay single-storey gable-fronted church hall, dated 1881, with lower late twentieth-century extension partly wrapped around rear, south-west, elevation. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge having stone-capped skews to verges supported by cut-stone kneeler and having small finial to gable-front apex. Cast-iron ogee-profile gutters held on carved paired stone corbels at eaves, and cast-iron downpipes. Quarry-faced ashlar limestone walls with dressed stone window surrounds and projecting quarry-faced plinth. Exposed upper part of rear south-east gable end is roughcast rendered with stone quoins and original rear extension visible here on O.S.25" map may have been replaced or incorporated within modern extension. Round-headed window openings with square-headed two-over-two pane timber sliding sash frames with convex horns and fanlights and flush sloped cut-stone sills. Oculus to upper gable-front with timber trefoil window. Slightly projecting cut-stone surround to round-headed doorway having double-leaf replacement timber panelled square-headed doors, with carved lettering to cut-stone panel to over-door reading: 'The Murdock Memorial Hall 1881'. Replacement lantern over doorway. Three-bay single-storey gate lodge to grounds, built c.1890, having dormer floor, and recently added gabled porch, single-storey gabled extension to rear and single-storey lean-to extension to south-east, house having pitched slate roof with rolled terracotta ridge, decoratively carved timber bargeboards to gables with remains of timber finial and pendant, polychrome brick chimneystack, and replacement metal rainwater goods on brick course, English garden wall-bonded walling with yellow brick to quoins, and with replacement uPVC windows with painted stone sills. Round-roofed outhouse to east and gravel-surfaced car park to north-east. Both buildings share site of Presbyterian church and graveyard enclosed within recently rebuilt stone and cement boundary wall at Ballyalbany cross roads and north-west river bank of Blackwater. Boundary wall contains carved stone plaque salvaged from original wall here which reads: 'BALLYALBANY SCHOOL 1834'.
- Ballyalbany Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1785–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding four-bay Presbyterian church, built 1788, and remodelled 1846 and 1886, having recessed single-bay gabled blocks to each end, that to north having gabled porch to west elevation. Pitched slate roofs with cut-stone copings and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with render quoins and plinth. Pointed-arch window openings with chamfered painted surrounds and having Y-tracery timber windows with stained glass. Short pointed window to upper north gable with plain glass. Pointed doorway to porch with chamfered painted surround and double-leaf timber battened door with decorative strap hinges. Square-headed doorway to south end having chamfered surround and replacement timber battened door. Interior has gallery over north end with carved front supported on cast-iron columns. Carved timber pews, smooth plastered ceiling, carved timber pulpit, baptismal font, table and organ to south end, and timber wainscoting to lower parts of walls. Stairs to gallery partly supported on decorative cast-iron brackets, and newel post is decoratively carved. Church set in lawned grounds with graveyard, Murdoch Memorial Hall, lodge and decorative double-leaf cast-iron gate set to rubble limestone piers and walls.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2332 (ZIP).
- 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 Derrynagrew with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Derrynagrew · Doire na gCraobh
- Area
- 438,077 m² (43.81 ha, 108.25 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tedavnet, and its townlands
- Barony
- Monaghan
- Electoral division
- Bellanode, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Bellanode electoral division: 1,571 people in 495 households; 83% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolkill East, Coolshannagh, Kilnadreen, Mullaghmore East
- Placenames
- Derrynagrew 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.