Gortgranard

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortgranard, from 1,690 m² to 164,459 m² (16.45 ha, 40.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Gortgranard 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.

• 17 Sept 2018Conditional

  permission to construct a new storey & a half style extension to rear and side of existing dwelling, use existing domestic entrance, connect into all existing services together with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18433

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 Gortgranard.

Recorded monuments

• MO017-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a rise at the bottom of a steep NW-facing slope and on the flood plain of an E-W section of the Finn River, with a SE-NW part of the stream c. 50m to the NE. It is depicted as a small circular feature (diam. c. 20m) on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map and as a larger feature with an outer fosse NE-S-W and incorporating a field bank W-NE on the 1907 edition. The monument was removed before 1968 but was then visible as a slightly raised and circular grass-covered area (diam. 18.25m E-W; 17.5m N-S) defined by a fosse feature visible as a band of richer vegetation (max. Wth 3.8m). It is visible faintly as an enclosure defined by two fosse features (max. ext. diam. c. 60m) on aerial images from 1995 (OSAP). 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: 8 May 2018

• MO017-004 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Located on a small rise at the bottom of a steep NW-facing slope and on the flood-plain of an E-W section of the Finn River which is c. 160m to the N. This was described in 1942 as a circular raised area (diam. c. 14m) defined by an earthen bank or scarp (H c. 2.1-2.4m-and an outer fosse (Wth of top c. 2m; ext. D c. 0.9m), which was known locally as a childrens’ burial ground (SMR file). It had been removed by 1995 (OSAP). 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: 8 May 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gortgranard, 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 high, 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 Gortgranard.

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

Name

Gortgranard · Gort Greancha

Area

565,401 m² (56.54 ha, 139.71 acres)

Civil parish

Killeevan, and its townlands

Barony

Dartree

Electoral division

Newbliss, the unit of the census

Census 2022

918 people lived in 322 households in the Newbliss electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annaghkilly, Ballynure, Drumcru (Dickson), Ellinure, Rateerbane, Skeachorn

Placenames

Gortgranard 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.