Candlefort

129 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Candlefort, from 17 m² to 72,624 m² (7.26 ha, 17.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Candlefort 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.

• 14 Feb 2025Conditional

  permission for a development to consist of a new modular\prefabricated classroom with toilet facilities to the existing childcare facility and all ancillary & associated site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560046

• 14 Jan 2025N/a

  permission for development will consisting of a new prefabricated classroom with toilet facilities to the existing childcare facility and all ancillary & associated site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560016

• 17 Feb 2023Conditional

  permission for demolition of existing flat roof rear addition, erection of proposed two storey rear extension, front single storey flat roof bay window, internal alterations and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2354

• 9 Dec 2022Conditional

  permission for development consisting of proposed vehicular access to existing dwelling incorporating removal of existing concrete block front boundary wall and construction of footpath crossing together with associated site works. Significant further information received in relation to revised site layout plan.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 22507

• 4 Jun 2021Conditional

  retention permission for development consisting of the retention of granny flat to side of existing dwelling adjacent to Daniel McNello's public house, connections to existing services, alterations and additions and all associated site works. This existing building is listed as a Protected Structure in the Monaghan County Council Development Plan ref. no. 41402904 and the NIAH reg. no. 41309011.

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 21332

• 8 Sept 2020Conditional

  permission for alteration and extension of existing two storey dwelling to include (a) demolition of existing flat roof rear extension, existing garage, store and boiler house, together with alterations to existing dwelling (b) provision of new two storey and single storey rear extensions with single storey side and front porch extensions (c) new external store and terraced garden area with all associated siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20359

• 31 Aug 2020Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of (a) retention permission for demolition of existing roadside wall, formation of new vehicle driveway and construction of garden wall and access gate inside site boundary and (b) permission to complete works to provide new vehicle entrance onto public road to include dropped kerb and regrading of existing footpath, together with new entry piers and walls and all associated site works

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 20347

• 18 May 2020N/a

  permission for demolition of existing roadside wall and formation and construction of a new vehicle entrance and driveway, including entry piers and walls together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20168

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 Candlefort.

Recorded monuments

• MO029-028 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on the summit of an E-W drumlin ridge. It is depicted as a small circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 20m) on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’, and as a small oval enclosure on the 1907 edition. This is a subcircular area (dims 26.3m E-W; 23.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank and hedge with traces of an external fosse. There is no identifiable entrance. It may be a landscape feature. Archaeological testing (07E0028) c. 100m to the W at the nearest point in Edenamo townland produced no related material (Rohan 2008). 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: 29 August 2017 Amended: 15 January 2020

• MO029-029 Cross - Wayside cross
  Description

  Described on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map in gothic lettering as a 'Stone Cross'. It is built into the N-facing boundary wall at the main junction in Inishkeen village. It is a black painted cross (H 1.2m; span 0.64m) with the following inscription in gold across the head, transom and shaft 'IHS This cross was erected by Captain Coll MacMahon as a memorial of himself and his family & desires of prayeres of all the faithfull christians Sept the 2D Anno Domini 1729'. A bird with leaves around it, fills the lower part of the shaft. (Ua Cuinn 1908, 83) Date of upload: 14 April 2011

• MO029-032 Pound
  Description

  Located on a shelf towards the bottom of a N-facing slope and Immediately NE of the motte and bailey (MO029-033001-). It is depicted as a rectangular enclosure divided in two by an E-W cross-wall and described as a 'Pound' in italic letters on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is a rectangular enclosure (dims c. 20m N-S; c. 20m E-W) with high stone walls that had a wide round-headed entrance through a large arch in the W wall. Only the lower courses of the N and E walls survive now. Date of upload: 14 April 2011

• MO029-033001 Castle - motte and bailey
  Description

  Located on a shelf towards the bottom of a N-facing slope and c. 300m N of a W-E section of the River Fane. It is also c. 200m S of the site of St Daigh’s early monastery (MO029-031001-). This is a flat-topped conical mound (diam. of top 13.6m E-W; 11m N-S; H c. 8m). The base is surrounded by a flat-bottomed fosse (at SW: Wth of top c. 3m; D c. 0.5m) SE-W-NE and an outer earth and stone bank. There is a small enclosure (diam. 7.8m E-W) defined by a broad earthen bank (at W: Wth of base 2.2m; int. H 0.5m) with an entrance at E (Wth 1.5m) on top towards the W edge of the summit. The bailey is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 35.6m E-W; 33.5m N-S) just to the E defined by a scarp (at NE: Wth 5.5m; H 2m) that merges into the slope E-S-W. The motte is planted in mature beech with alder and ash. There is reputed to be a souterrain (MO029-032001-) in the base of the mound. Archaeological testing (08E0358) c. 140m to the E produced no related material. (Clarke 2011) 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: 29 August 2017 Amended: 16 January 2020

• MO029-033002 Souterrain
  Description

  There is a report that the motte at Inishkeen (MO029-03001-) contains an underground passage that was open in the early nineteenth century. An old man describes how as a boy he entered ‘a large passage lined with stones and covered with large flags. He came to a recess or small chamber where he found a well of water’ (Reade 1874-5, 326). 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: 29 August 2017

Architectural heritage

• House, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1850, having further bay to west built as outbuilding. Now used for storage. Pitched corrugated-iron roof, red brick chimneystack in stretcher bond. Corrugated-iron and asbestos roofing to rear. Whitewashed rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening set in windbreak with flat concrete roof with replacement battened timber door, set on stone platform approached by two cement rendered steps. Door opening to rear of outbuilding part blocked up. Ancillary buildings to west of house and detached stone outbuilding to east with painted battened timber door. Located on sloping site facing north on to road and main junction of Inishkeen, bounded to west by rubble wall.

• Daniel McNello and Company, public house, 1770–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached eight-bay two-storey public house, former post office and dispensary, built c.1780, now in multiple use as public house and private accommodation. Six-bay public house to west and two-bay private dwelling to east. Pitched slate roof, gabled to east and west, with replacement slates and clay ridge-tiles, having some cast-iron rainwater goods and some replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled cement rendered chimneystacks having terracotta pots. Rubble stone walls, having timber brackets to rendered eaves course and rendered sill course to first floor windows. Square-headed window openings with brick quoins and painted moulded timber window surrounds, with three-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with variety of horns to first floor of north elevation, and replacement uPVC windows to ground floor. One six-over-six pane timber sliding sash window to east of shopfront, having painted stone sills, exposed brick quoins and gauged brick arch to opening. Square-headed display window and square-headed door opening to two most easterly bays introduced in early twentieth century. Late nineteenth-century carved timber shopfront to pub having ornate foliate console brackets to timber entablature. Painted 'DANIEL MCNELLO & CO.' lettering to fascia. Square-headed raised and fielded double-leaf door opening on either side of shopfront, separated by carved timber engaged pilasters and panelled stall-riser below replacement uPVC windows. Exposed screen wall to west with rendered and painted coping over integral gauged brick segmental-arch opening, and gauged brick camber-headed door opening having timber battened door, exposed screen wall continuing to west. Single-storey ancillary buildings to east, likely to have been farm buildings, later used for commercial purposes, now in use as private accommodation. Nineteenth-century two-bay two-storey roughcast extension to rear, with M-profile roof and rendered rectangular plan chimneystacks, square-headed window openings with original three-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor south elevation, nineteenth-century sash windows to west and south elevations, and recent single-storey extensions to west and south (rear) elevations. Located prominently facing north at Finnegan's Cross at the main intersection of Inishkeen village.

• Shrine/oratory/grotto, 1940–1960 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding memorial shrine, built c.1950, containing plaster statue of the Pieta, re-erected from unknown location. Gable-fronted rectangular-plan concrete housing with pitched concrete roof having carved stone cross to apex. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with concrete-rendered corner piers to east elevation having tooled stone crenellations. Pointed-arch door opening with chamfered surround and replacement uPVC door. Stylised diamond-shaped window openings to north and south elevations, having stained glass with flower motif tracery. Plaster statue on plinth of the Pieta, with Mary holding Christ after the Crucifixion. Guarded by timber gate of pointed arches and crucifixes to interior.

• MacMahon Memorial Cross, monument, 1725–1730 · Regional interest
  Description

  Stone cross embedded in south face of stone wall, at south-west side of central junction in Inishkeen village, dated 1729. Latin cross shape, with carved and painted text. IHS monogram, with Greek cross inscribed below, to upper portion of monument face. Silhouette of bird flanked by two flowers in relief within oval recess to base. Inscription reads 'this cr / oss was erected by / captain coll mac / mahon as a memorial of him self and his / family & / desires / prayers / of all the / faithfull / christians / septr the / 2D anno / domini / 1729'.

• Bridge, 1885–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch limestone railway bridge, built 1886, carrying Carrickmacross branch of Great Northern Railway over River Fane. Now disused. Splayed abutment walls, pilaster buttresses flanking arch to each elevation, having rusticated quoins. Tooled coping to parapets and abutments and tooled string course and impost course. Rock-faced rusticated snecked limestone to bridge walls and to external elevations of abutment walls, rubble limestone to interior elevations of abutment walls. Segmental-headed arch with archivolt formed of red brick laid in header courses, and red brick soffit.

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

About 1 in 10 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2819 (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.

No address of the register names Candlefort with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Candlefort · Lios na gCoinneal

Area

475,326 m² (47.53 ha, 117.46 acres)

Civil parish

Inishkeen, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Inishkeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Inishkeen electoral division: 1,182 people in 409 households; 79% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Comraghs, Drumnagrella, Edenamo, Inishkeen Glebe, Lacklom, Lannat, Mucker

Placenames

Candlefort 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.