Doohamlat
Doohamlat is a townland in the civil parish of Clontibret, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is Dúthamhlacht.
Parcel 319037
- Area
- 1,809 m²
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 119 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Doohamlat
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
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 20 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in 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
- 56 ha
- 138 acres
- Land parcels
- 105
- registered freehold, median 588 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
105 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doohamlat, from 8 m² to 80,461 m² (8.05 ha, 19.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Doohamlat 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
5 Dec 2025Conditional
planning permission to construct a housing development on a site of 1.87 Hectares, consisting of an amended total of 44 dwellinghouses comprising of 5 No. single storey semi-detached houses; 39 No. two storey detached, semi-detached & terraced houses and, all associated site infrastructure and engineering works necessary to facilitate the development.
Permission, 44 homes · Monaghan County Council, 2560489
2 Dec 2025Refused
Permission for development consisting of the following: The provision of 28 no. dwellings comprising: 2 No. 2 bed detached bungalow dwellings, 4 no. 2 bed semi-detached bungalow dwellings, 6 No. 2 bed semi-detached two-storey dwellings, 11 No. 3 bed semi-detached two-storey dwellings, 5 no. 4 bed semi-detached two-storey dwellings, Together with revised site layout plans, boundary treatments, hard and soft landscaping, public lighting, drainage and utility services, revised house type drawings and all other ancillary site development works necessary to facilitate the proposed development.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560481
28 Nov 2025N/a
permission to construct a housing development consisting of a total of 45 dwellinghouses comprising of 7 No. single storey semi-detached houses; 38 No. two storey detached, semi-detached & terraced houses and, new site entrance onto existing public road R183, with associated amendment to the existing road frontage of the adjoining carparking at Connoly’s Public House (Eircode A75CF58), connection to existing public sewer system, The development will provide for a total of 95 No. car parking spaces, bin stores; Landscaping, boundary treatments; public lighting; pedestrian & bicycle path through the site linking adjoining Cois Locha Estate subject to agreement, and all associated site infrastructure and engineering works necessary to facilitate the development
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560476
2 Sept 2025Conditional
permission for the works will consist of the following 1.Permission for new spectator terracing / seating to existing spectator stand and all associated site works. 2. Retention permission for the revised layout of playing pitch and spectator stand, replacement toilet/store and replacement retaining wall previously granted in planning reference 18/404
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560355
14 Feb 2024Conditional
permission for works that will consist of replacement rear and side extensions to dwelling, all ancillary internal & external refurbishments, new wastewater treatment system together with all associated works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2460050
27 Oct 2021Conditional
permission to construct a two storey extension to the side of their existing dwelling house together with all ancillary site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21595
30 Mar 2021Conditional
permission to construct a two storey extension to side and rear of existing dwelling house, provide off street parking, connect into all existing services together with all ancillary site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21150
6 Feb 2019Conditional
permission to amend previously approved plan ref 14/319 to omit stone on portion of rear and side elevations of proposed development
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 1945
24 Aug 2018Conditional
Permission for extension of site boundaries to facilitate replacement spectator stand and retaining walls, extension to existing car park and reposition of existing playing pitch and the provision of a new training pitch, construction of a new walking track, boundary fence and all associated site works and exit on to public road by way of existing entrance
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18404
19 Jan 2018Conditional
Permission to construct a two-storey dwelling with detached garage, install a waste water system and sand polishing filter, new entrance gates & piers with all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 1818
31 Mar 2017Conditional
permission for the construction of a split level storey and a half type dwelling, proprietary waste water treatment unit and required percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17150
14 Feb 2017N/a
permission to extend and reposition new playing field, reposition new spectator stand and retaining wall, erect new boundary fencing, insert a new walking track and exit onto public road by existing entrance
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 1755
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 Doohamlat.
Recorded monuments
- MO019-051 Barrow - mound barrow
Description
Located on the summit of a small NW-SE ridge, it is known locally as a burial ground. This is a circular grass-covered mound (diam. of base 10.5m; diam. of top c. 7.5-8m; H 0.6-0.8m) with a slight hollow at the centre and with stones accumulating on the perimeter N-E-S, those N-E probably forming a kerb. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of uplaod: 29 February 2012
Architectural heritage
- Post box, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
Description
Cast-iron wall-mounted post box, manufactured c.1905. Rectangular moulded frame with letter aperture. Royal monogram of Edward VII, with crown motif to top. Founder's mark to base of side-hung door. Set in recent rendered pier at entrance of public house.
- All Saints' Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1855–1885 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding rendered Early English Gothic-style Catholic church, built 1857-60, rebuilt and dated 1882,having five-bay nave, single-bay chancel, and recent flat-roofed sacristy to south gable of chancel. Pitched slate roof with dated cut sandstone bell-cote, sandstone cross finial to rear, and cast-iron rainwater goods.Roughcast rendered walls, with rock-faced sandstone buttresses and painted stone plinth. Pointed-arch windowopenings having cut sandstone surrounds and sills, lancet to nave, triple to front elevation and chancel, withleaded stained-glass windows throughout. Pointed-arch door opening with double-leaf timber battened door,painted stone surround and cut sandstone hood-moulding. Interior has timber battened ceiling to interior of church, having open scissors timber truss roof. Smooth rendered walls to nave, having pointed chancel arch with moulded surround and impost course. Free-standing varnished pine benches flanking central aisle. Timber Stations of the Cross to walls. Carved confessional boxes to north corners of nave. Decoratively-carved porch doorway to north end of nave, having carved finials to corners, single-leaf glazed doors to east and west. Square-headed door double-leaf timber door to south of nave. Free-standing carved marble baptismal font to south-west of nave. Carved marble altar on stepped platform in chancel. Two pointed-arch door openings from chancel to sacristy, with marbled surrounds and timber battened doors. Tripartite stained-glass window to chancel (south elevation) depicting Crucifixion, tripartite recent coloured-glass window to north elevation. Situated in Doohamlet village south of Castleblayney to Ballybay road, set in own grounds, with graveyard to south. Square-plan cut sandstone gate piers with pyramidal caps, cast-iron gate and rubble stone wall.
- Water pump, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c.1870. Round-plan, with banded shaft, fluted domed cap and pointed finial. Ram's head bucket grip and fluting to spout, and curved cow's tail handle. Set on concrete base covering well, protected by recent railings to east, south and west with roughcast rendered square-plan corner piers.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Doohamlat, about 1 in 20 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Doohamlat.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Doohamlat with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Doohamlat · Dúthamhlacht
- Area
- 559,875 m² (55.99 ha, 138.35 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clontibret, and its townlands
- Barony
- Cremorne
- Electoral division
- Cremartin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,242 people lived in 418 households in the Cremartin electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolmannan, Corryloan, Dernaglug, Oghill, Tonyscallan, Toome
- Placenames
- Doohamlat 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.