Enagh

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Enagh, from 2,757 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres) to 148,021 m² (14.8 ha, 36.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 6 Nov 2025N/a

  planning permission for a development which will consist of a proposed agricultural storage shed and all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560445

• 7 Mar 2025Conditional

  permission for the construction of a two-storey style dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, boundary fencing, new domestic entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560091

• 11 Apr 2023Conditional

  ****APPEALED - ABP - Decision: Granted****(1) Excavation of the former (Drumgoosat) underground mine by open cast mining methods for the purposes of gypsum extraction. (2) The continued ongoing restoration of the existing Knocknacran Open-Cast Mine. (3) The continuation of use and refurbishment of the existing Knocknacran Processing Plant. (4) Further development of a Community Sports Complex (permitted under Reg. Ref. 20/365) and associate works. Please see copy of site notice for more details.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2360045

• 15 Feb 2023Conditional

  Permission consisting of a two-storey style dwelling, domestic garage, advanced waste water treatment system and percolation area, new entrance walls and piers, and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2348

• 27 Jan 2022N/a

  permission for a development consisting of (1) excavation of the former (Drumgoosat) underground mine by open cast mining methods for the purposes of gypsum extraction at Knocknacran (East & West) and Drumgoosat, Co. Monaghan. Development will include the construction of a Cut-and-Cover Tunnel under the Carrickmacross to Kingscourt regional road (R179) for the transport of gypsum (by haulage truck and covered conveyor) to the existing processing plant area at Knocknacran, and for the transport of overburden and interburden (by haulage truck) to the existing Knocknacran Open-Cast Mine site for ongoing restoration purposes. The construction of the proposed tunnel will necessitate a temporary realignment of the R179 during the tunnel construction period to allow the R179 to remain in constant use. Development will also include: the demolition of one house and three unoccupied houses and sheds in the townlands of Knocknacran (East & West), Co. Monaghan; and the pumping of water from the existing Drumgoosat underground workings via an existing borehole on the Knocknacran West Mine site. (2) The continued ongoing restoration of the existing Knocknacran Open-Cast Mine located in the townlands of Derrynascobe, Derrynaglah, Enagh, Knocknacran (East & West) and Drummond, Co. Monaghan, permitted under Reg. Ref. 17/217 and operating subject to Industrial Emissions (IE) Licence P0519-04 and Mining Lease M139. The proposed development includes a modification to the existing (approved) restoration plan to return the existing Knocknacran Open-Cast Mine to near ground levels. (3) The continuation of use and refurbishment of the existing Knocknacran Processing Plant area, including water treatment facilities and associated infrastructure (including discharge pipeline to the River Bursk) in the townlands of Enagh, Derrynaglah, Drummond, Derrynascobe and Clontrain, Co. Monaghan. The proposed development will include a replacement vehicular access to the existing Knocknacran Open-Cast Mine and Knocknacran Processing Plant area site from the L4816. (4) The further development of a Community Sports Complex (permitted under Reg. Ref. 20/365) located in the townlands of Drummond, Derrynaglah and Knocknacran West, Co. Monaghan which provided for a playing pitch, dressing rooms, welfare facilities, ….View Scanned Files for complete description. Significant further information received in relation to the submission of technical reports.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2234

• 28 Apr 2017Conditional

  permission for the continuation of extraction of gypsum from a permitted open cast mine previously permitted under planning 07/430 to 2033 over an area of 54.86 hectares including progressive restoration and all associated site works. This application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 17217

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 Enagh.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Enagh.

Architectural heritage

• Cormey Bridge, bridge, 1730–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-arch stone road bridge, built c.1750, spanning River Lagan, with recent concrete abutments. Punch-dressed stone parapet and rendered coping. Coursed rubble stone spandrels. Slightly deformed semi-circular arches with irregular cut-stone voussoirs, random rubble soffit partially rendered over coursed-squared rubble stone abutments. Dressed stone V-cutwaters to both faces on concrete footings. Rubble stone abutments and wing walls.

• Cormey Bridge, bridge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Two-arch stone bridge, built c.1820, carrying road north-south over River Lagan. Rubble stone walls and parapet walls. Segmental arches with dressed stone voussoirs. V-cutwater to west elevation, poured concrete plinth to central pier and to abutments.

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 Enagh, 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 Enagh.

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

Name

Enagh · An tEanach

Area

1,017,689 m² (101.77 ha, 251.48 acres)

Civil parish

Magheracloone, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Enagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

819 people lived in 236 households in the Enagh electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barleyhill (Co. Meath), Cormey (Co. Cavan), Derryleeg, Derrynaglah, Drummond

Placenames

Enagh 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.