Gola Irish

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gola Irish, from 1,003 m² to 97,398 m² (9.74 ha, 24.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Gola Irish 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.

• 5 Feb 2026N/a

  permission for a development which will consist of a new two-storey dwelling, associated garage and connecting car port, opening of a new vehicular entrance to site and wastewater treatment system and polishing filter together with all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2660029

• 29 Jan 2026N/a

  The development will consist of a new two-storey dwelling, associated garage and connecting car port, opening of a new vehicular entrance to site and wastewater treatment system and polishing filter together with all associated site development works.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660020

• 10 Apr 2019Conditional

  permission to retain a bungalow style dwelling previously approved under P101/79 together with all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19162

• 10 Oct 2018Conditional

  permission to carry out the following works to existing bungalow style dwelling convert first floor into dormer style dwelling, construct single storey extension to side & rear, modify external elevations, construct new domestic garage, connect into all existing services together with all ancillary site works. Significant further information relates to a revised site layout plan, landownership and revised structural drawings being submitted.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18466

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 Gola Irish.

Recorded monuments

• MO008-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on top of a drumlin. It is depicted as a circular wooded feature described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’ on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map and as a small D-shaped feature on the 1907 edition. This is now a small overgrown D-shaped area (dims c. 35m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE) defined by field banks and hedges. There is no visible fosse or identifiable entrance. 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: 30 August 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gola Irish, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gola Irish.

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

Name

Gola Irish · Gabhla na nGael

Area

928,558 m² (92.86 ha, 229.45 acres)

Civil parish

Tedavnet, and its townlands

Barony

Monaghan

Electoral division

Scotstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,208 people lived in 402 households in the Scotstown electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derryarrit, Drumloo, Drummans, Gola English, Killycarnan North, Killycarnan South

Placenames

Gola Irish 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.