Edergole

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Edergole, from 2,228 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) to 101,356 m² (10.14 ha, 25.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Edergole 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.

• 12 Jul 2025Conditional

  planning permission for a development which will consist of a two-storey dwelling house, single storey domestic garage, upgrade of existing agricultural entrance for residential use, provision of entrance piers, installation of a wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with all ancillary site development works, Significant Further Information relates to submitted, Archaeology Report, Visual Assessment Report, Site Layout plan

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560271

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 Edergole.

Recorded monuments

• MO018-043 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  Located at the bottom of the W-facing slope of a knoll on the crest of an E-W drumlin ridge, and incorporated into the N bank of an E-W road. At ENE, two jambs surmounted by a large lintel give access to gallery (L 7.5m; Wth 1.8m). (Borlase 1897, vol. 1, 294; de Valera 1960, 123-4) 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: 19 June 2018

• MO018-044 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on the E-facing slope of a hillock, which is on an E-W ridge. The site of the Roman Catholic church (MO018-044001-) is at the NE angle of a subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 60m NW-SE; c. 28m NE-SW at SE to c. 50m NE-SW) defined by stone-faced scarps with hedges on all sides except the SE where a masonry wall borders a road. The headstones date generally from 1724 to about 1945 but there is no evidence of a headstone to the Dowd family dated 1574 which was found in 1898 (McKenna 1920, 1, 559). The gravestone (MO018-044002-) of two Catholic archbishops of Armagh, the brothers Bernard and Ross McMahon, dated 1750, is close to the path at the base of the slope (Rushe 1916, 21-4). 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 30 November 2016

• MO018-044001 Church
  Description

  Situated on the E-facing slope of a hillock, which is on an E-W ridge. During the Middle Ages Galloon was a large parish, which was only broken up in 1806 (Shirley 1879, 327) when the parishes of Killeevan, Aghabog, Currin, and Ematris, also known as Edergole, were established in Co. Monaghan by the Church of Ireland. It is not known for certain how many medieval churches there may have been in the Dartry part of Galloon, and there could have been one at Edergole, of which there is no physical evidence. McKenna (1920, 1, 551-62) avers that a Roman Catholic church could have survived here, which was recorded as the mass-house of Edergole in 1744. This could be the same as the church depicted on the 1835 ed. of the OS 6-inch map at the NE edge of the graveyard and described on the map as ‘R C Church’. McKenna (ibid.) describes this as a narrow building with two doorways in the S wall. The footprint of this structure is apparent as a hollow (Wth of top 8.5m NW-SE; Wth of base 5.8m NW-SE; D c. 0.5-0.6m; L c. 5m NE-SW) at the base of the slope at E, but a piece of dressed limestone (L 0.60m; H 0.23m; D 0.21.5cm) with an iron dowel at either end is unlikely to be medieval. This church is in a subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 60m NW-SE; c. 28m NE-SW at SE to c. 50m NE-SW) defined by stone-faced scarps with hedges on all sides except the SE where a masonry wall borders a road. The headstones date generally from 1724 to about 1945 but there is no evidence of a headstone to the Dowd family dated 1574 which was found in 1898 (ibid. 559). The gravestone (MO018-044002-) of two Catholic archbishops of Armagh, the brothers Bernard and Ross McMahon, dated 1750, is close to the path at the base of the slope. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 30 November, 2016

• MO018-044002 Graveslab
  Description

  Located at the bottom of the slope and on the W side of the path in Edergole graveyard (MO018-044----). In 1714, at the height of the Penal Laws, Hugh McMahon (died 1737), Roman Catholic bishop of Clogher, was translated to Armagh and the Primacy of Ireland. He was succeeded at both Clogher and Armagh by his nephews, the brothers Bernard (died 1747) and Ross (died 1748) McMahon. The brothers are buried under a graveslab (dims 1.96m x 1.08m; T 0.15m) with a Latin inscription. It is inscribed in roman capitals beneath an elaborate but very worn crest that has a crown above it to the left and two mitres above it to the right. The inscription was transcribed in 1852 by Shirley (1879, 330) as: HIC IACET BERNARDVS ET ROCHVS / MAC – MAHON FRATRES GERMANI U / TERQUE SUCCESSIVE EPISCOPUS CLOG / HIRENSIS UTERQUE ETIAM SUCESIV / E ARCH-ARMACANUS TOTS HIBN. PRIM / ATI QUORUM NOBLISIMI GENERIS / MEMOR PIETAS ATQUAE AEMULA DOC / TRINA VITAQUE TIULAS NON IM / PAR MOERENTEM PATRIAM DECO / RAVERE. BERNARDUS OBIT DIE 27 / MAII 1747. AETAT 67. ROCHUS DIE 29 OCT 1748. AETAT 49 / AMBO PARES VIRTUTE / PARES ET HORORIBUS AMBO. / This monument was erected / by Mr. Roger Mahon bro. to the / deceased primates anno. Dom. 1750. McKenna (1920, 1, 562) translates this as: Here lie Bernard and Ross MacMahon, brothers, each in succession Bishop of Clogher, each also, in succession Archbishop of Armagh, Primates of All Ireland, whose noble origin, profound piety, extensive learning, and edifying lives have shed a lustre round their disconsolate country. Bernard died 27th May, 1747, aged 69 years. Ross died on 29th October, 1748, aged 49. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 30 November, 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Edergole · Eadargóil

Area

642,890 m² (64.29 ha, 158.86 acres)

Civil parish

Ematris, and its townlands

Barony

Dartree

Electoral division

Dawsongrove, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dawsongrove electoral division: 752 people in 261 households; 74% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghadrumkeen, Annaghybane, Coolkill West, Drumintin, Tanmacnally

Placenames

Edergole 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.