Selloo

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Selloo, from 4,377 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres) to 165,080 m² (16.51 ha, 40.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Selloo 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.

• 9 Jun 2021Conditional

  Permission to erect a single storey extension to the rear of existing storey and a half dwelling house and exit onto public road by way of existing entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21339

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 Selloo.

Recorded monuments

• MO008-011 Church
  Description

  Located at the S end of a small N-S ridge. This is an early ecclesiastical site, the name of which ‘Selloo’ probably derives from Suidhe Lugha – Lua’s seat. Lua is probably short for Molua (Smyth 1953), who is the patron of Drumsnat parish, the parish church of which (MO013-002003-) is c. 5km to the SE. St Molua of Kyle, Co. Laois (LA015-023001-) was a sixth century saint descended of the Corca Oiche sept of the Ulaidh. According to a twelfth century life influenced by Augustinian interests he was educated at the monastery of Bangor, Co. Down, before moving to Drumsnat and finally settling at Kyle (Ó Riain 2011, 490-3). Although Selloo is in a part of Clones parish within Monaghan barony, this is probably the site of the church that St. Molua established in Monaghan that became associated with Drumsnat. A burial ground is represented by a rectangular grass-covered area (dims c. 20m NE-SW: c. 15m NW-SE) defined by field walls at NW and SW and occasional stones on the line of the perimeter elsewhere. The crude base of a cross and two bullaun stones were in the interior until 1968 at least. This is the burial ground that was thought to have been used exclusively for children after c. 1800 (Smyth 1953, 63) but there are no grave-markers. A shallow drainage trench dug across it N-S during 1983 unearthed bones and a fragment of a decorated shaft of a high cross (Harbison 1992, vol. 1, 167) that is now in the County Monaghan Museum. The burial ground is a within a circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 80-85m) defined by a scarp that is best preserved WNW-NE (at N: Wth c. 5m; H c. 1m) and E-SW. The enclosure is overlain by field banks that approach from NE, SE, SW and NW and meet around the burial ground at its centre. (Brindley 1988, 49-50) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 30 August 2017

• MO008-011001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Located at the S end of a small N-S ridge. At the centre of the early church site (MO008-011----) is a rectangular grass-covered area (dims c. 20m NE-SW: c. 15m NW-SE) defined by field walls at NW and SW and occasional stones on the line of the perimeter elsewhere. This is the burial ground that was thought to have been used exclusively for children after c. 1800 (Smyth 1953, 63) but there are no grave-markers. A shallow drainage trench dug across it N-S during 1983 unearthed bones and a fragment of a decorated shaft of a high cross (MO008-011003-) that is now in the County Monaghan Museum, but two bullaun stones (MO0008-011004-) and the base of a cross (MO008-011005-) are missing from the burial ground. (Brindley 1988, 49-50) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). Revised by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 30 August 2017

• MO008-011002 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Located at the S end of a small N-S ridge. The early church (MO008-011----) that was probably founded by St. Molua in the sixth century is within a circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 80-85m) defined by a scarp that is best preserved WNW-NE (at N: Wth c. 5m; H c. 1m) and E-SW. The enclosure is overlain by field banks that approach from NE, SE, SW and NW and meet around the burial ground (MO008-011001-) at its centre. (Brindley 1988, 49) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 30 August 2017

• MO008-011003 Cross - High cross
  Description

  Portion of the decorated shaft of sandstone high cross (H 0.2m; Wth 0.18m; T 0.1m) was discovered in a drain across the children’s burial ground at the early church site (MO008-011----) in 1983. One face has a panel of fretwork but while the opposite face was prepared for carving no pattern was executed; the shorter sides were intended to be plain. It is now in Monaghan County Museum. (Brindley 1988, 50; Harbison 1992, 167; No. 201) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 30 August 2017

• MO008-011004 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Brindley (1988, 49-50) records that two small stones with shallow depressions, possibly bullaun stones or mortars, were noted in 1968 as being incorporated in the ruined wall of the children's burial ground (MO008-011001-). These have not been located. Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 12 April 2017

• MO008-011005 Cross
  Description

  The rectangular base of a cross was kept at the childrens’ burial ground (MO008-011001-) in the early church site (MO008-011----) until 1968 at least, but it was not noted in 1983. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 30 August, 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Selloo · Suí Lú

Area

262,719 m² (26.27 ha, 64.92 acres)

Civil parish

Clones, and its townlands

Barony

Monaghan

Electoral division

Clones, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clones electoral division: 517 people in 180 households; 88% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cavanacross, Drumgoast, Drumummery, Kilcreen, Knocknagrat, Mullaglassan

Placenames

Selloo 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.