Loughbrattoge

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Loughbrattoge, from 3,470 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres) to 148,486 m² (14.85 ha, 36.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Loughbrattoge 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.

• 1 Sept 2021Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of the construction of a two storey and linked single storey (to the rear) dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, boundary fencing, new domestic entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21499

• 9 Feb 2021Conditional

  Permission for the construction of two storey extension to the rear and side of the existing dwelling house, upgrade of wastewater treatment system with ancillary site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2171

• 5 Sept 2017Conditional

  Retention of a single storey, detached domestic garage

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 17420

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 Loughbrattoge.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Loughbrattoge.

Architectural heritage

• McKelvey's Grove Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1845–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted Presbyterian church, dated 1847, having three-bay long walls to nave, triple-gabled three-bay porch to front, and with late four-bay two-storey nineteenth-century school-house at right angles to rear. Pitched slate roof, having timber bargeboards to porch. Roughcast rendered walls, with smooth-rendered painted plinth course, with painted stone rectangular date plaque to top of front gable. Pointed-arch window openings to nave walls and to porch, with replacement uPVC windows to former and timber tracery windows to porch. Pointed-arch door replacement double-leaf timber door to porch, with two tooled granite steps. School-house has pitched slate roof, rendered walls and square-headed replacement uPVC windows and doors. Interior of church has carved timber hymn boards to north elevation, flat panelled ceiling to nave, and nineteenth-century timber pews. Open choir box to north of nave in central position in front of pulpit. Nineteenth-century carved timber pulpit to centre of north end approached by steps. Square-headed door opening with timber-panelled door leading from pulpit to vestry. Carved timber table and baptismal font to south of pulpit. Square-headed door opening from north-west corner leading into school building. Two square-headed timber panelled doors from nave to porch. Marble memorial wall plaque to north wall of porch opposite front door. Roughcast rendered stepped boundary wall to road with four round-plan gate piers, with modern metal gates. Situated to north-east of McKelvey’s Cross, surrounded by graveyard on three sides.

• McKelvey's Grove Presbyterian Church, 1915–1945 · Regional interest
  Description

  Two polished marble funerary monuments, both erected c.1917 and having additional inscriptions added c.1934 and c.1945, dedicated to Nesbitt and Gault families. Located in graveyard of McKelvey’s Grove Presbyterian church. Tapering square-plan polished marble pillar dedicated to Nesbitt, set on square-plan base. Carved marble capital with inscribed scroll ornament to tympana of four round arches, surmounted by carved marble urn. Pillar set to eastern end of plain chamfered kerb, grave extending west. Situated to east of church. Round carved brown marble column on carved granite plinth dedicated to Gault. Carved red marble capital, with inscribed scroll ornament to tympana of four round arches, surmounted by carved marble urn with inscribed fluted lines to body. Set to west end of grave bordered by granite kerbs with square-plan piers to each corner. Situated to west of steps approaching church.

• Drollagh Church (Muckno), school, 1780–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey Church of Ireland church, built c.1840, with gabled porch to east and two-bay two-storey return to south, latter formerly minister's house, with recent lean-to roofed outbuilding attached. Building now disused. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, having pitched slate roof and cast-iron octagonal hopper and downpipe to house. Red brick chimneystacks to house, rendered to north, with simple terracotta chimney pots. Roughcast rendered walls, with some red brick laid in English garden wall bond visible to porch, and with rowlock brick eaves course throughout, rendered and painted in places. Square-headed window openings to long walls of church, with double-leaf cast-iron lattice casement windows, having rendered and painted brick sills. Pointed-arch window openings with timber-framed tracery windows to east and west ends, having decorative coloured square panes, bordered by rectangular coloured panes. Original cast-iron frames to house, having pivot awning over fixed pane in eight-over-twelve arrangement. Outbuildings to rear having corrugated-iron roofs, smooth rendered walls, and square-headed openings with recent fittings. Rendered boundary wall to front with square-plan gate piers and wrought-iron vehicular and pedestrian gates.

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 Loughbrattoge, about 1 in 5 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 Loughbrattoge.

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

Name

Loughbrattoge · Loch Bratóige

Area

1,370,637 m² (137.06 ha, 338.69 acres)

Civil parish

Muckno, and its townlands

Barony

Cremorne

Electoral division

Mullyash, the unit of the census

Census 2022

380 people lived in 132 households in the Mullyash electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Doocharn, Drollagh, Lurganboy, Tullintrat

Placenames

Loughbrattoge 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.