Urcher

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Urcher, from 16 m² to 68,230 m² (6.82 ha, 16.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Urcher 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.

• 10 Mar 2023Conditional

  permission for development consisting of a redesigned two-storey dwelling and associated single car garage from the dwelling and garage granted under application number 2289, the repositioning of the vehicular entrance to the site and changes to the approved wastewater treatment system and polishing filter together with all associated site development works. All other aspects of the development to remain as previously approved. Significant further information received relates to moving the entrance back to the original position under 22/89.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2360009

• 3 Mar 2022Conditional

  erect a storey and a half dwelling, treatment plant, percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2289

• 8 Oct 2021Conditional

  Permission to consist of the construction of 1 No. two storey dwelling, new site entrance onto public road, provision of effluent treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21565

• 14 Jun 2019Conditional

  permission to retain as built bungalow style dwelling house and domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, all associated site works, the revised position of the site and site boundaries. As the position of all of these items of work and features differ to that granted planning permission under planning reference number 02/330.

  Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19272

• 23 Apr 2019Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of 1) Proposed change of use of structure known as Cahans Meeting House (Protected Structure) from former place of worship to museum and general purpose spaces. Proposed installation of new heating and electrical systems, tea station in entrance lobby and associated construction and conservation works and internal decoration. 2) Proposed change of use of school house building located on the site from store and lecture hall to WC facilities at ground floor and meeting room space at first floor. Proposed installation of new heating and electrical systems, and associated construction and conservation works. Proposed repair works to roofs, windows and walls including re-rendering. 3) Proposed site works to include new car park and entrance onto adjacent roadway and alterations to existing hedge to allow for sight lines. New Pathways between car park and meeting house and school house building and lighting of same. Proposed new wastewater treatment system and percolation area. All associated works in relation to the above works.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 19183

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 Urcher.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Urcher.

Architectural heritage

• Urcher National School, school, 1810–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey school-house, dated 1812, now disused, having lower recessed gabled single-bay porch to east end, and three-bay single-storey lean-to extension to south. Pitched slate roof with stone ridge tiles and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered coursed rubble stone walls, having brick eaves course. Painted date plaque to east gable. Square-headed window openings with stone sills and brick block-and-start window surrounds, having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to main building and timber-framed windows to porch. Square-headed timber battened door to porch with over-light. Lean-to structure to south, having corrugated-iron roof, cast-iron rainwater goods, cement rendered walls and square-headed window openings with timber casement windows. Ruin of detached mid-nineteenth-century outbuilding to south-west. Situated at corner of rural junction, with Cahans Presbyterian Church located one kilometre south.

• School master's house, 1845–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1850, now vacant, having lean-to porch to rear (north-west) elevation. Pitched slate roof, with paired red brick chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods, and some timber bargeboards. Limewashed coursed rubble stone walls, roughcast render to rear. having brick eaves course and brick quoins. Square-headed window openings with brick block-and-start surrounds, one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, rendered reveals and painted stone sills. Square-headed door opening to front (south-east) elevation, not visible due to overgrowth. Gateway to road having square-plan rendered piers with steel gate, replacing wrought-iron double-leaf gate. Situated directly south of former Urcher school, with Cahans Presbyterian Church located one kilometre south.

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 Urcher, 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 Urcher.

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

Name

Urcher · An tUrchar

Area

663,134 m² (66.31 ha, 163.86 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmore, and its townlands

Barony

Monaghan

Electoral division

Caddagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

544 people lived in 181 households in the Caddagh electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bannaghbane, Corvoam, Drumgreeny, Lisnaveane, Loyst, Slieveroe

Placenames

Urcher 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.