Killark

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killark, from 645 m² to 80,840 m² (8.08 ha, 19.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Killark 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.

• 19 Feb 2020Conditional

  Permission for alterations to previously approved planning permission Ref No 18/455 incorporating the relocation of proposed dwelling, alterations and additions to proposed dwelling and include all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2063

• 3 Oct 2018Conditional

  permission to construct a two storey dwelling house, a single storey domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, new gated domestic entrance, timber boundary fencing and include all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18455

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 Killark.

Recorded monuments

• MO034-016001 Church
  Description

  Situated in a low-lying position in an undulating landscape. According to local tradition, the site of an ancient church and associated graveyard (MO034-016002-), neither of which are indicated on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps, was in Killerk on the N side of an E-W road and bones had been found there. There is no reference to it from Killark school in the Schools’ Manuscripts from the 1930s, for which see this web-page accessed on 15/06/2017: http://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4723809 If it exists its precise location cannot be precisely identified. The abpve 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: 27 June 2017

• MO034-016002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated in a low-lying position in an undulating landscape. According to local tradition, the site of an ancient church and associated graveyard (MO034-016002-), neither of which are indicated on any ed. of the OS 6-inch maps, was in Killerk on the N side of an E-W road and bones had been found there. There is no reference to it from Killark school in the Schools’ Manuscripts from the 1930s, for which see this web-page accessed on 15/06/2017: http://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4723809 If it exists its precise location cannot be identified. Date of upload: 27 June 2017

• MO034-017 Souterrain
  Description

  Located in a low-lying position in an undulating landscape. There is local information on the discovery of a cave during repairs to a minor road in Killark during the 1930s, but there is no reference to it from Killark school in the Schools’ Manuscripts from the 1930s, for which see this web-page accessed on 15/06/2017: http://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4723809 If it exists its precise location cannot be identified. 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: 27 June 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Killark · Coill Arc

Area

676,821 m² (67.68 ha, 167.25 acres)

Civil parish

Magheracloone, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Drumboory, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumboory electoral division: 571 people in 179 households; 91% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonmeenan, Coolderry, Drumboory, Leeg, Mullylusty, Mullyore

Placenames

Killark 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.