Newgrove
Newgrove is a townland in the civil parish of Tedavnet, barony of Monaghan, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is Muineachán Dubh.
Parcel 329751
- Area
- 74,721 m² (7.47 ha, 18.46 acres)
- Buildings
- 10 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 2,699 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Newgrove
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2301 (ZIP).
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 57.7 ha
- 142 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 9,349 m² (0.93 ha, 2.31 acres)
- Zoning
- C2.1
- Industry/Enterprise/Employment
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newgrove, from 71 m² to 83,266 m² (8.33 ha, 20.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- C2.1Industry/Enterprise/Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Landscape Protection/Conservation (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G5Recreation/Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
7 Aug 2025Refused
planning permission for the infilling of lands with imported inactive or inert waste (app. 6220m³) to a maximum depth of 2.4m over 0.80Ha, accessed off existing entrance, finished with topsoil and grassed over on completion, together with all ancillary & associated site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560309
23 Jul 2025N/a
planning permission for the infilling of lands with imported inactive or inert waste (apx. 6220m³) to a maximum depth of 2.4m over 0.80Ha, accessed off existing entrance, finished with topsoil and grassed over on completion, together with all ancillary & associated site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560285
2 Sept 2019Refused
Permission for the infilling of lands with imported inactive or inert waste (approx. 6,220 cubic meters) to a maximum depth of 2.4m over 0.80Ha, accessed off existing entrance, finished with topsoil and grassed over, together with all ancillary & associated site works. Significant Further information relates to site entrance plan, breakdown of imported materials, preliminary flood risk assessment addendum report.
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 19409
28 Mar 2017Conditional
retention of an existing mezzanine floor for the ancillary use (storage space) to an existing industrial unit and associated site development works
Retention · Monaghan County Council, 17143
3 Jan 2017Conditional
permission for a change of use from light industry to gymnasium leisure facility, with partial change of use of offices to ancillary rooms and all associated site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 171
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Newgrove.
Recorded monuments
- MO009-034 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located towards the bottom of a W-facing slope. An oval enclosure (dims c. 30m NE-SW; c. 20m NW-SE) described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’ is depicted on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map. No archaeological feature is visible at ground level in pasture. 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: 13 December 2017
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Newgrove.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Newgrove, about 1 in 10 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2301 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Newgrove with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Newgrove · Muineachán Dubh
- Area
- 576,676 m² (57.67 ha, 142.5 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tedavnet, and its townlands
- Barony
- Monaghan
- Electoral division
- Bellanode, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,571 people lived in 495 households in the Bellanode electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Corknock, Cornecassa Demesne, Crover, Drumgarran, Gallanagh, Raconnell, Tullycroman
- Placenames
- Newgrove 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.