Garlegobban

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garlegobban, from 63 m² to 63,849 m² (6.38 ha, 15.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Garlegobban 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 Jul 2026Conditional

  permission for a 1) new domestic garage, 2) to alter the site boundaries to that previously approved under planning ref no.18/174, 3) to replace the previously approved landscaping layout with a new landscaping layout to coincide with the proposed new site boundaries

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2661

• 9 Mar 2023Conditional

  permission to construct a 1 and a half storey dwelling house, a domestic garage, a domestic waste water treatment system, a new site entrance with all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2384

• 30 Mar 2021Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of amendments to previously granted planning application 19/329 which includes a new two storey house design, repositioning the house onsite, ancillary garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21148

• 23 Dec 2020Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of a two storey dwelling house, waste water treatment unit, and percolation area & new entrance onto public road and all associated site works. Significant further information relates to relocation of house closer to western boundary and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20586

• 9 Dec 2020Conditional

  permission for development consisting of permission to erect 1478m² of photovoltaic panels on the roof of our existing building with all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 20532

• 27 Apr 2018Conditional

  Permission for a two storey dwelling house, a waste water treatment system, a new site entrance and all associated site works. Significant Further Information has been received which includes alterations to the house design along with the relocation of the southern site boundary and the relocation of the dwelling on the site

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18174

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 Garlegobban.

Recorded monuments

• LH010-015 Ford
  Description

  On the seventh of September, 1599, Richard Deveroux, the second Earl of Essex and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, met and parleyed with Hugh O’Neill, the Earl of Tyrone, then in rebellion against Queen Elizabeth I. Essex had arrived in Ireland in April with over 17,000 troops, the largest army ever dispatched to Ireland by a Tudor monarch. Once in Ireland Essex dissipated and dispersed his forces on forays into the midlands and south. Finally, and by his own account (Shirley 1845, 108-11; 1879, 103-06), as he approached Ulster he had only 2700 foot and 300 horse and was being shadowed by a force twice that size under O’Neill, who asked to parley. This occurred at the ford of Bellaclinthe, and afterwards at the nearby castle of Garret Fleming, which is otherwise unknown. Nothing significant emerged from the talks, but a peace was arranged, which could be extended. Essex required a respite from campaigning and used the peace as an opportunity to return to England, while O’Neill was negotiating for Spanish aid and would welcome a delay. The precise location Bellaclinthe ford is not known but it is likely to be in the vicinity of Aclint Bridge on the main N2 Ardee to Carrickmacross road between Annagh and Aclint townlands in Co. Louth, and Drumgreeny and Annahean on the Monaghan side of the River Lagan or Glyde (Shirley 1845, 109fn). The Ordnance Survey placed the location between Garlegobban, Co. Monaghan and Essex Ford, Co. Louth where there is no river of any substance, and described it as ‘Essex Ford (Site of)’, only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. However, Shirley (ibid.) records that a bronze axe and a silver spur were discovered here when the bridge was built in 1842, and it may have been an ancient ford. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 2 August 2017

• MO031-112 Ford
  Description

  On the seventh of September, 1599, Richard Deveroux, the second Earl of Essex and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, met and parleyed with Hugh O’Neill, the Earl of Tyrone, then in rebellion against Queen Elizabeth I. Essex had arrived in Ireland in April with over 17,000 troops, the largest army ever dispatched to Ireland by a Tudor monarch. Once in Ireland Essex dissipated and dispersed his forces on forays into the midlands and south. Finally, and by his own account (Shirley 1845, 108-11; 1879, 103-06), as he approached Ulster he had only 2700 foot and 300 horse and was being shadowed by a force twice that size under O’Neill, who asked to parley. This occurred at the ford of Bellaclinthe, and afterwards at the nearby castle of Garret Fleming at Lagan (LH013-001001-), which is c. 7.5km S of Garlegobban but only 2.5 km from Aclint. Nothing significant emerged from the talks, but a peace was arranged, which could be extended. Essex required a respite from campaigning and used the peace as an opportunity to return to England, while O’Neill was negotiating for Spanish aid and would welcome a delay. The precise location Bellaclinthe ford is not known but it is likely to be in the vicinity of Aclint Bridge on the main N2 Ardee to Carrickmacross road between Annagh and Aclint townlands in Co. Louth, and Drumgreeny and Annahean on the Monaghan side of the River Lagan or Glyde (Shirley 1845, 109fn). The Ordnance Survey placed the location between Garlegobban, Co. Monaghan and Essex Ford, Co. Louth where there is no river of any substance, and described it as ‘Essex Ford (Site of)’, only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. However, Shirley (ibid.) records that a bronze axe and a silver spur were discovered here when the bridge was built in 1842, and it may have been an ancient ford. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 14 September, 2017

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch railway bridge, built 1866, carrying road over former Carrickmacross Branch railway line. Elliptical arch with five header courses of greyish brick, and skewly-laid brick soffit. Rock-faced rusticated stone walls, piers and parapets having cut-stone string course and impost course. Moulded brick copings to parapet walls terminating at north and south ends with cut-stone copings. North end of east parapet missing.

• Post box, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, erected c.1890, with royal monogram of Queen Victoria, and 'POST OFFICE' in raised lettering on hood of opening. Maker's mark to base of box. Set into rubble stone wall at 'T' junction in Essexford village.

• The Railway House, railway station, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay single-storey railway station, built c.1886, with rail-side elevation to north, and substantial recent extensions to east. Now in use as house. Pitched slate roof with with roll-top ridge tiles, replacement uPVC rainwater goods and decorative eaves-boards and red brick chimneystacks. Red brick walls. Square-headed window openings having concrete lintels and sills, and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed door opening to north elevation with replacement uPVC door and concrete lintel. Set back from the roadside and accessed by driveway. Associated former stationmaster's house to south-west.

• Building misc, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey barn over byre or warehouse, built c.1890, having first entrance doorway to first floor, with gablet over, accessed by external concrete steps, and with single-storey addition to north-east gable. Pitched slate roof with timber bargeboards and brick eaves course. Rubble stone walls having tooled-stone quoins. Square-headed window openings having red brick block-and-start surrounds and stone sills. Some timber battened shutters remaining. First floor doorway has red brick jambs, granite plinth blocks, concrete lintel, and timber battened door. Square-headed pitching door to first floor of south-west gable, having red brick block-and-start surround, stone threshold, and timber battened door. Carriage opening to ground floor at west end of front elevation, having sliding corrugated-iron door. Situated on south edge of roadside. Attached single-storey building, now roofless, with rubble stone walls and evidence of pitched roof.

• House, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan two-storey house, built c.1880, having six-bay east and five-bay south elevations, with lower single-bay two-storey addition to west gable. Also in use as public house. Pitched slate roofs having red brick chimneystacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth render quoins and plinth. Square-headed window openings having patent reveals, and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with ogee horns. Two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to public house (ground floor of south elevation). External security bars to ground floor windows. Square-headed door opening to north-east elevation having timber panelled door and two-pane overlight. Entrances to public house comprising square-headed door openings to both elevations of south-east corner, that to east elevation having half-glazed timber battened door, that to south elevation having recent timber door, both with sidelights, risers and over-lights. Ancillary three-bay single-storey outbuilding with attic storey attached to west gable, having pitched slate roof, rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings with timber fittings. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding to west vertex of yard, with hipped roof, curved rubble stone walls incorporated into rubble stone boundary walls enclosing yard. Situated directly onto pavement to street.

• Forge/smithy, 1865–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-storey forge, dated 1869, having horseshoe arch to front (north) gable, and having projecting bay with catslide roof to west elevation. Now disused, although recently substantially refurbished. Pitched slate roof with timber bargeboards and exposed rafter ends, limestone chimneystack with cut-stone coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble limestone walls with dressed and margined quoins. Cast-iron date plaque to front gable having relief coronet, 'B' for Bath estate, and date. Square-headed window openings with recent cut limestone lintels and sills, and replacement one-over-one timber sliding sash windows. Horseshoe arch to front gable, having cut-stone voussoirs and timber battened double-leaf door. Two cast-iron lion-heads with tethering rings to either side of door. Situated on roadside with stream to rear of site.

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 Garlegobban, 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_2738 (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.

No address of the register names Garlegobban with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Garlegobban · Garraí Log Gobáin

Area

358,314 m² (35.83 ha, 88.54 acres)

Civil parish

Killanny, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Ballymackney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,001 people lived in 335 households in the Ballymackney electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballingarry, Dunelty, Essexford (Co. Louth), Radrumskean, Stradeen

Placenames

Garlegobban 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.