Skeagh

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Skeagh, from 1,132 m² to 82,518 m² (8.25 ha, 20.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Skeagh 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.

• 5 Jul 2021Conditional

  permission for the demolition of the existing dwelling house and garage on the site and the replacement of this with a new two storey dwelling house and garage, repositioning the entrance to the site, sewerage treatment via the existing onsite unit and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21393

• 21 Feb 2017Conditional

  Permission to install a new mechanical effluent treatment system and percolation area together with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 1768

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 Skeagh.

Recorded monuments

• MO008-027 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on top of a drumlin. It is depicted as a D-shaped field attached to the W side of a farm lane only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is a D-shaped area (dims c. 40m E-W; c. 35m N-S), now occupied by a modern dwelling and used as garden (OSAP). 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: 30 August 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Skeagh · Sceitheach

Area

545,536 m² (54.55 ha, 134.8 acres)

Civil parish

Drumsnat, and its townlands

Barony

Monaghan

Electoral division

Drumsnat, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumsnat electoral division: 1,069 people in 392 households; 70% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghnamallagh, Carrowbarra, Eldron, Gortmore North, Killydonnelly, Thornhill

Placenames

Skeagh 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.