Toniscoffy
Toniscoffy is a townland in the civil parish of Monaghan, barony of Monaghan, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is Tamhnaigh Scafaí.
Parcel 332487
- Area
- 1,267 m²
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 275 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
- Toniscoffy
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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
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
- 178.1 ha
- 440 acres
- Land parcels
- 68
- registered freehold, median 4,457 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
68 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toniscoffy, from 19 m² to 172,806 m² (17.28 ha, 42.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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
No zone of a development plan covers Toniscoffy 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
22 Apr 2026N/a
permission to construct a single storey detached domestic garage, together with other associated ancillary site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660152
26 Feb 2026Conditional
permission to (1) decommission and remove existing waste water treatment system complete, (2) construct new waste water treatment system and percolation area. (3) carry out associated site works to enable completion of project
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 268
12 Nov 2025N/a
planning permission to construct a detached domestic garage, together with other associated ancillary site works,
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560452
20 Sept 2018Conditional
permission to retain two storey extension onto rear of existing dwelling house including elevational changes/internal alterations, upgrading of existing septic tank to a proposed new proprietary wastewater treatment system & mounded polishing filter plus associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18438
14 Nov 2017Conditional
Permission to construct 2 new poultry units together with underground washings tanks, vertical meal bins, use existing agricultural entrance and all ancillary site works beside existing farmyard complex. This application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a Licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency Acts 1994 to 2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (E.I.A.R.) has been submitted with this application. Significant further information relates to a revised EIAR and additional technical information.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17534
3 Apr 2017Conditional
permission for an amendment to previously approved planning permission reference 13/211 as follows: 1. Omission of sunroom to south east elevation. 2. Alterations to internal floor plan. 3. Minor alterations to elevations generally. Together with all ancillary site works. Significant Further Information:- relocation of dwelling and garage, increase in ridge height of proposed dwelling, increase in finished floor level of proposed dwelling and garage. Addition of single storey projection on front elevation of proposed dwelling and relocation of septic tank and associated percolation area.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17152
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 Toniscoffy.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Toniscoffy.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Toniscoffy.
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 Toniscoffy, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Toniscoffy.
- 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 Toniscoffy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Toniscoffy · Tamhnaigh Scafaí
- Area
- 1,780,694 m² (178.07 ha, 440.02 acres)
- Civil parish
- Monaghan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Monaghan
- Electoral division
- Rackwallace, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 974 people lived in 315 households in the Rackwallace electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cordevlis North, Corlea, Cornacreeve, Cornasoo, Drumacruttan, Glenish, Kilnamaddy, Lisnalee, Terrygeely, Tullyshelferty
- Placenames
- Toniscoffy 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.