Gola English

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gola English, from 299 m² to 132,037 m² (13.2 ha, 32.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Gola English 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 Mar 2026Conditional

  permission to construct 1 No. poultry house and 1 No. Manure loading area together with all ancillary structures (to include meal storage bin(s) and soiled water tank(s)) and site works associated with the above development at Gola English, Scotstown, Co. Monaghan

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660067

• 30 Jan 2026N/a

  permission to construct 1 No. poultry house and 1 No. Manure loading area together with all ancillary structures (to include meal storage bin(s) and soiled water tank(s)) and site works associated with the above development at Gola English, Scotstown, Co. Monaghan

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660023

• 28 May 2025Conditional

  planning permission to construct a slatted shed for the housing of livestock, incorporating a roofed holding/handling facility, together with other associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560210

• 22 Dec 2022Conditional

  permission to erect a two storey dwelling house and domestic garage, insert a filter unit and percolation area, exit on to public road with new entrance on to existing laneway and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 22528

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 Gola English.

Recorded monuments

• MO008-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a local height towards the NE end of a NE-SW drumlin ridge. This is a circular domed and grass-covered area (diam. c. 25m) defined by a slight earthen bank. There is a second slight earthen bank at the base of the slope (diam. of base c. 45m) that has been planted as a hedge E-S. There is no visible fosse, but a broad entrance ramp (Wth 12m) rises up the mound at SE. 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 Gola English.

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 10 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Gola English · Gabhla na Sasanach

Area

1,076,368 m² (107.64 ha, 265.98 acres)

Civil parish

Tedavnet, and its townlands

Barony

Monaghan

Electoral division

Scotstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Scotstown electoral division: 1,208 people in 402 households; 82% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghaboy South, Allagesh, Drumloo, Foremass, Gola Irish, Killatten, Killycarnan South

Placenames

Gola English 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.