Descart

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Descart, from 490 m² to 87,125 m² (8.71 ha, 21.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 18 Mar 2020Conditional

  retention and completion of location of waste water treatment system and percolation area and associate site works currently under construction, previous planning ref No. 18/322

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2099

• 11 Jul 2018Conditional

  Permission to erect a two storey dwelling, detached garage, septic tank and percolation area, new entrance and associated site works. Significant Further information relates to the proposed septic tank to be replaced with waste water treatment system.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18322

• 26 Feb 2018Conditional

  Permission to construct a two storey dwelling house, single storey steel portal frame domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, new gated domestic entrance with piers and wingwalls, timber boundary fencing, use of existing laneway and all associated site development works. Significant Further Information relates to a revised site layout, revised boundaries, relocation of residence and domestic garage, relocation of percolation area and ancillary site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 1871

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 Descart.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Descart.

Architectural heritage

• Descart House, farmyard complex, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farm complex, built c.1800, comprising L-plan block having four-bay two-storey house with basement with flat-roofed single-bay two-storey extension attached to east end, and nine-bay two-storey range of outbuildings attached to west end of rear (north) elevation. Further farmyard structures to east and north-east. House has pitched slate roof, half-hipped to west end, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods, roughcast rendered walls, and square-headed window and door openings with patent reveals and replacement uPVC windows and door, latter set into later flat-roofed windbreak; further round-headed replacement uPVC door to end bay. Outbuildings have segmental-headed carriage arch to south end, now part of house, pitched slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods, whitewashed rubble stone walls, square-headed openings with timber fittings, elliptical-headed carriage arches, one now partly blocked to form window. Site slopes from east to west resulting in single-storey elevation to rear. Detached two-storey outbuilding to east of house, having single-storey lean-to to south elevation, with pitched slate roof, rubble stone walls, square-headed window openings and segmental-arched carriage arch to front (west) gable having timber battened double-leaf doors. Twentieth-century barrel-roofed iron barn on masonry plinth to north-east of site having masonry lean-to to rear. Twentieth-century monopitch barn to east of site having corrugated-iron roof and rendered walls. House set back from, and perpendicular to, road. Rubble stone boundary walls to roadside with twentieth-century recessed entrance having wrought-iron gates within splayed concrete block walls and gate piers.

• Tobermannan Bridge, bridge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch stone bridge, built c.1820, carrying road north-south over River Lagan, on border of counties Monaghan and Meath. Segmental arches, dry arch to north being smaller and infilled with random rubble stone. Ashlar voussoirs, cut-stone piers, cut-stone V-cutwaters to upstream (west) elevation. Rubble stone walls and soffits, rubble stone parapet walls, splayed at road junction to south, with dressed stone copings. Dressed stone retaining wall forming north river bank.

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 low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Descart · Deisceart

Area

955,410 m² (95.54 ha, 236.09 acres)

Civil parish

Magheracloone, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Lough Fea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Lough Fea electoral division: 686 people in 234 households; 88% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barleyhill (Co. Meath), Derry, Derryleeg, Derrynaglah, Drumbo, Rahans

Placenames

Descart 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.