Cooldarragh

Area

35,630 m² (3.56 ha, 8.8 acres)

Buildings

2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 390 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

Cooldarragh

Planning applications on this parcel

• 22 Jan 2018Conditional

  Permission to construct a one and a half storey dwelling house with detached garage, new site entrance, waste water treatment system and all associated site works. Significant further information relates to amendment to site line boundary, relocation of site dwelling and amended dwelling design.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 1822

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

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 4 recorded monuments.

• MO013-002001 Cross
  Description

  Within the graveyard at the site of Drumsnat parish church (MO013-002003-) is a disc-headed cross (H 1m; span 0.65m) with a rather subrectangular solid ring (diam. 0.51-0.53m; T 0.16m) and a rectangular cross-section at the base (dims 0.33m x 0.13m). The cross is probably seventeenth century in date, although there is no inscription. The ring is emphasised by four D-shaped depressions (dims 0.1m x 0.1m; D 2cm) on the E face and the short sides of the cross are pock-dressed. Compiled by: Michael Moore See the attached views from W _04, E _02, and S _03 Date of revised upload: 30 November 2016

• MO013-002003 Church
  Description

  Situated on a knoll overlooking Drumsnat Lough (max. dims c. 220m NE-SW; c. 150m NW-SE), which is c. 60m to the NE. The church of Drumsnat is under the patronage of St Molua of Kyle, Co. Laois (LA015-023001-), who was a sixth century saint descended from the Corca Oiche sept of the Ulaidh. According to a twelfth century life influenced by Augustinian interests he was educated at the monastery of Bangor, Co. Down, before moving to Drumsnat and finally settling at Kyle (Ó Riain 2011, 490-3). Molua’s church is probably in Selloo (MO008-011----), c. 5km to the NW (Smyth 1953) rather than at Mullanacross. The parish church is listed as the Capella (chapel) de Druymsnetta together with the church of Kilmore (MO009-035001-) in the ecclesiastical taxation (1302-06) of Pope Nicholas IV (Shirley 1879, 289), and the names of some of the clergy are known from 1427 (Leslie 1929, 185-7). According to the visitation of Bishop Spottiswood the church was ruinous in 1622 (McKenna 1920, 1, 306). The ruins of a church building are depicted opposite Drumsnat Lough on Mc Crea’s map of Monaghan dating from 1793 (NLI 16 I. 10(20)). There is no evidence now of a church building within a subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 60m E-W; c. 28-35m N-S) defined by earthen banks or scarps with hedges. There is a gate and masonry piers at the E angle where a short lane (L c. 20m) leads NE to a public road. Portion of a chamfered doorjamb and two corbels decorated with carved heads that were recorded in the graveyard in 1940 (ITA survey; McMahon 1979, 143) are now in storage with Monaghan County Museum. Within the graveyard is a disc-headed cross (H 1m; span 0.65m) with a solid ring (diam. 0.51-0.53m; T 0.16m) and a rectangular cross-section at the base (dims 0.33m x 0.13m). The cross is probably seventeenth century in date, although there is no inscription. The ring is emphasised by four D-shaped depressions (dims 0.2m x 0.1m; D 2cm) on the E face. A mass-rock under its canopy or bothóg has been established to one side of the entrance gate since c. 1800 and an area of exposed bedrock beside it is where coffins were rested before entering the graveyard (Ó Dubhthaigh 1966, 94-5). The mass-rock is a stone (dims 1.1m x 0.36m; T 0.1m) on a masonry pier (H 0.7m) in an arched alcove (dims 1.12m x 1.1m; H 1.6m) with a small recess (Wth 0.3m; H 0.42m; D 0.21m) in the back wall of the alcove. The inscriptions on the headstones dating from 1719 have been recorded (ibid. 98-103), but the earliest noted in a modern survey by Irish Graveyard Surveys, which is displayed by the entrance, is 1705. 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore See the attached views of the corbels Date of revised upload: 30 November 2016

• MO013-002004 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on a knoll overlooking Drumsnat Lough (max. dims c. 220m NE-SW; c. 150m NW-SE), which is c. 60m to the NE. There is no evidence now of the parish church of Drumsnat (MO013-002003-) within a subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 60m E-W; c. 28-35m N-S) defined by earthen banks or scarps with hedges. There is a gate and masonry piers at the E angle where a short lane (L c. 20m) leads NE to a public road. Architectural fragments (MO013-002002-) from the graveyard are now in storage with Monaghan County Museum. A disc-headed cross (MO013-002001-) is within the graveyard and a mass-rock (MO013-002005-) is outside it to one side of the entrance. The inscriptions on the headstones dating from 1719 have been recorded (Ó Dubhthaigh 1966, 98-103), but the earliest noted in a modern survey by Irish Graveyard Surveys, which is displayed by the entrance, is 1705. Compiled by: Michael Moore See the attached images of the mass-rock _01, _02 See the attached view of the graveyard from the NE _03 Date of upload: 30 November 2016

• MO013-002005 Mass-rock
  Description

  Located on the NE-facing slope of a knoll overlooking Drumsnat Lough (max. dims c. 220m NE-SW; c. 150m NW-SE), which is c. 60m to the NE. A mass-rock under its canopy or bothóg has been established to one side of the entrance gate of Drumsnat graveyard (MO013-002004-) since c. 1800, and an area of exposed bedrock beside it is where coffins were rested before entering the graveyard (Ó Dubhthaigh 1966, 94-5). The mass-rock is a stone (dims 1.1m x 0.36m; T 0.1m) on a masonry pier (H 0.7m) in an arched alcove (dims 1.12m x 1.1m; H 1.6m) with a small recess (Wth 0.3m; H 0.42m; D 0.21m) in the back wall of the alcove. (Ó Gallachoir 1957, 120-1) See (MO013-002004-) for views of the mass-rock Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 30 November, 2016

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 moderately low, low. Parts of the land are water.

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.

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