Coolnagrattan

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolnagrattan, from 424 m² to 239,933 m² (23.99 ha, 59.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Coolnagrattan 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.

• 19 Dec 2023N/a

  permission and retention permission for development consisting of: 1) retention of infilling and raised ground levels with inert waste and 2) permission for raising of ground levels by infilling of land with inert waste using existing entrance together with all ancillary and associated site works. This application is in connection with a waste management facility permit application. The class of activity will be: Class 5, 6 & 7 of the Third schedule Part II of the Waste Management (Facility Permit & Registration) Regulations, 2007 as amended.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2360327

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 Coolnagrattan.

Recorded monuments

• MO032-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a valley floor between drumlins. It is depicted as a small circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 20m) on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’. There is a low circular grass-covered rise (diam. c. 33m; H 1m) but with no defining feature. 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: 27 July 2017

Architectural heritage

• Rocksavage, country house, 1740–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey country house, built c.1760, with main elevation facing south, having two-storey gabled return to centre of rear elevation, and having lower two-storey wing to east end of main block, this wing having two-bay south elevation set back from main facade with canted bay window, and with five-bay side elevation with integral carriage arch leading to yard to rear formed by outbuildings. Now derelict. Pitched slate roofs, hipped at south end of east wing, with cast-iron rainwater goods, and rubble stone chimneystacks to gable ends of main block, red brick castellations to east end stack, and red brick chimneystacks with clay pots to east wing. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings throughout, with remains of three-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor front elevation, two-over-two pane windows to rear, and replacement timber casement windows to east wing. Square-headed door opening to main block, having pedimented cut and carved granite doorcase, flanked by mullioned sidelights. Lean-to latticed timber porch to east elevation of east wing. Camber-headed integral carriage arch to east wing, with recent corrugated-metal door. Lofted single-storey outbuilding attached to north gable of east wing, having pitched corrugated-metal roof, roughcast rendered walls, and camber-headed carriage arches. Roofless remains of outbuildings to west range of yard, having rubble stone walls. Remains of rubble stone boundary walls of walled gardens to south and west. Set in own grounds, ruinous single-storey rubble stone gate lodge alongside stream inside site entrance.

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 Coolnagrattan.

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

Name

Coolnagrattan · Cluain na gCreatán

Area

674,930 m² (67.49 ha, 166.78 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmoyne, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Kiltybegs, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kiltybegs electoral division: 716 people in 228 households; 91% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolderry, Kednaminsha, Kiltybegs, Oghill, Shancobane, Shancoduff

Placenames

Coolnagrattan 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.