Gransha More

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gransha More, from 276 m² to 146,877 m² (14.69 ha, 36.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Gransha More 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.

• 17 Feb 2021Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of the erection of a fully serviced two storey dwelling, domestic garage, new entrance with piers and gates, sewerage treatment facilities and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2172

• 28 May 2020Conditional

  permission for a dormer style extension to the rear of existing bungalow dwelling house including demolition of single storey rear annex and elevational changes and alterations to all elevations consisting of wall finishes, windows, rooflights and a new wastewater treatment plant with raised mound polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20187

• 23 Mar 2020Conditional

  permission to (1) retain existing modular home (on a temporary basis) with connection to existing wastewater treatment system & (2) construct a two-storey type dwelling house and to install proprietary wastewater treatment system with new site entrance & site access together with associated ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20107

• 19 Dec 2018Conditional

  permission to construct a free range poultry unit, together with vertical meal bins, underground washing tank, roof water polishing area, develop existing agricultural entrance and all ancillary site works. Significant Further Information relates to the submission of nutrient management plan.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18589

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 Gransha More.

Recorded monuments

• MO012-093 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in a low-lying landscape between drumlins and on the S side of the N54 Clones to Monaghan town road. This is a circular grass-covered earthen platform (diam. c. 45-50m) delineated by a slight bank which has been largely reduced to a scarp. It is within a subrectangular cemetery (dims c. 90m N-S; c. 65m E-W) and a Presbyterian church is overlying the perimeter of the rath at E. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 30 January 2018

Architectural heritage

• Stone Bridge Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Free-standing gable-fronted Presbyterian church, built c.1830, on site of earlier structure, having two-bay long walls, lower gabled porch to gable-front, and with later single-storey addition to east. Pitched slate roof having replacement rainwater goods, air vents and red terracotta ridge tiles, projecting gable eaves and external truss detail. Roughcast rendered walls having smooth rendered quoins set on smooth rendered plinth. Pointed-arch window openings, each with smooth rendered surround, stone sill and timber double-light window with quatrefoil over. Square-headed openings addition, having stone sills and uPVC windows. Pointed-arch door opening to east elevation of porch having timber door with iron strap hinges. Interior has rendered walls, timber battened wainscoting and ceiling, two rows of timber pews, carved timber pulpit with brass lamp stands, decorative pointed-arch timber panelled backdrop with render hood-moulding terminating in moulded capitals behind pulpit. Carved timber table and chairs to front of pulpit. Timber architraves to square-headed door openings having timber panelled doors. Church set within graveyard in rural setting.

• Gransha National School, school, 1880–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey school, dated 1884, having projecting gabled entrance bay to front (west) elevation. No longer in use. Hipped slate roof, pitched to entrance projection, with clay ridge tiles, roughcast rendered chimneystack, and with tooled limestone coping to front gable. Coursed squared limestone and sandstone walls having dressed block-and-start sandstone quoins and plinth course. Limestone plaque to front inscribed 'Gransha[?] National School AD 1884'. Gauged-brick square-headed window openings, boarded up with corrugated-iron sheeting, having red brick surrounds and sandstone sills. Gauged-brick square-headed door opening to front with red brick surround and sheet timber door, and sandstone step. Remains of former outbuilding to rear (east), overgrown, having coursed rubble stone walls. Rendered rubble stone wall to front with render capping.

• Bridge, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-span skew railway bridge, built c.1860, carrying Portadown and Cavan Branch of Ulster Railway over road. Superstructure of span removed. Rock-faced rusticated stone abutments with rusticated margined quoins and tapered buttresses. Roughly-coursed squared stone parapet walls flanking carriageway, having dressed limestone copings and rendered brick plat-bands to base of parapets.

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

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Gransha More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Gransha More · An Ghráinseach Mhór

Area

882,973 m² (88.3 ha, 218.19 acres)

Civil parish

Clones, and its townlands

Barony

Dartree

Electoral division

St. Tierney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

390 people lived in 140 households in the St. Tierney electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Conaghy, Edenaforan, Garran, Gransha Beg, Latgallan, Nook, Tircooney

Placenames

Gransha More 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.