Cargaghdoo

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cargaghdoo, from 1,212 m² to 102,635 m² (10.26 ha, 25.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Cargaghdoo 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.

• 11 Jun 2025Conditional

  permission to retain & complete dwelling house as constructed foundations and pad footprint, constructed on foot by previously granted permission on PI. Ref. No. 09/596 permission to relocate site entrance, new wastewater treatment system, new gates & piers together with all ancillary & associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560231

• 15 Mar 2017Conditional

  permission to construct a slatted shed with underground slurry storage tank to the side of existing slatted shed & all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 17117

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 Cargaghdoo.

Recorded monuments

• MO025-014 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Situated towards the N edge of an undulating plateau with rock outcrop and stone field walls. An oval embanked enclosure is depicted on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’, and it is depicted as an oval field on the 1907 edition. This is an oval grass-covered area (dims 51m E-W; 36.5m N-S) defined by a drystone wall, incorporating an older wall (Wth of base 2.3m; Wth of top 0.9m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.3m) at NE. The original entrance is not identified. 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 Date of revision: 27 February 2018

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cargaghdoo.

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

At the centre of the townland of Cargaghdoo, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Cargaghdoo · An Charraigeach Dhubh

Area

1,222,049 m² (122.2 ha, 301.97 acres)

Civil parish

Aghnamullen, and its townlands

Barony

Cremorne

Electoral division

Laragh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

576 people lived in 197 households in the Laragh electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagleve, Coose, Corravoo, Kednagullion, Lagan

Placenames

Cargaghdoo 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.