Tavanagh

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tavanagh, from 1,405 m² to 111,742 m² (11.17 ha, 27.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Tavanagh 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Tavanagh in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Tavanagh.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tavanagh.

Architectural heritage

• Post box, 1910–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron post box, installed c.1915, set within concrete pier. Rounded pediment to top, and rectangular door having chamfered edges, with royal insignia of George V, and raised lettering.

• Saint Patrick's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1785–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted rendered Early English Gothic Revival Roman Catholic church, built 1787 and rebuilt 1936-8 to designs by Thomas Cullen of Dublin. Cruciform plan, comprising three-bay nave to east, transepts to north and south, and single-bay chancel to west (all with same ridge and eaves levels). Porch to nave gable, and flat-roofed sacristy and service room extension to rear of chancel and transepts. Pitched slate roof having roll-top blue/black terracotta ridge tiles, limestone verges with cross finial to chancel gable, replacement half-round profile metal gutters. Gabled rendered openwork bell-cote with stone verges and cross finial, pointed-arch aperture containing bronze bell (foundry mark and date not visible). Painted rendered walls over rendered chamfered plinth. Pointed-arch window openings with leaded-glass lancets, splayed flush sandstone surrounds and sills (blocked to lower levels by extension), and with stepped tripartite window openings to gables. Pointed-arch door openings having stained and varnished vertically-sheeted timber door to south and west elevations of extension (double-leaf accessed by eleven-step flight of stone steps to porch to principal east entrance), with splayed sandstone surrounds throughout. Set back from crossing in rural road by low boundary wall and grid-laid graveyard on elevated sloping site rising to northwest. Tarmacadam parking area to north, access drives to north-east and west, mature trees to south-west, ancillary modern structures and residences to west and north of parking area and drive. Interior access via porch into nave via pointed-arch varnished and stained timber double-leaf door with stained-glass panels over lock-rail. Painted timber panelled gallery to nave gable with raked benches and accessed by gable-side stairs. Varnished and stained timber scissor-truss exposed roof structure, with principal rafters supported on carved stone corbels, purlins, and painted minor rafters to roof soffit panels. Painted plaster walls with splayed embrasures, leaded stained-glass lancets. Free-standing varnished timber benches on timber sheeted floors flanking central Minton-tiled aisle (in basket-weave design with diamond margins) to nave and between wall-bordering aisles.

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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Tavanagh · An Tamhnach

Area

423,949 m² (42.39 ha, 104.76 acres)

Civil parish

Errigal Trough, and its townlands

Barony

Trough

Electoral division

Derrygorry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Derrygorry electoral division: 292 people in 104 households; 76% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardginny, Clonacullan, Dromore, Drumbirn, Killybrone, Mullanafinnog, Raflacony, Urlish

Placenames

Tavanagh 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.