Skinnagin

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Skinnagin, from 430 m² to 136,364 m² (13.64 ha, 33.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Skinnagin 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.

• 18 Aug 2025Conditional

  permission to demolish existing derelict dwelling and associated outbuildings and construct a replacement two-storey dwelling, single-storey detached domestic garage, new entrance with gates and piers, new wastewater treatment system together with all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560330

• 1 Apr 2021Conditional

  permission to develop a greenway from Monaghan Town’s Coolshannagh roundabout (N2 junction with N12) to Ardgonnell Bridge, located on the border with Northern Ireland near the N12. The proposed greenway measures 7.3 kms in length and affects mainly rural land in both public and private ownership. It follows the route of the Ulster Canal as it proceeds alongside the N12 national primary road to Middletown, County Armagh. The proposed stretch of Greenway within Monaghan Town connects to the existing greenway near Coolshannagh roundabout and passes along the rear of Monaghan Institute on the N12 Armagh Road.The proposed greenway from Monaghan Town to the border passes through the following Townlands: An Tulaigh Thirim (Tullyhirm); Cnoc an Chonnaidh (Knockaconny); Droim Ruatach Drumrutagh); Droim Achaidh Chruitin (Drumacruttan); An Chorr Bheag (Corbeg); Cruail (Crowey); Sceith na gCeann (Skinnagin); Táite an Teampaill (Templetate); Tulaigh Loiscthe (Tullylish); Táite Mhuileann an Ūcaire (Tuckmilltate); Coill Uí Néill (Killyneill); Coillidh Liaf (Killeef) and Tamlacht (Tamlat). The proposed Greenway will consist of the following 5m corridor incorporating a pathway up to 3m wide with a drainage/buffer verge up to 1m on each side. The pathway will consist of an unbound, granular surface course of gravel and dust, with asphalt in certain locations such as road crossing points, stock proof timber fencing (1.2m tall) at each side of the greenway where appropriate, as well as chicane railings at road crossing points, four pedestrian timber footbridges for connectivity across the canal and watercourses, underpass guardrails at the following bridges: Drumratagh Bridge; Crowey Bridge; Glebe Bridge and Pipers Bridge, information boards at the termination point in Monaghan Town, together with way-marking and advanced warning signage for users along the route where appropriate, and all necessary associated site works such as route clearance, tree felling where unavoidable, drainage improvements, road junction improvements for pedestrians (dropped kerbs, tactile paving), site levelling/re-grading works and cut and fill earthworks.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 218005

• 27 Feb 2019Conditional

  Permission for development of a two storey extension to the side of the existing dwelling and the retention of 1- Gable (South) windows to Bedroom 1 & Bedroom 2- A two-storey garage to the side of the dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 1991

• 6 Jun 2018N/a

  permission for a two storey extension to the side of the existing dwelling and the retention of a two storey garage to the side of the dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18243

• 15 Aug 2017N/a

  Permission for the construction of a two storey extension to the existing dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17389

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 Skinnagin.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Skinnagin.

Architectural heritage

• Glebe Bridge, bridge, 1835–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch humpback canal bridge, constructed c.1840, over canal now disused. Bridge much overgrown. Coursed squared snecked limestone rubble walls to parapet. Elliptical arch with ashlar voussoirs and soffit. Steep earthen ramped incline from canal to road level. Sited spanning former Ulster Canal with towpath platform running underneath arch to north and remains of grass towpath to east and west.

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 Skinnagin.

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

Name

Skinnagin · Sceith na gCeann

Area

349,784 m² (34.98 ha, 86.43 acres)

Civil parish

Tehallan, and its townlands

Barony

Monaghan

Electoral division

Tehallan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tehallan electoral division: 905 people in 307 households; 84% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corbeg, Crowey, Drumgoole, Knockacunnier, Templetate, Tullylish, Tullynanure

Placenames

Skinnagin 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.