Killybressal

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killybressal, from 3,818 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres) to 106,465 m² (10.65 ha, 26.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Killybressal 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.

• 25 Jun 2021Conditional

  permission to erect a single storey style dwelling house with attic accommodation, a detached domestic garage, proprietary waste water treatment unit, percolation area, new site entrance and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21379

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 Killybressal.

Recorded monuments

• MO003-040 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a local rise. The School’s Manuscripts collection lists a fort at Killybressal, for which see this web-page accessed on 23/06/2017: http://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4742068/4732323 It is known locally that a ringfort was destroyed c. 1900 in the ‘fort field’, which is still pointed out at Killybressal, but no archaeological feature is visible at ground level, and the precise location is not known. 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: 19 October 2011 Revised by: Claire Breen According to local information (Irish Folklore Commission Schools' Manuscripts 959 377), ringfort stood here formerly.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Four-bay two-storey house, built c.1800, having flat-roofed windbreak to front (south-east) elevation. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods and timber bargeboards. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth render eaves course, indicating historical raising of roof. Stepped rendered buttresses to rear, having render cappings. Square-headed window openings with painted timber surrounds, painted masonry sills and timber sliding sash windows, one-over-one and two-over-two pane to front and north-east elevation, six-over-three pane to rear. Porch has concrete roof, smooth rendered walls, square-headed door opening with half-glazed timber panelled door. Render platform to front of house. Gable-fronted two-storey outbuilding to south-west of house, having pitched corrugated-iron roof hidden behind raised parapets to corners, roughcast rendered walls, rendered flight of steps abutting front south-east) elevation, coursed rubble limestone visible underneath to rear, render bust projecting from upper gable to rear, square-headed window openings, four-over-four pane timber sliding sash window to north-east elevation with render sill and one-over-one pane to rear. Four-pane timber casement window to south-west elevation. Square-headed door opening at first floor level to front having timber battened door. Square-headed opening at ground floor level to north-east elevation. Rendered wall with round-headed opening adjoining outbuilding and house.

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 20 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 Killybressal.

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

Name

Killybressal · Coillidh Bhreasail

Area

362,500 m² (36.25 ha, 89.58 acres)

Civil parish

Errigal Trough, and its townlands

Barony

Trough

Electoral division

Anketell Grove, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Anketell Grove electoral division: 1,278 people in 400 households; 86% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brackagh, Dungillick, Dunmadigan, Lenagh, Lisavargy, Shanco, Sogher

Placenames

Killybressal 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.