Acres

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Acres, from 473 m² to 92,876 m² (9.29 ha, 22.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Acres 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.

• 31 Mar 2026Conditional

  permission consequent on the grant of outline permission Ref: 24/60201, at Acres (DED Ballybay Rural) & Annaneese, Ballybay, Co. Monaghan. The development will consist of construction of a two storey dwelling house & detached domestic garage, with proprietary wastewater treatment system along with other associated ancillary site works & new site access. Said application contains a Site-Specific Flood Risk Assessment Report. Significant further information received included flood risk assessment, landscape plans, revised maps

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2660120

• 1 Jun 2024Conditional

  outline planning permission to construct a dwelling house & detached domestic garage, with proprietary wastewater treatment system along with other associated ancillary site works & new site access

  Outline permission · Monaghan County Council, 2460201

• 27 Mar 2024N/a

  outline planning permission to construct a dwelling house & detached domestic garage, with proprietary wastewater treatment system along with other associated ancillary site works & new site access

  Outline permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2460109

• 30 Jul 2018Conditional

  Permission to construct a dormer/storey & a half type dwelling house and to install proprietary waste-water treatment system, with new site entrance, together with associated ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18354

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 Acres.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Acres.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Acres, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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

Name

Acres · Na hAcraí

Area

313,610 m² (31.36 ha, 77.49 acres)

Civil parish

Ballybay, and its townlands

Barony

Cremorne

Electoral division

Ballybay Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,593 people lived in 581 households in the Ballybay Rural electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annaneese, Corbrack, Corrybrannan, Drumhillagh

Placenames

Acres 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.