Unshinagh

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Unshinagh, from 7,259 m² (0.73 ha, 1.79 acres) to 87,451 m² (8.75 ha, 21.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Unshinagh 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 Unshinagh 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 Unshinagh.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Unshinagh.

Architectural heritage

• Unshinagh National School, school, 1850–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former school, dated 1851, having external stone steps leading to first floor of north gable end. Now vacant. Pitched roof with replacement corrugated-metal sheeting, with cast-iron gutter brackets. Coursed rubble stone walls, with tooled cut-stone quoins, having carved stone date plaque to centre of east, roadside, elevation. Square-headed window openings with timber casement windows throughout, having brick block-and-start surrounds and stone sills, and with remains of six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to east and west elevations. Two bays of windows to rear (west) elevation. External steps have red brick quoins and simple wrought-iron handrail, approaching square-headed timber battened door, having red brick block-and-start surround. Square-headed recent door opening to ground floor of north elevation, having recent steel door. Located to west of rural country road to north-west of Rockcorry.

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 high, 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 Unshinagh.

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

Name

Unshinagh · Uinseannach

Area

686,360 m² (68.64 ha, 169.6 acres)

Civil parish

Ematris, and its townlands

Barony

Dartree

Electoral division

Lisnaveane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Lisnaveane electoral division: 435 people in 150 households; 88% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corglass, Corragarry, Drumrooghill, Drumsaul, Lisnaveane, Milltown

Placenames

Unshinagh 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.