Fairtahy

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fairtahy, from 968 m² to 92,799 m² (9.28 ha, 22.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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 Fairtahy 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.

• 12 Oct 2022N/a

  permission to construct a slatted shed for the housing of livestock, with an unroofed silage base adjacent, along with other associated site works including upgrading of existing agricultural site entrance

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 22451

• 31 Mar 2022Conditional

  widening of the R181 regional road and upgrade to the horizontal and vertical alignment on the R181 and adjoining junctions. The upgrades will include provision for a widened verge, regarded batters, crash barriers and drainage works where required. Upgrade to the visibility splays on all road junctions where they meet the R181. Relocation of all affected 3rd party utilities where required along the R181 to facilitate the new alignment. The junction between the L7130-0 and the R181 is within the curtilage of a protected structures.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 228003

• 26 Jan 2022N/a

  permission to construct an unroofed silage base & a slatted shed for the housing of livestock along with associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2231

• 13 Aug 2020Conditional

  permission for widening of the R181 regional road and an upgrade to the horizontal and vertical alignment on the R181 and adjoining junctions. The upgrades will include provision for a widened verge, regraded batters, crash barriers and drainage works where required. Upgrade to the visibility splays on all road junctions where they meet the R181. Relocation of all affected 3rd party utilities where required along the R181 to facilitate the new alignment and all associated site works in the townlands of Drumillard, Tooa, Crossduff, Dooraa, Tullyglass, Tullyrain, Shantonagh Bellatrain DED, Lisirril, Fairtahy,Carrickadooey, Corlat, Corhelshinagh, Lisinisky, Corracharra, Lisnadarragh and Corgreagh

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 208004

• 26 Jun 2019N/a

  permission to erect a one and half storey dwelling house, insert a filter unit and percolation area and exit on to public road.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19295

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 Fairtahy.

Recorded monuments

• MO027-052 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located just off the crest of the NW-facing spine of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. This is a circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 34.5m NW-SE; 32m E-W) that slopes down slightly to the NW (H 1m) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth of base 6-8m; int. H 1-1.1m; ext. H 1.3m at SE to 2.8m at NW) that is reduced to a scarp NNW-E. The bank is separated by a berm (Wth 1-3m) from an outer bank or field bank (Wth of base 1.6-3m; int. H 0.6-1m; ext. H 1.2-1.7m) with an outer drain. The entrance (Wth of base 2.5m) through the inner bank and slight traces of a causeway (H 0.5m) is at ESE. The interior has become overgrown since 1967 (Bing 2013). 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. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 31 January 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 Fairtahy, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Fairtahy · Na Feartacha

Area

1,254,468 m² (125.45 ha, 309.99 acres)

Civil parish

Aghnamullen, and its townlands

Barony

Cremorne

Electoral division

Corracharra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

323 people lived in 104 households in the Corracharra electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrickadooey, Corhelshinagh, Corracharra, Lisinisky, Lisnadarragh, Shankill

Placenames

Fairtahy 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.