Tonyglassan

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tonyglassan, from 187 m² to 96,303 m² (9.63 ha, 23.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Tonyglassan 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.

• 13 Jun 2022Conditional

  permission consisting of the following: demolishing of derelict dwelling and out houses and the construction of a storey and a half dwelling house, and waste water treatment system and all ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 22266

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 Tonyglassan.

Recorded monuments

• MO019-036 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located just E of the summit of a hill in an undulating landscape. This is a subcircular overgrown area (dims 35.4m NW-SE; 29.5m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (at S: Wth of base 4.9m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 2.3m), accompanied by a fosse W-NNW. There is an entrance (Wth of base 2.3m) at SSE. The interior had been cleared and the perimeter NW-E-SW removed by 1995 (OSAP). 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: 22 June 2018

Architectural heritage

• Catholic Church of Our Lady of Knock, church/chapel, 1935–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted Catholic church, built c.1938, having seven-bay nave, slightly lower gabled single-bay double height porch to front (south west) elevation, and sacristy to north east. Pitched slate roof with rendered copings, cross finials and eaves brackets with cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls and quoins. Pointed-arch window openings having render surrounds and sills with leaded stained-glass windows, square-headed window openings to ground floor of porch. Square-headed door opening to porch and sacristy with double-leaf timber battened doors, concrete steps to porch door. Interior has rendered barrel-vaulted ceiling with rendered transverse arches, on render brackets with pointed arch detailing to cornice moldings. Smooth rendered walls with painted sill course dado rail, and having moulded surround to pointed chancel arch. Varnished pine benches, carved timber confessional boxes to west corners of nave. Timber Stations of the Cross to walls. Glazed double-leaf door to narthex, containing steps to gallery. Rendered gallery to nave with blind pointed-arch detailed balustrade. Carved marble altar on stepped platform in chancel to east end, having marble reredos. Square-headed door opening from north-east corner of nave to porch and sacristy. Triple-light stained-glass window to chancel, depicting Our Lady and two saints. Lancet stained-glass windows to nave, having coloured-glass margin, and floral and cross pattée motifs to centre. Situated in Ballintra off Castleblayney to Ballybay road, set in own grounds, opposite graveyard and former church grounds to west. Statue dedicated to Our Lady to commemorate Marian year to front of site. Rendered boundary wall to front of site.

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 Tonyglassan, about 1 in 10 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2524 (ZIP).

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

Name

Tonyglassan · Tamhnaigh Ghlasáin

Area

907,972 m² (90.8 ha, 224.36 acres)

Civil parish

Ballybay, and its townlands

Barony

Cremorne

Electoral division

Greagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

481 people lived in 170 households in the Greagh electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clogher, Cornahoe, Cornamucklagh South, Dunmaurice, Knappagh, Laragh, Terrygreeghan

Placenames

Tonyglassan 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.