Annahaia
Annahaia is a townland in the civil parish of Aghnamullen, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is Achadh na hÁithe.
Parcel 343638
- Area
- 34,923 m² (3.49 ha, 8.63 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 136 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Annahaia
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 low, low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2525 (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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 55.6 ha
- 137 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 3,203 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Annahaia, from 335 m² to 156,851 m² (15.69 ha, 38.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Annahaia 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
4 Jul 2025Conditional
permission to erect a dormer dwelling with attached sunroom, treatment plant, percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560263
2 Jun 2021Conditional
permission for the renovation and extension to existing cottage, relocation of existing entrance with new entrance gates and piers, complete the raised percolation area, install new treatment plant with all ancillary and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21310
14 Sept 2018Conditional
permission to demolish an existing single storey dwelling and construct a two-storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, new wastewater treatment system & all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18431
25 Apr 2018Conditional
Permission to construct an agricultural shed with underground effluent storage tank and all associated site development works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18168
11 Apr 2018Conditional
Permission to RETAIN changes to elevations of 2 storey dwelling house and position of filter unit and percolation area, granted permission in PL REF 09/565, erect a domestic garage and exit on to public road by way of existing laneway
Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18142
5 Apr 2018Refused
permission to demolish an existing single storey dwelling and construct a two storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, new wastewater treatment system & all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18132
25 Oct 2017N/a
Permission to RETAIN changes to elevations of 2 storey dwelling house granted permission in PL Ref 09/565, erect a domestic garage and exit on to public road by way of existing laneway
Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17505
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Annahaia.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Annahaia.
Architectural heritage
- Annahaia National School, school, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
Description
Detached two-storey school, dated 1861, having three-bay first floor and two-bay ground floor, and external staircase to east gable projecting forward of front (north) elevation. Now disused and derelict. Pitched slate roof, with red brick chimneystacks to gable ends, and exposed rafter ends, with timber bargeboards to gables, and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls, having inscribed limestone date plaque to first floor. Blocked window openings to ground floor of rear elevation. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, windows boarded except for single two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window. Square-headed door openings with timber battened doors. Rendered staircase, having rendered retaining wall. Set at roadside, with churchyard to east and rear. Detached multiple-bay single and two-storey former school building, to east of school and church, having pitched corrugated-iron roof, rendered walls with some rubble stone visible, and square-headed openings with some remaining timber fittings.
- Saint Mary's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1890–1895 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding cruciform-plan Catholic church, built 1893, possibly incorporating earlier fabric, having chancel to north, two-bay full-height transepts, with entrances to north elevations, two-bay full-height nave to south, having ashlar bellcote to gable. Lean-to sacristy to re-entrant corner, between nave and west transept, recent extension to corner between nave and east transept. Pitched slate roofs, with terracotta ridge tiles, having stone copings with carved cross finials, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted lined-and-ruled rendered walls. Pointed-arch window openings with hood-mouldings, triple lancet window to chancel, with chamfered stone block-and-start surround, having leaded and stained-glass windows. Quatrefoil windows to east and west gables, having carved stone surrounds. Pointed-arch door openings to front elevation having painted timber battened double-leaf door. Altar to north end of interior with marble altar furniture, raised on two steps. Render hood-mouldings to windows, having putti hood stops. Timber galleries on cast-iron columns to east and west transepts and to nave, each with timber staircase, and metal railings. Timber panelled lobby to transepts, having timber panelled double-leaf doors with over-lights. Tudor-arch door timber panelled door to nave, leading to sacristy. Timber open truss roof with boarded ceiling. Timber pews, marble wall plaques, plaster Stations of the Cross. Church is set back from road within churchyard, bounded by rendered piers and boundary walls, with recent metal gates. Hedgerow and mature trees to rear and side boundaries.
- House, 1910–1950 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1930, having two-bay side elevations, canted bay windows to ground floor front (south-east) elevation, and single-storey lean-to extension to rear. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, paired timber corbels to eaves, yellow brick chimneystacks with moulded render cornices, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Hipped roofs to bay windows. Wet-dash rendered walls with render quoins and with sill course to first floor and render plinth and to sill course of bay windows. Square-headed window openings throughout, with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to front and side elevations, tripartite over entrance bay with moulded mullions. Square-headed door opening with over-light and replacement timber door, opening onto render platform with diminishing render step. Set in own grounds, with mature planting and with site entrance to south-east, having steel double-leaf gate, square-plan moulded concrete block piers and moulded concrete block curved flanking walls.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Annahaia, 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_2525 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Annahaia with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Annahaia · Achadh na hÁithe
- Area
- 555,850 m² (55.59 ha, 137.35 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghnamullen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Cremorne
- Electoral division
- Carrickatee, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 378 people lived in 118 households in the Carrickatee electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghakista, Carrickatee, Gragarnagh, Mullanary Cortannel, Sra, Tossy
- Placenames
- Annahaia 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.