Dunelty

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dunelty, from 154 m² to 270,527 m² (27.05 ha, 66.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Dunelty 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.

• 25 Mar 2026Conditional

  permission for (1) alterations and renovations to an existing single storey dwellinghouse (2) single storey extension & a storey and a half extension to the side & rear of existing dwelling house (3) a new domestic garage (4) to relocate the existing site entrance on the private laneway & (5) a new domestic waste water treatment system. to include new site boundaries with all associated site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2620

• 30 Mar 2021Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of amendments to previously granted planning application 19/329 which includes a new two storey house design, repositioning the house onsite, ancillary garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21148

• 17 Jul 2019Conditional

  permission for a two storey style dwelling house, a waste water treatment system, a new site entrance and all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19329

• 5 Jun 2019Conditional

  permission to relocate and upgrade existing septic tank and percolation area and all associated site development works.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 19256

• 26 Nov 2018N/a

  permission for a two storey style dwelling house, a waste water treatment system, a new site entrance and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18547

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 Dunelty.

Recorded monuments

• MO031-062 Souterrain
  Description

  Located in a low-lying position between drumlins to the W and E. According to tradition there was an underground passage or souterrain in Dunelty. However, details are lacking and the precise location is not known. 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. Date of revision: 31 July 2017

• MO031-063001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on top of a drumlin. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 30m E-W) defined by an earthen bank that has been removed but is traceable as a slight rise (at E: Wth 3.6m). It is surrounded by a fosse (at W: Wth of top 10.4m; Wth of base 4m; int. D 1.6m; ext. D 1m) that only survives WSW-N, but it can be traced as a vegetation change all around (at E: Wth 3.4m). Outside the fosse is a complete and overgrown outer earthen bank (Wth 1.5m at W to 2.6m at E; int. H 0.4m at E to 1m at W; ext. H 1.4-1.5m). There are gaps in the outer bank at E and SE but an original entrance cannot be identified. On the site of the inner bank at NE is a small rectangular, grass-covered house site (int. dims 3m x 2m) defined by a slight earthen bank (Wth 1m; H 0.25m) with no discernible entrance. 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. Date of revision: 31 July 2017

• MO031-063002 Hut site
  Description

  Located on the site of the inner bank of rath (MO031-062001-) at NE is a small rectangular, grass-covered house site (int. dims 3m x 2m) defined by a slight earthen bank (Wth 1m; H 0.25m) with no discernible entrance. Date of upload: 14 April 2011

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Remains of stone railway bridge, built 1886, formerly carrying embanked Carrickmacross branch line over road. Formerly beam bridge, deck now removed. Snecked rock-faced rusticated cut-stone abutments having rusticated and margined quoins and chamfered cornice, with dressed stone terminal piers. Splayed snecked cut-stone wing walls to each side with moulded brick copings. Embankment now removed.

• Bridge, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch railway bridge, built 1886, carrying accommodation track over former Carrickmacross Branch railway line. Elliptical arch. Snecked rock-faced rusticated stone walls, piers and parapets having cut-stone string course and copings to parapet walls. Red brick stretcher bond soffit, with headers forming archivolt. Gauged brick copings to parapet walls terminating at north and south ends with cut-stone piers with cut-stone copings.

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 Dunelty, 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, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2737 (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 Dunelty with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Dunelty · Dún Eilte

Area

705,987 m² (70.6 ha, 174.45 acres)

Civil parish

Killanny, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Ballymackney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,001 people lived in 335 households in the Ballymackney electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballingarry, Drumgristin Upper, Essexford (Co. Louth), Garlegobban, Kiltybegs, Lisnakelly, Redbog (Co. Louth), Rosslough (Co. Louth)

Placenames

Dunelty 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.