Gragarnagh
Gragarnagh is a townland in the civil parish of Aghnamullen, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is An Ghrágarnach.
Parcel 344422
- Area
- 67,127 m² (6.71 ha, 16.59 acres)
- Buildings
- 4 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 527 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
- Gragarnagh
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 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.
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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
- 87.3 ha
- 216 acres
- Land parcels
- 34
- registered freehold, median 24,124 m² (2.41 ha, 5.96 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gragarnagh, from 684 m² to 69,695 m² (6.97 ha, 17.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Gragarnagh 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
10 Dec 2025Conditional
permission for the development of a new extension to the side and rear of the existing dwelling house, a new front porch and all associated site development works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560495
23 Dec 2021Refused
outline permission for a development consisting of 2 no. new dwelling houses, effluent treatment plant and percolation areas, 2 no. new domestic entrances onto the public road and all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21707
18 Aug 2021Conditional
permission to construct a new bungalow style dwelling house & detached domestic garage, install new mechanical effluent treatment system, new raised/mounded percolation area, construct new entrance onto public roadway together with all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21467
31 Oct 2019Conditional
Permission to import fill material onto lands, alterations to ground levels and all associated site works. Significant Further Information relate to flood risk assessment, Ecological Impact Assessment, revised alterations to the ground levels, new open cut interceptor drain and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19495
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 Gragarnagh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gragarnagh.
Architectural heritage
- Mill (water), 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey corn mill, built c.1800, having lean-to addition to front (north) elevation, comprising two-bay corn mill to east end, two-bay kiln to centre, and single-bay store to west end. External water-wheel to east gable. Now disused and derelict. Remains of pitched slate roof and lean-to slate roof, both with exposed rafter ends. Coursed rubble limestone walls. Square-headed openings, with some timber battened fittings, and some remains of timber sliding sash windows. Cast-iron and timber water-wheel, remains of timber trough, and machinery to interior. Set off farm track.
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 Gragarnagh, 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 Gragarnagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Gragarnagh · An Ghrágarnach
- Area
- 872,525 m² (87.25 ha, 215.61 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
- Annahaia, Carrickinare, Lisduff, Sra, Tossy
- Placenames
- Gragarnagh 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.