Maghernacloy

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Maghernacloy, from 135 m² to 129,868 m² (12.99 ha, 32.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Maghernacloy 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.

• 18 Feb 2025Conditional

  permission for a development which will consist of refurbishment of existing derelict building to a habitable unit and connection to existing services and septic tank and percolation area, off existing entrance. Significant Further Information received relates to a change of site boundaries. (Recorded Monument MO 034:026 and protected structure)

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560048

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 Maghernacloy.

Recorded monuments

• MO034-026 House - fortified house
  Description

  Situated on a broad hill. Land at Maghernacloy, consisting of nineteen tates in seventeen townlands, which became known as Hadsor’s fee-farm, was granted by Richard Devereux, the third Earl of Essex, to John Hadsor of Keppock (Cappoge), Co. Louth (LH018-003003-) in 1618 (MacDermott 2002). The Anglo-Norman family of Hadsor, originally called de Hedesor from a place in Worcestershire now called Hadzor, were associated with Co. Louth from the late twelfth century, where they were tenants of the Peppard family. Richard Hadsor was lord of Cappoge from 1586 until his death in 1635 but he was also a propagandist for English settlement in Ireland and an advisor to the English government on Irish affairs (Hodgers 2005). Richard probably secured the grant of the manor of Moymuck, which included Maghernacloy, for his youngest half-brother John in 1618, possibly in the name of John’s wife, Katherine Fleming of Gernonstown, Slane, which family had held land in Farney (Hodgers 2009, 104-5). The terms were reasonable, and included the requirement to build a strong house ‘after the English manner’ within ten years. (Manning 2007, 209-13) The house is not depicted on a map of 1634 by John Raven, but it had probably been built by the outbreak of the rebellion in 1641, although it is not mentioned in military exploits in the area during 1648 (Hodgers 2009. 112-3). John Hadsor had inherited Cappoge, but as he was implicated in the rebellion he forfeited all his property before he died in 1657 (ibid. 114-8). The fee-farm was granted by the Commonwealth to Col. Thomas Sadler who sold his interest to the Brownlow family, of Brownlows Derry, near Lurgan, Co. Armagh. After the Williamite and Jacobite war (1689-91) Thomas Clinton, a Jacobite and a relative of the Brownlows, took a lease on Maghernacloy from Arthur Brownlow. Arthur has the distinction of sitting in the Catholic Parliament of James II (1689) and subsequent ascendency Parliaments of William (1692-3, 1695-9) and Anne (1703-11) as a member for Co. Armagh (Johnston-Liik 2002, vol. 3, 291-1). He was also an Irish scholar and acquired the Book of Armagh in 1707 from its hereditary keepers, the MacMoyre family, and it has been in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin since 1853. The Clinton family retained the lease on Maghernacloy into the nineteenth century (McDermott 2002, 784). The castle was finally abandoned in the 1970s, but it was restored as a dwelling after 2000. The castle is a rectangular four-bay, two story structure (ext. dims c. 18m NW-SE; c. 8.25m NE-SW) over a basement at the NW end with a two storey tower (dims 6m NW-SE: 6.25m NE-SW) offset to the SW and SE from the S angle and a stairs tower (ext. dims 4.3m NW-SE; 3.5m NE-SW) projecting NE towards the SE end of the NE side. The wall-walk and stepped crenelations on the parapet are largely original, but all the windows and external doorways were replaced as well as the floors and the roof, probably in the eighteenth century, and the S tower may have been added at that time. The original doorway was adjacent to the stairs tower and is indicated by the machicolation on the parapet. The stairs tower has a newel stairs with pointed doorways. Six chimney stacks are supported from the first floor by corbels on the external walls. One is on the NW end wall, one on the NE wall which must have heated the hall or large public room, one on the NE wall of the attached tower, probably in a bedroom, and three on the SE end wall. (Manning 2007, 213-16) Limited excavation (04E0513) carried out in advance of the restoration of the castle as a dwelling uncovered a number of sherds of 18th century pottery (Campbell 2007). Further monitoring under the same licence took place in 2007 which established that the basement extended under the entire house (Campbell 2010). 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 17 June 2017

Architectural heritage

• Maghernacloy Castle, castle/fortified house, 1610–1840 · National interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay two-storey over basement castellated house, built c.1620, having full-height projecting bay to south-east corner and full-height projecting staircase block to centre of north elevation, remodelled in late Georgian period. Pitched slate roof with castellated parapets forming battlement. Square-plan cast-iron hoppers and down-pipes. Machicolations to east elevation, north elevation and single chute to west elevation. Rubble stone walls with lime render. Late Georgian round-headed door opening, having cut-stone surround to south elevation with fluted and scrolled keystone and cut-stone cornice with spoked fanlight, and recent timber panelled door. with granite steps. Timber battened door to east elevation, and half-glazed timber battened door to staircase block. Square-headed window openings with tooled stone sills, and timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane with exposed box frames to ground and first floor, eight pane timber-framed window to south elevation basement level, two-pane timber-framed windows and three-over-six pane sash window to staircase north elevation, and three-over-six pane sash window to first floor of south-east projecting bay. Standing on elevated and exposed site approached from main road by long inclining avenue. Complex of outbuildings to north-west of castle including single-bay, two-storey former horse-powered threshing mill aligned north-east/south-west in farmyard having replacement corrugated-metal roof, rubble stone walls with dressed quoins and square-headed openings with dressed stone jambs. Gables of mill abutted by multiple-bay single-storey farm buildings. No machinery survives.

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

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

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Maghernacloy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Maghernacloy · Machaire na Cloiche

Area

620,582 m² (62.06 ha, 153.35 acres)

Civil parish

Magheracloone, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Drumboory, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumboory electoral division: 571 people in 179 households; 91% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolderry, Feahoe, Liscarnan, Mullaghrafferty, Mullyore, Tomiska

Placenames

Maghernacloy 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.