Ardragh

54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardragh, from 194 m² to 144,163 m² (14.42 ha, 35.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 38 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 Ardragh 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.

• 6 Jul 2026N/a

  permission for a development which will consist of 1. Redevelopment of existing two-storey dwelling house, 2. Redevelopment and Change of Use of attached single storey out-building to habitable accommodation with its incorporation into existing dwelling house, 3. Construction of a single storey extension to the side of the dwelling house together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660281

• 19 Dec 2025N/a

  permission for development consisting of a new cubicle shed with 3 No. underground slurry storage tanks and new robotic milking parlour area, feed passage and calving pens all housed under a portal frame structure and all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560518

• 19 Dec 2025Conditional

  permission for development consisting of a new cubicle shed with 3 No. underground slurry storage tanks and new robotic milking parlour area, feed passage and calving pens all housed under a portal frame structure and all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560520

• 6 Dec 2025N/a

  permission for development the development will consist of a new cubicle shed with 3 No. underground slurry storage tanks and new robotic milking parlour area, feed passage and calving pens all housed under a portal frame structure and all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560490

• 14 Jul 2025Conditional

  permission for the development will consist of single storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, off existing shared entrance and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560272

• 17 Nov 2023N/a

  permission for a bungalow dwelling house, a domestic garage, a domestic waste water treatment system, a new site entrance with all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 23230

• 7 Mar 2018Refused

  Permission to retain ground works and associated deposit of inert material to facilitate use of land as agricultural field

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 1889

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 Ardragh.

Recorded monuments

• MO027-097 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated at the NW end of a NW-SE ridge. This is a raised oval grass-covered area (diam. 33m NW-SE; 26m NE-SW) defined by a slight earthen bank best preserved (Wth of base 5.8m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.5m) NW-N, and an outer scarp (at SW: H 2m; at NE: H 2.7m; at SE: H 0.7m) and hedge elsewhere. There is an outer berm (Wth 1.2m) separating the base of the bank from an outer NE-SW field bank (Wth 2m; H 0.3-0.9m ext. H 0.3-1.2m) at NW and a berm (Wth 3m) between the bank and a NE-SW field bank (Wth c. 6m; H 1.2-1.6m) at SE. The original entrance is not identified. 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: 1 February 2018

• MO027-098 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the SE end of a small NW-SE ridge in a fairly low-lying area between drumlins. A small embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30m) is depicted only on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’. No archaeological feature is visible at ground level in improved pasture. 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: 4 January 2012 Revised by: Claire Breen

Architectural heritage

• Saint Patrick's Church (Magheross), church/chapel, 1865–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted limestone-built Gothic-style Church of Ireland church, built 1865-8, having four-bay nave and slightly lower half-hexagonal apse to rear (east), two-stage bell-cote and slightly projecting porch to gable-front. Pitched slate roof having stone copings and gable cross finials with cast-iron rainwater goods. Coursed rubble stone walls and lateral buttresses having ashlar sandstone dressings, courses and corbelling below eaves course. Pointed-arch window openings with block-and-start tooled sandstone surrounds and sills with iron lattice glazing. Large traceried rose window with tooled sandstone surround and geometrically patterned stained glass to gable-front. Main entrance has pointed-arch door opening with sandstone surround and timber tongued-and-grooved double-leaf door having decorative cast-iron hinges, and two stone steps. Interior has alabaster-lined walls, marble work by Sibthorp of Dublin and stained glass by Clayton & Bell. Pointed carved stone chancel arch having marble columns with carved stone crocketed capitals. Stone-vaulted soffit to apse. Smooth plastered vaulted ceiling to nave, with exposed timber arch-braced collared truss roof, feet of trusses registering as hanging posts borne on carved stone corbels, in cruck fashion. Tooled stone splayed reveals to windows, having roll mouldings and stained glass. Segmental-arch door opening to west end, having cut-stone surround with carved roll moulding, and timber panelled double-leaf door. Altar raised on six cut-stone steps having encaustic tiles depicting family crest shields set within stone flags. Stone flags to nave. Carved marble baptismal font to west end of nave, carved marble lectern to chancel. Timber pews, recent timber screen to west end of nave. Church is set within graveyard on elevated wooded site and bounded by mature trees.

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 Ardragh, about 1 in 5 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

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

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

Name

Ardragh · Ardráth

Area

1,896,647 m² (189.66 ha, 468.67 acres)

Civil parish

Magheross, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Raferagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

447 people lived in 159 households in the Raferagh electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cargaghmore, Corvally, Greaghlatacapple, Shanco, Sreenty, Ummerafree

Placenames

Ardragh 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.