Sheskin

87 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sheskin, from 46 m² to 184,734 m² (18.47 ha, 45.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Sheskin 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.

• 13 Aug 2025Conditional

  permission to erect a single storey extension to rear of existing cottage, insert a filter unit and percolation area, exit on to public road by existing entrance and all associated works, Significant Further Information received relates to submitted, new site layout and landscape plans

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2565

• 18 Sept 2024N/a

  permission to erect a single storey extension to the rear of existing cottage, insert a filter unit and percolation area, exit on to public road by existing entrance and all associated works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2487

• 31 Oct 2023Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of the construction of a single storey style dwelling with detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, entrance and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 23220

• 6 Jan 2021N/a

  permission for a development consisting of the change of use of existing redundant mushroom packing, cold store and staff canteen building to a pet crematorium facility together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 212

• 13 Feb 2019Conditional

  permission to construct a new poultry unit together with vertical meal bin, hardened areas, underground wash tanks, new agricultural entrance and all ancillary site works. Significant further information relates to the submission of technical information.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 1965

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 Sheskin.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Sheskin.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Sheskin.

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 Sheskin, about 1 in 20 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Sheskin · An Seisceann

Area

1,692,953 m² (169.3 ha, 418.34 acres)

Civil parish

Tedavnet, and its townlands

Barony

Monaghan

Electoral division

Sheskin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

683 people lived in 232 households in the Sheskin electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Acres, Carnquill, Corblonog, Derryarrit, Derrycrossan, Derrynanamph, Dundrumman, Killycarnan North, Knockatallan, Skeatry

Placenames

Sheskin 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.