Camaghy

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Camaghy, from 356 m² to 133,471 m² (13.35 ha, 32.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Camaghy 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 Feb 2026Conditional

  permission sought by Magheracloone Mitchells GAA Club to construct a proposed single storey detached Gym Facility building, Retain single storey extension to front of existing dressing room, existing accessible toilet to side of the existing dressing room facility building and all associated site works at Lisnakeeny & Camaghy, Magheracloone, Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660057

• 20 Nov 2024Refused

  permission to retain a mobile home and permission to erect a two-storey extension and renovation to existing dwelling

  Extension of duration · Monaghan County Council, 249023

• 17 May 2021Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of the construction of a two storey detached dwelling, with detached domestic garage, new vehicular entrance onto public road, driveway, waste water treatment system and percolation area, landscaping and associated site works, and retain existing agricultural shed and entrance on site

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21273

• 21 Jun 2019Conditional

  permission to retain a mobile home and permission to erect a two storey extension to rear of existing dwelling, rise roof and alter elevations to rear of existing dwelling, sewerage treatment unit, percolation area, and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19284

• 4 Mar 2019Conditional

  consist of the erection of a proposed two storey dwelling, new entrance onto public roadway, wastewater treatment unit and all associated site works. Significant Further Information: Redesign and repositioning of the proposed dwelling.

  Extension of duration · Monaghan County Council, 199003

• 4 Mar 2019Conditional

  consist of the erection of a proposed two storey dwelling, new entrance onto public roadway, wastewater treatment unit and all associated site works. Significant Further Information: Relocation of proposed dwelling towards the roadside (northern) site boundary.

  Extension of duration · Monaghan County Council, 199004

• 31 Oct 2018Conditional

  permission to construct a training facility consisting of 2 No. of training pitches, flood lighting, ball stops, a single storey prefabricated building with dressing rooms and toilets, new vechicular entrance onto public road, parking area, waste water treatment system and percolation area, landscaping and associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18506

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 Camaghy.

Recorded monuments

• MO030-040 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the crest of the SE-facing slope of a drumlin. This is an overgrown circular grass-covered area (diam. 37.5m NE-SW; 37.2m NNW-SSE) that slopes down slightly (H 1m) to the SE. It is defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth of base 7.6-10m; int. H 0.6-0.9m; ext. H 2-2.7m), with an outer V-shaped fosse (at NNW: Wth of top 4.8m; ext. D 2m) surviving S-NW-ESE. There are gaps in the bank at S and W, but the original entrance (Wth of base 3.6m) and causeway are at ENE. 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: 25 August 2017

• MO030-041 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated just off the crest of the E-facing slope of a drumlin. This is a grass-covered circular area (diam. 34.6m N-S; 32m E-W) that slopes down to the SE (H 1.8m), which is defined by an overgrown earthen bank, best preserved W-N (at N: Wth of base 6.8m; int. H 1.3m; ext. H2.1m), but the perimeter is reduced to a scarp at S (H 2.1m). There is a slight outer fosse (at N: Wth 3.4m; ext. D 0.2m) NW-N that morphs into a berm N-NE but is absent elsewhere. The entrance (Wth of base 3.4m) is at SE. The interior has become overgrown since 1967 (Bing 2013). 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: 25 August 2017

• MO033-005001 Church
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise. The parish church of Magheracloone, dedicated to St Molua, is listed as de Cluayn in the ecclesiastical taxation (1302-06) of Pope Nicholas IV (Shirley 1879, 289). St Molua of Kyle, Co. Laois (LA015-023001-) is a sixth century saint descended from the Coirce Oiche of Ulster. A twelfth century life connects him in passing with Drumsnat (MO0013-002003-) but his feastday was celebrated on 4 August at Magheracloone (Ó Riain 2011, 492). The names of some of the clergy are known from 1443, and at the Suppression of the monasteries in1540 the tithes were impropriate to the Crutched Friars of St John the Baptist’s of Ardee (LH017-101022-) but by 1622 they were held the Moore family of Mellifont (Shirley 1879, 372). In that year the church was described as repaired outside (Leslie 1929, 221-2). The church was rebuilt in 1824 on the site of the old one, which was described as being ‘very ancient, small and sunk nearly three feet below the level of the ground’ (Shirley 1879, 372). Lewis (1837, 2, 331) places the rebuilding date in 1835. The graveslab of John Dobbs dated 1679 (Maffett 1891) is preserved under a fitted carpet in its aisle. The church is in the SE quadrant of a subrectangular or D-shaped graveyard (dims c. 75m NW-SE; c. 60m NE-SW) defined by masonry walls with the straightest wall at NW. There is a headstone shaped like a latin cross (H 0.7m; span 0.74m) with a rectangular cross-section (dims 0.4m x 0.22m) commemorating Owen MacMahon and his wife Rose Kelly with the date 1687 close to the church door, and a second headstone shaped like a latin cross (H 0.83m; span 0.47m) with a narrower stem (dims 0.28m x 0.14m) commemorating Thomas MacNamorue with the date 1685 is in the graveyard. A third headstone of the same form (H 0.85m; span 0.45m) commemorating Patrick Mahen has been recorded with the date 1688 (Shirley 1879, 374), but the date is now illegible. Archaeological testing (05E1374) outside the graveyard N-SE identified an area with redeposited soils close to the stream c. 70m NE the present church. A ditch or fosse (Wth of top 1.6m; max. D 0.8m) with silty clay at the base beneath a silty sand with charcoal inclusions was encountered c. 15m SE of the graveyard wall running parallel with its boundary. It may be the same feature identified (Wth of top 1.9m; D 0.6m) NE of the graveyard, and they could form an ecclesiastical enclosure. No artefacts were recovered but iron slag was encountered over much of the area. (Mc Loughlin 2006, 5-7) 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: 21 November 2017 Amended: 14 January 2020

• MO033-005002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise. The site of the parish church of Magheracloone (MO033-005001-) is on the same location as the present Church of Ireland church of St Molua in the SE quadrant of a D-shaped graveyard (dims c. 75m NW-SE; c. 60m NE-SW) defined by masonry walls with the straightest wall at NW. In the graveyard are three headstones shaped like latin crosses, which commemorate Owen MacMahon (1687), Thomas MacNamorue (1685) and Patrick Mahen (1688). Archaeological testing (05E1374) outside the graveyard N-SE identified a fosse to the NE and SE (McLoughlin 2006, 5-7) which could represent an ecclesiastical enclosure (MO033-005007-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 21 November 2016 Amended: 14 January 2020

• MO033-005003 Headstone
  Description

  Situated within the graveyard at the site of the medieval parish church of Magheracloone (MO033-005001-). There is a headstone shaped like a latin cross (H 0.7m; span 0.74m) with a rectangular cross-section (dims 0.4m x 0.22m) commemorating Owen MacMahon and his wife Rose Kelly with the date 1687 close to the church door (Shirley 1879, 373). The legend is inscribed in roman capitals and reads: ‘IHS / THIS CROS WA/S MADE FOR O/WEN MACMAHON AND / HIS WIFE ROSE REILY / IN JULY 1687 AND HE/RE LIETH HIS FATHER / LOUGHLIN MAC EDMON/D MA PHELIM/Y.’ See the attached image _1 Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 21 November 2016

• MO033-005004 Headstone
  Description

  Within the graveyard at the site of the medieval parish church of Magheracloone (MO033-005001-). There is a headstone shaped like a latin cross (H 0.83m; span 0.47m) with a narrow stem (dims 0.28m x 0.14m) commemorating Thomas MacNamorue with the date 1685 in the graveyard. The legend is inscribed in roman capitals and reads: ‘IHS / THOMAS MAKNAMORUE / ADGED 25 YEARES DYED / THE 8TH OF JANVRY / ANO. DNI. 1685’. The headstone has a cross in a circle (diam. 0.14m) at the crux on the other side. (Shirley 1879, 374) See the attached image Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21 November, 2016

• MO033-005005 Headstone
  Description

  Within the graveyard at the site of the medieval parish church of Magheracloone (MO033-005001-). There is a headstone shaped like a latin cross (H 0.85m; span 0.45m) with a narrow stem (dims 0.22m x 0.15m) commemorating Patrick Mahen, which has been recorded with the date 1688 (Shirley 1879, 374), but the date is now illegible. The legend is inscribed in roman capitals and reads: ‘IHS / PRAY FOR THE SOVL OF PATRICK / MAHEN MCARD MC BRE / MC LAVD W / HO DE / PART / ED THIS / LIFE IN / THE YEAR 1688 / …OF HIS AGE / HIS BRO.’ The inscription runs onto the N side of the stem ‘ART / WHO / .. / THIS / CROSL / .. / HIS BRO /’. See the attached image Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21 November 2016

• MO033-005006 Graveslab
  Description

  The graveslab of John Dobbs who died in 1679 is preserved under a fitted carpet in the aisle of the present Church of Ireland church of St. Molua. The inscription has been recorded (Shirley 1879, 373; Maffett 1891) as: HERE LYETH THE BODY OF / JOHN DOBBS WHO DEPARTED / THIS LIFE MAY THE 17th 1679. / MORTVVS. / LOCKT VP IN HOPEFULL SILEN / CE HERE I LYE, WHAT ONCE I / WAS OTHERS MAY TELL, NOT I. / TVMVLVS. / WHO ERE THOV ART HERE I / PROTECT THE DVST, / OF ONE WAS KNOWING, KIND, / GENTLE, AND JVST; / THE HEART THAT GRVDGES / THIS TO HIM THATS GONE, / IS HARDER MVCH THAN MINE / THO THAT IS STONE.

• MO033-005007 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise. Archaeological testing (05E1374) outside the graveyard (MO033-005002-) N-SE identified an area with redeposited soils close to the stream c. 70m NE the present church. A ditch or fosse (Wth of top 1.6m; max. D 0.8m) with silty clay at the base beneath a silty sand with charcoal inclusions was encountered c. 15m SE of the graveyard wall running parallel with its boundary. It may be the same feature identified (Wth of top 1.9m; D 0.6m) NE of the graveyard, and they could form an ecclesiastical enclosure centred on the graveyard. No artefacts were recovered but iron slag was encountered over much of the area. (Mc Loughlin 2006, 5-7) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 14 January 2020

Architectural heritage

• The Glebe, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1820–1825 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey glebe house over part-raised basement, built 1824, refenestrated c.1880. Now in use as house. Pitched slate roof, with cement rendered gable-end chimneystacks with clay pots, ogee-profile cast-iron gutter, and cast-iron down pipe. Rendered walls having painted quoins. Square-headed window openings with flush reveals, and bipartite timber sliding sash windows with moulded mullions and having one-over-one panes with ogee horns. Segmental-headed door opening with double-leaf timber panelled door flanked by sidelights with geometric glazing, with spoked fanlight over and approached by flight of six cut-stone steps with rendered parapet walls. Outbuildings to rear (north) of site. Set back from road served by winding avenue. Mature trees to garden. Curved rubble stone walls and wrought-iron double-leaf gate to site entrance at T-junction in road.

• Saint Molua's Church (Magheracloone), church/chapel, 1820–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Church of Ireland church, dated 1824, having two-bay nave, three-stage square-plan tower and chancel and vestry of 1891. Single-storey lean-to extension to re-entrant corner of tower and nave, and single-storey lean-to extensions to south. Pitched slate roof having stone copings with cross gable finials and cast-iron rainwater goods, with crenellated parapet and corner pinnacles to tower. Roughcast rendered walls having cut-stone quoins and string courses set on smooth rendered plinth. Coursed limestone walls to chancel and north extensions. Stone date plaque to front elevation with lettering 'Built A.D. 1824/Rev. R.M. Cumming A.M. Vicar'. Pointed-arch double-light window openings having tooled limestone surrounds and stone sills with timber Y-traceried windows. Pointed-arch window opening to ground level of tower having tooled limestone surround, hood-moulding and timber Y-traceried frame. Square-headed double-light window openings to second stage of tower having tooled limestone surround, and label-mouldings. Top level of tower having pointed-arch window opening with tooled limestone surround, hood-moulding and timber louvres. Pointed-arch door opening to front elevation having tooled limestone surround, hood-moulding and timber tongued-and-grooved double-leaf door. Square-headed door opening to front extension having tooled limestone surround and timber door. Square-headed door opening to rear extension having recent timber door. Altar to east end of nave, with moulded pointed chancel-arch and carved timber altar rails and altar furniture. Timber gallery to west end, with staircase in entrance porch, and square-headed door opening with block-and-start surround and tympanum to gallery. Exposed timber king-post roof, with tongue-and-groove timber boarding to soffit. Smooth rendered walls with timber panelling to dado level. Timber pews flanking central aisle, on raised timber floors. Free-standing baptismal font to west end of nave. Pointed-arch door opening with timber panelled door leaf leading from entrance lobby to nave, and stone flagged floor to lobby. Pointed-arch door opening with timber battened door between chancel and vestry. Large graveyard surrounding church, containing early stone grave markings. Painted dashed walls to front boundary and coursed limestone walls to remaining boundaries, with round-plan painted dashed gate piers having cast-iron gates.

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 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, low (inferred).

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Camaghy · Camachadh

Area

1,113,130 m² (111.31 ha, 275.06 acres)

Civil parish

Magheracloone, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Enagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

819 people lived in 236 households in the Enagh electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drumbrone, Drumerlough Beg, Drumerlough More, Drummond, Lisnakeeny, Mullantornan, Stranatona, Tonaneeve

Placenames

Camaghy 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.