Concra

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Concra, from 116 m² to 914,621 m² (91.46 ha, 226.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• G5Recreation/Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 5 Jul 2019Refused

  permission to consist of (1) a two-storey 80 bedroom hotel (5,300m²) including function room, bar, restaurant, all ancillary areas and 1 no. outdoor tennis court; (2) 36 no. (3 bed) dormer style short stay holiday homes; (3) 9 hole pitch and putt course; (4) an equestrian centre (1,400m²) including a riding school/indoor arena incorporating lecture and administration facilities; 20 no. stables and a 2,800 m² outdoor arena; (5) all landscaping works including boundary treatments, water feature/pond and pedestrian access at N53 and at Toome Road/LP03720; (6) roadworks including the realignment of the N53 and Toome Road/LP03720 junction; provision of vehicular access/egress from Toome Road LP03720, all internal roads and associated car parking (7) all associated civil infrastructure, service and site development works including connections to the public watermain and the public sewer. This application is for planning permission for a period of 10 no. years from the date of the grant of permission. Significant further information relates to the submission of a concept statement, a traffic assessment and flood risk assessment.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 19310

• 7 Sept 2017Conditional

  The construction of a new access point to Lough Muckno for anglers adjacent to South Lodge, incorporating a new entrance onto the public road and vehicular access track parallel to the lake shore with 6 no. associated parking lay bys

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 178009

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Muckno Lake 000563

Recorded monuments

• MO025-047 Designed landscape - folly
  Description

  Situated in woodland at the NW end of a NW-SE drumlin ridge, overlooking the north part of Lough Muckno. It was on the demesne of Castleblayney. It is depicted as a hollow rectangular structure with projecting angles on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘Castle’ in ruins. It was described by Coote (1801, 91) as: ‘the ruins of an old building in the wood near the lake which has a curious whimsical appearance. It seems to be very ancient’, but this view is mistaken. It is also reputed to be a McMahon castle but this is unlikely (Livingstone 1966, 154). This is a folly described by Delaney (1998, 3-4) as consisting of a stone building (dims c. 6m x c. 6m) with large circular towers (int. diam. 2.25m) centrally located in each wall (T 0.75m). There is an internal dividing wall and the original entrance and staircase were possibly located on the N side of this. The tower on the NW wall has an average H of 3m and contains two openings (Wth 0.6m; H 1.7m) with pointed brick arches. The other three towers survive to a height of c. 1m with lintel openings in NE and SE towers and possibly in the SW one although this is now destroyed. There are also lintel openings where the walls and towers join at NW and SE. (Delaney 1998, 3-4) 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: 27 February 2018

• MO025-048 Fortification
  Description

  Situated at the crest of the NE-facing slope of a hill in the demesne of Castleblayney. This has never been recorded on any map. It is described (Delaney 1998, 5) as ‘an embanked area defined by a ditch (int. H 2m) on the NE side with a stone facing on the uphill side, creating a level area inside. It is suggested that it might have had a military function in the seventeenth century, but it is just as likely to be a folly on the Castleblayney estate like so many other features in the demesne. It is no longer extant on a golf course (OSAP). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 27 February 2018

Architectural heritage

• Hope Castle, building misc, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey house with dormer attic, built c.1880, with full-height gabled projecting bay with and canted bay window to front (north-west) elevation, lower block to north-east end, and full-height gabled projecting bay to rear elevation. Gabled dormer windows. Enclosed yard to rear. Pitched tiled roofs having decorative terracotta ridge tiles, decoratively carved timber bargeboards with finials, and brown brick chimneystack with red brick band. Coursed rubble stone walls, having smooth render to bay window. Square-headed window openings having red brick surrounds, and replacement uPVC windows. Loop openings to north-east and north-west gables, having gauged red brick surrounds. Tudor-arch door opening having red brick voussoirs, and recent timber door. Cut-stone boundary wall enclosing rear yard and outbuildings having square-headed window and door opening with red brick surrounds to rear elevation. Recent garage to rear. Disused tennis court to north-east. Garden defined by dressed stone retaining wall, forming ha-ha. Situated on southern shore of Lake Muckno.

• Hope Castle, garden temple, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Ruinous remains of garden folly, built c. 1850, as part of the Hope Castle Estate. Temple form with portico to front (north-west) having fluted Ionic columns, and moulded cornice. Located on elevated site overlooking Muckno Lake.

• Hope Castle, farmyard complex, 1800–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard built c.1820, consisting of multiple-bay two-storey outbuildings to north and west of enclosed central yard, with roofless ruinous remains of ranges to south and east ranges. Detached three-bay single-storey outbuilding, to north-east of yard, detached five-bay single-storey outbuilding to south-east of yard, both built c.1880. Now derelict and disused. Six-bay two-storey outbuilding to west edge of yard having integral carriage opening. Pitched slate roof, weathervane to ridge and rendered bell-cote to south gable. Roughcast rendered rubble stone walls, square-headed window openings now boarded up. Integral carriage opening having timber lintel and red brick relieving arch. Multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to north edge of yard having pitched slate roof and stone chimneystack, with formerly rendered rubble stone walling. Square-headed openings having red brick surrounds and relieving arches, now blocked up. Two-storey rubble stone walls, formerly part of outbuildings, form east and south edge of yard. Rubble stone boundary wall with wrought-iron gate and square-plan rubble stone piers, to east end of north range of yard. Detached three-bay single-storey outbuilding to north-east, now roofless, having dressed stone walls with quoins, having round arches with red brick block-and-start surrounds to front (west) elevation, end bays now infilled with red brick. Detached five-bay single-storey outbuilding to south-east of farmyard having pitched slate roof with remains of ridge cresting, dressed stone walls with quoins, and red brick arcade to front (west) elevation.

• Hope Castle, gate lodge, 1875–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached complex-plan double-pile multiple-bay single-storey gate lodge with half-dormer attic, dated 1880, having advanced gabled entrance bay to north-east (front) elevation, with cat-slide roof forming single-storey elevation to north side of this, and having full-height gabled projecting block to south-west elevation, with porch having hipped roof to re-entrant corner. Recent three-bay two-storey over basement extension to north-west corner and unfinished single-storey extension to north. Pitched and hipped roofs having sandstone copings stones, carved sandstone apex stones with wrought-iron decorative finials to gables, and replacement tiles. Raised eyebrow dormer windows. Cut sandstone chimneystacks, with corbelled chimneystack to south-east gable. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Snecked cut limestone walls with sandstone dressings and projecting plinth course. Chamfered corners at ground floor level of south-east gable having carved convex corbel. Square-headed window openings, some paired, having chamfered sandstone surrounds and recent replacement aluminium windows. Relieving arch over ground floor paired windows to south-east elevation. Square-headed door opening within open entrance porch having square-plan pier, with chamfered sandstone surround and replacement aluminium door. Carved sandstone date plaque over entrance to porch. Door opening on south-west elevation with carved sandstone shouldered square-headed opening with replacement aluminium doors. Front of site enclosed by sandstone plinth wall with cut-sandstone piers and wrought-iron railings. Carved sandstone pier to pedestrian gate opening, carved sandstone piers to avenue entrance. Site entrance located between lodge and shore of Lough Muckno.

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 20 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Concra · Conchró

Area

1,594,615 m² (159.46 ha, 394.04 acres)

Civil parish

Clontibret, and its townlands

Barony

Cremorne

Electoral division

Castleblayney Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castleblayney Rural electoral division: 3,948 people in 1,451 households; 62% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annadrumman, Annahale, Corragarta

Placenames

Concra 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.