Dunsinare

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dunsinare, from 70 m² to 106,530 m² (10.65 ha, 26.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 37 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 27 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Industry/Enterprise/Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Landscape Protection/Conservation (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4Strategic Residential Reserve
  Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 27 Nov 2025Conditional

  permission for a development which will consist of: Material alterations to the existing single-storey dwelling including: 1. Complete roof reconfiguration and alterations, including the incorporation of one new gable wall to the front (east) elevation. 2. Internal alterations to the existing roof space to accommodate a new bedroom and mezzanine. 3. The construction of a 76 m² ground floor extension to the rear (west) and side (north) and basement garage (52m2) 4. Comprehensive thermal upgrades to the existing structure and all associated works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560475

• 24 Nov 2025N/a

  planning for a development which will consist of material alterations to the existing single-storey dwelling including: 1. Complete roof reconfiguration and alterations, including the incorporation of one new gable wall to the front (east) elevation. 2. Internal alterations to the existing roof space to accommodate a new bedroom and mezzanine. 3. The construction of a 76 m² ground floor extension to the rear (west) and side (north) and Basement Garage (52m2) 4. Comprehensive thermal upgrades to the existing structure all associated works.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560465

• 6 May 2020Conditional

  retention permission for existing ancillary building comprising storage areas and ancillary laundry at ground level and 5 number nursing home staff accommodation units at first floor level and all associated site development works. Planning permission is also sought to complete same

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 20151

• 28 Nov 2018Conditional

  permission for a change of use of existing educational facility to previous industrial use and associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18554

• 6 Mar 2018Conditional

  Permission to construct an ESB sub-station building together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 1891

• 21 Feb 2017Conditional

  permission to construct a replacement two-storey dwelling, install a septic tank and percolation area, erect gates and piers and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 1766

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 Dunsinare.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Dunsinare.

Architectural heritage

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

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

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2333 (ZIP).

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

Name

Dunsinare · Tamhsain Aichir

Area

565,060 m² (56.51 ha, 139.63 acres)

Civil parish

Monaghan, and its townlands

Barony

Monaghan

Electoral division

Monaghan Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Monaghan Rural electoral division: 6,411 people in 2,320 households; 62% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cornamunady, Cortolvin, Drumbear, Mullaghmatt, Skeagarvey, Tully

Placenames

Dunsinare 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.