Eldron

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Eldron, from 150 m² to 88,755 m² (8.88 ha, 21.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Eldron 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.

• 17 Sept 2019Conditional

  permission to construct a new free range poultry unit together with underground washing tank, vertical meal bin, use existing agricultural entrance, together with all ancillary site works. Significant further information relates to the submission of a soil analysis report and Nutrient Management Plan.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 19435

• 3 Oct 2018Conditional

  Permission to construct a single storey Montessori Pre School building, install a new mechanical effluent treatment system & soild polishing filter, construct new entrance onto public roadway, together with on site staff parking, set down parking/turning area and all ancillary site works. Significant further information relates to the submission of a map indicating the location of existing community/social facilities, the demonstration of the demand for a Montessori preschool, including age profile of the children, the clarification that no alternative pre-school is available locally. A revised site plan indicating existing on site waste water treatment system serving applicants adjoining dwelling,the clarification of hours of operation and comment on the potential noise/disturbance have also been submitted.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18456

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 Eldron.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Eldron.

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch railway bridge, built c.1860, carrying road over Portadown and Cavan Branch of Ulster Railway. Three-centred arch having rock-faced rusticated and margined grey sandstone voussoirs, and cut-stone soffits. Splayed wings terminating in projecting piers to abutments, roughly-dressed rubble to spandrel walls, parapet walls, abutments and wings. Rock-faced rusticated platbands at impost level and to base of parapet, and rock-faced rusticated coping to wings. Coursed dressed stone to interior of parapet walls.

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 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 low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Eldron · Eanaigh Ealdrain

Area

227,156 m² (22.72 ha, 56.13 acres)

Civil parish

Drumsnat, and its townlands

Barony

Monaghan

Electoral division

Clones, the unit of the census

Census 2022

517 people lived in 180 households in the Clones electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowbarra, Carrowbarra Island, Gortmore North, Keenog, Mullabrack, Skeagh

Placenames

Eldron 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.