Church Hill

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Church Hill, from 3,395 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres) to 306,878 m² (30.69 ha, 75.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Church Hill 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Church Hill in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

• MO020-020001 Church
  Description

  Situated on a hilltop known as Mullandoy (Livingstone 1966, 137) with higher hills to the N and S, and on the NE shore of Lough Muckno. This is the site of the original parish church of Muckno, although it is reputed to be an early monastery founded by St Maoldóid but this cannot be confirmed. He was a seventh century saint descended from the Uí Mhéith of Louth / Monaghen, from whom the barony of Omeath in Louth is named (Ó Riain 2011, 439). Maoldóid’s monastery was plundered by the Vikings in 830 and some of the coarbs are known 956-1161 (Shirley 1879, 343-6; Livingstone 1966, 137, 151; Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 42). The church is listed as de Mocynam in the ecclesiastical taxation (1302-06) of Pope Nicholas IV (Shirley 1879, 289). It continued as the parish church of Muckno until Lord Blayney built a chapel (MO020-027----) close to his castle at Ballynalurgan in 1690, which became the parish church of Castleblaney (Leslie 1929, 233-6). According to Spottiswood’s visitation of 1622 the parochial centre had been moved to Castleblayney, although a church had not yet been built, and the Catholic Mass was still celebrated at Mullandoy (McKenna 1920, 1, 431-54). The church is visible as the grass-covered foundations of a rectangular structure (dims c. 20m E-W; 9.3m N-S) defined by earthen banks (Wth 2-4m; H 0.3-05m) at the E end with traces of wall-facing while the W end is a low grass-covered cairn (dims c. 12m E-W; c. 7m N-S; H 0.2-0.6m). No architectural features or dressed stones are evident. It is within a subcircular or oval graveyard (dims c. 60m NW-SE; c. 45m NE-SW) defined by the remnants of an earthen bank at W (Wth 2m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.4m) but largely by a stone-faced scarp (H 1.2-1.4m), with mature deciduous trees on the perimeter. There is a gateway at W and the graveyard is protected by external iron railings. The few headstones date from c. 1790 to c. 1820 and have been recorded by Livingstone (1966, 150-1). Part of the octagonal shaft (dims 0.24m x 0.24m; H 0.47m) of a font from the graveyard of Mullandoy has been acquired by the Monaghan County Museum (Walsh 1983, 177). It is decorated with figures and is of fifteenth or sixteenth century date. 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. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 30 November 2016

• MO020-020002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on a hilltop known as Mullandoy (Livingstone 1966, 137) with higher hills to the N and S, and on the NE shore of Lough Muckno. The site of the original parish church of Muckno (MO020-020001-) is within a raised subcircular or oval graveyard (dims c. 60m NW-SE; c. 45m NE-SW) defined by the remnants of an earthen bank at W (Wth 2m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.4m) but largely by a stone-faced scarp (H 1.2-1.4m), with mature deciduous trees on the perimeter. There is a gateway at W and the graveyard is protected by external iron railings. The few headstones date from c. 1790 to c. 1820 and have been recorded (ibid. 150-1) and part of the octagonal shaft (dims 0.24m x 0.24m; H 0.47m) of a font from the graveyard of Mullandoy has been acquired by Monaghan County Museum (Walsh 1983, 177). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 30 November 2016

• MO020-020003 Font
  Description

  Part of the perforated octagonal shaft (dims 0.24m x 0.24m; H 0.47m) of a font from the graveyard of Mullandoy (MO020-020002-) has been acquired by Monaghan County Museum (Walsh 1983, 177). It is decorated with figures and is of fifteenth or sixteenth century date. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 30 November 2016

Architectural heritage

• House, 1790–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1870, having single-storey flat roof porch to front elevation, and two-bay single-storey return to rear (south-west), built c.1800. Pitched slate roofs with red brick chimneystacks to all gable ends, cement-rendered to return, and replacement metal rainwater goods. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls to north-east elevation, exposed random rubble walls to rear, and rendered and limewashed walls to return with smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings, with rendered reveals and painted stone sills, having six-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor of front elevation, six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to ground floor. Smaller six-over-six pane windows to rear elevation, and one-over-two pane window to return. Porch has square-headed replacement timber panelled door with over-light, opening onto stone platform. Painted wrought-iron railings to front of house, set on low cement rendered plinth wall with wrought-iron double-leaf vehicular gate and single-leaf pedestrian gate. Multiple-bay two-storey farm building to south-east having lean-to single-storey projection at south-west. Pitched slate roof, roughcast rendered coursed rubble limestone walls, and square-headed window and door openings with timber battened fittings. Segmental-headed vehicular door opening to south-west elevation, originally with sliding door, railing remaining, now with timber battened door. House and farmyard approached by long avenue from north-east.

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 high, 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 Church Hill.

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

Name

Church Hill · Cnoc an Teampaill

Area

748,612 m² (74.86 ha, 184.99 acres)

Civil parish

Muckno, and its townlands

Barony

Cremorne

Electoral division

Church Hill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Church Hill electoral division: 748 people in 262 households; 73% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drumakill, Drumleek South, Tullyharnet

Placenames

Church Hill 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.