Tullyvaragh Lower

83 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tullyvaragh Lower, from 9 m² to 168,743 m² (16.87 ha, 41.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Tullyvaragh Lower 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 Tullyvaragh Lower 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

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Tullyvaragh Lower.

Recorded monuments

• MO028-068 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a broad, low N-S rise in a low-lying landscape between drumlins. It is depicted as an enclosure on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793), and it is also represented as an embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’. No archaeological feature is visible at ground level in pasture. 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: 6 December 2017

• MO028-071 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated towards the top of the S-facing slope of the spine of a N-S drumlin ridge. This ridge and the monument were once planted in trees. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 38.4m NNE-SSW; 34.4m WNW-ESE) that slopes down steeply to the S. It is defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.1m at S to 1m at N; ext. H 1m at N and S) which is incorporated into a field bank and hedge ENE-SW , and an outer fosse (at NNE: Wth of top 6.4m; Wth of base 2.8m; D 1m) SW-N-E. There is no visible entrance 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: 6 December 2017

• MO028-075 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located in a low-lying landscape between drumlins. A circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) is depicted on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’, and it is represented as an arc of hachures N-E running into a curving field bank E-S on the 1907 edition of the map. The area is now occupied by farm buildings. 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: 6 December 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Tullyvaragh Lower, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Tullyvaragh Lower · Tulaigh Bhanrach Íochtarach

Area

939,524 m² (93.95 ha, 232.16 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmoyne, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Crossalare, the unit of the census

Census 2022

827 people lived in 241 households in the Crossalare electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghateskin, Corlygorm, Drumharriff, Lisnagunnion, Monanagirr, Rathmore, Tullylougherny, Tullyvaragh Upper

Placenames

Tullyvaragh Lower 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.