Fairfield Demesne

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fairfield Demesne, from 14,233 m² (1.42 ha, 3.52 acres) to 825,022 m² (82.5 ha, 203.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Fairfield Demesne 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 Fairfield Demesne 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: Dromore Lakes 000001

Recorded monuments

• MO023-005 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the crest of a SW-facing slope. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 31m NW-SE: 28.5m NE-SW) planted with some deciduous trees and defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 3m; int. H c. 0.4m; ext. H 0.9m at E to c. 1.8m at N) separated by a fosse (Wth of base c. 2m) from an outer bank (at SSE: Wth of base 5.5m; Wth of top 2.8m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.9m). The entrance through the inner bank (Wth of base 3m) and causeway (Wth of top 2.2m; H 0.4m) are at SE. It remains unplanted with its original trees within a coniferous forest (Digitalglobe image). 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: 19 June 2018

Architectural heritage

• Fair Field, gate lodge, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1880, with dormer-attic, gabled bay to north end of front, west, elevation, gable-fronted open porch, single-storey lean-to return to rear, and with canted bay window to south. Now derelict. Pitched slate roofs with grey clayware ridge tiles, red brick chimneystack with offset stacks having crenellated stone copings, and decorative scrolled timber bargeboards to gables. Coursed squared limestone walls with ashlar sandstone block-and-start quoins and plinth, red brick block-and-start quoins to return, ashlar sandstone walls to canted bay window, ashlar sandstone walls to porch with chamfered square-plan columns supporting Tudor-arch openings to front and sides. Square-headed window openings with chamfered ashlar sandstone surrounds, single-light to first floor, double-light to front gable with label-moulding, four-light to bay window, with sandstone sills. Tudor-arch door opening with chamfered ashlar sandstone surround and timber battened door. Set within grounds of former Fair Field demesne, house now demolished. Gateway immediately to north, and corrugated-iron hall to south.

• Fair Field, gates/railings/walls, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Quadrant gateway to Fair Field demesne, erected c.1840. House now demolished. Gateway comprising double-leaf cast-iron gate with fleur-de-lys and bud finials, with supporting collars, wrought-iron latch mechanism, and mounted on channelled ashlar sandstone piers with moulded plinths, cut-stone imposts, and surmounted by squat stepped caps. Gate hinges concealed behind rebates with bookend scroll details. Piers flanked by curved coursed limestone walls with ashlar copings, and with outer piers of similar form to inner. Set at roadside at northern entrance to former demesne, with gate lodge immediately to south.

• Community centre, 1920–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-storey corrugated-iron hall, built c.1930, comprising three-bay block, with second block to north gable end and flush with same and presenting gable-fronts to long elevations that to west being three-bay and that to east two-bay, and with lower lean-to additions to south-west and south-east corners. Now disused. Pitched corrugated-iron roof with decoratively carved timber bargeboards to gables with pinnacles and finials, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Corrugated-iron sheeted walls on concrete foundations. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane horned timber sliding sash windows with timber sills. Square-headed door openings with battened timber doors. Set within grounds of former Fair Field country house. Gateway and gate lodge immediately to north.

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 Fairfield Demesne, about 1 in 20 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Fairfield Demesne · Lios na Spíonán

Area

2,607,463 m² (260.75 ha, 644.32 acres)

Civil parish

Ematris, and its townlands

Barony

Dartree

Electoral division

Dawsongrove, the unit of the census

Census 2022

752 people lived in 261 households in the Dawsongrove electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Black Island, Boyher, Claraghy, Clossagh More, Dawson Grove Demesne, Drumlona, Glen, Killyvaghan (Co. Cavan), Monage, Tanmacnally

Placenames

Fairfield Demesne 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.