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Permitted, not started · Monaghan · grants of 10+ homes since 2021

Monaghan planning permission: the homes nobody has started

Data updated 6 Nov 2026 · register lag up to 7 days · sources & freshness

713 homes in 24 sites of 10 or more have been granted permission in Monaghan since 2021. A commencement notice was lodged for 30% of them. 452 still have a live permission and no start; 42 of those lapse within a year, and — have already lapsed.

713
homes permitted · 24 sites
30%
started · 217 homes
452
not started · live permission
42
lapse within 12 months
—
already lapsed

All of IrelandDún Laoghaire-RathdownFingalDublin CitySouth DublinKildareMeathWicklowCarlowCavanClareCork CityCork CountyDonegalGalway CityGalway CountyKerryKilkennyLaoisLeitrimLimerickLongfordLouthMayoMonaghanOffalyRoscommonSligoTipperaryWaterfordWestmeathWexford

By local electoral area 3

Local electoral areaSitesHomes permittedStartedNot startedLapsingLapsed
Monaghan1030411%270——
Carrickmacross-Castleblayney1132849%16642—
Ballybay-Clones38126%16——

By year granted

Granted inSitesHomesStartedNot startedLapsed
202246737%42—
202325937%37—
2024118100%0—
2025931028%222—
2026825925%151—

Recent years are still open: a permission granted this year has had months, not years, to start.

Who holds the permissions 14 named

The organisation named on the grant, ranked by homes permitted and not started. Names are on 69% of the homes in this council; a company that only appears in a council without a name source is not here. Private individuals are never named.

ApplicantSitesHomes permittedStartedNot startedLapsed
Clarlan Limited2720%72—
B & C Contractors Limited29943%56—
McGuigan Builders Limited1370%37—
Shadowfall Limited1300%30—
Geda Construction Company Limited24943%28—
Forever Warm Homes Limited1270%27—
Corvalley Enterprises Limited1120%12—
Thomas Agnew & Sons1100%10—
Moffett Investment Holdings172100%0—
RPK Construction Limited122100%0—
Berwat Construction Limited118100%0—
Eakin Developments Limited116100%0—
Park Edge Contracting Limited113100%0—
Tydavnet Construction Limited112100%0—

Permission, no start 15 sites

Not startedNot startedLapsingLapsedStartedUnder appealLargest firstLatest grant firstLapsing soonest

SiteHomesGrantedStatusWhere
Cloghvally Lower 2560303568 Dec 2025Not started lapses in 4 yearsCarrickmacross-Castleblayney
Tully [DED: Monaghan Rural] 25604324912 Oct 2026Not started lapses in 5 yearsMonaghan
Drumbear 26602354629 Oct 2026Not started lapses in 5 yearsMonaghan
Cloghvally Upper/Lower 24604573810 Jun 2025Not started lapses in 4 yearsCarrickmacross-Castleblayney
Drumbear 24604783723 May 2025Not started lapses in 4 yearsMonaghan
Monaghan Heating & Plumbing Centre 223713728 Jun 2023Not started lapses in 2 yearsMonaghan
Killygowan 24604563424 Apr 2025Not started lapses in 4 yearsMonaghan
Knockcarrick 21388302 Mar 2022Lapsing lapses in 4 monthsCarrickmacross-Castleblayney
Scarnageeragh 2560502287 Sept 2026Not started lapses in 5 yearsMonaghan
Mullan Road 24602352726 Feb 2025Not started lapses in 3 yearsMonaghan
Lurgans 25601762012 Dec 2025Not started lapses in 4 yearsCarrickmacross-Castleblayney
98 Avenue 25604441630 Apr 2026Not started lapses in 4 yearsBallybay-Clones
Killyconigan 2660126121 Oct 2026Not started lapses in 5 yearsMonaghan
Shirley House Lane 22146122 Nov 2022Lapsing lapses within a yearCarrickmacross-Castleblayney
Mc Grath Road 24381024 Feb 2025Not started lapses in 3 yearsCarrickmacross-Castleblayney

How it is counted

  • A site is one grant of permission for 10 or more homes since 2021: the register's own unit count where the council publishes one, else the count written in the description ("48 no. apartments"). Retention, outline and extension-of-duration applications are not grants of new homes and are left out. Strategic housing developments the Board decided directly (2017–2022) come from its case list.
  • Started means a commencement notice on the Building Control Management System names the permission. A notice is lodged 14 to 28 days before work begins, so this is a count of sites where building was formally begun, not of homes finished.
  • Not started is a live permission with no notice. Lapsing is one that expires within 12 months; lapsed is past its expiry. The expiry is the register's where it has one, else five years from the grant (s.40 of the Planning and Development Act 2000). An extension of duration granted later is not seen here.
  • When a later grant amends an earlier one on the same site (a large-scale residential development revising a strategic housing permission, a scheme quoting its parent reference) only the later one is counted, so one site is one count of homes.
  • The Department's 4Dublin pipeline counts every permitted unit from 2016 and reports 41.9% "activated" at Q2 2026; this table counts sites of 10+ from 2021 and starts on the permission itself, so the two will not match to the unit. The point is the map, not the total: which sites, where, and when they lapse.
The SQL behind the table
select la, count(*) as sites, sum(units) as homes, sum(units) filter (where status /* started when a BCMS notice matches; else lapsed / lapsing (expiry within 365 days) / unbuilt by expiry_at; appealed when an appeal is still open */ = 'started') as started, sum(units) filter (where status /* started when a BCMS notice matches; else lapsed / lapsing (expiry within 365 days) / unbuilt by expiry_at; appealed when an appeal is still open */ = 'unbuilt') as unbuilt, sum(units) filter (where status /* started when a BCMS notice matches; else lapsed / lapsing (expiry within 365 days) / unbuilt by expiry_at; appealed when an appeal is still open */ = 'lapsing') as lapsing, sum(units) filter (where status /* started when a BCMS notice matches; else lapsed / lapsing (expiry within 365 days) / unbuilt by expiry_at; appealed when an appeal is still open */ = 'lapsed') as lapsed from pipeline_site where superseded_by is null and la = 'MONAGHAN' group by la order by homes desc
Sources: National Planning Application Database (NPAD), An Coimisiún Pleanála case list, Building Control Management System commencement notices · fetched 6 Nov 2026, 23:00
SourceLicenceFetchedLink
National Planning Application Database (NPAD)CC BY 4.06 Nov 2026, 23:00open
An Coimisiún Pleanála case listCC BY 4.06 Nov 2026, 23:00open
Building Control Management System commencement noticesCC BY 4.06 Nov 2026, 23:00open

Recomputed weekly from the store; last built 6 Nov 2026. Status (started, lapsing, lapsed) moves with the calendar between builds.

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