Monaghan planning applications
Every application lodged with Monaghan County Council, as recorded on the statutory planning register.
What the data shows
Generated from this page’s figuresMonaghan County Council has 6838 total applications on the register, with a 94% grant rate across 5487 applications decided since 2016, consisting of 5143 granted, 344 refused, and 0 part-granted. The most common development types are New dwelling at 33%, Retention at 15%, Agricultural at 14%, and Extension at 11%. Applications lodged recently show 609 in 2023, 630 in 2024, and 652 in 2025. Recorded zoning designations include Existing residential at 33%, along with Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape at 11%, and Mixed/general community services/facilities uses at 11%.
An automated reading of the figures on this page. Every statement reflects the register data shown above; it is not advice or a prediction.
- 6,838
- every year on the register
- 5,469
- with a decision date recorded
- 666
- rolling, to today
Decisions
Grant rate
94%
Also on the register, outside the rate: No decision recorded 1,351
Historical outcomes from the statutory register. Not a prediction for any individual application.
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| Outcome | Applications |
|---|---|
| Granted | 5,143 |
| Refused | 344 |
| No decision recorded | 1,351 |
What’s being applied for
Types are read from each application's description; the most common are shown.
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| Type | Applications | Share |
|---|---|---|
| New dwelling | 2,255 | 33% |
| Retention | 1,000 | 15% |
| Agricultural | 947 | 14% |
| Extension | 779 | 11% |
| Alterations | 441 | 6% |
| Commercial | 330 | 5% |
Grant rate by type of development
| Type | Granted | Decided | Nationally |
|---|---|---|---|
| New dwelling | 93% | 1,818 | 81% |
| Retention | 91% | 733 | 90% |
| Agricultural | 93% | 666 | 94% |
| Extension | 99% | 624 | 95% |
| Alterations | 98% | 347 | 92% |
| Commercial | 95% | 251 | 88% |
| Infrastructure | 95% | 208 | 91% |
| Change of use | 95% | 188 | 88% |
| Housing estate | 86% | 104 | 78% |
| Other | 93% | 86 | 88% |
| Industrial | 94% | 69 | 93% |
| Energy | 93% | 41 | 90% |
| Apartments | 90% | 39 | 71% |
“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded. Types with fewer than 30 decided applications are not listed, because a rate over a handful of applications would not mean anything.
Appeals
Appeals to An Bord Pleanála
24%
30 of 123 decided appeals reversed the council either way. Withdrawn and invalid appeals are excluded, because nothing was decided. Appeals are self-selected — only decisions someone chose to challenge appear here — so this is a record of appealed cases, not a measure of the council’s decisions overall.
How long appeals take
National median, by year the appeal was decided
Measured from the date the appeal was lodged to the date An Bord Pleanála decided it, for appeals where the register records both. The median peaked at 61 weeks for appeals decided in 2023 and stood at 17 weeks in 2026. Appeals are decided by An Bord Pleanála, not by the council, so these figures describe the Board’s timelines for cases from this area — they are not a measure of how quickly the council works. A small number of records with a decision dated before the lodgement, or more than three years after it, are excluded.
Activity
Applications lodged
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| Year | Applications |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 575 |
| 2017 | 648 |
| 2018 | 645 |
| 2019 | 606 |
| 2020 | 615 |
| 2021 | 753 |
| 2022 | 562 |
| 2023 | 609 |
| 2024 | 630 |
| 2025 | 652 |
Grant rate by year
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| Year | Decided | Granted | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 343 | 323 | 94% |
| 2017 | 528 | 498 | 94% |
| 2018 | 595 | 569 | 96% |
| 2019 | 539 | 510 | 95% |
| 2020 | 535 | 512 | 96% |
| 2021 | 660 | 626 | 95% |
| 2022 | 507 | 451 | 89% |
| 2023 | 409 | 383 | 94% |
| 2024 | 479 | 448 | 94% |
| 2025 | 483 | 451 | 93% |
Zoning
Zoning designations
Counted by zoned area, not by hectare. Zoning context, not a compliance assessment. View the plan.
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| Zone type | Zoned areas | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Existing residential | 262 | 33% |
| Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape | 89 | 11% |
| Mixed/general community services/facilities uses | 87 | 11% |
| Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses | 73 | 9% |
| Industrial, enterprise, employment | 64 | 8% |
| New/proposed residential | 63 | 8% |