Five new sports pitches and expanded car park for Carrickmacross Emmets GAA
Conditional permission granted on 21 April 2026
Carrickmacross Emmets GAA club has been given the green light to expand its sports facilities at Lisanisk Coolderry. The plans include building five new pitches (two full-size GAA pitches, two juvenile training pitches, and one all-weather pitch), extending the car park with extra spaces for buses and accessible parking, adding floodlights and spectator viewing areas, and reshaping the site to make room for everything.
Full description from the council file
permission for proposed works consisting of: (a) Altering and regrading/recontouring existing site contours/topography to facilitate the development of additional sports facilities, (b) construction of 2 no. new GAA pitches 145mx90m, (c) construction of 1 no. new juvenile training pitch 85mx63m, (d) construction of 1 no. new juvenile training pitch/overflow car park 70mx52m, (e) construction of 1 no. new all weather pitch 90mx45m, (f) extension of existing car park on site to provide additional car parking, bus parking and accessible parking spaces to service the development, (g) erection of all associated goalposts, ballstops, dug outs, flood lighting, (h) forming raised grass bank to act as spectator viewing area, (i) altering location of part of existing walking track on site, (j) together with all associated site development works.
Details
Source: Monaghan County Council planning portal.
Full file, drawings, observations and decision documents are on
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view application 2560531 on the council portal →.
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