Minvaud Upper

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Minvaud Upper, from 419 m² to 295,102 m² (29.51 ha, 72.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 38 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 Minvaud Upper 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.

• 18 Aug 2026N/a

  a single storey dwelling, detached garage, new domestic entrance, treatment system and percolation area, connection to mains water and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2660256

• 13 Jul 2023Conditional

  permission for the construction of a single storey dwelling, domestic garage, upgrading of existing entrance, bored well, septic tank & percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 2360133

• 2 Jul 2023Refused

  permission to build a new two storey dwelling house and detached garage, with the provision of a new on-site wastewater treatment system and percolation area, construct a new entranceway, together with tree planting, general landscaping and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2360126

• 12 Jun 2023N/a

  permission to build a new two storey dwelling house and detached garage, with the provision of a new on-site wastewater treatment system and percolation area, construct a new entranceway, together with tree planting, general landscaping and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2360105

• 22 May 2023N/a

  a new two storey dwelling house and detached garage, with the provision of a new on-site wastewater treatment system and percolation area, construct a new entrance way, together with tree planting, general landscaping and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2386

• 13 Apr 2021Conditional

  Permission to construct a single storey dwelling, septic tank and percolation area, connection to existing well, new entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 21126

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 Minvaud Upper.

Recorded monuments

• CW009-029 Castle - motte and bailey
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Steep-sided mound (H 9.8m; summit diam. 9m) surrounded by fosse (D 2.1m). Unattached trapezoidal bailey surrounded by earthen bank except at W (H 3m), with external fosse (D 3m; Wth 4m) at E. Bailey dims. 29m x 22m.

Architectural heritage

• Minvaud House, farm house, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, c. 1860, with bracketed stone doorcase. Group of detached outbuildings to rear. Gateway to site.

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 Minvaud Upper, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Minvaud Upper.

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 Minvaud Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.

Name

Minvaud Upper · Moing Mháid Uachtarach

Area

1,173,459 m² (117.35 ha, 289.97 acres)

Civil parish

Clonmore, and its townlands

Barony

Rathvilly

Electoral division

Clonmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

548 people lived in 199 households in the Clonmore electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bellmount, Bellshill, Clonmore, Croneskagh Lower, Croneskagh Upper, Davisshill, Glebe, Minvaud Lower, Oldtown

Placenames

Minvaud Upper 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.