Monaughrim
Monaughrim is a townland in the civil parish of Moyacomb, barony of St. Mullin's Upper, Co. Carlow. Its name in Irish is Móin Achrainn.
- Area
- 397.9 ha
- 983 acres
- Land parcels
- 169
- registered freehold, median 6,005 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 23
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
169 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monaughrim, from 10 m² to 249,970 m² (25 ha, 61.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Monaughrim 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
10 Jun 2026N/a
a proposed camping facility to consist of 4 glamping pods, motorhome parking spaces, tent pitching area, a utility building to include shower, toilet & kitchen facilities, a plant room, a bored well, a secondary treatment system and soil polishing filter, upgrading of existing entrance and construction of a proposed new entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2660179
9 Jun 2026N/a
a proposed camping facility to consist of 4 glamping pods, motorhome parking spaces, tent pitching area, a utility building to include shower, toilet & kitchen facilities, a plant room, a bored well, a secondary treatment system and soil polishing filter, upgrading of existing entrance and construction of a proposed new entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2660177
22 May 2026N/a
a proposed camping facility to consist of 4 glamping pods, motorhome parking spaces, tent pitching area, a utility building to include shower, toilet & kitchen facilities, a plant room, a bored well, a secondary treatment system and soil polishing filter, upgrading of existing entrance and construction of a proposed new entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2660160
26 Mar 2025Conditional
the construction of a new two story dwelling, domestic garage, domestic well, onsite wastewater treatment plant and percolation area along with all associated site and landscaping works including new site entrance
Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 2560071
23 Feb 2025Conditional
to construct a 2-storey extension to the side of existing dwelling with internal alterations to same to accommodate the proposed extension and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2560045
27 Jan 2025Conditional
to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage
Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 2560018
22 Jan 2025N/a
to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560011
6 Jan 2025N/a
to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560002
26 Aug 2022Conditional
to construct a dwelling house with services, domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 22281
9 Jul 2021Conditional
single storey office building, along with all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 21262
26 Mar 2021Conditional
Permission to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, new site entrance, septic tank with percolation area, bored well and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 21103
22 Mar 2021Conditional
Permission for the erection of new dwelling, detached garage, new vehicular entrance and associated site works. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the planning authority with this application.
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2193
26 Feb 2020Conditional
Permission for the construction of a single storey dwelling, a domestic garage, new entrance, a septic tank and percolation area, bored well and all associated site works.
Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 2065
23 Dec 2019N/a
Construction of a single storey dwelling, a domestic garage, new entrance, a septic tank and percolation area and bored well and all associated site works.
Permission · Carlow County Council, 19499
1 Aug 2019Conditional
amendments to previously granted planning application Ref: 18/42, including (i) new proposed finished floor level of +103.675, (+675mm from previously approved); (ii) alterations to internal layout; (iii) alterations to North and East facing elevations; (iv) and all associated works to facilitate the development
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 19301
5 Mar 2019Unconditional
of PL Ref: 13/276 - The erection of a fully serviced single storey dwelling, domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area and all associated ancillary site development works including site access, circulation, boundary and landscaping treatments
Extension of duration · Carlow County Council, 1988
20 Feb 2019N/a
Ext of Duration for PL13/276. Development - The erection of a fully serviced single storey dwelling, domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area and all associated ancillary site development works including site access, circulation, boundary and landscaping treatments.
Extension of duration · Carlow County Council, 1965
28 Nov 2018Conditional
to erect a dwelling house with on site effluent disposal system, bored well, domestic garage, new site entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 18463
19 Nov 2018N/a
to erect a dwelling house with on site effluent disposal system, bored well, domestic garage, new site entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 18452
16 Feb 2018Conditional
Full planning permission for a fully serviced bungalow style dwelling house, domestic garage, new site entrance, new bored well, new wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 1842
31 Jan 2018N/a
Full planning permission for a fully serviced bungalow style dwelling house, domestic garage, new site entrance, new bored well, new wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission · Carlow County Council, 1822
1 Mar 2017Conditional
Planning permission for proposed three bay extension to an existing four bay slatted unit and lie back bovine facility to match the existing building height of 7.8 metres including extending one concrete slurry tank and also with the construction of a silage pit, dungstead, concrete yard and associated ground works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 1758
3 Feb 2017N/a
Permission for proposed 3 bay extension to an existing 4 bay slatted unit and lie back bovine facility to match the existing building height of 7.8m, including extending one concrete slurry tank and also with the construction of a silage pit, dungstead , concrete yard and associated ground works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 1726
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slaney River Valley 000781
Recorded monuments
- CW018-004 Enclosure
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 Marked on 1908 'OS 6-inch' map as circular enclosure. Visible on aerial photograph (GSI S 262) as cropmark of bank with entrance gap at SE, enclosing circular area (est max. diam. c. 35m). No visible surface traces. Possibly a ringfort.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Monaughrim.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Monaughrim, 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 high, 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 Monaughrim.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Monaughrim with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.
The townland
- Name
- Monaughrim · Móin Achrainn
- Area
- 3,978,624 m² (397.86 ha, 983.14 acres)
- Civil parish
- Moyacomb, and its townlands
- Barony
- St. Mullin's Upper
- Electoral division
- Clonegall, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,105 people lived in 380 households in the Clonegall electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballintemple, Ballyredmond, Clongarran, Clonogan, Coolroe, Craan, Kilcarry, Kilgraney, Orchard
- Placenames
- Monaughrim 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.