Mountpleasant
Mountpleasant is a townland in the civil parish of Fennagh, barony of Idrone East, Co. Carlow. Its name in Irish is Cluain Fearta.
- Area
- 52.7 ha
- 130 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 55,625 m² (5.56 ha, 13.75 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountpleasant, from 1,521 m² to 171,255 m² (17.13 ha, 42.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Mountpleasant 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
15 Apr 2025N/a
to construct a hay storage shed and all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560095
15 Apr 2025Conditional
to construct a hay storage shed and all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560097
9 Aug 2022Conditional
for the restoration and change of use of an existing coach house, which is part of the protected structure, Mount Pleasant House (NIAH 10301650/CW397), into a dwelling accommodation, new onsite wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site and landscaping works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 22260
26 Jul 2022N/a
the restoration and change of use of an existing coach house, which is part of the Protected Structure, Mount Pleasant House ( NIAH 10301650 CW 397 ), into a dwelling accommodation, new onsite wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site and landscaping works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 22246
20 Jun 2022Conditional
to construct (i) milking parlour incorporating dairy, plant, storage, external milk tank, meal bin, rain water storage tanks, holding yard with crush/drafting yard, underground effluent tank with flow channel (ii) cubicle shed with underground effluent tanks and loose area (iii) walled silage slabs (iv) entrance upgrade and access roadway and all associated site works. The proposed buildings and works are within the curtilage of a protected structure Reg No cw397.
Permission · Carlow County Council, 22210
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Mountpleasant.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mountpleasant.
Architectural heritage
- Mountpleasant House, house, 1740–1760 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay three-storey house, c. 1740, on a U-shaped plan with lugged stone doorcase, lunette window openings, pediment to rear and hipped roof. Interior retains original joinery including open-well staircase. Partly derelict with roof removed.
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 Mountpleasant, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mountpleasant.
- 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 Mountpleasant with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.
The townland
- Name
- Mountpleasant · Cluain Fearta
- Area
- 526,783 m² (52.68 ha, 130.17 acres)
- Civil parish
- Fennagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Idrone East
- Electoral division
- Garryhill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 648 people lived in 217 households in the Garryhill electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballaghaderneen, Ballyknockan, Ballytimmin, Garryhill, Raheenwood
- Placenames
- Mountpleasant 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.