# Mountpleasant, Co. Carlow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Fennagh, barony of Idrone East, Co. Carlow; in Irish Cluain Fearta. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 526,783 m² (52.68 ha, 130.17 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 55,625 m² (5.56 ha, 13.75 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Fennagh, https://everytownland.com/carlow/parish/fennagh.md - Barony: Idrone East - Electoral division: Garryhill, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Carlow, https://everytownland.com/carlow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/3302 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 10417 - Centre: latitude 52.698861, longitude -6.848908 (WGS 84) ## 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); 9 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5247103: 171,255 m² (17.13 ha, 42.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5247103.md - Parcel 786837: 131,323 m² (13.13 ha, 32.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/786837.md - Parcel 791907: 75,521 m² (7.55 ha, 18.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/791907.md - Parcel 813428: 71,319 m² (7.13 ha, 17.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/813428.md - Parcel 791908: 39,931 m² (3.99 ha, 9.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/791908.md - Parcel 2843352: 32,311 m² (3.23 ha, 7.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2843352.md - Parcel 784162: 4,617 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/784162.md - Parcel 809749: 1,521 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/809749.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 15 Apr 2025, Carlow County Council 2560095: N/a. Permission. to construct a hay storage shed and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560095/0 - 15 Apr 2025, Carlow County Council 2560097: Conditional. Permission. to construct a hay storage shed and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560097/0 - 9 Aug 2022, Carlow County Council 22260: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/22260/0 - 26 Jul 2022, Carlow County Council 22246: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/22246/0 - 20 Jun 2022, Carlow County Council 22210: Conditional. Permission. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/22210/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Mountpleasant. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mountpleasant. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Mountpleasant House, house, 1740–1760, Regional interest, registry number 10301650, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CW®no=10301650. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/carlow/mountpleasant.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/carlow/mountpleasant.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/carlow/mountpleasant.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/carlow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballaghaderneen: https://everytownland.com/carlow/ballaghaderneen.md - Ballyknockan: https://everytownland.com/carlow/ballyknockan-10076.md - Ballytimmin: https://everytownland.com/carlow/ballytimmin.md - Garryhill: https://everytownland.com/carlow/garryhill.md - Raheenwood: https://everytownland.com/carlow/raheenwood-10464.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/carlow/mountpleasant - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/carlow/mountpleasant