Moneen West
Townland in the civil parish of Ardrahan, barony of Loughrea, Co. Galway; in Irish An Móinín Thiar
- Area
- 45.6 ha
- 113 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 13,760 m² (1.38 ha, 3.4 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moneen West, from 2,196 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres) to 95,302 m² (9.53 ha, 23.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Moneen West 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
28 Mar 2025Conditional
for construction of a new dwelling house with onsite wastewater treatment system, domestic Garage, and all associated site works. Gross floor area of proposed works: 224.00 sqm(G), 60.00 sqm(G)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560344
18 Aug 2023Conditional
for the development consisting of the construction of a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area & all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360974
12 Jun 2023N/a
for the development consisting of the construction of a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area & all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360637
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 Moneen West.
Recorded monuments
- GA114-136 Enclosure
Description
On a gentle E-facing slope in reclaimed pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as subcircular enclosure (c. 29m NW-SE; c. 26m NE-SW); on the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16) it is circular in plan (diam. c. 12m) and on the 1921 edition of the map it is more irregular in shape (c. 13m NE-SW; c. 9m N-S). No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 17 April 2019
- GA114-137 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
In flat pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a subcircular enclosure (c. 26m NW-SE; c. 22m NE-SW) and as a small mound (diam. c. 6m) surrounded by a fosse on the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16). No visible surface trace survives. Possibly a ring-barrow. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 30 July 2019
- GA114-138 Enclosure
Description
In flat pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m). No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 30 July 2019
- GA114-139 Souterrain
Description
In flat pastureland. While in the area on site inspection in November 1982 a local man pointed out the spot where he found ‘an underground cave’, which he believed was similar to other souterrains in the area. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 October 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moneen West.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_835 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Moneen West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Moneen West · An Móinín Thiar
- Area
- 455,705 m² (45.57 ha, 112.61 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardrahan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Loughrea
- Electoral division
- Castleboy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castleboy electoral division: 571 people in 204 households; 92% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Caheratrim, Cockstown East, Cockstown West, Furzypark, Grannagh, Limepark North, Moneen East, Rathbaun
- Placenames
- Moneen West 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.