Moneenmore

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moneenmore, from 89 m² to 1,767,029 m² (176.7 ha, 436.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Moneenmore 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.

• 4 Feb 2025Conditional

  for the construction of an extension to existing store and concrete yard. Gross floor space of proposed works: 150.00 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560105

• 16 Sept 2019Conditional

  of the removal of roadside boundary and renovation works to existing dwellinghouse. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 162.5 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191432

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Maumturk Mountains SAC 002008
• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
• Special Protection Area: Lough Corrib SPA 004042
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Maumtrasna Mountain Complex 000735
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Corrib 000297
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Maumturk Mountains 002008

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Moneenmore.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1820–1825 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former house, built 1822, having two-storey canted-bay to middle of front elevation, recessed end bays with balconies to first floor, more recent lean-to additions to side elevations and additional lean-to extension to rear. Hotel after 1832, but now public house. Formerly single storey over raised basement and entered through doorways in first floor. Hipped artificial slate roofs with rendered chimneystack and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls with render plinth. Canted bay has roughcast render, render sill course and cornice to ground floor, and tooled limestone to first floor with tooled limestone sill course, mullions and eaves. Front corners of first floor have tooled square-profile limestone columns and lintels, and concrete balconies with decorative cast-iron railings. Square-headed window openings having tooled stone and concrete sills with replacement timber casement windows to all elevations except rear, latter having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed French doors to recessed first floor bays. Square-headed slightly recessed door openings to end bays of front elevation having stone steps and glazed timber doors. Rubble stone boundary walls to west, having carved limestone roundel, possibly from older bridge, with quatrefoil detail.

• Maum Courthouse, court house, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted neo-classical-style former courthouse, built c.1870, having pedimented distyle-in-antis limestone portico. Later lean-to addition to rear elevation. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack having tooled limestone coping, cast-iron rainwater goods and tooled stone pediment with rendered tympanum. Slate roof to lean-to addition. Rendered walls with limestone plinth. Portico comprising square-profile tooled ashlar stone columns with tooled stone frieze rendered to upper half, with tooled stone steps. Square-headed window openings to side elevations having tooled limestone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door openings, having double-leaf timber panelled door to front elevation. Square-headed timber battened door to rear of lean-to addition. Simple open fireplace to interior, with timber courtroom furniture. Rendered rubble stone boundary walls with piers, wrought-iron gate and stone steps.

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 Moneenmore, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Moneenmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Moneenmore · An Móinín Mór

Area

2,760,075 m² (276.01 ha, 682.03 acres)

Civil parish

Cong, and its townlands

Barony

Ross

Electoral division

Cong, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowgarriff, Crumlin East, Crumlin West, Maum East, Teernakill North, Teernakill South

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Moneenmore 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.