Moneenroe

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moneenroe, from 2,824 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres) to 290,482 m² (29.05 ha, 71.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Moneenroe 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.

• 28 Jul 2023Conditional

  for a 10 year planning permission for the development of a solar PV farm at a site in the townlands of Cuilnacappy, Park, Moneenroe & Gortnalavey, near Creggs village, Co. Galway. The solar farm will have an operational lifespan of 40 years & a maximum export capacity of 75MW of electricity. The development will comprise the installation of photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames in rows, ancillary cabling & electrical infrastructure including approx. 18no. inverter station locations (with option for two stations at each location), ducting & underground cabling; provision of new internal access tracks; storage containers; perimeter fencing, pole mounted CCTV cameras; vehicular access via 2no. access points, one comprising an upgrade of an existing agricultural access directly to the L2316 & one via an upgraded existing private road which adjoins the L2316 adjacent to its junction with the R362; proposed new passing bay on this private road; 1no. further alternative vehicular access point at a new vehicular entrance to the L2316; & all associated site development & landscaping works, all on a site of approx. 107.4ha. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in relation to the project & will be submitted to the planning authority with the planning application

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360875

• 5 May 2023N/a

  for a 10 year planning permission for the development of a solar PV farm at a site in the townlands of Cuilnacappy, Park, Moneenroe, and Gortnalavey, near Creggs village, Co. Galway. The solar farm will have an operational lifespan of 40 years and a maximum export capacity of 75MW of electricity. The development will comprise the installation of photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames in rows, ancillary cabling and electrical infrastructure including approx. 18 no. inverter station locations (with option for two stations at each location), ducting and underground cabling; provision of new internal access tracks; storage containers; perimeter fencing, pole mounted CCTV cameras; vehicular access via 2 No. access points, one comprising an upgrade of an existing agricultural access directly to the L2316 and one via an upgraded existing private road which adjoins the L2316 adjacent to its junction with the R362; proposed new passing bay on this private road; 1 No. further alternative vehicular access point at a new vehicular entrance to the L2316; and all associated site development and landscaping works. All on a site of approx. 107.4ha

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2360464

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Moneenroe.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Moneenroe.

Architectural heritage

• Creggs House, house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1850, having canted bay window to ground floor of east bay, and with single-bay single-storey addition recessed to east end of house. Pitched reslated roof with rendered chimneystacks placed towards centre of ridge. Lime-rendered walls with limestone band at base. Rendered walls to bay window. Square-headed window openings with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows having dressed limestone surrounds. Bay window has one-over-one pane windows. Square-headed door opening to front having chamfered dressed limestone doorcase with original timber panelled door with overlight of six square panes. To east of house is large farm complex of single and two-storey buildings dating from same era as house and reputedly built by firm of Scottish contractors. Incorporates watermill, large area for cattle and lofts for storage of grain and hay. Buildings have slated roofs and coursed rubble limestone walls. Large internal space has several spans of pitched roofs, with water drained down hollow cast-iron piers which also support roof. Square-headed door and multi-paned window openings have dressed limestone surrounds as does segmental-arch vehicular entrances, latter with double-leaf timber battened doors.

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 Moneenroe, about 1 in 20 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Moneenroe · An Móinín Rua

Area

527,030 m² (52.7 ha, 130.23 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbegnet, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Creggs, the unit of the census

Census 2022

351 people lived in 139 households in the Creggs electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 23% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coalpits, Creggauns, Cuilnacappy, Gortnalavey, Mallyree, Park

Placenames

Moneenroe 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.