# Moneenroe, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilbegnet, barony of Ballymoe, Co. Galway; in Irish An Móinín Rua. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 527,030 m² (52.7 ha, 130.23 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 8,736 m² (0.87 ha, 2.16 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilbegnet, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/kilbegnet.md - Barony: Ballymoe - Electoral division: Creggs, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/18979 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63331 - Centre: latitude 53.581314, longitude -8.360387 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5754260: 290,482 m² (29.05 ha, 71.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5754260.md - Parcel 1993323: 210,359 m² (21.04 ha, 51.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1993323.md - Parcel 1957685: 10,392 m² (1.04 ha, 2.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1957685.md - Parcel 1957683: 7,080 m² (0.71 ha, 1.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1957683.md - Parcel 1957684: 5,116 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1957684.md - Parcel 5754250: 2,824 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5754250.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 28 Jul 2023, Galway County Council 2360875: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360875/0 - 5 May 2023, Galway County Council 2360464: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360464/0 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 Moneenroe. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Moneenroe. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Creggs House, house, 1840–1860, Regional interest, registry number 30402005, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA®no=30402005. 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. ## 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 Moneenroe, about 1 in 20 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 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 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/galway/moneenroe.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/moneenroe.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/moneenroe.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Moneenroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Coalpits: https://everytownland.com/galway/coalpits.md - Creggauns: https://everytownland.com/galway/creggauns-61582.md - Cuilnacappy: https://everytownland.com/galway/cuilnacappy.md - Gortnalavey: https://everytownland.com/galway/gortnalavey.md - Mallyree: https://everytownland.com/galway/mallyree.md - Park: https://everytownland.com/galway/park-63503.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/galway/moneenroe - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/moneenroe