Monatore
Monatore is a townland in the civil parish of Narraghmore, barony of Narragh and Reban East, Co. Kildare. Its name in Irish is Móin an Tuair.
- Area
- 35.7 ha
- 88 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 3,977 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monatore, from 37 m² to 182,268 m² (18.23 ha, 45.04 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Monatore 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
24 Sept 2021Conditional
sought to construct a part single storey, part two storey dwelling, detached single storey garage, use of existing domestic entrance and new access driveway, new waste water treatment system and percolation area, connection to mains water and all associated site works. Planning Permission is also sought to remove condition No. 3 of PL96/1646 relating to sterilization of lands
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211369
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 Monatore.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Monatore.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Monatore.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Monatore, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Monatore.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Monatore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Monatore · Móin an Tuair
- Area
- 357,342 m² (35.73 ha, 88.3 acres)
- Civil parish
- Narraghmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Narragh and Reban East
- Electoral division
- Fontstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 456 people lived in 144 households in the Fontstown electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyadams, Fontstown Upper, Glassely, Kilmead, Lynamsgarden, Oldgrange
- Placenames
- Monatore 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.