Moanroe Commons

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moanroe Commons, from 129 m² to 51,058 m² (5.11 ha, 12.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Moanroe Commons 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.

• 23 Jun 2026N/a

  to construct a dry goods commercial storage unit with all associated works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660393

• 24 Nov 2023Conditional

  for the development of an asphalt storage facility comprising 2no. insulated silos, a weighbridge and a single-storey ancillary office unit (40.7 sqm GIA), on hardstanding, and all associated site development works. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared in respect of this application.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2360539

• 5 May 2017Conditional

  to demolish existing canteen (42 Sq.m) and construct a new canteen (82 Sq.m) to the front of existing factory and all associated site development works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17289

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: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Moanroe Commons.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moanroe Commons.

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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_2211 (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.

No address of the register names Moanroe Commons with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Moanroe Commons · An Mhóin Rua

Area

277,212 m² (27.72 ha, 68.5 acres)

Civil parish

Knocktopher, and its townlands

Barony

Knocktopher

Electoral division

Knocktopher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Knocktopher electoral division: 543 people in 192 households; 84% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhale, Castlecolumb, Derrynahinch, Kiltorcan, Knocktopher Abbey, Knocktopher Manor

Placenames

Moanroe Commons 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.