Moanfad
Moanfad is a townland in the civil parish of Aghaboe, barony of Clandonagh, Co. Laois. Its name in Irish is Móin Fait.
- Area
- 28.8 ha
- 71 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 13,814 m² (1.38 ha, 3.41 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moanfad, from 43 m² to 117,428 m² (11.74 ha, 29.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Moanfad 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
19 Jun 2026Conditional
construct an agricultural machinery/general purpose store, ancillary concrete and all associated site work
Permission · Laois County Council, 2644
20 Oct 2025Conditional
retain alterations made to existing domestic dwelling consisting of the removal of front balcony terrace, alterations to external door opening at conservatory and other alterations made to window/door opes to the side elevation ,velux windows in roof including retention permission for suspended carport to rear of dwelling. Retention Permission for Domestic Storage Shed
Retention · Laois County Council, 25100
13 Oct 2025N/a
retain alterations made to existing domestic dwelling consisting of the removal of front balcony terrace, alterations to external door opening at conservatory and other alterations made to window/door opes to the side elevation ,velus windows in roof including retention permission for suspended carport to rear of dwelling. Retention Permission for Domestic Storage Shed.
Permission · Laois County Council, 2596
23 Sept 2021Conditional
retain existing domestic shed including associated siteworks
Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21664
23 Nov 2018Conditional
construct a livestock underpass, effluent holding tank and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 18708
19 Apr 2017Conditional
retain unauthorized development and non-compliance with conditions of previous Pl ref 01/687. To retain additions to the side and rear of existing dwelling house, alterations to the existing dwelling house, a domestic garage and fuel shed, an agricultural cattle shed with a slatted tank and concrete yard, concrete walls as constructed and all associated site works. Also full PLANNING PERMISSION to complete the agricultural cattle shed and concrete yard and the erection of a gate, a new velux roof light to the side of existing dwelling house and all associated site works
Retention · Laois County Council, 17189
18 Apr 2017N/a
retain additions to the side and rear of existing dwelling house alterations to the existing dwelling house, a domestic garage and fuel shed, an agricultural cattle shed with a slatted tank and concrete yard, concrete walls as constructed and all associated site works. Also full PLANNING PERMISSION to complete the agricultural cattle shed and concrete yard and the erection of a gate, a new velux roof light to the side of existing dwelling house and all associated site works
Retention · Laois County Council, 17182
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 Moanfad.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Moanfad.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moanfad.
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 Moanfad, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Moanfad.
- 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 Moanfad with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Moanfad · Móin Fait
- Area
- 287,801 m² (28.78 ha, 71.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghaboe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clandonagh
- Electoral division
- Borris-In-Ossory, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,012 people lived in 381 households in the Borris-In-Ossory electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Doon, Grange Beg
- Placenames
- Moanfad 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.