# Moanfad, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Aghaboe, barony of Clandonagh, Co. Laois; in Irish Móin Fait. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 287,801 m² (28.78 ha, 71.12 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 13,814 m² (1.38 ha, 3.41 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Aghaboe, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/aghaboe.md - Barony: Clandonagh - Electoral division: Borris-In-Ossory, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/28713 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100842 - Centre: latitude 52.916552, longitude -7.60931 (WGS 84) ## 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); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 227333: 117,428 m² (11.74 ha, 29.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/227333.md - Parcel 255509: 79,565 m² (7.96 ha, 19.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/255509.md - Parcel 265643: 39,006 m² (3.9 ha, 9.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265643.md - Parcel 2499183: 14,595 m² (1.46 ha, 3.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2499183.md - Parcel 256942: 13,814 m² (1.38 ha, 3.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/256942.md - Parcel 234037: 12,007 m² (1.2 ha, 2.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/234037.md - Parcel 235589: 2,892 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/235589.md - Parcel 257839: 2,330 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/257839.md - Parcel 4949285: 43 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4949285.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 7 applications, newest first. - 19 Jun 2026, Laois County Council 2644: Conditional. Permission. construct an agricultural machinery/general purpose store, ancillary concrete and all associated site work. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2644/0 - 20 Oct 2025, Laois County Council 25100: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/25100/0 - 13 Oct 2025, Laois County Council 2596: N/a. Permission. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2596/0 - 23 Sept 2021, Laois County Council 21664: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. retain existing domestic shed including associated siteworks. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/21664/0 - 23 Nov 2018, Laois County Council 18708: Conditional. Permission. construct a livestock underpass, effluent holding tank and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/18708/0 - 19 Apr 2017, Laois County Council 17189: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/17189/0 - 18 Apr 2017, Laois County Council 17182: N/a. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/17182/0 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 Moanfad. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Moanfad. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moanfad. ## 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 Moanfad, about 1 in 5 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Moanfad. - 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/laois/moanfad.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/moanfad.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/moanfad.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/laois.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Doon: https://everytownland.com/laois/doon-100530.md - Grange Beg: https://everytownland.com/laois/grange-beg.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/laois/moanfad - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/moanfad