Monascreeban
Townland in the civil parish of Ballyadams, barony of Ballyadams, Co. Laois; in Irish Móin na Scríobán
- Area
- 118.6 ha
- 293 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 3,973 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monascreeban, from 18 m² to 265,712 m² (26.57 ha, 65.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Monascreeban 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 Oct 2024Conditional
construct bungalow dwelling, septic tank and percolation area with all ancillary site services
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2460647
23 Oct 2024N/a
construct a new bungalow dwelling, septic tank and percolation area with all ancillary site services
Permission · Laois County Council, 2460639
22 May 2024Conditional
Retain a Mobile home septic tank and site entrance and permission for the proposed dwelling house, septic tank treatment system, percolation area, shared entrance, and all associated site works. The mobile home will remain on the site during the construction of the new dwelling house and will be removed thereafter along with the decommissioning of the associated septic tank.
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2460283
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 Monascreeban.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Monascreeban.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Monascreeban.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Monascreeban.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Monascreeban with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Monascreeban · Móin na Scríobán
- Area
- 1,186,185 m² (118.62 ha, 293.11 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyadams, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballyadams
- Electoral division
- Ballyadams, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballyadams electoral division: 437 people in 135 households; 90% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballintubbert, Ballyadams, Kilcrow (Co. Kildare), Parkahoughill, Rathmore, Southfield, Sronscull, Tullomoy
- Placenames
- Monascreeban 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.