Monavea

97 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monavea, from 80 m² to 226,512 m² (22.65 ha, 55.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Monavea 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.

• 8 Jul 2026Conditional

  provide extra windows at first floor level of existing house, also Retention permission to retain extra windows at ground floor level and front door, and all associated site works.

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2660457

• 4 Mar 2022Conditional

  construct a two storey dwelling, domestic garage, bored well, Tertiary Treatment System & Percolation area, new entrance, and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 22105

• 4 Jun 2020Conditional

  retain 3 commercial portal frame buildings constructed to accommodate the manufacture of agricultural equipment including a toilet & canteen and associated site works using the existing entrance, also planning permission to install a proprietary waste water treatment system and sand polishing filter and associated site works.

  Retention · Laois County Council, 20270

• 16 Jul 2018Conditional

  decommission an existing septic tank and the installation of a proprietary treatment system and sand polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18423

• 11 Jul 2018N/a

  decommission an existing septic tank and the installation of a proprietary treatment system and sand polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 18412

• 3 May 2017Conditional

  alter previously granted two storey dwelling and garage (planning application reference number 15/40). These alterations include external changes to façade, roof structure, overall height, window sizes and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17219

• 3 Apr 2017N/a

  alter previously granted two storey dwelling and garage (planning application reference number 15/40). These alterations include external changes to façade, roof structure, over all height, window sizes and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17156

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Monavea.

Recorded monuments

• LA036-004 Enclosure
  Description

  In an upland area. A subcircular enclosure visible on aerial photographs (GSI, S 25-6). No visible surface remains. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

• Milestone/milepost, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding limestone ashlar milestone, c. 1800, on a square plan.

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

At the centre of the townland of Monavea, about 1 in 20 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Monavea.

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.

No address of the register names Monavea with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Monavea · An Mhóin Bhuí

Area

4,060,041 m² (406 ha, 1,003.26 acres)

Civil parish

Killabban, and its townlands

Barony

Slievemargy

Electoral division

Ardough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

369 people lived in 123 households in the Ardough electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardateggle, Drumagh, Gortahile, Mayo

Placenames

Monavea 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.