Monebrock

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monebrock, from 1,030 m² to 278,822 m² (27.88 ha, 68.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Monebrock 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.

• 9 Dec 2024Conditional

  change of design for construction of an agricultural shed (as previously granted under Planning Ref: 23/60324) incorporating a milking parlour, dairy, ancillary rooms, drafting & handling facilities, a waiting yard with underground slatted soiled water storage tank and all associated siteworks

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460747

• 25 Jun 2024Conditional

  construct new dwelling house, shed/stables, waste water treatment system and polishing filter, new site entrance and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2460370

• 18 Aug 2023Conditional

  (a) demolish existing old storage buildings & silage pits (b) construct an agricultural shed incorporating a milking parlour, diary, ancillary rooms, drafting & handling facilities, a waiting yard with underground slatted soiled water storage tank (c) Erect a meal bin and water storage tank (d) construct roofed underground slatted slurry storage tanks to form feed passages adjacent to existing loose sheds which are to be infilled with cubicles and all associated siteworks

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2360324

• 19 May 2020Unconditional

  extend time on planning ref.15/5

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20240

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballylynan 000857

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Monebrock.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Monebrock, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2355 (ZIP).

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 Monebrock with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Monebrock · Móin na mBroc

Area

733,508 m² (73.35 ha, 181.25 acres)

Civil parish

Tankardstown, and its townlands

Barony

Ballyadams

Electoral division

Tankardstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

405 people lived in 121 households in the Tankardstown electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghanure, Ballinree, Ballybeg, Clonpierce, Cullenagh, Maghareagh, Oldcourt, Shanganagh More

Placenames

Monebrock 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.