Moneen
Moneen is a townland in the civil parish of Rossinver, barony of Rosclogher, Co. Leitrim. Its name in Irish is An Móinín.
- Area
- 111.3 ha
- 275 acres
- Land parcels
- 89
- registered freehold, median 1,204 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
89 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moneen, from 94 m² to 107,761 m² (10.78 ha, 26.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 42 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 72 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G5Open Space & Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
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 Apr 2025Conditional
revised site boundaries (from that previously granted under Ref. No. 08/909) and all associated site works
Retention · Leitrim County Council, 2560086
25 Apr 2023Conditional
(a) single storey side extension to existing dwelling. (b) Alterations to existing single storey dwelling also including all associated site works
Retention · Leitrim County Council, 2358
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 Moneen.
Recorded monuments
- LE001-055 Ringfort - cashel
Description
On a gentle NW-facing slope. Overgrown circular area (int. diam. 18.5m N-S) defined by a stone spread (Wth 3.4m; H 0.45m) with facing-stones intermittently visible. The original entrance cannot be identified. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008
- LE002-025 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a rise in an undulating landscape with rock outcrop. This is a grass-covered oval area (dims 39m N-S; 27.4m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.7m at NE to 1.65m at NW), with traces of a collapsed stone wall S-SW. The original entrance is not identified. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moneen.
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 Moneen, about 1 in 10 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1267 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Moneen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Moneen · An Móinín
- Area
- 1,112,680 m² (111.27 ha, 274.95 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rossinver, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rosclogher
- Electoral division
- Kinlough, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,036 people lived in 395 households in the Kinlough electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 59% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Agharoosky, Cloonawillin, Cloone, Kinlough, Laghta, Unshinagh
- Placenames
- Moneen 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.