Moanduff
Moanduff is a townland in the civil parish of Castletown, barony of Coonagh, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is An Mhóin Dubh.
- Area
- 54.7 ha
- 135 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 1,899 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moanduff, from 25 m² to 211,663 m² (21.17 ha, 52.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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
No zone of a development plan covers Moanduff 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
2 Dec 2022Conditional
an agricultural shed incorporating a slatted tank and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 221288
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Moanduff.
Architectural heritage
- Castletown Creamery, creamery, chimney, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Detached irregular-plan former creamery, built c. 1880, now in use as private house. Comprising gable-fronted single-bay two-storey L-plan block to south with three-bay single-storey gable-fronted block to north and adjoining double-pile single-bay single-storey block having square-plan brick chimneystack to north elevation. Pitched slate roofs with brick chimneystacks. Coursed rubble limestone and sandstone walls. Rendered walls to double pile block, north and west elevations. Square-headed openings, some with brick voussoirs and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Segmental-headed window opening to double pile block, west elevation with brick block-and-start surround, now blocked up. Segmental-headed opening to west elevation, north block having brick voussoirs and timber battened door. Square-headed openings to north elevation and south elevation having timber battened doors. Elliptical-headed carriage arch to east elevation with red brick voussoirs, now blocked up. External metal staircase to east elevation.
- Bridge, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
Description
Double-arch humpback limestone road bridge, built c. 1800, over the River Cahernahallia. Coursed rubble walls with roughly dressed copings. Elliptical-headed arches.
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 Moanduff, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Moanduff.
- 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 Moanduff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Moanduff · An Mhóin Dubh
- Area
- 546,501 m² (54.65 ha, 135.04 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castletown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coonagh
- Electoral division
- Oola, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,119 people lived in 427 households in the Oola electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrig Beg, Carrig More, Cloonlusk, Coolbaun, Toomaline Lower
- Placenames
- Moanduff 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.