Mountpleasant

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountpleasant, from 1,325 m² to 360,612 m² (36.06 ha, 89.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Mountpleasant 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Mountpleasant in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Mountpleasant.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mountpleasant.

Architectural heritage

• Mount Pleasant, farm house, 1700–1787 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1787, on a rectangular plan. Leased, 1901; 1911. Reroofed, ----. Replacement hipped artificial slate roof with ridge tiles, cement rendered chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and uPVC rainwater goods on box eaves. Limewashed lime rendered battered walls. Square-headed central door opening with threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled double doors. Square-headed flanking window openings in bipartite arrangement with concealed dressings framing nine-over-six timber sash windows without horns. Square-headed window openings (ground floor) with concealed dressings framing nine-over-six timber sash windows without horns. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows without horns. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered panelled piers to perimeter having finial-topped capping supporting wrought iron-detailed flat iron double gates.

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 Mountpleasant, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Mountpleasant with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Mountpleasant · Muiceanach

Area

691,086 m² (69.11 ha, 170.77 acres)

Civil parish

Ardcanny, and its townlands

Barony

Kenry

Electoral division

Ballynacarriga, the unit of the census

Census 2022

947 people lived in 310 households in the Ballynacarriga electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynacarriga, Cartown, Kilmacat, Mellon, Shanpallas

Placenames

Mountpleasant 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.