Moneyfad
Townland in the civil parish of Shrule, barony of Rathcline, Co. Longford; in Irish An Muine Fada
- Area
- 28.5 ha
- 70 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 3,214 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moneyfad, from 427 m² to 130,165 m² (13.02 ha, 32.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Moneyfad 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
6 Apr 2023Conditional
the proposed demolition of existing showroom building together with the proposed construction of a new showroom building in a new location to the north-east of the existing showroom building, proposed connections to the existing services onsite and all ancillary works
Permission · Longford County Council, 2371
14 Sept 2022Conditional
the following; (i) proposed alterations to the facades of existing showroom building consisting of additional glazing, erection of a parapet, entrance canopy, installation of new cladding & signage; (ii) proposed construction of a lean-to type extension to the rear of existing vehicle service; repair garage for use as a vehicle valeting area; (iii) proposed erection of additional bollards along the front boundary of the property together with the proposed installation of automatic retractable bollards at the entry & exit locations of the property; and all ancillary works
Permission · Longford County Council, 22218
25 Jun 2021Conditional
(i) of the recently constructed concrete yard for the storage of vehicles which is an extension to an existing tarmacadam surfaced car park previously granted full planning permission under Planning Reference Number PL19/144 (ii) Retention of the recently constructed lean-to extension to the existing workshop type structure previously granted full planning permission under Planning Reference Numbers PL19/318, PL15/49 & PL14/41
Retention · Longford County Council, 21199
11 Dec 2019Conditional
proposed construction of an extension to existing workshop type structure previously granted full planning permission under Planning Reference Number PL14/41 & PL15/49 and all ancillary works
Permission · Longford County Council, 19318
31 May 2019Conditional
retention of existing newly constructed tarmacked surfaced car park with perimeter fencing for the storage of vehicles to service existing car sales/repairs garage, all ancillary works
Retention · Longford County Council, 19144
3 Jul 2017Conditional
proposed extension of existing yard which was previously granted full planning permission under planning reference number PL02/504, for the storage of vehicles to service existing car sales/repairs garage and showroom together with the proposed erection of a perimeter fence and all ancillary works
Permission · Longford County Council, 17185
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Royal Canal 002103
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Moneyfad.
Architectural heritage
- Archie's Bridge, bridge, 1810–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch humpbacked canal bridge carrying road over Royal Canal, built c. 1815. Round/elliptical-headed arch with dressed ashlar limestone voussoirs and dressed ashlar limestone masonry to barrel. Rubble stone construction, formerly rendered, with cut limestone string course at road/deck level. Rubble stone construction to parapets, formerly rendered, with curving ends terminated in dressed ashlar limestone piers (on square-plan). Dressed limestone coping over parapet walls. Towpath to south bank of canal with dressed limestone retaining walls to canal banks (north and south). Located to the west of Ballymahon. Former canal stores (13402601) and quay adjacent to the west.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1718 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Moneyfad with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Moneyfad · An Muine Fada
- Area
- 284,511 m² (28.45 ha, 70.3 acres)
- Civil parish
- Shrule, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rathcline
- Electoral division
- Ballymahon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballymahon electoral division: 2,970 people in 1,076 households; 52% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cartronboy, Drinan, Lissanisky, Moygh, Tirlickeen
- Placenames
- Moneyfad 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.