Monamuck
Monamuck is a townland in the civil parish of Boystown, barony of Talbotstown Lower, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Móin na Muc.
Parcel 1297577
- Area
- 83,783 m² (8.38 ha, 20.7 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Monamuck
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 180.2 ha
- 445 acres
- Land parcels
- 64
- registered freehold, median 3,414 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monamuck, from 115 m² to 438,722 m² (43.87 ha, 108.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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 Monamuck 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
10 Jul 2026Conditional
storey & a half type dwelling, on-site effluent disposal system to current EPA guidelines, detached domestic garage, with access via recessed entrance previously granted under PPRR 25/60419 and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2660619
7 Nov 2025Conditional
Full planning permission for (A) Change of use and modifications to existing domestic shed from storage to habitable space along with subsequent extensions to front, rear and side linking to main dwelling, (B) New single storey extension facilitating boot room / utility space, (C) New attic dormer window to the front of existing dwelling to provided increased storage space at attic level, (D) Internal modifications to tie in with new works, (E) Construction of a new detached domestic shed with mezzanine level, (F) Landscaping, connection to all existing site services and all associated development works at Valleymount, Blessington, Co. Wicklow. W91 A5R3.
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560898
6 Jun 2025Conditional
Planning permission for dormer type dwelling, on-site effluent disposal system to current EPA guidelines, domestic outbuilding, recessed entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2560419
2 May 2023Conditional
change of use applies to the ground floor front room and associated stores which were formerly a shop and post office and will change to residential use; the extension is for a single storey kitchen and dining room all to the rear; the alterations include; the addition of a flat roof dormer and rooflight to the existing rear lean-to at first floor level to provide a bedroom with adequate head-room; replacement of non-original front doors and windows (the historic sash windows will be repaired); repair and alteration of the existing single-storey flat-roofed store at the side; internal alterations and repair of the protected structure; alterations of the boundary walls to improve the safety of the existing vehicle egress; the resulting house will be a part-single storey, part-two-storey four bedroom house
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23422
23 Dec 2020N/a
demolish a single storey extension at rear, erect a pitched roof canopy at rear, erect a single storey extension at front of dwelling
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 201327
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 Protection Area: Poulaphouca Reservoir SPA 004063
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Poulaphouca Reservoir 000731
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Monamuck.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Monamuck.
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
- The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Monamuck.
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Monamuck.
- 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 Monamuck with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Monamuck · Móin na Muc
- Area
- 1,801,675 m² (180.17 ha, 445.2 acres)
- Civil parish
- Boystown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Talbotstown Lower
- Electoral division
- Togher, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 387 people lived in 129 households in the Togher electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballintober, Blackditches Lower, Boystown or Baltyboys Upper, Humphrystown, Lockstown Lower, Valleymount or Cross
- Placenames
- Monamuck 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.