Moanroe More

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moanroe More, from 90 m² to 319,559 m² (31.96 ha, 78.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Moanroe More 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.

• 31 Jan 2024Conditional

  the erection of Two Storey Domestic Dwelling, Domestic Garage, Entrance Gates & Piers, Secondary Treatment System and soil polishing filter and connections to all existing services on her land

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 2460072

• 31 May 2019Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house, upgrade existing agricultural entrance for vehicular access, septic tank, puraflo peat biofilter with gravel distribution area and carry out all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19542

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 Moanroe More.

Recorded monuments

• LI044-080 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Monument, depicted as embanked penannular enclosure (opening facing E) on 1924 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled and incorporated into pasture field. Now evident as circular area (diam. 32m) defined by scarped edge (H 0.2m; Wth 2m) with external fosse (D 0.1m; Wth 3m). Level interior under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI044-082 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In level pasture. Area now fence off and the well itself is being used by County Council as part of local water supply. Known locally as "The White Well" but no memory of it being in holy use. Described by Ó Danachair (1955, 211) as 'a strong clear spring about nine feet in diameter'; he notes 'no devotions' here because 'the well moved when clothes were washed there' (ibid.). See attached photos taken in 1954 by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.21.00360 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/17050 and F025.21.00361 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/24529. Compiled by: Denis Power Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 1 October 2020

• LI044-085 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Site is depicted on 1924 OS 6-inch map as circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) bisected by watercourse on N-S axis. Site now evident only on E side of deep watercourse (Wth c. 6m): semicircular area (14m E-W; 30m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.5m) with external fosse (D 0.25m; Wth 1.2m). Gap in bank (Wth 2.8m) at E. North end of semicircular area under rough pasture, but S end largely obscured by overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moanroe More.

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 Moanroe More, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Moanroe More · An Mhóin Rua Mhór

Area

1,528,457 m² (152.85 ha, 377.69 acres)

Civil parish

Killeedy, and its townlands

Barony

Glenquin

Electoral division

Ballintober, the unit of the census

Census 2022

386 people lived in 131 households in the Ballintober electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ahawilk, Ballintober East, Danganbeg, Moanroe Beg, Raheenagh, Shanrath

Placenames

Moanroe More 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.