Monksfield

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monksfield, from 145 m² to 329,596 m² (32.96 ha, 81.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Monksfield 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.

• 12 Sept 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, garage, treatment unit and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 301.28 sqm (house) & 60.00 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461204

• 15 Dec 2022Refused

  the retention & completion of a dwellinghouse with revised plans & effluent treatment system on a site with revised site boundaries to those previously granted permission under pl. ref. no. 05/469 & 03/2755 and for all ancillary services & site works. Permission is also sought for the provision of a domestic garage ancillary to the dwelling house. Gross floor space of proposed works: 35.00 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 220.00 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261249

• 28 Feb 2022Refused

  to retain and complete the following: the house, treatment plant and associated site works granted under 05/469. Gross floor space of proposed works: 230 sqm. Gross floor space pf work to be retained: Raft 174 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 22256

• 21 Oct 2021Refused

  to retain the work completed namely raft of the house, treatment plant system and the associated site works permitted under Permission Consequent 05/469. Permission is now being sought to complete the house and associated site works which were permitted under 05/469. Gross floor space of proposed works: House; 230sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211962

• 19 Nov 2019Conditional

  for domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: 50 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 191796

• 3 Oct 2019Conditional

  to construct a new 2 storey dwelling, domestic garage, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area, and ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 224 sqm, Garage - 50.76 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191528

• 6 Mar 2019Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 197.66 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19315

• 18 Oct 2018Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage and a treatment plant. Gross floor space of proposed works: 224 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181489

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 Monksfield.

Recorded monuments

• GA104-206 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 241, no. 126) as a very denuded circular ‘Earthen fort’ (diam. c. 24.4m) defined by a bank (Wth 2.1m; int. H 0.54m; ext. H 0.67m). It was subsequently levelled during field-clearance operations and no visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 27 February 2018

• GA104-207 Designed landscape feature
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA104-208 Enclosure
  Description

  In low-lying marshland. This subrectangular enclosure (24m NNW-SSE; 18m ENE-WSW) is defined by a low irregular bank of earth and an external fosse. Its date and purpose are unclear. It may be a designed landscape feature. (McCaffrey 1952, 242, no. 146a) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 April 2019

• GA104-209 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rolling pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 242, no. 145) an ‘Earthen fort’ which was almost completely levelled due to cultivation; a slight mound (diam c. 36.5m) was evident. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 April 2019

• GA104-210 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In level pastureland. A well-preserved circular ring-barrow (diam. 24.7m) comprising a low flat-topped mound (diam. c. 11m; H 0.9m) encircled by a fosse and external bank of earth and stone. No visible surface trace of the bank survives at SW as a result of quarrying (McCaffrey 1952, 28, no. 146; 1955, 224). Field-clearance material has been dumped on it in the SE sector. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 August 2019

• GA104-211 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In an area of low-lying swampy ground. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 242-3, no. 146c) as a circular ‘Earthen fort’ (diam. c. 30.5m) defined by a bank of earth and stone and an external fosse. No visible surface trace survives. The low-lying swampy location of the monument is not the most likely siting for a rath. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 27 February 2018

• GA104-213 Country house
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Monksfield, 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 Monksfield.

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 Monksfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Monksfield · Fearann na Manach

Area

2,100,367 m² (210.04 ha, 519.01 acres)

Civil parish

Killogilleen, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Killogilleen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

981 people lived in 308 households in the Killogilleen electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 57% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyglass East, Ballylin West, Emlagh, Fiddaun, Knocknamanagh, Lismoylan, Rathcosgry

Placenames

Monksfield 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.