Monaferrick

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monaferrick, from 699 m² to 245,371 m² (24.54 ha, 60.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Monaferrick 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 Monaferrick 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

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

• LA014-043 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on NW facing slope of rising ground with good views to N, E and W, higher ground to S. Monument covered in bushes and trees making examination of interior monument impossible. A circular area (diam. c. 42m) defined by a bank (Wth c. 2.6m, int. H c. 2.65m, ext. H c. 3.3m) and external fosse (Wth c. 6.2m) from NE-NW. Possible entrance with causeway at N. Listed in the Register of Historic Monuments as a Ringfort on the 18 June 1986. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revised upload: 5 November 2015

Architectural heritage

• Saint Peter's Church (Curraclone), church/chapel, 1800–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Georgian Gothic Church of Ireland estate church, built 1804, with three-storey tower and vestry projection.

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 Monaferrick, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2266 (ZIP).

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 Monaferrick with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Monaferrick · Muine Phiaraic

Area

675,230 m² (67.52 ha, 166.85 acres)

Civil parish

Curraclone, and its townlands

Barony

Stradbally

Electoral division

Curraclone, the unit of the census

Census 2022

269 people lived in 85 households in the Curraclone electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymanus, Bawn, Blackford, Curraclone, Inch, Mill Land

Placenames

Monaferrick 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.