Monmore
Monmore is a townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore, barony of Ballaghkeen North, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is An Mhóin Mhór.
Parcel 374057
- Area
- 3,470 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 131 m².
- 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
- Monmore
Planning applications on this parcel
11 Nov 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all associa
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201324
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 20 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
- 73.8 ha
- 182 acres
- Land parcels
- 33
- registered freehold, median 3,914 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monmore, from 270 m² to 175,079 m² (17.51 ha, 43.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Monmore 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
13 Jun 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for the following works (a) To upgrade the existing wastewater
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260770
21 Jul 2023Refused
Permission to make alterations to existing dwelling and permission to
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230839
2 Mar 2023Refused
Permission to make alterations to my existing dwelling and permission to upgrade
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230203
11 Nov 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all associa
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201324
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Monmore.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Monmore.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Monmore.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Monmore, about 1 in 20 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 the townland of Monmore.
- 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 Monmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Monmore · An Mhóin Mhór
- Area
- 738,433 m² (73.84 ha, 182.47 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donaghmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen North
- Electoral division
- Ballygarrett, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 922 people lived in 329 households in the Ballygarrett electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 26% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinagam Upper, Ballyduff Upper, Borehovel, Bruce, Cooperstown, Garnakill, Mangan Upper, Raheen More
- Placenames
- Monmore 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.