Moanavoth
Moanavoth is a townland in the civil parish of Rathvilly, barony of Rathvilly, Co. Carlow. Its name in Irish is Móin na bhFód.
Parcel 4612427
- Area
- 3,538 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 270 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
- Moanavoth
Planning applications on this parcel
14 Jul 2025Conditional
alterations and extension to existing dwelling, new domestic garage, new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 2560200
8 Jul 2025N/a
alterations and extension to existing dwelling, new domestic garage, new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560195
13 Mar 2020N/a
the development of a storage shed and yard and all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2091
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
- 89.8 ha
- 222 acres
- Land parcels
- 43
- registered freehold, median 6,062 m² (0.61 ha, 1.5 acres)
- Zoning
- P1
- Agriculture
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moanavoth, from 253 m² to 117,201 m² (11.72 ha, 28.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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
- P1Agriculture
Carlow County Development Plan 2022 - 2028 Rathvilly Small Town Plan, Carlow · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space and Amenity (Open space, park)
Carlow County Development Plan 2022 - 2028 Rathvilly Small Town Plan, Carlow · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - O1Strategic Reserve (Strategic reserve, White land)
Carlow County Development Plan 2022 - 2028 Rathvilly Small Town Plan, Carlow · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
Carlow County Development Plan 2022 - 2028 Rathvilly Small Town Plan, Carlow · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
31 Jul 2025N/a
new private dwelling with detached garage, site entrance, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, and all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560221
14 Jul 2025Conditional
alterations and extension to existing dwelling, new domestic garage, new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 2560200
8 Jul 2025N/a
alterations and extension to existing dwelling, new domestic garage, new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560195
13 Mar 2020N/a
the development of a storage shed and yard and all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2091
7 Feb 2017Conditional
Permission for the construction of a storey and a half type dwelling , garage, septic tank and raised polishing filter, new entrance, connection to services and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 1731
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 Moanavoth.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Moanavoth.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moanavoth.
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 Moanavoth, 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 Moanavoth.
- 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 Moanavoth with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.
The townland
- Name
- Moanavoth · Móin na bhFód
- Area
- 897,862 m² (89.79 ha, 221.87 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathvilly, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rathvilly
- Electoral division
- Rathvilly, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 931 people lived in 338 households in the Rathvilly electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyoliver, Coole, Knockroe, Lisnevagh, Rathvilly, Williamstown
- Placenames
- Moanavoth 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.