Monelty

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monelty, from 185 m² to 98,923 m² (9.89 ha, 24.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Monelty 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 Mar 2026Conditional

  for (1) the erection of a detached steel-framed gym building, and (2) the erection of a detached steel-framed storage shed

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 2660113

• 29 Jul 2020Conditional

  to retain the following; (1) 2 No. as constructed poultry houses (total floor area of 1,086m2), with associated underground washing holding tanks, concrete aprons and meal silos; and (2) revised location and extended floor area for previously approved poultry house (previous planning Reg. No. 14/88)

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 20319

• 20 Dec 2019Conditional

  construct 1 no. poultry house with associated site works, underground washing holding tanks, concrete aprons and meal silos. The application relates to a development which is for the purpose of an activity requiring a licence under Part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency Acts 1994 - 2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) will be submitted with this planning application

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19521

• 26 Mar 2019Conditional

  to erect a new dormer bungalow, proprietary sewerage treatment system, detached domestic garage, entrance gates and piers, previously granted under 08/312. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19119

• 26 Sept 2018Conditional

  to erect fully serviced single storey extension to the side and rear of existing dwelling, alterations to existing entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18394

• 9 May 2018Conditional

  to retain (1) revised site boundaries and site layout, (2) diversion to existing water stream and all ancillary site works to previously approved planning ref. 15/71

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 18185

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 Monelty.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Monelty.

Architectural heritage

• St Bridget's Roman Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1980–1985 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Modern Roman Catholic church on elongated hexagonal-plan, built 1983, arranged symmetrically with tall triangular lantern elements over altar on long east side and in larger canted version on opposite side over separate sacristy and entrance block to front. Shallow multiple pitched slate roof rising to apex with continuous projecting slate-hung parapet band, metal rainwater goods. Slate clad vertical wedge-shaped lanterns with side glazing. Rock-faced dressed sandstone wall cladding, roughly coursed over a plain rendered plinth. Band of clerestory windows below roof to four faces, tall narrow lights over continuous sills with stained glass on short faces beside side entrances. Roughcast rendered walls to entrance block having rows of vertical format windows over continuous sills. Interior space arranged to focus on altar on long east wall. Multiple-faceted sloping polished timber ceiling resting on square-profile wall columns. Large diagonally-sheeted timber-clad light well over altar. Cry chapel to north and confessional to south end. Timber bench seating canted and focussed on altar area. Steps to raised altar area. Boiler house with hipped slate roof and rendered stack and rendered walls to site. Freestanding stone clad belfry to south-west. Roughcast rendered boundary walls with piers.

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 Monelty, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Monelty with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Monelty

Area

650,949 m² (65.09 ha, 160.85 acres)

Civil parish

Larah, and its townlands

Barony

Tullygarvey

Electoral division

Larah South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

507 people lived in 173 households in the Larah South electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cordingin, Drumgur, Drumminick, Killycrone, Larah, Longfield

Placenames

Monelty 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.