Monksgrange

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monksgrange, from 157 m² to 738,056 m² (73.81 ha, 182.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 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 Monksgrange 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.

• 27 May 2024Conditional

  the construction of an extension to the rear of the dwelling house and for additional roof windows on the existing roof elevation, all with associated site works. RETENTION PERMISSION for (1) the attic conversion including roof windows; (2) the location of the dwelling, the septic tank and percolation area; (3) the as constructed garage (all from that previously granted planning permission under planning reference number 00/400) with all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460409

• 23 Dec 2020Conditional

  construction of a single storey dwelling, domestic garage, a wastewater management/treatment system and all associated site works and services.

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 201591

• 16 Jul 2020Conditional

  construction of a new partial single storey, partial dormer storey dwelling with detached garage, packaged waste water treatment system, vehicular entrance and associated site boundary and site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 20780

• 2 Jul 2020N/a

  construction of a new partial single storey, partial dormer storey dwelling with detached garage, packaged waste water treatment system, vehicular entrance and associated site boundary and site development works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 20691

• 5 Jul 2018Conditional

  to retain indefinitely a domestic garage and separate dog kennels on our site

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 18600857

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 Monksgrange.

Recorded monuments

• TS082-044 Enclosure
  Description

  Towards the summit of a gradual NE-facing slope in undulating terrain. The field has been recently ploughed. The enclosure is marked on the 1st (1840) ed. 6-inch OS map as an irregular, roughly D-shaped enclosure and on the 2nd (1904-5) ed. OS 6-inch map as a D-shaped platform (diam. c. 32m N-S; c. 39m E-W) surrounded by a fosse. It is indicated as a D-shaped cropmark in a tillage field on aerial photograph (ASIAP (28) 19-20) with an indication of a possible internal feature. There is no visible trace of the monument above ground. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 04 February 2014 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 5/1957).

• TS082-047001 Enclosure
  Description

  On a natural rise in undulating terrain. Depicted as an oval enclosure (dims. c. 28m N-S; c. 34m E-W) surrounded by a single bank on the 1904-5 ed. OS 6-inch map. There is no visible trace of the enclosure above ground. It is visible as a circular cropmark on aerial photographs (CUCAP July 1970 BDR 77; ASIAP (28) 25-27). Two other smaller circular cropmarks are also visible on this aerial photograph, one c. 70m to the NW (TS082-047002-), the other c. 120m to the NE (TS082-047003-). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 04 February 2014

• TS082-047002 Enclosure
  Description

  Towards the base of a SW-facing slope in undulating terrain. A circular cropmark identified on an aerial photograph (CUCAP July 1970 BDR and ASIAP (28) 25-27, 03-08-1996). The field has been recently ploughed. There is no visible trace of the enclosure above ground. The aerial photograph also indicates the presence of two other circular cropmark enclosures, one (TS082-047001-) c. 70m to the SW and the other (TS082-047003-) to the E. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 04 February 2014

• TS082-047003 Enclosure
  Description

  Circular cropmark identified on an aerial photographs (CUCAP July 1970 BDR 77; ASIAP (28) 25-27). Located towards the base of a SW-facing slope in very undulating terrain. The field has been recently ploughed. No visible trace of the enclosure above ground. Two other circular enclosures were identified on the aerial photograph (CUCAP July 1970 BDR 77), a larger enclosure c. 70m to NW (TS082-047002-) and another c. 120m to SW (TS082-047001-). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS082-048 Enclosure
  Description

  On ground sloping generally to the SE in very undulating terrain. Identified as a sub-rectangular cropmark on an aerial photograph (CUCAP July 1970 BDR 76), with a possible entrance in the E quadrant. The field has been recently ploughed. There is no visible trace of the enclosure above ground. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 04 February 2014

• TS082-060 Enclosure
  Description

  On a gradual N-facing slope in undulating pasture. Enclosure is partially visible as a slight rise and dip indicating the former bank and fosse in the N quadrant. A field boundary runs NW-SE along the outer edge of the E quadrant. The field boundary which ran N-S along the outer edge of the monument’s W quadrant has been removed. The monument is depicted as a D-shaped enclosure (dims. 34m N-S; S side being straight L c. 36m) on the 1st (1840) ed. 6-inch OS map and on the 1904-5 ed. it is depicted as an oval enclosure (diam. c. 31m N-S; c. 37m E-W) enclosed by a wide fosse which is truncated in the W and NE quadrants by a field boundary. On an aerial photograph (CUCAP July 1970 BDR 95) the site is visible as a sub-rectangular cropmark. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 10 February 2014

Architectural heritage

• Worker's house, 1850–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached two- or three-bay single-storey worker's house with dormer attic, c.1875, on a rectangular plan with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting open porch. Now disused. One of a pair. Pitched slate roof; pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles, paired red brick Running bond central chimney stacks having corbelled stepped stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta octagonal pots, decorative timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and cast-iron rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Lime rendered walls. Square-headed door opening with overgrown threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber boarded door. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings with red brick header bond hood mouldings framing pivot fittings having square glazing bars. Square-headed window opening in bipartite arrangement (gable) with cut-limestone sill, and concealed red brick block-and-start surround framing pivot fittings having square glazing bars. Square-headed window opening (north) with cut-limestone sill, and concealed dressings framing pivot fitting having square glazing bars. Set back from line of road on a corner site with piers to perimeter supporting looped wrought iron gate.

• Worker's house, 1850–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached two- or three-bay single-storey worker's house with dormer attic, c.1875, on a rectangular plan with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting open porch. Now disused. One of a pair. Pitched slate roof; pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles, paired red brick Running bond central chimney stacks having corbelled stepped stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta octagonal pots, decorative timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and cast-iron rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Lime rendered walls. Square-headed door opening with overgrown threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber boarded door. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings with red brick header bond hood mouldings framing pivot fittings having square glazing bars. Square-headed window opening in bipartite arrangement (gable) with cut-limestone sill, and concealed red brick block-and-start surround framing pivot fittings having square glazing bars. Square-headed window opening (north) with cut-limestone sill, and concealed dressings framing pivot fitting having square glazing bars. Set back from line of road on a corner site with piers to perimeter supporting looped wrought iron gate.

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 Monksgrange, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Monksgrange with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Monksgrange · Gráinseach na Manach

Area

1,679,007 m² (167.9 ha, 414.89 acres)

Civil parish

Inishlounaght, and its townlands

Barony

Iffa and Offa East

Electoral division

Tullaghmelan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,116 people lived in 399 households in the Tullaghmelan electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coole, Garryntemple, Knocklofty Demesne, Nicholastown, Park

Placenames

Monksgrange 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.