Monroe

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monroe, from 1,826 m² to 254,207 m² (25.42 ha, 62.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 6 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.

• S5Social and Public (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 30 May 2018Conditional

  a new cow cubicle shed with slatted waste storage and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600675

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 Monroe.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Monroe.

Architectural heritage

• Catholic Church of Saint Laurence O'Toole, church/chapel, 1805–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding T-plan Catholic church, built c.1840, and containing elements of eartlier church of 1806, with two-bay nave and transepts and later lower sacristy to east with relocated bellcote, and porch to west. Pitched artificial slate roof. Pebbledashed walls, with rubble limestone exposed around window openings and at quoins, with date plaques set into south gable. Pointed-arch window openings with dressed limestone voussoirs, traceried timber sliding sash six-over-six pane windows and having stained glass to each side of east, altar, end. Fixed windows with Y-tracery to transept gables. Pointed-arch former door opening in east gable now containing recessed window. Dressed limestone bellcote with cross finial. Four-centred-arch doorways to porch and to west walls of transepts, with replacement glazed timber doors. Redecorated and remodelled interior has tabernacle in recess flanked by paired pilasters supporting entablature and open-bed pediment.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, with projecting porch to front and windbreak to rear. Pitched slate roof with stone eaves brackets, and exposed brick and rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls, with render quoins, plinth and plat-band. Square-headed window with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to front and replacement uPVC to rear, having stone sills. Flat-roof porch with moulded eaves dentils and cornice, fixed and tripartite windows and having timber panelled door. Single-storey with loft rubble limestone outbuilding to west, forming courtyard with house. Rendered boundary wall with rendered piers and wrought iron vehicular and pedestrian gates and rubble limestone garden wall to east with dressed stone piers and 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 Monroe, about 1 in 10 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 Monroe.

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

Name

Monroe · An Mhóin Rua

Area

257,336 m² (25.73 ha, 63.59 acres)

Civil parish

Inch, and its townlands

Barony

Eliogarty

Electoral division

Inch, the unit of the census

Census 2022

407 people lived in 148 households in the Inch electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annfield, Clehile, Inch, Pollagh

Placenames

Monroe 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.