Monarche Commons

64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monarche Commons, from 144 m² to 210,338 m² (21.03 ha, 51.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Monarche Commons 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.

• 2 Aug 2024Conditional

  for the renovation and extension at Monarche Commons, Callan, Co. Kilkenny, a Protected Structure (Ref: C827). To include the demolition of an existing flat roof extension to the rear of the thatched cottage and the construction of a new rear extension containing new sanitary facilities. The change of use and extension to an adjacent existing stone store to accommodate a home office and guest bedroom. The removal of a farm outbuilding. Solar panel array to existing outbuilding roof. A new waste water treatment system, to include all site and ancillary works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460369

• 29 Nov 2023Conditional

  for proposed works to our existing dwelling. The works include modifications to existing front elevation, construction of extension to side and conversion of existing attached garage to habitable space together with all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2360547

• 5 May 2022Conditional

  to erect a loose house for calves, farmyard manure pit, soiled water tank and ancillary concrete works on my lands

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 22288

• 20 Apr 2022N/a

  to erect a loose house for calves, farmyard manure pit, soiled water tank and ancillary concrete works on my lands

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 22262

• 14 Dec 2021N/a

  to construct a 1 & 1/2 storey dwelling, garage, entrance, wastewater system, connection to mains water, soakpits and all other associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 211018

• 16 Nov 2020Conditional

  to construct a two storey dwelling house, single storey domestic garage, provision of a new treatment plant and percolation area, new borehole well, new vehicular site entrance and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 20783

• 13 Oct 2020Unconditional

  of Planning Permission Reference P15/370

  Extension of duration · Kilkenny County Council, 20688

• 27 Sept 2019N/a

  Extension of duration for planning permission P.15/370

  Extension of duration · Kilkenny County Council, 19695

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Monarche Commons.

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched farmhouse, c.1800, with entrance windbreak. Extended, c.1875, comprising single-bay single-storey end bay with dormer attic to right. Part reroofed, c.1950. Hipped roof with water reed thatch having rope work to ridge, and red brick Running bond chimney stack. Pitched roof to end bay with replacement corrugate-asbestos, c.1950, clay ridge tiles, rendered coping, and no rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted roughcast walls over random rubble limestone construction with dressed limestone quoins to corners, and painted rendered walls to windbreak. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with glazed timber panelled door. Set back from road in own grounds. (ii) Attached two-bay single-storey outbuilding, c.1850. Reroofed, c.1975. Pitched roof with painted replacement corrugated-iron, c.1975, iron ridge, rendered coping, and no rainwater goods. Painted (limewashed) random rubble stone walls. Square-headed door openings with lintels, and timber boarded doors. (iii) Detached single-bay single-storey outbuilding, c.1875. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Random rubble limestone walls with dressed limestone quoins to corners. Square-headed door opening with lintel, and timber boarded door.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3420 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Monarche Commons with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Monarche Commons · Móin Áirse

Area

1,567,175 m² (156.72 ha, 387.26 acres)

Civil parish

Callan, and its townlands

Barony

Callan

Electoral division

Callan Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Callan Rural electoral division: 1,932 people in 628 households; 82% of households own their home; 51% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ahanure North, Attateenoe Upper, Baunreagh, Bigmeadow, Boherawarraga, Broadmore, Cappahenry, Cappahenry East, Crossoge, Curkacrone, Graiguesmeadow, Kyleadohir, Moanmore Commons, Physicianstown, Slade, Whitesland

Placenames

Monarche Commons 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.