Moonhall

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moonhall, from 733 m² to 465,148 m² (46.51 ha, 114.94 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 Moonhall 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 Apr 2019Conditional

  to construct a two storey dwelling, single storey stables, use of existing entrance and laneway, substantial landscaping, new waste water treatment system and percolation area, new bored well and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 19205

• 7 Aug 2018Refused

  to construct a two storey dwelling, single storey stables and connecting shed to rear courtyard area, use of existing entrance and laneway, substantial landscaping, new waste water treatment system, new bored well and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18529

• 13 Feb 2018Refused

  to construct a two storey dwelling, single storey stables and connecting shed to rear courtyard area, use of existing entrance & laneway, substantial landscaping, new waste water treatment system, new bored well and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 1892

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 Moonhall.

Recorded monuments

• KK020-020 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough pasture. An irregularly shaped curvilinear enclosure (diam. c. 60m), though the E side appears to be relatively straight. A farm track runs roughly N-S along the W edge of the monument. A ringfort (KK020-021----) lies c. 60m to the SSE. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 20 November 2020

• KK020-021 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture. A circular area (diam. c. 36m) defined by a bank, fosse and outer bank. A field boundary runs NE-SW along the edge of the SE quadrant. A larger enclosure (KK020-020----) lies c. 60m to the NNW. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 23 November 2020

• KK020-022001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Midway down an E-facing slope in marshland. This castle is indicated on the Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Gowran, in what was then the townland of 'Grangecoolepople' and on the Down Survey parish map of Teiscoffin (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin). The terrier which accompanied the parish map does not survive so there is no information on who the proprietor was in 1640. A very ruinous rectangular castle (ext. dims. 15.7m NE-SW x 8.5m NW-SE) largely visible as grass-covered wall-footings, with the NW and NE wall-footings of an adjoining annex at the W angle (L 2.6m and 3m respectively). The walls of the main structure have collapsed and slumped outwards (Wth 2m; max. H 1.1m). Where visible, remnants of extant masonry indicate randomly coursed limestone rubble construction. There is an associated well (KK020-022002-), known as 'Castle Well', c. 110m to the SW of castle on the E bank of a stream. The earthworks of a deserted settlement (KK020-022004-) are visible immediately E and S of the castle. See attached: KK020-022001-_01 extract from Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Gowran (Hib. Reg., courtesy of Trinity College Dublin) KK020-022001-_02 extract from Down Survey (1655-6) parish map Teiscoffin in the barony of Gowran (Hib. Reg., courtesy of Trinity College Dublin) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 24 November 2020

• KK020-022002 Well
  Description

  On the E side of a stream in an area of marshland and c. 110m SW of the castle (KK020-022001-) with which it is associated. The ‘Castle Well’ is a natural spring in a muddy hollow hugging the E bank of a fast-flowing stream. It is heavily overgrown with gorse and brambles and there is no evidence that it was stone-lined. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 24 November 2020

• KK020-022003 Enclosure
  Description

  On brow of NE-facing slope in marshland. A raised, partially levelled, subrectangular area (diam. c. 32m) defined in the E sector by a low, denuded bank (max. int. H 0.6m). The interior slopes gently from S to N and is covered in dense overgrowth. This enclosure appears to be part of a larger complex of earthworks associated with a deserted settlement (KK020-022004-) surrounding a castle (KK020-022001-) which lies c. 100m to the N. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 24 November 2020

• KK020-022004 Settlement deserted - medieval
  Description

  On E-facing slope in marshland; bounded by streams on all sides with a pond and well (KK020-022002-)named 'Castle Well' to the SW. The stream to the S could be crossed by a now ruined footbridge. On the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map a large field named 'Castle Field' is indicated, showing a complex of small and large enclosures with a castle (KK020-022001-) in the E portion. Since 1839 this large field was divided roughly in half by a N-S field boundary. The field W of this boundary, which on the 1st ed. contained two large enclosures (dims. c. 100m x 90m; c. 110m x 85m) has been reclaimed and though visible on satellite imagery, these enclosures appear to have been levelled. The field E of the boundary remains largely undisturbed and contains a series of low rectangular and linear earthworks to the E and S of the castle. A total of four rectangular enclosures could be identified at ground level. Adjoining castle to E, the largest enclosure (dims. 14.2m N-S x 13.8m E-W) is levelled with only grassed-over wall-footings of earth and stone traceable. To the SE of the castle a smaller enclosure (dims. 6m E-W x 5.2m N-S), also reduced to wall-footings, can be discerned with a larger enclosure extending at a right angle to its S wall (dims. 12.4m E-W x 5.6m N-S). Both the above are flanked to S by a smaller enclosure (dims. 10.3m E-W x 5.6m N-S). Four linear earthworks, possible components of former enclosures, extend downslope to the E of the castle towards a stream. Another enclosure (KK020-022003-) is located along the S edge of the Castle Field and there are further enclosures (KK020-0116-; KK020-117----; KK020-023----) in the field immediately to the SE and two (KK020-020----; KK020-021----) in the field immediately SW of the original Castle Field. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 24 November 2020

• KK020-023 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture. A roughly circular enclosure (diam. 46-50m) defined by a fosse. There is a slightly smaller circular enclosure (KK020-117----) adjoining to the NW and another (KK020-116----) immediately W of and adjoin the latter. All three are located immediately SE of a castle (KK020-022001-) and associated deserted settlement (KK020-022004-). On the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map a field boundary is indicated running roughly ESE-WNW through the N perimeter of the monument, this field boundary had been removed by the 1900 revision. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 24 November 2020

• KK020-116 Enclosure
  Description

  A roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m N-S; c. 33m E-W) visible on Google Earth (imagery date 14 July 2018), identified and reported by Simon Dowling. Another enclosure (KK020-117---) conjoins to the E, and this latter enclosure is itself conjoined with a ringfort (KK020-023----) to the SE. Though the enclosure is indicated on the 1st ed. OS map, a field boundary, running roughly E-W, kinks to respect the N quadrant of the enclosure. See attached Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 22 January 2020

• KK020-117 Enclosure
  Description

  A roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m N-S; c. 40m E-W) visible on Google Earth (imagery date 14 July 2018), identified and reported by Simon Dowling. Another enclosure (KK020-116---) conjoins to the W and a ringfort (KK020-023----) conjoins to the SE. Though the enclosure is indicated on the 1st ed. OS map, a field boundary, running roughly E-W, kinks to respect the N quadrant of the enclosure. See attached Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 22 January 2020

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moonhall.

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 Moonhall, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Moonhall with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Moonhall · Móin Hál

Area

638,121 m² (63.81 ha, 157.68 acres)

Civil parish

Tiscoffin, and its townlands

Barony

Gowran

Electoral division

Clara, the unit of the census

Census 2022

756 people lived in 205 households in the Clara electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Blanchvillespark, Coolgrange, Grangehill

Placenames

Moonhall 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.