Moneen
Moneen is a townland in the civil parish of Kilgeever, barony of Murrisk, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is An Móinín.
Parcel 955780
- Area
- 3,413 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 168 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Moneen
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_84 (ZIP).
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 63 ha
- 156 acres
- Land parcels
- 109
- registered freehold, median 1,995 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
109 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moneen, from 0 m² to 64,131 m² (6.41 ha, 15.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Moneen 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
23 Feb 2026Conditional
Alterations and extension to existing family dwelling house with associated ancillary site works and landscaping
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660137
29 Sept 2025Conditional
Permission for development at this site Moneen, Louisburgh, Co. Mayo. The proposed development will consist of the construction of a dwelling and garage, upgrade of existing vehicular access point with proprietary waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560683
29 Apr 2025Conditional
replace the existing septic tank with a new proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area along with all associated services
Permission · Mayo County Council, 25162
28 Apr 2025Conditional
construct a revised access road to the dwelling house constructed under planning reference P23/555 together with associated site services
Permission · Mayo County Council, 25161
6 Jun 2024Conditional
Construct a private dwelling house, domestic garage and effluent treatment system together with all ancillary site works.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2460343
28 May 2024Conditional
change of use of an existing shed (P21/313) to use as residential accommodation ancillary to the family home and for the construction of a proprietary effluent treatment system
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 24196
2 Oct 2023Conditional
construct dwelling house and domestic garage with connection to existing public services together with associated site services
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 23555
6 Sept 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT PRIVATE DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21951
22 Apr 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING COTTAGE, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE SERVICES ON LANDS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 21374
7 Apr 2021Conditional
PLANNING PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A SHED
Permission · Mayo County Council, 21313
15 Apr 2019Conditional
1. Demolish existing sunroom and construct new extensions to the side and rear of the existing dwelling house, including internal layout modifications. 2. Retain existing detached self-contained dwelling unit. 3. Upgrade the existing effluent treatment system and percolation area
Permission · Mayo County Council, 19259
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Moneen.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Moneen.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moneen.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Moneen, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_98 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Moneen, Louisburgh11 sales
The townland
- Name
- Moneen · An Móinín
- Area
- 629,854 m² (62.99 ha, 155.64 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilgeever, and its townlands
- Barony
- Murrisk
- Electoral division
- Louisburgh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,117 people lived in 446 households in the Louisburgh electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 34% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balloor, Carrowclaggan, Kilgeever, Oldhead, Srahnashasky
- Placenames
- Moneen 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.