Moneylea

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moneylea, from 1,320 m² to 137,435 m² (13.74 ha, 33.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Moneylea 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.

• 26 May 2026Conditional

  Permission for the proposed construction of 1 no. bell-mouth entrance with access road to facilitate access into the existing forestry plantation for the removal of timber, together with all ancillary works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660256

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 Moneylea.

Recorded monuments

• RO021-042003 Souterrain
  Description

  On a short NE-SW ridge (L c. 100m; Wth c. 30m; H 3-4m), c. 30m SW of ring-barrow (RO021-042004-). A quarry-hole (diam. 3m; D 0.8m) exposes some lintels, and further lintels can be seen extending to the SE (L c. 4m), but the souterrain is inaccessible. The segment of road (RO021-042005-) is c. 140m to the SE. (Knox 1914a, 14-16; Herity 1983, 130; Waddell 1983, 37) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO021-042004 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  On the crest of a short NE-SW ridge (L c. 100m; Wth c. 30m; H c. 3-4m). D-shaped grass-covered mound (dims of base 5.5m N-S; c. 3m E-W; H 0.3m) defined by a fosse (Wth of top c. 4m; max. D 0.3m) which is most clearly seen at NE and SW (max. ext. dim. 13.3m NE-SW), but at SE and NW it merges into the slope of the ridge. Souterrain (RO021-042003-) is c. 30m to the SW and the segment of road (RO021-042006-) is c. 140m to the SE. Little Rathbeg (RO022-056016-) is c. 250m to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO021-042005 Linear earthwork
  Description

  On a level landscape. Aerial photographs (CUCCAP: AJN 100; UCG 167) show a stretch of ground (L c. 100m; Wth c. 10m) running E-W defined by earthen banks (Wth c. 5-8m; H 1-2m) at N and S. It is no longer visible at ground level in reclaimed pasture. Barrow (RO021-042002-) and souterrain (RO021-042003-) are c. 140m to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-056016 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  On a knoll towards the N edge of the Rathcroghan plateau, and enclosed within a farmyard. Described as an earthen mound (diam. c. 7m; H c. 0.9m) separated by a fosse from an earthen bank (Wth c. 1.8m) with traces of an outer fosse (max. ext. diam. c. 18m) (Knox 1911, 234-5). It is now a circular scrub-covered mound (diam. c. 14m E-W; c. 13m N-S; H c. 1m) confined by silage pits and animal pens excavated into the ground around it to the W and N (D c. 1.5m) and with a laneway to the E. Rathmore (RO022-056-017-) is c. 160m to the ENE, and ring-barrow (RO021-042004-) is c. 250m to the W. (Herity 1983, 130; 1984, 134 Moneylea 2; Waddell 1983, 37, No. 27) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Moneylea, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Moneylea with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Moneylea

Area

955,630 m² (95.56 ha, 236.14 acres)

Civil parish

Elphin, and its townlands

Barony

Roscommon

Electoral division

Bellanagare, the unit of the census

Census 2022

693 people lived in 279 households in the Bellanagare electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyconboy, Glenballythomas, Rathnallog, Toberrory

Placenames

Moneylea 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.