Moanmehill
Townland in the civil parish of Kilgrant, barony of Iffa and Offa East, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Móin Mhichíl
- Area
- 31.3 ha
- 77 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 2,204 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moanmehill, from 270 m² to 49,625 m² (4.96 ha, 12.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Clonmel and Environs Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Tipperary · 18 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Community Services and Infrastructure (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Clonmel and Environs Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Tipperary · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G5Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Clonmel and Environs Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Tipperary · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G4Open Space & Recreation (Active open space)
Clonmel and Environs Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Tipperary · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M5Mixed Use (Other mix of uses)
Clonmel and Environs Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Tipperary · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
11 Dec 2025Conditional
a new car parking area with 22 no. car parking spaces (including 1 no. disabled parking space and 5 no. electric vehicle (EV) charging stations); associated surrounding concrete footpath and pedestrian crossing points; site drainage works; site lighting; and a 2.4m high security fence with auto gates enclosing the new car park and an existing office building
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2561283
20 Nov 2025Conditional
alteration and extension of existing single storey house, complete with external works, including a new driveway and alterations to the road entrance within the site curtilage
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 25233
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Suir SAC 002137
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Moanmehill.
Architectural heritage
- Saint Patrick's Cemetery, church/chapel, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Detached south-facing gable-fronted Gothic Revival mortuary chapel, one of pair of such chapels in cemetery, built 1886, with five-bay side elevations and lower single-bay sacristy projection to west elevation. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge crestings, cut and dressed limestone chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods, limestone copings and crosses to gables, timber eaves course and having timber bargeboards to sacristy. Snecked sandstone walls with cut limestone and sandstone plinth, having cut limestone quoins and platbands to gables, and chamfered cut limestone block-and-start surrounds to openings. Trefoil-headed window openings with cast-iron coloured quarry-glass glazing, and triple-lancet pointed arch window to rear with limestone hood moulding and dressed sandstone and limestone voussoirs. Cinquefoil window opening to gable-front with coloured glass, limestone hood moulding and alternating cut sandstone and limestone voussoirs. Pointed arch door opening with timber battened double doors with ornate strap hinges, limestone step, limestone hood moulding and alternating dressed limestone and sandstone voussoirs. Cemetery to site.
- Saint Patrick's Cemetery, church/chapel, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Detached south-facing gable-fronted Gothic Revival former mortuary chapel, one of pair of such chapels in cemetery, built 1886, now in use as outbuilding, with polygonal apse to north end and single-bay single-storey vestry projection to east. Pitched slate roof with decorative banding, rounded to north, with terracotta ridge crestings, limestone coping, timber eaves course, limestone and cast-iron crosses to front and rear and having decorative timber bargeboards and projecting roughly-dressed and cut limestone and sandstone chimneystack to vestry. Snecked sandstone walls with cut limestone and sandstone plinth, having cut limestone quoins and platbands to gable-front. Chamfered limestone block-and-start surrounds to openings. Pointed arch windows, two-light to apse, triple-lancet with alternating cut limestone and sandstone voussoirs to front elevation and square-headed two-light to vestry, all having coloured lattice and quarry glass cast-iron windows. Pointed arch entrance opening with timber battened double doors with ornate strap hinges and limestone steps, flanked by two pointed arch side-light windows, all under continuous limestone hood moulding and having alternating cut limestone and sandstone voussoirs.
- Saint Patrick's Cemetery, building misc, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Detached L-plan two-bay two-storey Tudor Revival sexton's house, dated 1886, with advanced gable-fronted end bay and remains of three-bay single-storey addition to rear. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge crestings, having dragon finials to gables, chamfered limestone chimneystack, timber eaves course, decorative timber bargeboards to gables and cast-iron rainwater goods. Snecked sandstone walls with dressed limestone quoins and cast-iron date plaque. Chamfered cut limestone block-and-start surrounds and alternate dressed limestone and sandstone relieving arches to openings. Square-headed, mainly mullioned-and-transomed two- and three-light windows, larger windows having coloured lattice glazing to upper parts. Square-headed openings to rear with red brick block-and-start surrounds, one with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash window and stone sill, one with replacement timber door. Square-headed door opening to front with shouldered architrave, chamfered lintel, replacement timber door and limestone step.
- Saint Patrick's Cemetery, gates/railings/walls, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Snecked sandstone boundary walls to cemetery, erected in 1886, with ashlar limestone piers having moulded plinths and cornices and decoratively-carved pyramidal limestone caps with finials, decorative cast-iron gates and railings and limestone wheelguard.
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
- About 1 in 5 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; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Moanmehill.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Moanmehill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Moanmehill · Móin Mhichíl
- Area
- 312,827 m² (31.28 ha, 77.3 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilgrant, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iffa and Offa East
- Electoral division
- Clonmel Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Clonmel Rural electoral division: 5,750 people in 2,019 households; 70% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Burgagery-Lands East, Croan Lower, Croan Lower (Co. Waterford), Ferryhouse, Glenalemy, Gurtnafleur, Kilgainy Lower (Co. Waterford), Laganore, Moangarriff
- Placenames
- Moanmehill 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.