Monkstown
Townland in the civil parish of Inishlounaght, barony of Iffa and Offa East, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Baile na Manach
- Area
- 43.4 ha
- 107 acres
- Land parcels
- 3
- registered freehold, median 50,746 m² (5.07 ha, 12.54 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- Environs
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monkstown, from 2,481 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres) to 381,081 m² (38.11 ha, 94.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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
- P5Environs (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Clonmel and Environs Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Tipperary · 14 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C6Employment (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses)
Clonmel and Environs Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Tipperary · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G5Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Clonmel and Environs Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Tipperary · 0 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
31 May 2021Conditional
a slatted tank and roofless cubiles and all associated site works. Retention Permission is sought indefinitely for a silage slab and a 1.8m high wall enclosing same
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 21787
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 Monkstown.
Recorded monuments
- TS082-109 Enclosure
Description
In tillage. A roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) identified as a cropmark on Apple Maps satellite imagery (no date) by Jean-Charles Caillère. See attached photograph: TS082-109----_01 Image © Apple Maps satellite imagery (no date) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 8 January 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Monkstown.
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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Monkstown.
- 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 Monkstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Monkstown · Baile na Manach
- Area
- 434,356 m² (43.44 ha, 107.33 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inishlounaght, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iffa and Offa East
- Electoral division
- Inishlounaght, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Inishlounaght electoral division: 3,489 people in 1,248 households; 77% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballingarrane, Ballingarrane North, Barn Demesne, Brunswick, Glenconnor, Kiltegan
- Placenames
- Monkstown 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.