Monroe West
Townland in the civil parish of Ballybacon, barony of Iffa and Offa West, Co. Tipperary; in Irish An Mhóin Rua Thiar
- Area
- 31.2 ha
- 77 acres
- Land parcels
- 4
- registered freehold, median 73,895 m² (7.39 ha, 18.26 acres)
- Zoning
- R1
- New Residential
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monroe West, from 13,378 m² (1.34 ha, 3.31 acres) to 150,701 m² (15.07 ha, 37.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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
- R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1Employment and Enterprise (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, 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
8 Dec 2021Refused
to erect a 30m high lattice telecommunications support structure together with antennas, dishes and associated telecommunications equipment all enclosed in security fencing with an extension to an existing access track
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 211768
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 Monroe West.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Monroe West.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Monroe West.
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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Monroe West.
- 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 Monroe West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Monroe West · An Mhóin Rua Thiar
- Area
- 311,732 m² (31.17 ha, 77.03 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballybacon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iffa and Offa West
- Electoral division
- Ardfinnan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ardfinnan electoral division: 1,178 people in 453 households; 81% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Gormanstown, Kilballygorman, Ladysabbey
- Placenames
- Monroe West 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.