Mountwilliam
Mountwilliam is a townland in the civil parish of Kilfeakle, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is Moin Liam.
- Area
- 37.2 ha
- 92 acres
- Land parcels
- 5
- registered freehold, median 5,224 m² (0.52 ha, 1.29 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountwilliam, from 1,902 m² to 236,716 m² (23.67 ha, 58.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Mountwilliam 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
16 Mar 2022Conditional
to (i) to convert existing garage to residential space to form part of the overall extended dwelling (ii)to extend the existing dwelling (iii) to construct a new waste water treatment system – and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 22227
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 Mountwilliam.
Recorded monuments
- TS059-084 Enclosure
Description
In improved pasture, on a naturally high area with good views in all directions. Enclosure identified on an aerial photograph (GSI 16-04-1974, R. 43615). An oval area (dims. c. 26m NNW-SSE; 40m ENE-WSW) truncated by the remains of an old field boundary across the N sector which survives as an extant boundary (Wth 3.75m; int. H 0.5m; ext H 2.3m) at the W end and as a steep scarp (Wth 1.7m; H 1.5m) at the E end. It is defined by a levelled scarp (Wth 5m; H 0.3m) from ENE-ESE and S-W and is levelled from ESE-S. The interior has a very gentle S-facing slope. A farmyard, cut deeply into the hillslope, is located c. 15m to the SE. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mountwilliam.
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 Mountwilliam, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mountwilliam.
- 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
No address of the register names Mountwilliam with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Mountwilliam · Moin Liam
- Area
- 371,657 m² (37.17 ha, 91.84 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilfeakle, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Electoral division
- Kilfeakle, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 500 people lived in 175 households in the Kilfeakle electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clonlusk, Clonmaine, Drishane, Grantstown, Kilfeakle
- Placenames
- Mountwilliam 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.