Monageela
Townland in the civil parish of Ardmore, barony of Decies Within Drum, Co. Waterford; in Irish Móin Ó gCaoilte
- Area
- 179.7 ha
- 444 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 17,656 m² (1.77 ha, 4.36 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monageela, from 2,418 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres) to 60,642 m² (6.06 ha, 14.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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
No zone of a development plan covers Monageela 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
13 Jul 2026Conditional
Construct a New Single storey Dwelling together with new entrance, bore well, septic tank, percolation area and ancillary site works.
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2660517
9 Mar 2026Conditional
the Development (to be called Knocknamona Windfarm 2026) will consist of the following elements: a) Windfarm of eight (8) wind turbines within an overall tip height of 159m (in the same location and with a 4m higher tip height, than the 8 No. turbines previously authorized in 2022 under reference 309412-21). The turbine rotor diameter size within the range 133m to 138m inclusive; turbine hub height within the range 90m to 92.5m inclusive – all within an overall tip height of 159m. b) Construction of 8 No. turbine foundations and adjacent hard-core crane hardstandings. There are minor changes to the alignment of some hardstandings, to those previously authorised. c) A Windfarm Substation compound including two control buildings and outdoor electrical equipment and apparatus. The windfarm substation is in the same location and is larger than previously authorised. d) Windfarm site access roads comprising widening and upgrading of 6.8km of existing forestry roads and construction of 1.2km of new access roads. The proposed site access roads involve some realignment to those previously authorised. e) One (1) 90m lattice tower mast with meteorological equipment attached, in the same location and 9m lower than previously authorised. f) Felling of 29.8ha of commercial forestry. g) Underground cabling linking the wind turbines and meteorological mast to the Windfarm Substation; and h) All ancillary, associated and facilitating works and activities including widening of an existing forestry entrance to create the main windfarm entrance at Knocknaglogh Lower; a surface water drainage system; two temporary borrow pits and a temporary site compound. i) This application is seeking a ten-year permission and a 35-year operational period from date of commissioning of the Windfarm. This development is a Windfarm Renewable Energy Directive III (RED III) Development. This development is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive (EU ) 2023/2413)
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2660139
13 Nov 2020Refused
for amendments to Knocknamona Windfarm previously authorized under An Bord Pleanala Ref No. PL93.244006, Waterford City and County Council Ref. No. 14/600109. The amendments consist of: 1. An increase in the uppermost tip height of the eight previously authorized wind turbines from up to 126 meters to up to 155 meters. 2. Amend the height and design of the previously authorized meteorological mast from a tubular tower mast up to 80m in height to a lattice tower mast up to 99 m in height. The application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report and Appropriate Assessment Reporting
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 20845
5 Oct 2020N/a
for amendments to Knocknamona Windfarm previously authorized under An Bord Pleanala Ref. No. PL93.244006, WCCC Ref. No. 14/600109. The amendments consist of a) An increase in the uppermost tip height of the eight previously authorized wind turbines from up to 126 meters to up to 155 meters. b) Amend the height and design of the previously authorized meteorological mast from a tubular tower mast up to 80m in height to a lattice tower mast up to 99m in height. The application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report and Appropriate Assessment Reporting.
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 20713
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 Monageela.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Monageela.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Monageela.
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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1749 (ZIP).
- 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 Monageela with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.
The townland
- Name
- Monageela · Móin Ó gCaoilte
- Area
- 1,796,877 m² (179.69 ha, 444.02 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Decies Within Drum
- Electoral division
- Mountstuart, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Mountstuart electoral division: 90 people in 28 households; 100% of households own their home; 46% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycullane, Curraheen, Graigue, Killatoor, Knocknaglogh Lower, Knocknamona, Lisgriffin, Woodhouse or Tinakilly
- Placenames
- Monageela 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.