Mountcongreve

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Mountcongreve, from 317,997 m² (31.8 ha, 78.58 acres) to 317,997 m² (31.8 ha, 78.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• C5TM (Tourism and related)
  WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 17 Oct 2025Conditional

  the construction of 2 no. Padel tennis courts, complete with artificial grass surface, 4m high fencing around sections of the Padel courts perimeter and 6m high lighting posts and all other ancillary site works. The proposed site is within the curtilage of a Protected Structure.

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2560738

• 23 Dec 2021Conditional

  construct a single-storey dwelling and garage, together with landscaping, sewage treatment plant and percolation area, borehole, driveway and ancillary site works. The proposed development will be accessed via the existing farm entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 211223

• 27 Feb 2020Conditional

  to replace wing walls and entrance to achieve sight lines at farm entrance and to construct a cattle underpass beneath the public road L4410, adjacent to this farm entrance and together with associated site works

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 20114

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Suir SAC 002137

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mountcongreve.

Architectural heritage

• Mount Congreve, house, 1730–1770 · National interest
  Description

  Detached thirteen-bay two- and three-storey over basement Classical-style house, c.1750, on a Palladian plan comprising seven-bay three-storey central block with three-bay two-storey advanced flanking end bays, three-bay two-storey side elevations, seven-bay three-storey Garden (north) Front having three-bay three-storey breakfront, and three-bay two-storey flanking end bays extending into single-bay single-storey curved wings terminating in single-bay single-storey pavilions on ovoid plans. Extensively renovated and remodelled, 1965 – 1969, with single-bay three-storey shallow bowed advanced entrance bay added to Entrance (south) Front. Hipped slate roof on a quadrangular plan behind parapets with rolled copper ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks on axis with ridge, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Shallow copper-clad dome to bowed entrance bay. Conical slate roofs to pavilions behind parapets with cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls with rendered friezes having moulded cornices over, and zinc-lined blocking courses to parapets. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills. 3/3 and 9/6 timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening to entrance bay with cut-limestone Ionic doorcase having entablature, frieze, moulded cornice, profiled blocking course, and timber panelled double doors leading to glazed timber panelled double internal doors with decorative overlight. Square-headed door opening to Garden (north) Front with five cut-limestone steps, cut-limestone splayed Ionic doorcase with entablature, moulded surround with double keystone, and 9/9 timber sash French door. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds with gravel forecourt, and landscaped grounds to site.(ii) Pair of detached twelve-bay single-and two-storey outbuildings, c.1750, to east and to west on L-shaped plans about courtyard comprising five-bay single-storey ranges to north with seven-bay two-storey perpendicular blocks to south having three-bay two-storey side (south) elevations. Pitched (single-storey ranges) and hipped (two-storey blocks) slate roofs behind parapets with rolled copper ridge tiles, timber-clad polygonal vents to apexes to two-storey blocks on timber panelled stages with copper-clad domes, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls with round-headed recessed niches to side (south) elevations of two-storey blocks. Ovoid window openings to Garden (north) elevations of single-storey ranges with decorative fixed-pane windows. Round-headed window openings to south elevations of single-storey ranges with 3/6 timber sash windows having decorative fanlights. Square-headed window openings to two-storey blocks (oculus window openings to centre first floor) with cut-stone sills. 6/3 and 6/6 timber sash windows with decorative fixed-pane windows to oculus window openings. Square-headed door openings to two-storey blocks with cut-limestone pilaster doorcases purporting triglyph frieze and broken segmental pediment, moulded shouldered surround, and timber panelled double doors with decorative overlights. Gravel courtyards with painted rendered, ruled and lined screen walls to south having elliptical-headed carriageways with cut-limestone surround having horizontal banded piers, cut-limestone voussoirs, cut-limestone gable over with zinc-lined coping, and wrought iron double gates.

• Mount Congreve, walled garden, 1750–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Walled garden, c.1770, on a wedge-shaped plan. Random rubble stone walls (ivy-clad) with lime mortar, and round-headed pedestrian opening having rendered surround. Set in grounds shared with Mount Congreve.

• Mount Congreve, gate lodge, 1775–1825 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey gate lodge, c.1800, on a T-shaped plan retaining some early fenestration with single-bay single-storey projecting bay to centre. Mostly refenestrated, c.2000. Hipped slate roof on a T-shaped plan with rolled lead ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack, and cast-iron rainwater goods on overhanging rendered eaves. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and cut-limestone surround to projecting bay. Replacement uPVC casement windows, c.2000, retaining some early timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening with glazed timber panelled double door. Set back from road in grounds shared with Mount Congreve,

• Mount Congreve, glass/green house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single- and two-storey glass house, c.1850, comprising single-bay double-height central block (palm house) with single-bay single-storey flanking lateral wings (propagation houses). Hipped glazed roof to central block and pitched glazed roofs to wings in timber frames with timber ridges, louvered timber panelled vent to apex to central block having copper-clad elongated-pyramidal roof over, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings to central block with 36/36 timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with glazed timber panelled double doors. Square-headed window openings to wing with stone sills, and fixed-pane timber windows. Interior with limewashed lime rendered walls, planting beds, and cast-iron water pipes. Set in grounds shared with Mount Congreve in walled garden.

• Mount Congreve, worker's house, 1860–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey head gardener’s house, c.1875, retaining original aspect. Pitched slate roof (gabled to window openings to first floor) with red clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, timber bargeboards, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, and 2/2 timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with glazed timber panelled door. Set in grounds shared with Mount Congreve in walled garden.

• Mount Congreve, worker's house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-bay two-storey estate worker’s house, c. 1850, retaining original aspect. Pyramidal slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, 8/8 and 8/12 timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with glazed timber panelled door. Set in grounds shared with Mount Congreve in walled garden.

• Mount Congreve, outbuilding, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached nine-bay single- and two-storey stable building, c.1850, on a symmetrical plan retaining original aspect comprising nine-bay two-storey block with single-bay two-storey projecting entrance bay to centre having square-headed carriageway, and four-bay single-storey lean-to flanking infill ranges. Hipped slate roof on a T-shaped plan (lean-to to flanking infill ranges) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack, rendered coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with no sills, and timber fittings. Square-headed door openings with timber boarded sliding doors. Square-headed carriageway with timber boarded double doors. Set back from road in grounds shared with Mount Congreve.

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).

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; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mountcongreve.

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.

No address of the register names Mountcongreve with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.

Name

Mountcongreve · Bruachaill

Area

752,140 m² (75.21 ha, 185.86 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmeadan, and its townlands

Barony

Middlethird

Electoral division

Reisk, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Reisk electoral division: 1,304 people in 452 households; 88% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Adamstown, Dooneen, Killoteran, Kilmeadan, Knockanagh

Placenames

Mountcongreve 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.