Mountodell
Mountodell is a townland in the civil parish of Whitechurch, barony of Decies Without Drum, Co. Waterford. Its name in Irish is Cúil an Chrumpaigh.
- Area
- 96.5 ha
- 238 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 4,075 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountodell, from 364 m² to 297,067 m² (29.71 ha, 73.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Mountodell 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
31 Dec 2019Conditional
a single storey extension consisting of a Sunroom to the side of dwellinghouse
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 191009
30 Oct 2019N/a
a single storey extension consisting of a sunroom
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 19812
25 Apr 2019Conditional
to construct an agricultural entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 19274
26 Mar 2019Conditional
to construct a dormer style dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, spayed entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission consequent, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 19197
21 Sept 2018Conditional
to construct a dormer style dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, splayed entrance and all ancillary site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 18637
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 Mountodell.
Recorded monuments
- WA030-056 House - 17th century
Description
Situated on a level landscape. This is a possible late 17th-/ or early 18th-century house of five bays with two storeys and an attic. It may have been buit in 1678 for Charles Odell and is T-shaped in plan with a stairs return projecting at the rear, to the SW, which has a false chimney on its gable. The house has a steeply-pitched gabled roof and end chimney-stacks. It is still occupied. (Craig and Garner 1977, 96) Craig, M. and Garner, W. (1977) Revised report on areas of historic interest in Co. Waterford. Unpublished report commissioned by An Foras Forbartha. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 11th August, 2011. Compiled by: Michael Moore.
- WA030-081 Souterrain
Description
Located on a level landscape on the floor of the Cappagh valley, and c. 5m S of the wall of a farm building. It was discovered c. 1995, but was not recored at the time and has since been closed up. It is described locally as a lintelled passage (L c. 3m) which was blocked at its E end by an area of collapse that is visible on the surface as a slight depression (diam. c. 3m; D c. 0.3m). Date of upload/revision: 11th August, 2011. Compiled by: Michael Moore.
- WA030-082 Burnt mound
Description
Situated on the flood plain of the NW-SE River Brickey, c. 30-60m N of the old river bed and just E of Tobergal well. It is described locally as an area of broken and burnt stone in a black matrix which is visible when the land is poughed, but the location is not precise. Date of upload/revision: 11th August, 2011. Compiled by: Michael Moore.
- WA030-083 Burnt mound
Description
Situated on the flood plain of the NW-SE River Brickey, c. 30-60m N of the old river bed. It is described locally as an area of broken and burnt stone in a black matrix which is visible when the land is poughed, but the location is not precise. Date of upload/revision: 11th August, 2011. Compiled by: Michael Moore.
Architectural heritage
- Mount Odell House, farm house, 1675–1680 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey over part raised basement farmhouse, built 1678, on a T-shaped plan; single-bay (single-bay deep) full-height central return (south). Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched slate roof (south), clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Creeper-covered rendered battered walls originally slate hung; slate hung surface finish to rear (south) elevation. Square-headed central door opening approached by flight of five cut-limestone steps with concealed dressings framing replacement timber panelled door having sidelights below overlight. Square-headed window openings (ground floor) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows without horns. Set in landscaped grounds.
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 Mountodell, about 1 in 5 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mountodell.
- 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 Mountodell with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.
The townland
- Name
- Mountodell · Cúil an Chrumpaigh
- Area
- 964,784 m² (96.48 ha, 238.4 acres)
- Civil parish
- Whitechurch, and its townlands
- Barony
- Decies Without Drum
- Electoral division
- Carriglea, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 559 people lived in 202 households in the Carriglea electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballintaylor Lower, Ballyguiry West, Carriglea, Carrigroe, Coolcormuck, Kilnafarna Lower, Knockmaon, Parkeenagarra
- Placenames
- Mountodell 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.