Mountstuart
Mountstuart is a townland in the civil parish of Ardmore, barony of Decies Within Drum, Co. Waterford. Its name in Irish is Mountstuart.
- Area
- 79.5 ha
- 197 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 15,454 m² (1.55 ha, 3.82 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountstuart, from 2,086 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres) to 144,033 m² (14.4 ha, 35.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Mountstuart 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
18 May 2023Conditional
the indefinite retention of 1 No. temporary toilet block. Permission for the development of a new campsite to include the construction of the following; 2 No. dormitories, a toilet block, storage shed, kitchen, portable cabin, 2 No. steel storage sheds, new camping ground, carparking, entranceway, wastewater treatment system, well, site works and all ancillary site works & associated scouting activities.
Retention · Waterford City and County Council, 2360202
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 Mountstuart.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mountstuart.
Architectural heritage
- Saint Patrick's Catholic Church, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, built 1826, with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to west, and single-bay single-storey sacristy to east. Renovated and refenestrated, c.1975. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, rendered coping, rendered bellcote to gable to west (having profiled aperture with cast-iron bell, and cross finial over), rendered chimney stack to gable to east, and cast-iron rainwater goods on overhanging rendered eaves having iron brackets. Painted replacement rendered walls, c.1975, with rendered strips to corners, and cut-stone surround to gable to porch forming ‘pediment’. Pointed-arch window openings to nave with cut-limestone sills, squared rubble stone surrounds, voussoirs (originally concealed and exposed, c.1975), and replacement fixed-pane timber windows, c.1975. Pointed-arch window opening to porch with cut-limestone sill, and fixed-pane timber window. Square-headed window opening to sacristy with cut-stone sill, rendered surround, and 3/3 timber sash window. Square-headed door openings with timber panelled double doors to porch, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled door to sacristy having overlight. Set back from road in own grounds with gravel forecourt. (ii) Graveyard to site with various cut-stone grave markers, c.1825 – present. (iii) Freestanding memorial statue, dated 1940, to south on mass-concrete stepped pedestal having inscribed cut-stone plaques. (iv) Gateway, c.1825, to south comprising pair of painted rendered piers with rendered capping, wrought iron double gates, and painted roughcast flanking walls having rendered coping, and painted rendered terminating piers with rendered capping.
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 Mountstuart, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1768 (ZIP).
- 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 Mountstuart with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.
The townland
- Name
- Mountstuart · Mountstuart
- Area
- 795,239 m² (79.52 ha, 196.51 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Decies Within Drum
- Electoral division
- Mountstuart, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 90 people lived in 28 households in the Mountstuart electoral division. 100% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Knocknaglogh Lower, Lackenagreany, Lisgriffin, Monalummery, Reamanagh West, Toor North
- Placenames
- Mountstuart 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.