Monaduff
Townland in the civil parish of Ardnurcher Or Horseleap, barony of Moycashel, Co. Westmeath
Parcel 3647339
- Area
- 139,324 m² (13.93 ha, 34.43 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Monaduff
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- WM031-114 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
Situated in grassland at W end of glacial ridge running E-W which may have been modified. Well-preserved ring-barrow consisting of a low circular shaped earthen mound (diam. c. 3.5m; H c. 0.35m) enclosed by an inner fosse (approx. Wth 2.5m; D c. 0.3m) and well preserved external bank (H 0.4m). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Melanie McQuade. Date of upload: 20 March 2017
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 68.9 ha
- 170 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 20,812 m² (2.08 ha, 5.14 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monaduff, from 480 m² to 128,587 m² (12.86 ha, 31.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Monaduff 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
No planning application touches the townland of Monaduff in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 Monaduff.
Recorded monuments
- WM031-073 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated in undulating pasture. Ringfort (WM031-074----) lies c. 135m to SE. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a D-shaped earthwork (overall dims. 40m N-S; 35m E-W) with a straight side to S. Depicted on the 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a ‘Gravel Pit’. Levelled monument is visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography as a faint light-green coloured D-shaped cropmark consistent with the depiction of the gravel pit on the OS 25-inch map. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 22 November 2019
- WM031-074 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated in low-lying, wet pasture, with good views of the surrounding landscape. A stream flows close to N and E. Ringfort (WM031-073----) lies c. 135m to NW. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a circular-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1973 as a roughly circular-shaped platform (diam. 35m) defined by an irregular bank which is low and is almost reduced to a scarp. The interior is relatively level with the outline of two possible house sites (WM031-074001-). A low bank projects from the bank at S and joins the end of one of the house sites. Monument is visible today as an oval-shaped, partly tree-covered earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 22 November 2019
- WM031-074001 House - indeterminate date
Description
Situated in low-lying, wet pasture, with good views of the surrounding landscape. A stream flows close to N and E. In the centre of ringfort (WM031-074001-) are two roughly rectangular-shaped house sites or one house with two rooms. This building may be the structure depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. A low bank running N-S projects from the bank of the ringfort at S to the SE corner of the central house site. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 22 November 2019
- WM031-090 Barrow - unclassified
Description
Situated on a rise, in pasture, with good views of the surrounding landscape. Annotated 'Moat' n the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. Monument described in 1973 as an irregular oval-shaped mound of earth and stone. The W portion and the top have been quarried away. There is no trace of an enclosing fosse. This may represent the remains of a disturbed barrow. According to local information, a burial was found here when quarrying for sand in 1969. Monument is visible as a disturbed mound on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 17 November 2019
- WM031-091 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a rise, in pasture, with good views of the surrounding landscape. Depicted on the 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a subcircular-shaped earthwork which is cut by a field boundary to SW and NW. Monument described in 1973 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 25m) enclosed by a low bank. A field boundary to SW and NW cut the edge of the bank. The interior is relatively level with by the remains of a house site (WM031-091001-). Monument is visible today as a tree-planted earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 22 November 2019
- WM031-091001 House - indeterminate date
Description
Situated on a rise, in pasture, with good views of the surrounding landscape. In the centre of ringfort (WM031-091----) are the remains of a large rectangular-shaped house site. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 22 November 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Monaduff.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Monaduff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Monaduff
- Area
- 688,729 m² (68.87 ha, 170.19 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardnurcher Or Horseleap, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moycashel
- Electoral division
- Streamstown, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybrown, Ballynamullen, Bredagh, Kilnagalliagh, Kilpatrick, Knockacurra, Lurrig, Skeheen (evans), Sraneeg
- Placenames
- Monaduff on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.