Monacahee

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monacahee, from 37 m² to 147,231 m² (14.72 ha, 36.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Monacahee 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.

• 25 Sept 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwellinghouse and

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241163

• 9 Feb 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a self-contained residential unit to the side of

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220152

• 20 Jun 2016Granted (conditional)

  RETENTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE, RETENTION OF A CHANGE OF LOCATION OF THE ENTRANC

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20160698

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 the townland of Monacahee.

Recorded monuments

• WX039-047001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a plateau. This is a subcircular scrub-covered area (dims 46m N-S; 40m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.2-0.8m; ext. H 0.8m at E to 1.4m at S) with a flat- bottomed fosse (Wth of top 5m at N to 9m at S; Wth of base 1.5m at W to 5m at S). There is an outer bank (Wth 3-4m; ext. H 1.2-1.5m), with a slight berm (max. Wth 4m) between it and the inner fosse S-W-N (max. ext. dims 63m N-S; 63m E-W). The outer bank is incorporated into a road bank NW-E-SE. There is no identifiable entrance or outer fosse. The church (WX039-047002-) is in the interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 29 January, 2013

• WX039-047002 Church
  Description

  Described as the site of a church on the 1839 and 1940 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and located on a plateau. The possible parish church of Rathroe is built within rath (WX039-047001-). This consists of the foundations (Wth 1.3-2m; H c. 0.4m) of a rectangular structure (ext. dims. 22m ESE-WNW; 7m NNE-SSW) with an entrance gap towards the W end of the S wall. The E end of the church breaches the inner bank of the rath. There is no evidence of burial, but it was recorded in 1940 that it had been used for burial (OSFM). The church remains may be post-medieval in date. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 29 January, 2013

• WX039-047003 Graveyard
  Description

  There is no evidence of burials associated with the church (WX039-047002-) within the rath (WX039-047001-), but it was recorded in 1940 that it had been used for burial (OSFM). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 29 January, 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Monacahee.

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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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 Monacahee with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Monacahee · Móin na Caothaí

Area

1,238,649 m² (123.86 ha, 306.08 acres)

Civil parish

Rathroe, and its townlands

Barony

Shelburne

Electoral division

Rathroe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathroe electoral division: 922 people in 347 households; 87% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boderan, Coole, Curraghmore, Shelbaggan

Placenames

Monacahee 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.