Munnia
Munnia is a townland in the civil parish of Abbey, barony of Burren, Co. Clare.
- Area
- 157.8 ha
- 390 acres
- Land parcels
- 53
- registered freehold, median 2,925 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Munnia, from 6 m² to 313,462 m² (31.35 ha, 77.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Munnia 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
23 Feb 2023Conditional
the construction of a domestic shed-gym for use ancillary to the existing dwelling house together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2360037
10 Nov 2021Conditional
for the (a) demolition of an existing single storey sunroom to the rear of an existing dwelling, (b) the construction of a new single storey extension to the side of the existing dwelling, (c) the modification of existing dormer roof windows, (d) modification of an existing porch to the front of the existing dwelling (e) modifications to the elevations of the existing dwelling, and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 211190
2 Nov 2021Conditional
of (1) extension & alterations to existing dwelling house and (2) RETENTION of domestic garage
Retention · Clare County Council, 211144
22 Sept 2021Conditional
for the development will consist of the following: 1 (a) construction of a new single storey extensions to house and shed, including associated alterations to existing structures and all associated landscaping, site development works. (b enhancement of existing wastewater treatment system including replacement of existing septic tank with new wastewater treatment unit and 2. retention of alterations to existing dormer windows to east and west elevations, installation of corner windows and demolition of dormer to east with replacement roof light, together with all associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 21998
27 Jul 2021Conditional
is being sought to construct an extension to a dwelling house
Permission · Clare County Council, 21788
14 Feb 2020Conditional
for the construction of a new slatted cubicle shed, milking parlour and dairy, meal bin and water tank and associated ancillary concrete works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2089
17 Dec 2018Conditional
to construct a dwelling house and proprietary waste water treatment system along with ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 181032
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Galway Bay Complex SAC 000268
- Special Area of Conservation: East Burren Complex SAC 001926
- Special Protection Area: Inner Galway Bay SPA 004031
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Galway Bay Complex 000268
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: East Burren Complex 001926
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Munnia.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Munnia.
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 Munnia, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Munnia.
- 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 Munnia with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Munnia
- Area
- 1,577,946 m² (157.79 ha, 389.92 acres)
- Civil parish
- Abbey, and its townlands
- Barony
- Burren
- Electoral division
- Abbey, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 525 people lived in 212 households in the Abbey electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyvelaghan, Behagh, Cartron, Mortyclogh, Rossalia
- Placenames
- Munnia 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.