Moanbaun
Moanbaun is a townland in the civil parish of Ballycurrany, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Mhóin Bhán.
- Area
- 162.5 ha
- 401 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 57,939 m² (5.79 ha, 14.32 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moanbaun, from 1,590 m² to 570,156 m² (57.02 ha, 140.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Moanbaun 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
13 May 2026Grant with conditions
Planning permission for construction of agricultural slatted unit with dungstead and all associated siteworks. Retention permission for agricultural slatted unit.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1260
1 Apr 2026Invalid - prepare letters
Retention permission for agricultural slatted unit and planning permission for construction of agricultural slatted unit with dungstead and all associated siteworks
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0821
23 Aug 2021Conditional
a) Permission to erect a 2 storey dwelling house, an on-site sewage treatment system and all associated site development works, b) Permission to retain a recently constructed passageway and a modified farm entrance from the public road, for future exclusive use as the main vehicular access to the above dwelling house, c) Permission to retain and to modify culvert under the above passageway.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6312
30 Jul 2021Incompleted application
a) Permission to retain a recently constructed passageway and a modified farm entrance from the public road, b) Permission to retain and to modify culvert under the above passageway, and c) Permission to erect a 2 storey dwelling house, an on-site sewage treatment system and all associated site development works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6113
17 Aug 2020Refused
To erect a 2 storey dwellinghouse, to install an on-site sewage treatment system, to carry out all other associated site development works, and for permission to retain a new vehicular passageway from a pre-existing farm entrance gate, including a new culvert over a stream, for use as the main access to the new dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5756
16 Jul 2020Incompleted application
To erect a 2 storey dwellinghouse, to install an on-site sewage treatment system, to carry out all other associated site development works, and for permission to retain a new vehicular passageway from a pre-existing farm entrance gate, including a new culvert over a stream, for use as the main access to the new dwelling.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5497
28 Feb 2014Conditional
Private dwelling together with associated ancillary works. The dwelling structure is to consist of a two storey living space, with adjoining domestic garage space.
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4406
30 Oct 2012Conditional
Construction of a two-storey dwellinghouse with roof glazing, separate domestic garage, new site entrance and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/6246
2 Jul 2012Conditional
Construction of a private dwelling consisting of a two storey living space with adjoining domestic garage space together with associated ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5440
1 Jun 2012Incompleted application
Construction of a private dwelling together with associated ancillary works. The dwelling structure is to consist of a two storey living space, with adjoining domestic garage space
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5211
12 Apr 2012Refused
Construction of a two storey dwellinghouse with roof glazing, separate domestic garage, new site entrance and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4736
27 Apr 2007Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7379
1 Dec 2005Conditional
Demolition of derelict dwelling and construction of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8860
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 Moanbaun.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Moanbaun.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moanbaun.
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 Moanbaun, 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Moanbaun.
- 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 Moanbaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Moanbaun · An Mhóin Bhán
- Area
- 1,624,698 m² (162.47 ha, 401.47 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballycurrany, and its townlands
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Electoral division
- Lisgoold, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,113 people lived in 343 households in the Lisgoold electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 51% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynaglogh, Ballyvatta, Carrigane, Glengarriff Beg, Knockanenafinoga, Knockeennagroagh, Monatooreen, Skahanagh South
- Placenames
- Moanbaun 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.