Monaloo
Monaloo is a townland in the civil parish of Mogeely, barony of Kinatalloon, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Móin na Luaithe.
- Area
- 177.9 ha
- 440 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 3,645 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 18
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monaloo, from 206 m² to 821,936 m² (82.19 ha, 203.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Monaloo 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 2026Grant with conditions
Permission to erect a detached single storey domestic garage and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1311
20 Apr 2026Invalid - case closed
Permission to erect a detached single storey domestic garage and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0994
19 Mar 2026Invalid - case closed
Permission to erect a detached single storey domestic garage all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0686
16 May 2024Conditional
Permission for retention of 1) Existing sunroom as constructed to the side elevation of her dwelling, 2) Domestic garage to rear as constructed, 3) Blockwork boundary walls to southern and eastern boundaries as constructed and all associated site works.
Retention · Cork County Council, 24/4874
21 Nov 2023Conditional
Permission to erect a single storey dwelling house and erect a single storey domestic garage, install septic tank and percolation area, install bored well, construct new site entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6324
21 Mar 2023Conditional permission
Planning permission to erect a single storey dwellinghouse and a domestic garage with secondary wastewater treatment unit and tertiary filter, site entrance and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4496
24 Feb 2023Incompleted application
Planning permission to erect a single storey dwellinghouse and a domestic garage with secondary wastewater treatment unit and tertiary filter, site entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4315
2 Jun 2020Conditional
Dwelling, detached domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, domestic well, entrance and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5092
7 Nov 2018Conditional
Erect a dormer type dwelling and a domestic garage with septic tank and percolation area, site entrance and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6951
28 Feb 2018Conditional
Erect a dormer type dwelling and a domestic garage with septic tank and percolation area, site entrance and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4499
16 Jul 2012Conditional
Extension to existing dwelling comprising of two additional bedrooms, one additional bathroom and a conservatory
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5556
22 Jun 2012Incompleted application
Extension to existing dwelling on north side and a conservatory on the south side. Extension on north side will contain 2 x bedrooms and 1 x bathroom
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5366
18 Jul 2011Conditional
Construction of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5542
18 Aug 2005Refused
Bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/5943
5 Jul 2004Conditional
Dwelling, domestic garage and waste water treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/5100
31 Mar 2004Conditional
Dormer bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/2123
16 Mar 2004Refused
Dwellinghouse, domestic garage and waste water treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/1746
25 Feb 2004Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/1128
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 Monaloo.
Recorded monuments
- CO055-010 Enclosure
Description
Depicted on 1842 OS 6-inch map as subrectangular enclosure (c. 25m NE-SW; c. 15m NW-SE). Inaccessible due to forestry. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO055-060 Standing stone
Description
Standing stone depicted and named 'A great stone' on Bateman map (1716-1717, no. 28) at SW corner of townland. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Architectural heritage
- Monaloo House, country house, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Detached L-plan five-bay two-storey former country house, built c. 1870, having two-storey extension with single-pitched corrugated-iron roof to north elevation of return. Now in use as house. Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and sheeted eaves. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls. Square-headed openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and cut limestone sills. Tripartite timber sliding sash window to centre bay of front elevation. Stairlight to rear with timber sliding sash window having coloured glass. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door and overlight, having rendered surround comprising Doric pilasters and cut limestone steps and plinth blocks. Retains interior features. Outbuildings to rear. Rubble stone boundary walls with square-profile piers to site entrance.
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 Monaloo, 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 Monaloo.
- 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 Monaloo with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Monaloo · Móin na Luaithe
- Area
- 1,778,881 m² (177.89 ha, 439.57 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mogeely, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kinatalloon
- Electoral division
- Kilcronat, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 212 people lived in 69 households in the Kilcronat electoral division. 97% of households owned their home. 51% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinteosig, Ballycolman, Reanduff, Rearour South, Sandyhill
- Placenames
- Monaloo 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.