Monavaddra

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monavaddra, from 4,104 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres) to 612,651 m² (61.27 ha, 151.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Monavaddra 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.

• 11 Jul 2025Refused

  Permission for retention of log cabin for use as office/gym ancillary to main dwelling

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/5302

• 8 Oct 2012Conditional

  Permission for retention of dwelling (change of plans from dwelling granted under 00/4076), revised site layout plan and permission to construct detached garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/630

• 27 Aug 2012Incompleted application

  Permission for retention of dwelling (change of plans from dwelling granted under 00/4076), revised site layout plan and permission to construct detached garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/554

• 8 Aug 2012Incompleted application

  retention of dwelling (change of plans from dwelling granted under 00/4076), revised site layout plan and permission to construct detached garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/509

• 5 Jul 2000Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 00/4076

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 Monavaddra.

Recorded monuments

• CO081-022 Standing stone
  Description

  In rough grazing, on N-facing slope. Stone (H 1.19m; 0.85m x 0.6m) is subrectangular in plan, narrowing to pointed top; long axis NW-SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO081-023 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In rough grazing, on N-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 24m) defined by stone wall (H 2.2m) E->WNW; scarp (H 4.2m) WNW->E. Small enclosure (L 10m; Wth 5m) cut into thickness of wall to WSW; closed by coursed stone wall (H 0.7m) to E. Possible remains of limekiln in scarp to E. Entrance (Wth 2.5m) to SE. Interior cut into hill on SW side and raised on NE side to compensate for hillslope. Setting of four stones in centre may not be contemporary with cashel. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO093-016 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough pasture, on NNW-facing slope. Circular area (25m N-S; 26m E-W) enclosed by contiguous line of orthostats (H c. 1m) SSW->NW; low scarp NW->NE; narrow earthen bank externally faced by large contiguously set slabs (H c. 0.75m) NE->ENE. Interior made level by cutting into hillslope ENE->SSW. Possible external fosse (D c. 0.85m) NE->ENE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO093-017 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  In forest clearing between two ridges of outcropping rock high up on the N-facing slope of Mullaghmearogafin. Comprises short gallery (L 1.5m; Wth 0.8m at W, 0.75m at E end) aligned E-W, represented by two sidestones to N and S, and inset backstone at E end. The sidestones are doubled at the W end. Low transversely-set stone at W end of N side may be possible façade feature. Gallery decreases in height from W to E; E end covered by displaced roofstone. Stone row (6524) stands c. 150m uphill to S. (O Nualláin 1989, 136) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO093-018 Stone row
  Description

  On shoulder of Mullaghmearogafin Mountain, overlooking Lee River valley to N. Row of three stones embedded in peat, aligned ENE-WSW, and 3.25m in overall length. NE stone is 0.6m L, 0.25m T and 0.65m H. Next stone, 0.4m to SW, is 0.45m L, 0.3m T and 0.45m H. SW and tallest stone, 0.85m from last, is 1m L, 0.6m T and 1.7m H. (O Nualláin 1988, 235, no. 34) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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

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

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 moderately high, moderately low, 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 Monavaddra.

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 Monavaddra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Monavaddra · Móin an Mhadra

Area

1,919,930 m² (191.99 ha, 474.43 acres)

Civil parish

Inchigeelagh, and its townlands

Barony

Muskerry West

Electoral division

Bealock, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bealock electoral division: 279 people in 103 households; 84% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cooragreenane, Gortaknockane, Gortnacarriga, Gortnahoughtee, Lackabaun, Moneylea

Placenames

Monavaddra 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.