Monavanshere
Monavanshere is a townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore (Macroom Ra), barony of Muskerry East, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Móin an Mhainséir.
- Area
- 72.1 ha
- 178 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 3,841 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monavanshere, from 932 m² to 384,709 m² (38.47 ha, 95.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Monavanshere 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
2 Jul 2025Conditional permission
Permission for re-location of new vehicular entrance for dwelling previously permitted under Planning Reg. 23/6101 and alteration to site boundary to facilitate same including all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5303
5 Jun 2025Incompleted application
Permission for the following works: 1) Alternative entrance location to position granted under Pl.Reg.No. 23/6101 to facilitate: a) Safe access of dwelling occupants accessing the public road at a level gradient. b) Improvement & reconfiguration works to existing on site land drains/storm water arrangements to facilitate storm water run off from adjoining dwelling/public road and existing dwelling currently under construction, driveway and proposed entrance. 2) All associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5090
17 Oct 2023Conditional
The construction of a dwelling house, garage, site entrance, wastewater treatment system and all associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6101
29 Sept 2023Conditional
Permission to construct a new dwelling house served by mechanical aeration unit and soil polishing filter
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5965
29 Sept 2023Conditional
Permission to retain dwelling house and domestic garage as constructed and all associated site works within revised boundaries.
Retention · Cork County Council, 23/5963
12 Nov 2021Conditional
To construct a new dwelling house, carport and domestic garage.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/7062
28 Feb 2020Conditional
(A) construction of first floor extension over part of existing dwelling house, (B) retention of ground floor extension at rear of existing dwelling house and (C) retention of detached domestic garage.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4426
31 May 2019Conditional
Construction of a dwellinghouse, waste water treatment system and all associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5451
15 May 2018Conditional
To construct new two storey dwelling house, new domestic garage, new site entrance and driveway, new bored well and to install new wastewater treatment plant to serve development and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5231
17 Jan 2018Conditional
Construction of new dwellinghouse, domestic garage, new entrance together with all other ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4110
29 Mar 2017Refused
Construction of dwellinghouse, domestic garage and new entrance together with all other ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4738
24 Mar 2016Conditional
Construction of 2 new fire escape dormer windows in lieu of permitted roof-lights to dwelling house under construction which was permitted under planning ref no. 15/4806
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4673
21 Apr 2015Conditional
Demolition of existing dwelling and permission to construct a two storey dwelling house, waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4806
22 Apr 2014Refused
To construct a two storey dwelling house, waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4805
27 Jun 2007Conditional
Construction of slatted cattle shed, milking parlour and dairy washings tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9031
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 Monavanshere.
Recorded monuments
- CO061-069001 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam c. 80m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; replaced by subrectangular field (c. 80m NNE-SSW; c. 70m ESE-WSW) on 1903 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace; surrounding field fences removed. According to Hartnett (1939, 206), original rampart traceable outside of subrectangular field fences showed that fort was 'oval in plan, 300 feet N-S and 280 feet E-W'. Possible souterrain (CO061-069002-) in interior. 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
- CO061-069002 Souterrain
Description
In SW quadrant of possible rimgfort (CO061-069001-). No visible surface trace. 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
- CO061-070 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture. Circular area (diam. 34m) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.2m). Bank heavily overgrown with furze bushes; interior clear. 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 Monavanshere.
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 Monavanshere, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Monavanshere.
- 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 Monavanshere with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Monavanshere · Móin an Mhainséir
- Area
- 720,944 m² (72.09 ha, 178.15 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donaghmore (Macroom Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry East
- Electoral division
- Gowlane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,326 people lived in 436 households in the Gowlane electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyhennessy, Bunkilla, Kilclogh, Scarteen
- Placenames
- Monavanshere 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.