Monearaniska
Townland in the civil parish of Cloyne, barony of Imokilly, Co. Cork; in Irish Móinéar an Uisce
- Area
- 12.5 ha
- 31 acres
- Land parcels
- 2
- registered freehold, median 62,332 m² (6.23 ha, 15.4 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monearaniska, from 4,687 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres) to 119,977 m² (12 ha, 29.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Monearaniska 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
27 Jun 2025Conditional permission
10 Year Planning Permission for a physical extension of c. 562 sq.m to the existing electricity substation compound and will include: 1) Site clearance works including removal of:- a) 1 no. MV poles and associated overhead lines. b) Existing MV busbar and associated electrical equipment. c) Existing 38 kV busbar and associated electrical equipment. d) Existing 2 no. 38 kV/MV transformers. e) All existing site fencing and gates. f) Existing lighting. g) Demolition of existing single storey control building (c. 12 sq.m), h) Existing vegetation along northern, eastern and southern site boundaries. 2) Provision of new electrical plant and equipment including:- a) 1 no. prefabricated control room, GIS and MV module and foundation (98.46 sqm). b) 1 no. prefabricated customer control room module and foundation (24.43 sq.m). c) 3 no. customer transformers and associated bunds. d) 1 no. relocated interface transformer and new bunds. e) 2 no. house transformers and associated bunds. f) Associated and ancillary electrical equipment and other apparatus, including installation of underground cables. g) Site development works including provision of lighting; resurfacing and internal access roads, new fencing and access gates (including new entrance gate onto public road). Provision of site services including drainage and all other ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5257
9 Apr 2019Conditional
A 5 MW solar farm comprising approximately 22,200 photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames within a site area of 11.25 hectares, 2 no. single storey inverter/transformer stations, 1 no. single storey delivery station, security fencing, CCTV, and all associated ancillary development works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4869
26 Feb 2019Incompleted application
A 5MW solar farm comprising approximately 22,200 photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames within a site area of 11.25 hectares, 2 no. single storey inverter / transformer stations, 1 no. single storey delivery station, security fencing, CCTV, and all associated ancillary development works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4451
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 Monearaniska.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Monearaniska.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Monearaniska.
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).
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Monearaniska with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Monearaniska · Móinéar an Uisce
- Area
- 124,664 m² (12.47 ha, 30.81 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cloyne, and its townlands
- Barony
- Imokilly
- Electoral division
- Cloyne, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Commons East, Demesne, Malapardas
- Placenames
- Monearaniska on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.