Moneens
Moneens is a townland in the civil parish of Desertserges, barony of Kinalmeaky, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Na Móiníní.
- Area
- 105.6 ha
- 261 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 22,685 m² (2.27 ha, 5.61 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moneens, from 109 m² to 167,092 m² (16.71 ha, 41.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Moneens 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
16 Jun 2026Refused
Permission for dwellinghouse, car port, domestic garage, site entrance, sewerage system and all associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1601
13 Nov 2020Conditional
Permission for retention of attic conversion to living area to include rooflights and dormer window to rear of existing bungalow, domestic garage and all associated works.
Retention · Cork County Council, 20/6519
1 Oct 2020Incompleted application
Retention of attic accommodation to include rear roof windows to dormer style dwelling, domestic garage and all associated works.
Retention · Cork County Council, 20/6141
19 Oct 2017Withdrawn
Construct dwelling, detached garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6715
21 Apr 2015Conditional
Permission for retention of: (a) Dwellinghouse as constructed, position of site entrance as constructed and all associated site works (modifications to that permitted under planning reg. no. 97/1278) and (b) 3 no. ancillary buildings comprising of a two-storey garden store, a utility/laundry room and a store room
Retention · Cork County Council, 15/4802
27 Mar 2015Incompleted application
Retention of (a) dwellinghouse as constructed, position of site entrance as constructed and all associated site works (modifications to that permitted under planning reg. no. 97/1278) and (b) detached garden store and ancillary outbuildings
Retention · Cork County Council, 15/4598
10 Apr 2003Conditional
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/1676
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 Moneens.
Recorded monuments
- CO110-066 Standing stone
Description
In pasture with commanding views to NE. Rectangular sandstone aligned NE-SW (H 2.4m; 1.4m x 0.35m). Inscription ZCH 1858 on upper portion of NW face. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO110-067 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on NE-facing slope. Circular area (26.6m NE-SW; 25.3m NW-SE) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.3m) E->NW; scarp (H 1.9m) N->E; shallow external fosse (D 0.2m) N->NW. Drain running E-W cuts interior on N side. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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 Moneens.
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 Moneens, about 1 in 10 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Moneens.
- 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 Moneens with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Moneens · Na Móiníní
- Area
- 1,056,279 m² (105.63 ha, 261.01 acres)
- Civil parish
- Desertserges, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kinalmeaky
- Electoral division
- Cashel, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 441 people lived in 145 households in the Cashel electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cashel Commons, Cashel More, Gaggan, Knocknagallagh
- Placenames
- Moneens 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.