Monambraher

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Monambraher, from 364,794 m² (36.48 ha, 90.14 acres) to 364,794 m² (36.48 ha, 90.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Monambraher 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Monambraher in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Monambraher.

Recorded monuments

• GA073-136 Religious house - unclassified
  Description

  On a flat slightly raised area in marshy farmland. This is the location of the dwellings where the friars from Kilconnell friary (GA086-001----) took up residence in the late 17th century. The Rev. C.P. Meehan, writing in 1870 recorded that ‘the friars continued to say Mass there [i.e. Kilconnell friary] occasionally, till some short time before the battle of Aughrim [1691], when they took refuge in a neighbouring bog, now called the ‘Friar's Bog,’ where they existed as best they could in miserable shielings.’ (Meehan 1870, 73) This is confirmed by an account written by Samuel Molyneux, in 1709. He visited Kilconnell friary and records that ‘ye Fryers are yet alive, and live, tho' blind with age, on ye charity of the neighbouring papists, in a poor cabin, in a very small island, which they showed me, not ¼ a mile from Kilconnell in a bog ; they employ one to beg for them, and by that means subsist near their old habitation.’ (Bigger 1902, 13). The noted scholoar, John O'Donovan, recorded in 1838 (OS Letters, 602) that 'tradition says that the friars remained in it until a few weeks before the battle of Aughrim when they were driven out by one of King William's Officers after which they fled to Moin na m-brathar (Bog of the friars), a bog in the townland (of Ellagh) where they built Cottages, - in which they remained until 54 years ago [1784]. Mr. Page of Moin na mbrathar found the bell of this abbey in the bog a few years ago, but it is not now in existence. It weighed 12 stones and tradition says that it was the loudest bell in Connaught. The name Kilconnell and the date at which it was founded appeared on its side.' It would appear that the friars remained at Kilconnell until 1698 for in March of that year they distributed or sold their worldly goods (vestments, books, beds, bed linen, kitchen utensils etc.) to various local families (Bigger 1903-4, 13-15). The date of abandonment of 'Moin na Mbrathar' recorded by O'Donovan approximately coincides with the death of the last guardian, Fr Anthony Blake o.f.m.: he died in 1785 and it is likely that there was no friar to take over from him (Conlan 2007, 14). The site of this 'friary' is named 'Monambraher Friary' on 1st ed. OS 6-inch map and indicated as an unenclosed semicircular area delimited by a pecked line along the southern perimeter. There is no building represented within this enclosure. It is named 'Site of' on the 3rd OS 6-inch ed. (1933). All that is now visible is a roughly rectangular area (N-S 100m, E-W 63m) enclosed by two ruined walls (Wth c. 1m), 5m to 15m apart. The area between them is occupied by a stream along E and S sides, and by an avenue-like feature along W and N. The interior is divided by a wall running E-W and slight undulations indicate possible traces of buildings. Immediately NW of the enclosed area are traces of a rectangular house (NE-SW; L 9m, Wth 5m), up to four courses in height: this may well be part of the small house cluster shown in this area on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Updated by: Paul Walsh Date of revised upload: 9 September 2014

• GA073-137 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Monambraher, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Monambraher.

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.

No address of the register names Monambraher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Monambraher · Móin na mBráthar

Area

367,066 m² (36.71 ha, 90.7 acres)

Civil parish

Kilconnell, and its townlands

Barony

Kilconnell

Electoral division

Kilconnell, the unit of the census

Census 2022

658 people lived in 225 households in the Kilconnell electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abbeyfield, Ballyglass, Carrowmanagh, Crummagh, Loughaunbrean

Placenames

Monambraher 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.