# Monearla, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Adare, barony of Coshma, Co. Limerick; in Irish Móin an Iarla. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 700,466 m² (70.05 ha, 173.09 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,288 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Adare, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/adare.md - Barony: Coshma - Electoral division: Adare South, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 2,225 people lived in 730 households in the Adare South electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/30488 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121590 - Centre: latitude 52.574887, longitude -8.746269 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monearla, from 563 m² to 322,494 m² (32.25 ha, 79.69 acres); 24 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1674620: 322,494 m² (32.25 ha, 79.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1674620.md - Parcel 6166076: 288,633 m² (28.86 ha, 71.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6166076.md - Parcel 5107236: 17,605 m² (1.76 ha, 4.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5107236.md - Parcel 1643721: 8,489 m² (0.85 ha, 2.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1643721.md - Parcel 5107242: 7,116 m² (0.71 ha, 1.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5107242.md - Parcel 1631119: 3,737 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1631119.md - Parcel 4332003: 2,929 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4332003.md - Parcel 5107233: 2,842 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5107233.md - Parcel 1653745: 2,818 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1653745.md - Parcel 1642952: 2,561 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1642952.md - Parcel 1604835: 2,469 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1604835.md - Parcel 1602437: 2,348 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602437.md - Parcel 1645404: 2,296 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1645404.md - Parcel 1596832: 2,288 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1596832.md - Parcel 1602069: 2,288 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602069.md - Parcel 2690373: 2,190 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2690373.md - Parcel 1603790: 2,172 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1603790.md - Parcel 5579495: 2,167 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5579495.md - Parcel 1607834: 2,113 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1607834.md - Parcel 2386708: 2,025 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2386708.md - Parcel 1597907: 1,927 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1597907.md - Parcel 2386698: 1,919 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2386698.md - Parcel 6166059: 1,691 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6166059.md - Parcel 1599290: 1,272 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1599290.md - Parcel 1672097: 1,173 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1672097.md - Parcel 1616346: 1,159 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1616346.md - Parcel 1619407: 563 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1619407.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Monearla in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 6 applications, newest first. - 8 May 2026, Limerick County Council 26119: Refused. Retention. agricultural building comprising tack room and changing facility and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/26119/0 - 24 Sept 2025, Limerick County Council 2560965: Conditional. Permission. the installation of a garden sensory room; alteration of the site boundary and driveway; elevational alterations to the proposed house including revised window sizes, natural stone cladding and metal profile cladding finishes; and for a change in the design and location of the garage from that previously approved under planning ref. 21 1183 together with all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560965/0 - 20 Aug 2021, Limerick County Council 211183: Conditional. Permission consequent, 1 home. construction of a two storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works (reference number of outline permission 19/1083). Permission is sought to revise the site boundaries from those previously granted under outline permission reference 19/1083. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/211183/0 - 30 Apr 2020, Limerick County Council 20344: Conditional. Permission. decommissioning of existing septic tank and percolation area and installation of a packaged waste water treatment system and polishing filter. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/20344/0 - 4 Nov 2019, Limerick County Council 191083: Conditional. Outline permission, 1 home. construction of a dwelling house, garage, entrance, installation of a wastewater treatment system and associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/191083/0 - 2 Aug 2019, Limerick County Council 19767: Conditional. Retention. (a) Velux roof light to front of building extension, (b) single storey extension to the rear of dwelling house, (c) garage as constructed, (d) domestic dog kennel and (e) two entrances to property from main road. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/19767/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Monearla. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI021-016: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI021-016----. In gentle undulating pasture, good views in all directions, 215m N of townland boundary with Knockanes , 360m W of boundary with Killeen and 240m E of boundary with Rineroe. Enclosure (LI021-043----) lies 210m to SE. No surface remains visible. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map as circular shaped area enclosed by two banks with intervening fosse. An OS trig. station marking height of 94 ft. OD is shown inside this monument on the 1840 OS map. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 23m) enclosed by a bank with trig. station on bank of ringfort at W. On this map the possible ringfort is shown enclosed by a circular field boundary (approx. diam. 50m) which is intersected at NW by a laneway running NE-SW. Faint cropmark of levelled monument visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 14/02/2020. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 16 July 2020 - LI021-121: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI021-121----. On a slight S-facing slope, in pasture, 160m SE of the N21 road, with moderate views in all directions. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Identified as a well defined circular feature on 1:4000 OSi aerial photographs (OS3 No. 1184). Monument inspected by the ASI in 2000 and described as no surface remains visible. Not visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 31 July 2020 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Monearla. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Monearla, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_851, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_851.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/limerick/monearla.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/monearla.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/monearla.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Monearla with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick: https://everytownland.com/limerick.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballycarrane: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballycarrane.md - Ballygeale: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballygeale.md - Ballyloughnaan: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyloughnaan.md - Killeen: https://everytownland.com/limerick/killeen-121309.md - Knockanes: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knockanes.md - Rineroe: https://everytownland.com/limerick/rineroe.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/limerick/monearla - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/monearla