Mongfune
Mongfune is a townland in the civil parish of Abington, barony of Owneybeg, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Mong Fionn.
- Area
- 239.4 ha
- 592 acres
- Land parcels
- 107
- registered freehold, median 3,464 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
107 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mongfune, from 75 m² to 333,818 m² (33.38 ha, 82.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Mongfune 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
26 Mar 2026Conditional
the construction of a vehicular entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic wastewater treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660334
23 Jan 2026Refused
completion of the construction of existing dwellinghouse, currently at blockwork complete stage and associated site works including wastewater treatment system and entrance
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660051
2 Dec 2025Conditional
the renovation of dwelling to include raising floor and roof levels by 0.6m, reconstruction of side element and gable walls, construction of an extension to the rear and Retention permission for mobile home and utility/porch area for duration of build and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2561253
18 Oct 2024Conditional
a). Construct a new single storey extension to the rear and side of the existing dwelling house; b). renovate the existing dwelling house including elevational changes; c). demolish existing sheds; d). construct a new private garage; e). demolish existing front timber rail fencing and replace with stone wall with automatic gates to existing entrance; f). replace dilapidated fencing at side road with concrete post and slatted timber fencing; g). all associated site works and services
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2461041
3 Apr 2024Conditional
Raised pitched roofs [2no.] of existing cottage to form first floor area comprising of 2no. bedrooms, bathroom, landing & attic store. New pitched roofs to include 2no. dormer windows, & 2no. Velux roof lights to front eleva-tion. New raised section of external walls & gables [timber framed] to be finished with smooth sand/ cement render. New windows to replace existing at ground floor level including new window to replace existing front entrance door [re-located]. New two storey gable [south east] & rear extension to include new front entrance, stairwell, utility & WC. Ino. Velux roof light to front roof slope & 3no. Velux roof lights to rear roof slope extension]. Internal modifications to existing ground floor [cot-tage]. Installation of new waste water system incl. percolation area. New timber post & rail fence to front boundary including new vehicular entrance and associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 24126
10 Jan 2024Conditional
the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic waste water treatment system & polishing filter together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2460015
20 Oct 2023Conditional
a change of house design, change of site boundary and site layout plan from that granted in planning ref 21-499
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360766
3 Aug 2023Conditional
the construction of a new steel fabricated vintage machinery enclosure
Permission · Limerick County Council, 23399
23 Dec 2022Conditional
NEW DWELLING, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, POLISHING FILTER, ENTRANCE & AL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2260019
21 May 2021Conditional
dwellinghouse as partially constructed and for permission to complete the construction of aforementioned dwellinghouse and associated site works including wastewater treatment system and entrance
Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21695
16 Apr 2021Conditional
the demolition of an existing dwelling and the construction of a replacement dwelling, waste water treatment system, polishing filter, entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21499
17 Dec 2019Conditional
demolition of the existing remains of a derelict house, improvement of existing vehicular entrance, construction of a dwelling house, septic tank & percolation area together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 191247
6 Dec 2019N/a
a new dwelling, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter, entrance and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 191211
7 Mar 2019Conditional
a dormer style extension to the rear of the dwelling, carry out internal and other changes to the house, build a detached garage adjacent to the house, fit a new sewerage treatment unit and other associated works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 19200
20 Aug 2018Conditional
the construction of a new bungalow dwelling house, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18827
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyvorheen Bog 001849
Recorded monuments
- LI007-007 Burial ground
Description
Graveyard described by Westropp (1904-5, 438) as following; 'Ballynanure, Killeen. Killinure, 1657 (Petty, Maps). Site - A burial-ground'. Ballynanure graveyard consists of a rectangular shaped area (approx. dims. 54m N-S x 34m E-W) enclosed by post-1700 stone wall with entrance gate at N, modern extension of graveyard to W. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 July 2019
Architectural heritage
- House, 1790–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1810, with gabled porch to front (south-west ) elevation and abutting outbuilding to north elevation. Pitched slate roof, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings with mixed one-over-one and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows having painted sills. Square-headed opening with timber and glazed door set in porch. Abutting outbuilding having pitched corrugated-iron roof and rubble limestone walls. Square-profile rendered piers with flanking render side walls to front of site.
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 Mongfune, 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1192 (ZIP).
- 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 Mongfune with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Mongfune · Mong Fionn
- Area
- 2,394,452 m² (239.45 ha, 591.68 acres)
- Civil parish
- Abington, and its townlands
- Barony
- Owneybeg
- Electoral division
- Abington, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,367 people lived in 433 households in the Abington electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyvorheen, Cappanouk, Garranbane, Glenstal, Gortavacoosh, Liscreagh, Moher
- Placenames
- Mongfune 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.