Monalia

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monalia, from 641 m² to 109,994 m² (11 ha, 27.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Monalia 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.

• 4 Mar 2026Conditional

  permission for the construction of a detached single storey premises to rear of existing dwelling house to provide dependent relative accommodation together with all ancillary site development works, Significant further Information received relates to submitted, proposed drawings, waste water treatment & Disposal system

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660066

• 7 Oct 2021Conditional

  Demolish existing dwelling and replace with a dormer dwelling, treatment plant, percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21559

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 Monalia.

Recorded monuments

• MO028-032 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a S-facing slope. An aerial photograph (CUCAP: AVC 76) shows the cropmark of an enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by a single fosse feature. No archaeological feature is visible at ground level in pasture. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 6 December 2017

• MO028-066 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on the tip of a NW-SE spur. This is a circular overgrown area (diam. 33m NE-SW; 30m NW-SE) defined by an overgrown earthen bank W-NW (Wth 7m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.6m) and a complete outer fosse (at NW: Wth of top 8.4m; ext. D 1.2m), but the bank is reduced to an external scarp (at SE: Wth 6m; H 1.9m) over most of the perimeter. The entrance (Wth 4.3m) and causeway (Wth of top 3.5m; H 0.4m) are at E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 6 December 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Monalia with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Monalia · Maigh Náille

Area

686,572 m² (68.66 ha, 169.66 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmoyne, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Crossalare, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Crossalare electoral division: 827 people in 241 households; 84% of households own their home; 46% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Beagh, Corleck, Corlygorm, Cornanure, Cullentraghbane, Drumlurg, Rathmore

Placenames

Monalia 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.