Monearla

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monearla, from 563 m² to 322,494 m² (32.25 ha, 79.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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.

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.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 8 May 2026Refused

  agricultural building comprising tack room and changing facility and all associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 26119

• 24 Sept 2025Conditional

  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

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560965

• 20 Aug 2021Conditional

  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

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211183

• 30 Apr 2020Conditional

  decommissioning of existing septic tank and percolation area and installation of a packaged waste water treatment system and polishing filter

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 20344

• 4 Nov 2019Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house, garage, entrance, installation of a wastewater treatment system and associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 191083

• 2 Aug 2019Conditional

  (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

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 19767

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 Monearla.

Recorded monuments

• LI021-016 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  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
  Description

  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

Architectural heritage

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

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 Monearla, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_851 (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.

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

Name

Monearla · Móin an Iarla

Area

700,466 m² (70.05 ha, 173.09 acres)

Civil parish

Adare, and its townlands

Barony

Coshma

Electoral division

Adare South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycarrane, Ballygeale, Ballyloughnaan, Killeen, Knockanes, Rineroe

Placenames

Monearla 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.