Mondellihy

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mondellihy, from 42 m² to 988,674 m² (98.87 ha, 244.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Mondellihy 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.

• 17 Oct 2022Conditional

  extensions to existing dwellinghouse

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 221117

• 29 Mar 2022Refused

  the construction of a new roadside boundary, and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 22348

• 16 Apr 2021Conditional

  construction of a single storey extension to existing dwelling house and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21492

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165

Recorded monuments

• LI021-011001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture on slight E-facing slope, moderate views in all directions, 8m N of the townland boundary with Gortaganniff, ringfort (LI021-011002----) to the immediate N. Westropp described the conjoined ringforts as following “Mondellihy Rings…They lie north and south and consist of two earthen rings, one stone-faced and capped with dry stone walls’ (Westropp 1921, 183). Present remains consist of a slightly raised circular-shaped area (dims. 24m N-S; 22m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank mainly reduced to a scarp (Wth 1.8m; H 0.4m) that has been levelled from N to E and a ramp (Wth. 4m) across scarp at S. Poorly preserved monument visible on Google Earth image taken 2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 9 July 20202

• LI021-011002 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In pasture on slight E-facing slope, moderate views in all directions, 8m N of the townland boundary with Gortaganniff, ringfort (LI021-011001----) to the immediate S. Westropp described the conjoined ringforts as following “Mondellihy Rings…They lie north and south and consist of two earthen rings, one stone-faced and capped with dry stone walls’ (Westropp 1921, 183). Present remains consist of a slightly raised circular-shaped area (dims. 19m N-S; 20m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank mainly reduced to a scarp (Wth 1.8m; H 0.4m) that has been levelled from NE through E to S. Poorly preserved monument visible on Google Earth image taken 2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 9 July 20202

• LI021-110 Country house
  Description

  In a complex of buildings, at the N end of a ridge, in pasture. The River Maigue lies 500m to W, which also serves as a barony boundary. A house is depicted in this vicinity on the Down Survey Map of Coshma Barony (Hib. Reg.; Simington 1938, 145). Annotated 'Mondellihy Ho.' and depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map as a rectangular-shaped house with a linear range of outbuildings to W. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a larger building within a wider complex of buildings. According to the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH Reg. No. 21902112), the present house was built circa 1840, incorporating an earlier eighteenth-century house and the associated outbuildings, which date to the original house. There is no evidence of any house of 17th entury date or earlier in the vicinity of Mondellihy House. A complex of historic and modern buildings are visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. See attached Down Survey Barony Map of Coshma and Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 30 July 2020

• LI021-190 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on flat reclaimed grassland 50m E of the River Maigue. Outline of enclosure clearly visible on Google Earth aerial image taken 2009 and various OSi aerial photographs. Monument consists of a circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 18m) enclosed by a bank and external fosse (approx. overall diam. 25m). See attached aerial photographs taken from Google Earth. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Dr. Rob O'Hara Date of upload: 24 February 2020

Architectural heritage

• Mondellihy House, country house, 1820–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey country house, built c. 1840, having porch to front (east) elevation, bay windows to south elevation, with earlier eighteenth-century fabric which may incorporate original house. Five-bay two-storey block to rear (west) elevation with two-bay single-storey extension to north elevation and lean-tos to west elevation. Single-story lean-tos to rear elevation. Hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves and rendered chimneystacks. Hipped slate roof and rendered chimneystack to rear block with single-pitched slate roof to lean-to. Single-pitched artificial slate roofs to rear lean-tos. Half-hipped slate roofs to bay window and porch having timber brackets. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Round-headed openings to porch, north and south elevations having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Round-headed opening to porch with spoked fanlight over timber panelled door with render roll moulded surround and hoodmoulding. Pair of tooled limestone square-profile piers to rear having rounded caps and rubble limestone walls. Eight-bay single-storey outbuilding to west with pitched slate roof having red brick chimneystack and cast-iron roof light. Rubble limestone walls. Square-headed window openings having red brick block-and-start surrounds, limestone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, some having cast-iron sill guards. Square-headed openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds and timber battened doors. Adjoining seven-bay single-storey outbuilding to north having pitched slate roof with cast-iron rooflights. Rubble limestone walls. Square-headed arrow slit window openings. Square-headed openings having two-over-two pane fixed windows with red brick surrounds. Square-headed openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds and timber battened doors. Pair of square-profile chamfered limestone piers to east having carved capes and double-leaf metal gates. Rubble limestone boundary walls to 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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Mondellihy, about 1 in 5 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. Parts of the land are made ground and water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_817 (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 Mondellihy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Mondellihy · Móin Deilithe

Area

1,436,157 m² (143.62 ha, 354.88 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

Ardshanbally, Gortaganniff, Kilgobbin

Placenames

Mondellihy 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.