Monalia
Monalia is a townland in the civil parish of Donaghmoyne, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is Maigh Náille.
Parcel 342933
- Area
- 31,570 m² (3.16 ha, 7.8 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 241 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Monalia
Planning applications on this parcel
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
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 20 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 68.7 ha
- 170 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 31,570 m² (3.16 ha, 7.8 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
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 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 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Monalia, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Monalia.
- 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 Monalia with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- 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
- 827 people lived in 241 households in the Crossalare electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- 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.