Monard is a planned new settlement situated to the north-west of Cork City

Cork (city)

Cork is the second largest city in the Republic of Ireland and the island of Ireland's third most populous city. It is the principal city and administrative centre of County Cork and the largest city in the province of Munster. Cork has a population of 119,418, while the addition of the suburban...

 in Ireland. It is expected to cover 966 acres (3.9 km²) and contain 5,000 new dwellings for 13,000 people as well as schools, a medical centre and other facilities. It is expected to be smaller in size but similar in concept to Adamstown

Adamstown, Dublin

Adamstown is the first new town planned in Ireland since Shannon Town in 1982. The new settlement is being developed 16 km from Dublin city centre, on a 220 hectare site just south of Lucan, west of the Griffeen River and north of the Grand Canal. No date has been set for the official...

 in Dublin.

Due to the fallout from the Irish property bubble

Irish property bubble

The property bubble in the Republic of Ireland began in 2000 and peaked in 2006, as with many other western European countries, with a combination of increased speculative construction and rapidly rising prices....

, the development has been delayed, with full plans expected to be available in 2013 or 2014.

The settlement is expected to be based on three villages and a town centre, built around the new railway station, located at Rathpeacon siding on the Dublin-Cork mainline.