Mogneneins has about 740 inhabitants. Name shall not be known for the name of the inhabitants. The name of Mogneneins appears for the first time in the charter of Cluny in 963, while the area appears to have been inhabited long before that time. Some studies regard the origin of the name Mogneneins in the word "monk" and names of localities actually recall the hours, the heartbeat of the monastic life, as Third. Yet the area was probably inhabited long before the medieval period and the origin of the name could be attributed to one of the tribes that settled in the region around 430: the Burgundians, of Germanic origin. For several centuries, a family was known as Mogneneins.
The territory of 857 ha has pleasantly hilly terrain and dense two hamlets and well grouped, and the Avaneins Flurieux are connected to the Village by the road 100.
The village has a rural character with a party by the river which is a "wetland" to preserve.
