Mannanarie is a rural locality in the Mid North region of South Australia, situated in the Northern Areas Council.

[6] In 1872, the township site was described as being "innocent of houses", with one commentator stating "naturally at present the work of settlement is very incomplete and unfinished" although "signs of agricultural activity are multiplying all over the place".

The dwellings at that stage were "for the most part only temporary, consisting of a few sheets of iron, a tarpaulin, a deserted hut, or some similar simple shelter".

[8][11][4][12] In 2012, Mannanarie was described as "one of those tiny old towns where there's little more left than an ageing hall, an empty stone church, a long closed school and a couple of houses."

The Mannanarie Public Hall was renovated for its centenary in that year, having become "increasingly decrepit" in past decades.