Inchisland or Moatalusha

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Inchisland or Moatalusha, from 3,025 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres) to 200,201 m² (20.02 ha, 49.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Inchisland or Moatalusha 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Inchisland or Moatalusha in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 the townland of Inchisland or Moatalusha.

Recorded monuments

• CW008-039 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Shown on 1939 'OS 6-inch' map as circular mound, quarried away from NE-E-SW (original max. diam. c. 25m). No visible surface traces.

• CW008-040 Enclosure
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Aerial photographs (CUCAP AYL 29, 30) show approximately circular area surrounded by cropmark of narrow fosse (est max. diam. c. 25m). Possibly a ringfort. Cropmarks of rectangular fields in vicinity, possibly connected with moated site (CW008-052001-).

• CW008-052001 Moated site
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Aerial photographs (CUCAP AYL 29, 30) show cropmark of fosse enclosing approximately square area (max. dims. c. 25m x 25m) with indications of entrance in middle of S side. Cropmarks of rectangular fields in vicinity (CW008-052002-). Adjacent to enclosure site (CW008-040----). No visible surface traces. Probably a moated site.

• CW008-052002 Field system
  Description

  On slight NE facing slope. Aerial photographs (CUCAP AYL 29, AYL 30) show cropmarks of rectangular fields adjacent to enclosure site (CW008-040----) and possible moated site (CW008-052001-). No visible surface traces when inspected by ASI in 1987. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 19 August 2011

• CW008-098 Ring-ditch
  Description

  In tillage. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m) visible as a cropmark on Google Earth (imagery date 14 July 2018) identified and reported by Simon Dowling. See attached: CW008-098----_01 Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) CW008-098----_02 Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) with ring-ditch highlighted Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 25 February 2020

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Inchisland or Moatalusha.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Inchisland or Moatalusha.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Inchisland or Moatalusha with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.

Name

Inchisland or Moatalusha · An Inse nó Móta Eilíse

Area

982,655 m² (98.27 ha, 242.82 acres)

Civil parish

Grangeford, and its townlands

Barony

Carlow

Electoral division

Grangeford, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Grangeford electoral division: 589 people in 193 households; 69% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Baunogenasraid, Castlemore, Glenoge, Grangeford, Kellistown East, Rathnashannagh, Rathtoe, Roscat

Placenames

Inchisland or Moatalusha 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.