Moat

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moat, from 276 m² to 135,290 m² (13.53 ha, 33.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Moat 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.

• 21 Jun 2023Conditional

  to rehabilitate and improve a 800 metre stretch of the Maghera River at Magheraboy Upper, Finea, Co. Cavan. Works will include the removal of some in-stream vegetation, repair and reinstatement of existing in-stream structures. Improvement and alteration of flow dynamics by the construction of deflectors and weirs, reinforcement of the river bank in some locations and the introduction of spawning gravel to improve breeding habitats for trout. Appropriate assessment and an NIS has been submitted as part of this application.

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 23245

• 13 Jun 2023N/a

  to rehabilitate and improve a 800 metre stretch of the Maghera River at Magheraboy Upper, Finea, Co. Cavan. Works will include the removal of some in-stream vegetation, repair and reinstatement of existing in-stream structures. Improvement and alteration of flow dynamics by the construction of deflectors and weirs, reinforcement of the river bank in some locations and the introduction of spawning gravel to improve breeding habitats for trout. Appropriate assessment and an NIS has been submitted as part of this application.

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 23238

• 11 Sept 2020Refused

  for development consisting of construction of a camping park within a Special Protection Area (Lough Sheelin Special Protection Area 004065) and within a Proposed National Heritage Areas (Lough Sheelin pNHA 000987) including; A. A fully serviced single storey building containing toilets, showers & wash up facilities, laundry room, plant room and storage rooms, B. Conversion of existing single storey domestic house on site to a reception area with kitchen canteen, games rooms and hang out areas with mezzanine over part. House to be part demolished and rebuilt on North Side Gable. Hipped roof to be replaced with the addition of roof lights. Rear east elevation to have adjoining existing lean to shed demolished and glazing installed to match existing house. Minor alteration to allow changes to over structure. C. A camping area with driveway and associated fittings for each pitch with a proprietary waste water system and percolation area, chemical sewerage treatment facilities, private well, car-parking, entrance, walls and piers and all ancillary works. D. A Natura Impact Statement is being submitted with the application. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted.

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 20404

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Lough Sheelin SPA 004065
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Sheelin 000987

Recorded monuments

• CV041-018 Castle - motte
  Description

  Circular mound (diam. of base c. 28m) enclosed by a fosse. Mound is high (H 3-4m), steep-sided and flat-topped (diam. of summit 19.7m N-S). Fosse is best preserved from N-E-SE. Original entrance not recognisable. On the summit at SE there is an approximately circular round-bottomed depression (diam. 6.2m; D 0.3m) of unknown significance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moat.

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; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Moat.

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 Moat with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Moat

Area

695,527 m² (69.55 ha, 171.87 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymachugh, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmahon

Electoral division

Ballymachugh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballymachugh electoral division: 838 people in 276 households; 85% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Magheraboy Upper, Moydristan

Placenames

Moat 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.