Moyadda More
Townland in the civil parish of Kilrush, barony of Moyarta, Co. Clare
- Area
- 167.4 ha
- 414 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 46,546 m² (4.65 ha, 11.5 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moyadda More, from 425 m² to 296,486 m² (29.65 ha, 73.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Moyadda More 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
29 Mar 2024Refused
for the erection of 4 no. wind turbines with an overall ground to blade tip height of 150m with a rotor diameter of 136m and a hub height of 82m, the construction of crane hardstand areas and turbine foundations, the creation of a new site entrance onto the L6132, construction of 1 no. temporary construction compound with associated temporary site offices, parking areas and security fencing, installation of 1 no. permanent meteorological mast of 82m overall height, construction of new internal site access tracks and upgrade of existing site track, to include all associated drainage including new clear span bridge crossing of the Moyasta River, development of a site drainage network, biodiversity enhancement measures, construction of 1 no. permanent 38kV electrical substation, 2 no. permanent spoil storage areas, all associated underground electrical and communications cabling connecting the wind turbines to the wind farm substation and to the existing Tullabrack 110kV Substation, all ancillary forestry felling to facilitate construction including the development of one no. borrow pit, vertical realignment of an existing crest curve on the L6132. This application is seeking a ten year permission and a 35 year operational life from the date of commissioning of the wind farm. The planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIAR) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS)
Permission · Clare County Council, 2460143
6 Apr 2018Conditional
for development which will consist of entrance road to existing forestry
Permission · Clare County Council, 18269
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Moyadda More.
Recorded monuments
- CL057-047 Ringfort - rath
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- CL057-060 Quarry
Description
Listed as ‘Potential site – aerial photo’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A potential archaeological feature was noted on an aerial photograph (OS 4/2674). This location is named ‘Quarry (disused)’ on the OS 25-inch map. On inspection in July 2002 a large elongated quarry (L c. 50m; max. D 1.2m) was noted. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 11 March 2015
- CL057-073 Enclosure
Description
On a slight N-facing slope in pasture. A circular area (diam. c. 45m) visible as a cropmark on Google Earth imagery (20 March 2020) and reported to the National Monuments Service by Jean-Charles Caillère. It is also faintly visible on Digital Globe (2011-2013). The following image has been uploaded: CL057-073----_01.jpg Google Earth image 20 March 2020 Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 18 January 2022
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moyadda More.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_271 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Moyadda More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Moyadda More
- Area
- 1,674,382 m² (167.44 ha, 413.75 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilrush, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moyarta
- Electoral division
- Killimer, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killimer electoral division: 425 people in 176 households; 85% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballykett, Carrowfree, Garraunnatooha, Gowerhass, Moyadda Beg, Thomastown
- Placenames
- Moyadda More 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.