Moygowna
Townland in the civil parish of Carran, barony of Burren, Co. Clare
- Area
- 94.6 ha
- 234 acres
- Land parcels
- 5
- registered freehold, median 131,608 m² (13.16 ha, 32.52 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moygowna, from 13,947 m² (1.39 ha, 3.45 acres) to 245,433 m² (24.54 ha, 60.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Moygowna 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
No planning application touches the townland of Moygowna 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: East Burren Complex SAC 001926
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: East Burren Complex 001926
Recorded monuments
- CL009-134 Cairn - unclassified
Description
At the edge of the summit of an E-W ridge, sloping to the N and with wide views all around, in rough pasture within an extensive field system (CL017-180----). A small moss-covered cairn (4m N-S, 4.4m E-W; H 0.6m); possibly a field-clearance cairn. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 17 June 2022
- CL009-248 Enclosure
Description
On a terrace on a N-facing slope in an area of rough pasture and heavy scrub. A subrectangular enclosure (c. 13m N-S; c. 10m E-W) defined by a grassed-over wall is visible on OSi MapGenie 2013-2018. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 10 May 2023
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moygowna.
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_405 (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 Moygowna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Moygowna
- Area
- 945,612 m² (94.56 ha, 233.67 acres)
- Civil parish
- Carran, and its townlands
- Barony
- Burren
- Electoral division
- Castletown, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyline, Caherfadda, Deerpark, Moheraroon, Sheshymore
- Placenames
- Moygowna 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.