Moyny Upper
Townland in the civil parish of Dromdaleague, barony of Carbery West (East Division), Co. Cork; in Irish Maoiní Uachtarach
- Area
- 91.8 ha
- 227 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 19,424 m² (1.94 ha, 4.8 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moyny Upper, from 2,515 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres) to 215,238 m² (21.52 ha, 53.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Moyny Upper 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
3 Jun 2026Grant with conditions
• Permission for retention for 2 no. dwelling houses. • Permission for retention & upgrade of existing entrance. • Permission to install a sewerage system, & all associated site works. .
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/1469
15 Jun 2007Conditional
Demolish existing dwelling and construct dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1573
16 Sept 2004Refused
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/7043
30 Apr 2004Refused
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/2928
10 Aug 2001Refused
Dwelling & mini-treatment plant
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/4573
30 Mar 1999Conditional
Erection of an overhead 110kV transmission line
Permission · Cork County Council, 99/1596
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 Moyny Upper.
Recorded monuments
- CO119-054001 Fulacht fia
Description
Levelled mound of indeterminate shape, in rough grazing with stream to W. Second fulacht fiadh c. 50m to E (CO119-054002). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO119-054002 Fulacht fia
Description
Almost levelled, irregular mound of burnt material, on W bank of stream, in rough grazing. Second fulacht fiadh (CO119-054001-) c. 50m to W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO119-114 Standing stone
Description
In undulating pasture, on a steep S-facing slope. This standing stone (1.6m x 0.5m; H 1.6m) is orientated NNW-SSE. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009
- CO119-118 Enclosure
Description
In undulating peaty pasture, on a steep S-facing slope. An oval area (16.4m N-S; 12.2m E-W) is defined by the intermittent remains of a collapsed drystone wall (T 1m; H 0.8m), the lower courses of which protrude above the surface of the bog. At NNE one stone stands in a upright position. The interior is raised (H 0.8m) on the S side to compensate for the hillslope. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moyny Upper.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, 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 Moyny Upper.
- 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 Moyny Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Moyny Upper · Maoiní Uachtarach
- Area
- 917,900 m² (91.79 ha, 226.82 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dromdaleague, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery West (East Division)
- Electoral division
- Dromdaleague South, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dromdaleague South electoral division: 636 people in 218 households; 74% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Baurgarriff, Deelish, Kealanine, Moyny East, Moyny Middle, Toughraheen
- Placenames
- Moyny Upper 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.