Moness

81 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moness, from 83 m² to 260,896 m² (26.09 ha, 64.47 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Moness 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.

• 28 Jul 2026Refused

  (1) RETENTION OF EXISTING DWELLING, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK PERCOLATION AREA ON SITE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661405

• 6 Oct 2025Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561737

• 20 May 2024Conditional

  RELOCATION OF AN EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED TREATMENT PLANT AND POLISHING FILTERS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460732

• 14 Jul 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A 21 METER MULTI-USER LATTICE MOBILE AND BROADBAND TOWER WITH DELTA HEADFRAME CARRYING TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT, TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT AND CABINETS ENCLOSED WITHIN A 2.4M PALISADE FENCE COMPOUND

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351043

• 9 Sept 2019Conditional

  RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF PARTLY CONSTRUCTED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ERECTION OF SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT WITH ACCESS VIA EXISTING SHARED PRIVATE ACCESS ROAD AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951375

• 23 May 2017Refused

  CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING CARPARKING SPACES TO DISPLAY OF CARS FOR SALE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS.

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750803

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 Swilly SPA 004075
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Swilly Including Big Isle, Blanket Nook & Inch Lake 000166

Recorded monuments

• DG047-004001 Souterrain
  Description

  In August, 1982, a souterrain was discovered here and investigated by the staff of the OPW. The souterrain consisted of two chambers at right angles to one another and connected by a creepway. Chamber I running roughly N-S was 4.3m long × c. 1m wide × c. 1.4m maximum height. A creepway, c. 1.4m long × 0.47m wide and c. O.5m high, led from the SW corner of chamber I into the second chamber. Chamber II was 3m long and from .4m to 1m in width. It ran in a rough E-W direction. A fragment of a quernstone was found wedged in the wall near the W end of the W chamber. The souterrain came to light in the course of construction work at a modern graveyard (without any ancient associations) and was considerably disturbed. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG047-025 Souterrain
  Description

  In pasture, on relatively level ground. To N ground falls away gently. According to local information, a possible souterrain was exposed at roughly this location during ploughing/land reclamation works in the early 2000’s. The plough dislodged a flat roof slab, revealing a subterranean chamber (Wth c. 2m) with drystone side walls. A second roof stone remained in situ adjacent to the displaced slab. The interior space appeared small/confined and was partly obscured by collapsed soil. It was not explored or reported at the time, and was covered over again. There is no trace now at surface ground level. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 26 January 2023

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Moness.

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 Moness with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Moness

Area

1,640,446 m² (164.04 ha, 405.36 acres)

Civil parish

Burt, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen West

Electoral division

Burt, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Burt electoral division: 1,333 people in 494 households; 78% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castlecooly, Inch Level, Speenoge, Toulett

Placenames

Moness 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.