Moness

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moness, from 155 m² to 136,966 m² (13.7 ha, 33.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as 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.

• 15 May 2025Conditional

  (1) DOMESTIC SHED AND PERMISSION FOR (2) (A) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE BLOCKS; PLANNING REF: 07/40143, (B) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE, (C) CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560781

• 4 Mar 2024Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SINGLE STOREY SIDE ANNEX, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING TO PROVIDE A KITCHEN, BEDROOM AND PORCH AND (3) MINOR INTERNAL ALTERATIONS TO MAKE PROVISION FOR PROPOSED EXTENSION AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460268

• 29 Jun 2023Conditional

  (A) GAS TANK AND ASSOCIATED FENCING AND (B) RELOCATION OF TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER AND PERMISSION FOR EXTENSION TO THE PLAYGROUND TO COMPRISE OF A BALL COURT AND ERECTION OF PERIMETER FENCING TO SCHOOL BOUNDARY AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2350935

• 8 Apr 2022Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 21/50324 FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, ATTACHED CARPORT, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250607

• 24 Mar 2022N/a

  (1) DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250507

• 26 Feb 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, ATTACHED CARPORT, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150324

• 7 Aug 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING SCHOOL PREMISES. THE EXTENSION WILL COMPRISE OF AN ADDITIONAL CLASSROOM, SET ROOM AND NEW ENTRANCE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051084

• 15 Oct 2018Conditional

  CHANGES TO DOMESTIC GARAGE, WHICH INCLUDE ELEVATION CHANGES, INCREASED HEIGHT OF STRUCTURE, EXTERNAL STEEL STAIRCASE AND DOOR TO REAR ON FIRST FLOOR

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1851580

• 31 Mar 2017Conditional

  (1) RELOCATION OF SUNROOM FROM SIDE ELEVATION TO REAR ELEVATION, PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF: 10/60036, AND (2) 2 NO GABLE WINDOWS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1750464

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Moness.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Moness.

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

At the centre of the townland of Moness, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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

240,295 m² (24.03 ha, 59.38 acres)

Civil parish

Taughboyne, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

St. Johnstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,396 people lived in 537 households in the St. Johnstown electoral division. 69% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Burnthaw, Castletown, Drumenan, Legnatraw

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.