# Moness, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Taughboyne, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 240,295 m² (24.03 ha, 59.38 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,903 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 9 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Taughboyne, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/taughboyne.md - Barony: Raphoe North - Electoral division: St. Johnstown, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16524 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 52064 - Centre: latitude 54.918787, longitude -7.484936 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moness, from 155 m² to 136,966 m² (13.7 ha, 33.84 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1305399: 136,966 m² (13.7 ha, 33.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305399.md - Parcel 1306176: 65,382 m² (6.54 ha, 16.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1306176.md - Parcel 1405572: 10,419 m² (1.04 ha, 2.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1405572.md - Parcel 2728933: 3,063 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2728933.md - Parcel 1412842: 2,548 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412842.md - Parcel 1361967: 2,413 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1361967.md - Parcel 4723371: 2,135 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4723371.md - Parcel 1393866: 2,124 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393866.md - Parcel 5210032: 2,018 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5210032.md - Parcel 1334711: 1,934 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1334711.md - Parcel 1386881: 1,871 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1386881.md - Parcel 4723397: 1,840 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4723397.md - Parcel 1407701: 1,747 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407701.md - Parcel 1426730: 1,074 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426730.md - Parcel 1336400: 958 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1336400.md - Parcel 3658754: 619 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3658754.md - Parcel 4723472: 276 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4723472.md - Parcel 1324076: 218 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1324076.md - Parcel 5210054: 181 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5210054.md - Parcel 1331530: 155 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331530.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 9 applications, newest first. - 15 May 2025, Donegal County Council 2560781: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560781/0 - 4 Mar 2024, Donegal County Council 2460268: Conditional. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460268/0 - 29 Jun 2023, Donegal County Council 2350935: Conditional. Retention. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2350935/0 - 8 Apr 2022, Donegal County Council 2250607: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2250607/0 - 24 Mar 2022, Donegal County Council 2250507: N/a. Permission, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2250507/0 - 26 Feb 2021, Donegal County Council 2150324: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, ATTACHED CARPORT, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2150324/0 - 7 Aug 2020, Donegal County Council 2051084: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2051084/0 - 15 Oct 2018, Donegal County Council 1851580: Conditional. Retention. CHANGES TO DOMESTIC GARAGE, WHICH INCLUDE ELEVATION CHANGES, INCREASED HEIGHT OF STRUCTURE, EXTERNAL STEEL STAIRCASE AND DOOR TO REAR ON FIRST FLOOR. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1851580/0 - 31 Mar 2017, Donegal County Council 1750464: Conditional. Retention. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750464/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) The National Parks and Wildlife Service did not answer. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) The Sites and Monuments Record did not answer. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage did not answer. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: the EPA radon map did not answer. - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/moness-52064.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/moness-52064.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/moness-52064.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Moness with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Burnthaw: https://everytownland.com/donegal/burnthaw.md - Castletown: https://everytownland.com/donegal/castletown.md - Drumenan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumenan-51043.md - Legnatraw: https://everytownland.com/donegal/legnatraw.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/moness-52064 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/moness-52064