Moneymore

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moneymore, from 211 m² to 227,733 m² (22.77 ha, 56.27 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 Moneymore 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 Apr 2025Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE OF PART OF EXISTING GARAGE AND CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING HOBBY/RECREATION AREA FOR USE AS DOMESTIC ACCOMMODATION TO BE ATTACHED TO EXISTING MAIN DWELLING VIA A NEW CORRIDOR LINK AND ALL ASSOCIATED ELEVATIONAL CHANGES AND SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560656

• 3 Apr 2024N/a

  (1) ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, (2) INSTALLATION OF A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM ALONG WITH NEW PACKAGE TERTIARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND INFILTRATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460443

• 10 Nov 2023Conditional

  (1) CHANGE OF USE OF PART OF EXISTING GARAGE TO USE AS A RECREATION / HOBBY AREA AND (2) DOMESTIC STORAGE OUTBUILDING

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2351712

• 12 Apr 2017Unconditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW ACCESS ROAD TO REPLACE EXISTING DOMESTIC ACCESS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750541

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 Moneymore.

Recorded monuments

• DG103-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 7m. A circular raised area enclosed by an earthen bank .75m high. There is a possible entrance to the N. It is located on the flat crest of a hill in good pasture land with wide views. 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

• DG103-007 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 13m. A subcircular area enclosed by an earthen bank probably scraped up from the hillside. Gaps to the E and W could have been entrances. The bank is planted with trees. It is situated on the crest of Horse Hill and commands good views. 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

Architectural heritage

• Moneymore Bridge, bridge, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge, built c. 1800, carrying small country road over the Ballintra River. Segmental-headed arch having roughly dressed stone voussoirs and squared rubble stone construction to the arch barrel. Irregularly coursed and squared rubble stone construction to spandrels and parapets. Parapet to the east now damaged. Tarmacadam deck with vegetation to verges and centre. Located in the rural countryside to the west of Ballintra.

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 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 Moneymore.

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

Name

Moneymore · Muine Mór

Area

512,471 m² (51.25 ha, 126.63 acres)

Civil parish

Drumhome, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Ballintra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballintra electoral division: 755 people in 290 households; 81% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 41% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnagalliagh, Ballintra, Ballymagrorty Scotch, Ballynacarrick, Grahamstown, Rosscanlan

Placenames

Moneymore 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.