# Moneymore, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Drumhome, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Muine Mór. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 512,471 m² (51.25 ha, 126.63 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,837 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Drumhome, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/drumhome.md - Barony: Tirhugh - Electoral division: Ballintra, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/13794 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 52070 - Centre: latitude 54.579567, longitude -8.136057 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moneymore, from 211 m² to 227,733 m² (22.77 ha, 56.27 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1378163: 227,733 m² (22.77 ha, 56.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378163.md - Parcel 1378164: 156,378 m² (15.64 ha, 38.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378164.md - Parcel 1330041: 64,515 m² (6.45 ha, 15.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330041.md - Parcel 1391708: 11,031 m² (1.1 ha, 2.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391708.md - Parcel 1378165: 8,164 m² (0.82 ha, 2.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378165.md - Parcel 1369064: 5,803 m² (0.58 ha, 1.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369064.md - Parcel 1301304: 5,316 m² (0.53 ha, 1.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301304.md - Parcel 4868364: 4,979 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4868364.md - Parcel 1353117: 4,188 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1353117.md - Parcel 4868348: 3,995 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4868348.md - Parcel 1326154: 3,543 m² (0.35 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1326154.md - Parcel 1317639: 3,459 m² (0.35 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1317639.md - Parcel 1327735: 2,837 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1327735.md - Parcel 1335730: 2,193 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1335730.md - Parcel 1329649: 1,631 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1329649.md - Parcel 1380350: 1,571 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1380350.md - Parcel 1357960: 1,140 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357960.md - Parcel 1336498: 904 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1336498.md - Parcel 1341369: 806 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1341369.md - Parcel 1318144: 579 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1318144.md - Parcel 1340698: 521 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340698.md - Parcel 1405350: 479 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1405350.md - Parcel 1319046: 249 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1319046.md - Parcel 1318649: 246 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1318649.md - Parcel 1342031: 211 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1342031.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 28 Apr 2025, Donegal County Council 2560656: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560656/0 - 3 Apr 2024, Donegal County Council 2460443: N/a. Permission, 1 home. (1) ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, (2) INSTALLATION OF A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM ALONG WITH NEW PACKAGE TERTIARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND INFILTRATION AREA. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460443/0 - 10 Nov 2023, Donegal County Council 2351712: Conditional. Retention. (1) CHANGE OF USE OF PART OF EXISTING GARAGE TO USE AS A RECREATION / HOBBY AREA AND (2) DOMESTIC STORAGE OUTBUILDING. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2351712/0 - 12 Apr 2017, Donegal County Council 1750541: Unconditional. Extension of duration, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750541/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Moneymore. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG103-006: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG103-006----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG103-007----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Moneymore Bridge, bridge, 1780–1820, Regional interest, registry number 40849019, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40849019. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: the Geological Survey did not answer. - 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/moneymore-52070.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/moneymore-52070.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/moneymore-52070.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Moneymore 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) - Ardnagalliagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ardnagalliagh.md - Ballintra: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballintra-50149.md - Ballymagrorty Scotch: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballymagrorty-scotch.md - Ballynacarrick: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballynacarrick-50263.md - Grahamstown: https://everytownland.com/donegal/grahamstown.md - Rosscanlan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/rosscanlan.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/moneymore-52070 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/moneymore-52070