Moress

68 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moress, from 14 m² to 304,085 m² (30.41 ha, 75.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Moress 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 2026N/a

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARAGE DUE TO DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF. NO. 04/5657 AND (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH ATTACHED GARAGE, CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660748

• 24 Apr 2026N/a

  (1) RENOVATION AND EXTENSION OF EXISTING DWELLING AND (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT SEWAGE SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660720

• 23 Apr 2026N/a

  (1) RENOVATION AND EXTENSION OF EXISTING DWELLING AND (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT SEWAGE SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660704

• 21 Apr 2026N/a

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE DUE TO DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF. NO. 04/5657 AND (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING TO BE CONNECTED TO THE EXISTING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660690

• 22 Oct 2024Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE TO THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED (REG. REF. NO. 21/52227 REFERS)

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461672

• 15 Oct 2024Conditional

  CONSERVATORY AND REAR DORMER AND PERMISSION FOR DEMOLITION OF DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE MICA BLOCKWORK AND ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461627

• 30 Jan 2023Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350091

• 20 Jul 2022Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE MICA BLOCKWORK (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251233

• 9 Nov 2021Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE MICA BLOCKWORK (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152227

• 10 Feb 2021Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SINGLE STOREY REAR EXTENSIONS (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING COTTAGE (59.7M2) CONSISTING OF A NEW KITCHEN / DINING AREA AND 2 NO. BEDROOMS; ALONG WITH PROVISION OF NEW FRONT DOOR (ON NORTHEAST ELEVATION) & 2 NO. NEW WINDOWS IN EXISTING COTTAGE TO SOUTHEAST ELEVATION; ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING WINDOWS IN NORTHEAST ELEVATIONS AS WELL AS ASSOCIATED INTERNAL REFURBUISHMENT WORKS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150198

• 21 Sept 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF 5NO. GLAMPING PODS WITH AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT, CAR PARKING FACILITIES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051334

• 24 May 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF A STOREY AND A HALF TYPE DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050530

• 24 May 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF A STOREY AND A HALF TYPE DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050531

• 4 Dec 2019Refused

  ERECTION OF A STOREY AND A HALF TYPE DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951876

• 18 Nov 2019N/a

  ERECTION OF A STOREY AND A HALF TYPE DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951790

• 18 Nov 2019Refused

  ERECTION OF A STOREY AND A HALF TYPE DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951785

• 11 Mar 2019Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE FROM PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF: 07/70628

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950312

• 5 Mar 2018Refused

  ERECTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850322

• 5 Mar 2018Refused

  ERECTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850323

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Swilly SAC 002287
• Special Protection Area: Lough Swilly SPA 004075
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Swilly Including Big Isle, Blanket Nook & Inch Lake 000166

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Moress.

Architectural heritage

• Inch House, house, 1720–1740 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay two-storey over basement with attic house, built c. 1730, with lean-to extension to north gable, modern single-storey extension to rear and lean-to conservatory to south gable. Pitched slate roof with modern skylights to west pitch, lean-to artificial slate roof to north extension, blue-black clay ridge tiles, deeply projecting painted timber eaves, four rectangular yellow brick chimneystacks with cogging cornice to cap; replacement rainwater goods, some round cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast rendered walls, lined-and-ruled rendered to south gable. Square-headed window openings, with nine-over-nine hornless sash windows with exposed sash boxes and painted stone sills; six over-six to north gable and six-over-three to basement. uPVC windows to south gable and timber casements to modern extensions. Square-headed entrance door opening with Tuscan pilaster and pediment doorcase with timber glass panelled door and overlight with X-tracery. House set back from road on elevated site. Courtyard to west with L-plan two-storey multiple-bay former stables and coach house built c. 1840, renovated 2006, with modern pitched slate roof with block stone modillions to eaves, rubble stone walls, square-headed door and window openings with roughly dressed voussoirs, and three-centre-headed carriage arch with roughly dressed stone voussoirs; single-storey rubble stone outbuilding with curved south-east corner and replacement roof. Former orchard to south-east enclosed by rubble stone wall, with three-centre-headed carriage arch with dressed stone voussoirs.

• Church of Ireland Church, church/chapel, 1775–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding two-bay gable-fronted former Church of Ireland church, built in 1776, vestry built 1869, now a ruin. Roof gone, remains of cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls, chamfered roughcast plinth, scar of former vestry to north elevation, remains of ashlar stone verges to west gable. Round-headed window openings, remains of timber windows, timber intersecting bar-tracery window to east gable, flush rendered surrounds and ashlar stone sills. Square-headed door opening to west gable with flush rendered surrounds. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls, with remains of torus moulding to east window reveals. Church set back from road, approached by yew lined path, graveyard to west and south with gravemarkers from 1869 to 1934; random rubble stone boundary wall with concrete coping; wrought and cast-iron double gates on angled rubble stone piers with chamfered rubble stone plinth and yellow brick quoins surmounted by projecting chamfered concrete cap; second gateway to west with wrought-iron carriage gate on angled rubble stone piers with chamfered rubble stone plinth and yellow brick quoins surmounted by projecting chamfered concrete cap.

• Moress House, farm house, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey with attic level farm house, built c. 1850, renovated c. 2000. Rectangular on plan, rectangular single-storey with attic extension to north (possibly attached outbuilding). Pitched artificial slate roof to main body of house, pitched slate roof to north extension, blue-black clay ridge tiles, rectangular yellow brick corbelled chimneystacks to south and north gable-ends, replacement rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings, painted timber six-over-six sash windows to east side of house, replacement windows to ground floor, original windows to first floor, painted stone sills. Square-headed entrance door opening to east side of house, replacement painted timber panelled four glass panes door surmounted by replacement painted timber overlight, door addressed by rendered stone doorstep. House set back from road, landscaped garden to east, rectangular single-storey barrel roof roughcast rendered and rubble stone walls outbuildings and modern pitched corrugated-sheet storage shed to north and north-west of house; driveway leading to house enclosed by decorative wrought-iron double railings gate on rubble stone piers with yellow brick quoins surmounted by projecting chamfered concrete cap (gateway possibly modern).

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 Moress, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Moress, Inch Island6 sales

Name

Moress

Area

1,254,664 m² (125.47 ha, 310.03 acres)

Civil parish

Inch, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen West

Electoral division

Inch Island, the unit of the census

Census 2022

396 people lived in 140 households in the Inch Island electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carnaghan, Carrickanee, Glack or Bohullion, Grange

Placenames

Moress 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.