Moross

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moross, from 541 m² to 125,215 m² (12.52 ha, 30.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 4 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 Moross 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.

• 23 Jun 2026Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED CATTLE SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661155

• 11 Jun 2026N/a

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED CATTLE SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661069

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: Mulroy Bay SAC 002159

Recorded monuments

• DG017-012 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Moross Castle: Built in 1532 (Silke 1974, 30), this McSwyne tower-house was inhabited in 1601 by Alexander McDonaloghe (CSPI 1600-1, 279). In 1610 it was granted to Henry Vaughan (Hill 1877, 326) and was described in 1622 as 'formerly an old Irish castle and the walls of a small house upon which Arthur Terry, gent, assignee to Henry Vaughan, hath set a roof of birch timber, thatched, the walls of the castle being in some parts repaired, having neither roof nor floor. Adjoining to the castle is a little court made by Terry of stones only without clay or lime, 5 ft high . . . Lying waste, Arthur Terry dwelling now in Londonderry' (Treadwell 1953-5, 42). The Civil Survey, 1654-6, records it as the 'little old pile of stone called Moyross Castle' (Simmington 1937, 103). The tower-house is situated on a small rocky island which is joined to the shore by a causeway c. 45m long. It is protected by a cliff on the N, W, S and SE and by a steep slope on the E and NE. Only the SW corner survives, two storeys in height. It is built of rubble laid in a coarse sea-sand mortar; the quoins are missing but the bond holes indicate that they were of ashlar construction. There is a mural passage in the ground floor of the W wall c. 1.4m high; the N end is rebated on the E (for a door jamb?), and has the remains of a splayed ingoing on the W. A stone-facing has been added to the cliff face on the N, and this probably served to underpin the NW corner of the tower-house. A ragged opening in the S wall provides access to the mural passage. It is doubtful if there was a door in this position; some wall footings survive on the interior. There may have been a small loop or window here, the W ingoing for which remains. The recess on the E could have served as a seat or wall-press. The W ingoing for a deeply splayed loop survives at the E end of the S wall. There is a scarcement at first-floor level and at the N end of the W wall is the S half of a window set in a sub-rectangular embrasure. There is a band of facing on the N side of this wall below the interior window-sill level; this is probably the remains of a murder hole shaft. There is a small section of rock outcrop on the SE side of the island and a few courses of masonry survive at its N end. The area to the S of the tower-house might have been enclosed by some form of bawn wall and this may have been the position of the house noted in the 1622 report. 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

• DG017-014 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Overall Diam. 17m. A low earthen platform circular in plan. It stands on ground that slopes gently downwards from N to S and E to W and has been built up as required to make it level. The platform edge is c. 0.7m high close to the SE, SW and NW points and c. 0.3m on the NE. Around the perimeter there is an ill-defined and low raised edge which might be the remains of a levelled bank. A break in the perimeter about 3m wide on the SW from which an earthen ramp slopes to the ground outside might be an original entrance. The ringfort is on low-lying gently sloping ground overlooking the waters of Mulroy Bay c. 150m to the S in good grazing land. 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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moross.

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 Moross, 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 Moross.

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

Name

Moross · Maigh Rois

Area

1,296,274 m² (129.63 ha, 320.32 acres)

Civil parish

Clondavaddog, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Rosnakill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

264 people lived in 99 households in the Rosnakill electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballina

Placenames

Moross 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.