# Moross, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Clondavaddog, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Maigh Rois.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,296,274 m² (129.63 ha, 320.32 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 13,973 m² (1.4 ha, 3.45 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Clondavaddog, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/clondavaddog.md
- Barony: Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division: Rosnakill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16082
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 52081
- Centre: latitude 55.195121, longitude -7.705608 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moross, from 541 m² to 125,215 m² (12.52 ha, 30.94 acres); 4 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1329927: 125,215 m² (12.52 ha, 30.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1329927.md
- Parcel 1391629: 105,599 m² (10.56 ha, 26.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391629.md
- Parcel 1427824: 99,598 m² (9.96 ha, 24.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1427824.md
- Parcel 1394219: 96,243 m² (9.62 ha, 23.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394219.md
- Parcel 1395748: 94,731 m² (9.47 ha, 23.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395748.md
- Parcel 1328068: 91,675 m² (9.17 ha, 22.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1328068.md
- Parcel 1419324: 81,451 m² (8.15 ha, 20.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1419324.md
- Parcel 1422027: 81,348 m² (8.13 ha, 20.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1422027.md
- Parcel 1333587: 71,907 m² (7.19 ha, 17.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1333587.md
- Parcel 1374186: 68,561 m² (6.86 ha, 16.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1374186.md
- Parcel 1315463: 66,512 m² (6.65 ha, 16.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315463.md
- Parcel 1301861: 64,029 m² (6.4 ha, 15.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301861.md
- Parcel 1357397: 61,457 m² (6.15 ha, 15.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357397.md
- Parcel 1369557: 59,764 m² (5.98 ha, 14.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369557.md
- Parcel 1419706: 33,683 m² (3.37 ha, 8.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1419706.md
- Parcel 1419883: 16,826 m² (1.68 ha, 4.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1419883.md
- Parcel 5384385: 11,120 m² (1.11 ha, 2.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5384385.md
- Parcel 1424273: 10,213 m² (1.02 ha, 2.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1424273.md
- Parcel 1326416: 8,646 m² (0.86 ha, 2.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1326416.md
- Parcel 1389509: 8,021 m² (0.8 ha, 1.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1389509.md
- Parcel 1409225: 5,844 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1409225.md
- Parcel 1383144: 5,362 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1383144.md
- Parcel 1419564: 5,142 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1419564.md
- Parcel 2390422: 4,019 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2390422.md
- Parcel 1422472: 3,690 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1422472.md
- Parcel 1340283: 3,263 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340283.md
- Parcel 1352567: 2,959 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352567.md
- Parcel 1341741: 2,925 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1341741.md
- Parcel 1323564: 2,532 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1323564.md
- Parcel 1336903: 1,767 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1336903.md
- Parcel 2390423: 1,096 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2390423.md
- Parcel 1336182: 541 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1336182.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

2 applications, newest first.

- 23 Jun 2026, Donegal County Council 2661155: Conditional. Permission. ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED CATTLE SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661155/0
- 11 Jun 2026, Donegal County Council 2661069: N/a. Permission. ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED CATTLE SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661069/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Mulroy Bay SAC, site code 002159, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002159

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- DG017-012: Castle - tower house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG017-012----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG017-014----. 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

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)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 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/moross.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/moross.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/moross.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Moross 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)

- Ballina: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballina.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.

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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/moross
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/moross