Moyle

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moyle, from 1,011 m² to 131,520 m² (13.15 ha, 32.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Moyle 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.

• 26 Oct 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH AN ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561862

• 28 Sept 2025Conditional

  CREATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF SMALL BUSINESS RURAL ENTERPRISE TO INCLUDE (1) STORAGE CONTAINER AND KILN DRYING OVEN, (2) COVERED STORAGE AREA FOR THE PURPOSES OF STORING KILN DRIED TIMBER, (3) COVERED STORAGE AREA FOR THE PURPOSE OF STORING WET/GREEN LUMBER/GREEN WOOD, (4) STAFF SHED/HUT, (5) PORTALOO WELFARE FACILITY AND (6) CAR PARKING AREA FOR THE OVERALL PURPOSES OF CREATING A SMALL TIMBER PRODUCT FACILITY FOR PUBLIC USE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561679

• 23 Jun 2025Refused

  CREATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF A SMALL BUSINESS RURAL ENTERPRISE TO INCLUDE (1) STORAGE CONTAINER AND KILN DRYING OVEN, (2) COVERED STORAGE AREA FOR THE PURPOSE OF STORING KILN DRIED TIMBER, (3) COVERED STORAGE AREA FOR THE PURPOSE OF STORING WET/GREEN LUMBER/GREEN WOOD, (4) STAFF SHED/HUT, (5) PORTALOO WELFARE FACILITY AND (6) CAR PARKING AREA FOR THE OVERALL PURPOSE OF CREATING A SMALL TIMBER PRODUCT FACILITY FOR PUBLIC USE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561054

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: Leannan River SAC 002176
• Special Protection Area: Lough Fern SPA 004060
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Fern 001162

Recorded monuments

• DG036-028 Crannog
  Description

  About 150m off the E shore at the N end of Lough Fern is a subcircular island 18m N-S by 21m E-W. It is formed from a cairn of stones piled on the lake bed. There is a band of loose stones around the edge of the island which had been built up to form a wall face on the inner side. A 2m gap through this to the NE may be modern. 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 Moyle.

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 Moyle, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Moyle

Area

1,348,820 m² (134.88 ha, 333.3 acres)

Civil parish

Tullyfern, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Ballyarr, the unit of the census

Census 2022

735 people lived in 241 households in the Ballyarr electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Court, Forquar, Gortmacall More, Loughnakey, Moylehill, Oghill

Placenames

Moyle 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.