# Moyle, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Tullyfern, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,348,820 m² (134.88 ha, 333.3 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 8,800 m² (0.88 ha, 2.17 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Tullyfern, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/tullyfern.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Ballyarr, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15713 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 52091 - Centre: latitude 55.068448, longitude -7.703776 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moyle, from 1,011 m² to 131,520 m² (13.15 ha, 32.5 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1392188: 131,520 m² (13.15 ha, 32.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1392188.md - Parcel 1402820: 120,068 m² (12.01 ha, 29.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1402820.md - Parcel 1424251: 110,058 m² (11.01 ha, 27.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1424251.md - Parcel 1426890: 40,849 m² (4.08 ha, 10.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426890.md - Parcel 1361623: 35,590 m² (3.56 ha, 8.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1361623.md - Parcel 1305640: 12,533 m² (1.25 ha, 3.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305640.md - Parcel 1399971: 5,066 m² (0.51 ha, 1.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1399971.md - Parcel 1331936: 4,638 m² (0.46 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331936.md - Parcel 1395115: 3,288 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395115.md - Parcel 1387055: 1,751 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1387055.md - Parcel 1366776: 1,165 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1366776.md - Parcel 1330631: 1,011 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330631.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 26 Oct 2025, Donegal County Council 2561862: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH AN ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561862/0 - 28 Sept 2025, Donegal County Council 2561679: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561679/0 - 23 Jun 2025, Donegal County Council 2561054: Refused. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561054/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Leannan River SAC, site code 002176, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002176 - Special Protection Area: Lough Fern SPA, site code 004060, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004060 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Fern, site code 001162 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG036-028: Crannog, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG036-028----. 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 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 Moyle. ## 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 Moyle, about 1 in 5 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 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 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/moyle-52091.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/moyle-52091.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/moyle-52091.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Moyle 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) - Court: https://everytownland.com/donegal/court.md - Forquar: https://everytownland.com/donegal/forquar.md - Gortmacall More: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortmacall-more.md - Loughnakey: https://everytownland.com/donegal/loughnakey.md - Moylehill: https://everytownland.com/donegal/moylehill.md - Oghill: https://everytownland.com/donegal/oghill.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/moyle-52091 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/moyle-52091