Moyle

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moyle, from 55 m² to 273,004 m² (27.3 ha, 67.46 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 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.

• 12 Apr 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE ELEVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850551

• 8 Mar 2018Unconditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING, SEPTIC TANK AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 1850345

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Lough Swilly SPA 004075

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Moyle.

Architectural heritage

• Railway station, 1880–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former railway station, built c. 1883. Now in use as a private house (line closed 1953) with later single-bay single-storey porch extension to centre of the front elevation (north-east), and later extensions to the rear (south-west) and to the north-west gable end. Pitched artificial slate roof (fibre cement) having exposed decorative rafter ends to eaves, grey clay ridge tiles , smooth rendered chimneystacks to gable ends (north-west and south-east) with red clay pots over, decorative timber bargeboards to gables with trefoil perforations, and with metal rainwater goods. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls over smooth rendered plinth course with a horizontal smooth rendered band running around building to upper floor, and with moulded rendered stringcourse at ground floor level brought over window heads as architrave. Square-headed window openings with smooth rendered reveals, painted stone sills, and with one-over-one pane horned timber sliding sash windows having margin glazing bars; timber casement window with margin glazing bars to central bay of front elevation (north-east) at first floor level. Central square-headed door opening to front elevation with smooth rendered reveals, replacement timber double-doors, and original square-headed sidelights with margin glazing bars, all enclosed within modern porch. Set back from road with gravel drive running to roadway to the north-east. Garden to the front of site and garage to rear (south-west) built partially over site of former railway line. Former railway water tower (see 40824014) to the north-west. Located in the rural countryside to the north-west of Newtowncunningham.

• Building misc, 1880–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-bay two-storey former railway water tower associated with Newtowncunningham Railway Station (see 40824014), built c. 1883, having rendered platform over surmounted by timber-clad metal water tank. Now disused (railway line closed in 1953). Water piper and metal ladder to the east elevation. Randomly coursed rubble stone walls with red brick block-and-start quoins to the corners. Red brick plinth to base. Square-headed window opening to the east elevation having red brick block-and-start surrounds and voussoirs, stone sill, and remains of three-over-three pane timber sliding sash window. Square-headed door opening with red brick block-and-start surround and voussoirs; door now missing. Built on the edge of the former railway line running north to south with grass covered platform to south. Located to the north-west of the former Newtowncunningham Railway Station (see 40824013), and to the north-west of Newtowncunningham.

• Bridge, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arched bridge carrying road over small unnamed river\stream draining into Lough Swilly to the north, built c. 1800. Segmental-headed arch with roughly dressed stone voussoirs; rubble stone construction to arch barrel with modern reinforced concrete underpinning. Rubble stone construction to spandrels and abutments. Battered rubble stone retaining walls to east and west. Rubble stone construction to parapets with rubble stone soldier coursing over. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges, heavily overgrown to the east. Located in the rural countryside to the north-west of Newtowncunningham.

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 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1892 (ZIP).

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 · An Maol

Area

867,645 m² (86.76 ha, 214.4 acres)

Civil parish

Allsaints, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Newtown Cunningham, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,028 people lived in 372 households in the Newtown Cunningham electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardee, Glar, Killyverry, Monfad, Moylemoss, Murlough, Newtowncunningham, Tinklersford

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.