# Moyle, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Allsaints, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal; in Irish An Maol. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 867,645 m² (86.76 ha, 214.4 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,152 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Allsaints, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/allsaints.md - Barony: Raphoe North - Electoral division: Newtown Cunningham, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15345 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 52092 - Centre: latitude 54.994607, longitude -7.534894 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moyle, from 55 m² to 273,004 m² (27.3 ha, 67.46 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1395499: 273,004 m² (27.3 ha, 67.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395499.md - Parcel 1418990: 161,342 m² (16.13 ha, 39.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1418990.md - Parcel 1369340: 126,620 m² (12.66 ha, 31.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369340.md - Parcel 1526847: 41,964 m² (4.2 ha, 10.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1526847.md - Parcel 1301553: 15,606 m² (1.56 ha, 3.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301553.md - Parcel 5893188: 13,445 m² (1.34 ha, 3.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5893188.md - Parcel 1398565: 13,204 m² (1.32 ha, 3.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1398565.md - Parcel 1526846: 13,046 m² (1.3 ha, 3.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1526846.md - Parcel 1380636: 6,940 m² (0.69 ha, 1.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1380636.md - Parcel 1372066: 6,693 m² (0.67 ha, 1.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1372066.md - Parcel 1349360: 4,281 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1349360.md - Parcel 1315319: 4,149 m² (0.41 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315319.md - Parcel 1312648: 4,001 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1312648.md - Parcel 1407874: 2,518 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407874.md - Parcel 1388948: 2,267 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1388948.md - Parcel 1417213: 2,038 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1417213.md - Parcel 1328934: 1,988 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1328934.md - Parcel 1426782: 1,987 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426782.md - Parcel 5738095: 1,610 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5738095.md - Parcel 1387003: 1,440 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1387003.md - Parcel 1322499: 1,313 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1322499.md - Parcel 1376752: 1,203 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1376752.md - Parcel 1352723: 1,185 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352723.md - Parcel 4828298: 718 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4828298.md - Parcel 1406745: 666 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1406745.md - Parcel 6192269: 586 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6192269.md - Parcel 1393243: 171 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393243.md - Parcel 1350251: 167 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1350251.md - Parcel 1375111: 133 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1375111.md - Parcel 1348302: 55 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1348302.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) 2 applications, newest first. - 12 Apr 2018, Donegal County Council 1850551: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE ELEVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1850551/0 - 8 Mar 2018, Donegal County Council 1850345: Unconditional. Extension of duration. CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING, SEPTIC TANK AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1850345/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Protection Area: Lough Swilly SPA, site code 004075, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004075 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Moyle. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Railway station, 1880–1885, Regional interest, registry number 40824013, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40824013. 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, registry number 40824014, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40824014. 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, registry number 40824016, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40824016. 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. ## 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 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1892, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1892.zip (ZIP). - 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-52092.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/moyle-52092.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/moyle-52092.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) - Ardee: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ardee.md - Glar: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glar.md - Killyverry: https://everytownland.com/donegal/killyverry.md - Monfad: https://everytownland.com/donegal/monfad.md - Moylemoss: https://everytownland.com/donegal/moylemoss.md - Murlough: https://everytownland.com/donegal/murlough-52146.md - Newtowncunningham: https://everytownland.com/donegal/newtowncunningham.md - Tinklersford: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tinklersford.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-52092 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/moyle-52092