Moylemoss

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moylemoss, from 553 m² to 182,706 m² (18.27 ha, 45.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Moylemoss 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 Dec 2019Conditional

  UPGRADING OF THE NEWTOWNCUNNINGHAM WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT CONSISTING OF UPGRADING OF THE EXISTING INLET WORKS, CONSTRUCTION OF (1)STORM WATER HOLDING TANK COMPLETE WITH CLEANING SYSTEM AND ACCESS STAIRS, (2) 2 NO. NEW PUMPING STATIONS; (3) NEW SLUDGE HOLDING TANK COMPLETE WITH ACCESS STAIRS AND HANDRAILING AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING HARD AND SOFT LANDSCAPING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951928

• 19 Nov 2019N/a

  UPGRADING OF THE NEWTOWNCUNNINGHAM WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT CONSISTING OF UPGRADING OF THE EXISTING INLET WORKS, CONSTRUCTION OF (1)STORM WATER HOLDING TANK COMPLETE WITH CLEANING SYSTEM AND ACCESS STAIRS, (2) 2 NO. NEW PUMPING STATIONS; (3) NEW SLUDGE HOLDING TANK COMPLETE WITH ACCESS STAIRS AND HANDRAILING AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING HARD AND SOFT LANDSCAPING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951770

• 18 Oct 2018Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A SPECTATOR STAND WITH TOILET FACILITIES AND REBOUND WALL, AND (2) INSTALLATION OF FLOODLIGHTING AND BALL STOPS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851616

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 Moylemoss.

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, outbuilding, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey outbuilding, built c. 1860, having external flight of rubble stone steps to the front elevation (south-west) giving access to doorway at first floor level. Located to the north-east of associated house (altered and not in survey). Pitched natural slate roof with projecting eaves course, red clayware ridge tiles and metal rainwater goods. Random rubble stone walls, partially rendered, with red brick block-and-start quoins to the corners at first floor level. Square-headed openings at first floor level having flush red brick block-and-start surrounds, and with battened timber doors; shallow segmental-headed openings at ground floor level having flush red brick block-and-start surrounds and voussoirs, timber sliding sash window, and with battened timber door. Set back from road and forming the north-east side of courtyard of outbuildings to the rear of associated house. Single-storey outbuildings to the south-west and north-west of complex having pitched corrugated-metal and artificial slate roofs, and partially smooth rendered random rubble walls. Associated detached three-bay two-storey house to the south-west having pitched slate roof with projecting eaves course, and smooth rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends (north-east and south-west) with terracotta pots over; roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course, and with channelled smooth rendered block quoins to corners; square-headed window openings with smooth rendered reveals, painted sills and mainly replacement windows apart from a six-over-three and an eight-over-four horned timber sliding sash window to rear elevation (north-west); central square-headed door opening having smooth rendered reveals, replacement timber door, and with plain overlight. Gardens to south-east of site. Site bounded to the south-west by roughcast rendered wall. Gateway to the south-west of house comprising pair of roughcast rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having pyramidal coping and a pair of wrought-iron gates with cast-iron detailing. Gateway to the south of house comprising pair of roughcast rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having pyramidal coping and a pair of hooped wrought-iron gates.

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

The EPA radon map did not answer.

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_1922 (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 Moylemoss with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Moylemoss

Area

511,742 m² (51.17 ha, 126.45 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

Blanket Nook, Glar, Monfad, Moyle, Newtowncunningham

Placenames

Moylemoss 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.