Moyra Glebe

235 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moyra Glebe, from 12 m² to 1,918,473 m² (191.85 ha, 474.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 68 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Moyra Glebe 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.

• 10 Sept 2026N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661684

• 16 Apr 2026Refused

  SÍNEADH A THÓGÁIL LEIS AN TSEID STÓRÁLA ATÁ ANSIN FAOI LÁTHAIR

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660663

• 27 Jan 2025N/a

  REMOVAL OF PREVIOUSLY EXTRACTED MATERIAL FROM A FORMER QUARRY SITE, CARRYING OUT QUARRY RESTORATION WORKS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560085

• 2 Aug 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF A 3 BEDROOM SINGLE STOREY HOUSE INCLUDING WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED DEVELOPMENT WORKS (PREVIOUS PLANNING REF. NOS. 18/50890 AND 08/31069)

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461194

• 19 Jun 2024N/a

  ERECTION OF A 3 BEDROOM SINGLE STOREY HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED DEVELOPMENT WORKS. PREVIOUS PLANNING PERMISSIONS REF. NO'S. 18/50890 AND 08/31069 REFER

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460921

• 12 Jun 2024Conditional

  SÍNEADH A THÓGÁIL AR AN TEACH CÓNAITHE ATÁ AGAIN FAOI LÁTHAIR AGUS CHUN AN UMAR SEIPTEACH ATÁ ANN FAOI LÁTHAIR A UASGHRÁDÚ GO CÓRAS CÓIREÁLA

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460890

• 18 May 2024N/a

  ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460727

• 17 Mar 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY 3 BEDROOM DWELLING HOUSE WITH AN ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460348

• 9 Mar 2024N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY 3 BEDROOM DWELLING HOUSE WITH AN ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460296

• 21 Feb 2024N/a

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460186

• 4 Jan 2024Refused

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND SEPTIC TANK

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2450005

• 22 Dec 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF 2 NO. EXTENSIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE COMPRISING OF AN ATTACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE TO THE SOUTH WESTERN ELEVATION AND BEDROOM EXTENSION TO THE NORTH WESTERN ELEVATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2252071

• 25 Nov 2022N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF 2 NO. EXTENSIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251903

• 17 Aug 2022Conditional

  SEID BHEAG ATÁ ANN CHEANA FÉIN A SCARTÁIL AGUS SEID STÓRÁLA NUA A THÓGAIL

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251383

• 16 Jun 2022Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF OLD SHED AND CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE ELEVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH INTERNAL ALTERATIONS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251045

• 26 Mar 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150537

• 24 Feb 2021N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150308

• 29 Jul 2019Conditional

  SINEADH A THÓGÁIL DEN GARÁISTE ATÁ ANN CHEANA, FEIN FA CHOINNE (1) TEACH BÁID, AGUS (2) AIT STÓRÁLA

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951146

• 11 Jun 2019N/a

  (I) SÍNEADH A THÓGÁIL AGUS GARÁISTE TADHLACH LEIS AN TEACH CÓNAITHE ATÁ ANN CHEANA, AGUS (II) SÍNTÍ A THÓGÁIL AR AN GARÁISTE TÍ SCOITE ATÁ ANN CHEANA FÉIN CHUN SPÁS BÁD AGUS STÓRÁLA A CHUR SAN ÁIREAMH, LE MOINATHRUITHE AR INGERACHLÓNNA

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950906

• 6 Jun 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND SEPTIC TANK

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850890

• 7 Feb 2018N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND RETENTION OF A DOMESTIC SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850163

• 8 Nov 2017Refused

  DOMESTIC SHED

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1751695

• 31 Aug 2017N/a

  REMOVAL OF PART OF EXISTING ROADSIDE BOUNDARY WALL AND PEDESTRIAN GATE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW RESIDENTIAL VEHICULAR ENTRANCE WITH NEW PILLARS AND DRIVEWAY INTO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751329

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: Muckish Mountain SAC 001179
• Special Area of Conservation: Cloghernagore Bog and Glenveagh National Park SAC 002047
• Special Protection Area: Derryveagh And Glendowan Mountains SPA 004039
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Muckish Mountain 001179
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cloghernagore Bog And Glenveagh National Park 002047

Recorded monuments

• DG025-034 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 27m. An oval area originally enclosed by an earthen bank and an outer fosse which only survives along the NW sector. The bank which is .6m in height has been removed along the N. The fosse is c. 3m wide and 0.6m deep below ground surface. Some stones along the outer face on the E seem to have been part of a revetment to raise the site on this its low side. It is situated on the E edge of the steep Ray river valley c. 10m to the W. The land is fair to wettish grazing. 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

• DG025-038 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  This monument, 2.5km SSE of Falcarragh, stands 1km S of the court tomb in Ray townland (Dg. 107) and c. 250m E of the Ray River. To the N is a view toward the sandy beach stretching eastward from Ballyness Bay, 3.4km away, and to the S Muckish and Errigal mountains form the skyline. The tomb is at the edge of a small level tract of ground that provides rough pasture. The tomb, which faces W, consists of the remains of an unroofed gallery, c. 4m long and 1.7m in greatest width. Two adjoining orthostats, almost 2m from the front of the gallery, represent the southern arm of a court. Some slight traces of a mound around the structure are too indefinite to show on the plan. The outer one of the two adjoining orthostats of the court leans inward. It is 0.5m high. The inner one is 0.6m high. The entrance to the gallery is marked by a single transversely set jamb at the N. This leans outward and is 1m high. The first of the two orthostats on this side of the gallery is 0.9m high. That next to it is 0.6m high. There is a gap, 0.7m long, between this and the stone closing the back of the gallery. Three orthostats form the S side of the gallery. The first is 0.55m high, and the second is 0.5m high. A corbel, its outer end on the ground, rests on the opposed ends of these two orthostats. It measures 1m by 0.9m by 0.4m in greatest thickness. The third sidestone at the S overlaps and leans against the backstone. It is 0.6m high. The gable-shaped backstone is 1.2m high. Although no formal segmentation is present, the narrowing of the gallery achieved at the inner ends of the opposed sidestones at the front of the structure suggests that a two-chambered design may have been intended. Thomas Fagan (1845-8), who visited here in 1845, noted a local claim that part of the gallery had been covered by 'a great flag' but that it and other stones of the structure had been removed. He also referred to the destruction of what may have been another tomb (DG025-051----) in the same townland (Appendix 1, no. 87). Approximately 5m S of the tomb are two stones, one 0.85m and the other 0.7m high, and a third stone, lm in maximum dimension, lies prostrate closeby. Another upright stone, 0.8m high, stands 11m downslope to the W. These appear to represent the remains of a curved stone wall. Fagan 1845-8, book 3, 17-18; OS Revision Name Book, sheet 25 (1847-9), 18; de Valera 1960, 105, DG. 8 (plan); Ó Nualláin 1983a, 27, no. 40; SMR 1987, 25:38; Ó Nualláin 1989, 117; RMP 1995, 25:38. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008 See linked document with details from Eamon Cody, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI. County Donegal. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002) Excavation licence number 04E0273 Pre-development testing was carried out on 5 March 2004 at the site of a proposed dwelling at Moyra Glebe, Falcarragh, Co. Donegal, which is located within the archaeological constraint for a megalithic tomb (SMR 25:38) in the neighbouring field to the north of the site. The testing comprised the excavation (by machine) of four trenches, which measured 50.6m, 9.5m, 7.5m and 17.5m long respectively, 1.05-1.3m wide and 0.45-0.8m deep. Below the topsoil was grey/rust-coloured loose loamy sand and grey/rust-coloured friable sandy silt loam. A number of modern field drains crossed one of the trenches. Three sherds of modern pottery were recovered from the topsoil. Nothing of archaeological significance was revealed. (Excavations Bulletin 2004) Richard Crumlish, 61 An Cladrach, Castlebar Road, Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo.

• DG025-049 Burial mound
  Description

  Identified by Caroline Carr of the Donegal County Museum (2007-). This huge, approx. rectangular earthwork is known locally as a burial mound. It is flat topped. It is not possible to say whether or not this is a (1) naturally-occurring feature, (2) upcast from a long forgotten drainage of the the Ray River in this area, which is located immediately to the W or a genuine antiquity. Alternatively it may be that it is either one of the first two options that was later used for burials.

Architectural heritage

• Ray Bridge, bridge, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge, built c.1810, crossing tributary of Abhainn Ráithe [Ray River]. Renovated mid- to late twentieth century. Round arch with dressed stone voussoirs, coursed rubble stone spandrels and parapets with chamfered smooth-rendered copings. Square-headed squinch/relieving arch to northwest corner with iron brackets supporting recent water pipes to south face.

• Moyra Rectory, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1810–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey rectory with basement, built 1815, with two-bay single-storey entrance section over basement attached to east gable. Now in use as private dwelling. Hipped slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods on overhanging eaves, and single central yellow brick chimneystack with cornice coping. Wet-dash rendered walls to main block and coursed rubble stone to entrance section. Square-headed window openings with horned timber sliding sash windows, six-over-nine pane to ground floor and six-over-three pane to first floor, with stone sills. Square-headed openings to entrance section with red brick reveals and headers, replacement six-over-six pane horned timber sliding sash window with stone sill, and replacement timber door with overlight. Single-storey outbuildings, some with basement, to west and northwest, having pitched slate roofs. Walled garden to east, enclosed by rubble stone wall with openings to south and west and having square-plan piers and decorative metal gate. Saint Paul's Church (Raymunterdoney) located to north, across road.

• Saint Paul's Church (Raymunterdoney), church/chapel, 1800–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Church of Ireland church, built 1803-4, with three-bay nave and gabled porch to west gable, having vestry and aisle added 1862-4 to north long wall. Pitched artificial slate roof with raised eaves course with open-bed pediment detail to gable ends, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Lean-to roof to side aisle, with rendered copings to parapets, kneeler stones and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls, smooth-rendered to porch, and lined-and-ruled smooth-rendered to north aisle with dressed quoins. Pointed-arch window openings, having cusped lancets to short walls of side aisle, two-light to long walls and three-light to east gable, all with chamfered sandstone surrounds, decorative tracery, integral sills, hood-mouldings to two and three-light windows, and stained glass and cast-iron quarries. Pointed-arch window opening to porch gable with timber fitting and plain surround. Pointed-arch doorways with ovolo-moulded tooled ashlar surrounds with stepped moulded heads and hood-mouldings, timber battened doors, bootscrapes recessed into jamb(s), and with three steps to doorway of side aisle. Church set back from road in graveyard, with rubble stone boundary wall to south with rendered square-plan piers and decorative recent metal double-leaf gate.

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Moyra Glebe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Moyra Glebe · Maigh Ráithe

Area

6,918,311 m² (691.83 ha, 1,709.55 acres)

Civil parish

Raymunterdoney, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Cross Roads, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cross Roads electoral division: 2,071 people in 867 households; 74% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyboe Mountain, Ballyness Mountain, Carrowcanon, Dunmore, Ray

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Moyra Glebe 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.