Moat
Townland in the civil parish of Killimorbologue, barony of Longford, Co. Galway; in Irish An Móta
- Area
- 83.8 ha
- 207 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 36,576 m² (3.66 ha, 9.04 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moat, from 73 m² to 145,196 m² (14.52 ha, 35.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Moat 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Moat in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Moat.
Recorded monuments
- GA117-075 Castle - motte and bailey
Description
On a rise in undulating grassland, c. 50m to the NE of the Kilcrow River. On inspection in July 1983 this motte and bailey was defined by the remains of an originally circular steep-sided flat-topped motte (diam. 16.4m) which survived to its original height (H 2.4m) from N to E but was quarried out at S and W. According to local information, the quarry was opened in 1926. At SE a low earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1m) and fosse (Wth 1.7m; D 0.2m) separated the motte from the bailey. There was a gap (Wth 1.5m) in the bank but there was no corresponding causeway across the fosse and it was unclear whether these were original or later features. The bailey was probably originally oval in plan and had been partially levelled by the construction of a road across it from NW to SE; no visible surface trace of it survived to the N of the road. The remaining section consisted of a roughly D-shaped platform (27.3m NW-SE; 18.2m NE-SW; H 3.2m) defined by a scarp. Traces of lazy beds, running NE-SW, were visible in the otherwise flat and featureless interior. Current OSi aerial imagery indicates that the remaining section of the motte has been levelled. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 10 December 2019
- GA117-076 Bullaun stone
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moat.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Moat with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Moat · An Móta
- Area
- 837,645 m² (83.76 ha, 206.99 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killimorbologue, and its townlands
- Barony
- Longford
- Electoral division
- Moat, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Moat electoral division: 153 people in 55 households; 87% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 24% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bouluskeagh or Flowerhill, Cloonnacusha, Foolagh, Killeen East, Lismihil, Pollfeeneen, Treananearla
- Placenames
- Moat 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.