Moat

54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moat, from 1,575 m² to 306,479 m² (30.65 ha, 75.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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 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.

• 5 Jun 2025Conditional

  to demolish existing animal handling facilities, convert existing shed into dairy, plant, office and storage use, erect meal storage bin, reconstruct and extend existing slatted shed and tank to accommodate, slatted tanks, milking robots and drafting area to include concrete aprons and all associated site works. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been submitted with this application. Gross floor area of works: 843.26 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 25134

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

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

• GA045-024 Designed landscape feature
  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.

• GA045-025 Moated site
  Description

  In undulating grassland. Well-preserved rectangular moated site (N-S 41m, E-W 30m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is present near SE corner; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosse and outer bank are clearly visible. Quarrying has disturbed the N and E sides of the monument. Within the interior is a horseshoe-shaped depression (L c. 9m). (Claffey 1983, 156) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA045-027 House - 18th/19th century
  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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Moat with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Moat · An Móta

Area

2,623,187 m² (262.32 ha, 648.2 acres)

Civil parish

Moylough, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Scregg, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Scregg electoral division: 247 people in 82 households; 95% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonkeen Oughter, Cuilmore, Derrynagran, Gorteenlahard, Mountsilk, Moylough Beg, Templemoyle, Trasternagh North, Trasternagh South

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.