Moy
Moy is a townland in the civil parish of Kinvarradoorus, barony of Kiltartan, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is An Mhaigh.
- Area
- 109 ha
- 269 acres
- Land parcels
- 91
- registered freehold, median 2,275 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
91 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moy, from 39 m² to 190,767 m² (19.08 ha, 47.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Moy 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
26 Mar 2026Conditional
for alterations to raise the ridge height at the rear of existing dwelling house to form a habitable space; construction of a front porch; alterations to elevations; construction of a domestic garage, and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660458
28 Jul 2020N/a
to change the site boundaries from those which were previously granted planning permission under ref 06/5416 including all ancillary site services and works,
Permission · Galway County Council, 201031
12 Sept 2019Conditional
for extension to house & relocation of effluent treatment plant and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 97 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191417
12 Jul 2018Conditional
for construction of dwelling house, domestic garage, sewage treatment system and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works (house) 221.8 sqm. (garage) 40.5 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18976
6 Jul 2018Conditional
for the replacement of existing side extension with new rear 1st floor extension, replacement of existing dormer windows with new, front porch, revised elevatiosn and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 24.5 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18949
7 Feb 2018Conditional
for the replacement of existing side extension with new replacement of existing dormer windows and with new revised elevations and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 28.43 sqm, demolition 9.97sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18114
9 Aug 2017Conditional
for construction of new dwelling house, domestic garage, sewage treatment system and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works 242.2sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171198
8 Mar 2017Refused
for construction of new dwelling house, domestic garage, sewage treatment system and all associated site works. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 182.2 sqm.)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17310
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 Moy.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Moy.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moy.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Moy, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- 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_534 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Moy, Kinvara7 sales
The townland
- Name
- Moy · An Mhaigh
- Area
- 1,089,527 m² (108.95 ha, 269.23 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kinvarradoorus, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kiltartan
- Electoral division
- Kinvarra, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,558 people lived in 552 households in the Kinvarra electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cappagh Beg, Carrowkilleen, Carrownamaddra, Cloonnasee, Funshin Beg, Gortnaglogh, Gortskeagh, Kinvarra, Trellick
- Placenames
- Moy 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.