# Moyard, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballynakill (Clifden Ra), barony of Ballynahinch, Co. Galway; in Irish Maigh Ard. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 4,752,794 m² (475.28 ha, 1,174.44 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,463 m² (0.65 ha, 1.6 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballynakill (Clifden Ra), https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/ballynakill-clifden-ra.md - Barony: Ballynahinch - Electoral division: Ballynakill, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 516 people lived in 204 households in the Ballynakill electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/18040 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63370 - Centre: latitude 53.530564, longitude -9.995319 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moyard, from 115 m² to 1,495,489 m² (149.55 ha, 369.54 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2042372: 1,495,489 m² (149.55 ha, 369.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2042372.md - Parcel 2091134: 1,232,953 m² (123.3 ha, 304.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2091134.md - Parcel 2091131: 572,760 m² (57.28 ha, 141.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2091131.md - Parcel 2042373: 216,604 m² (21.66 ha, 53.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2042373.md - Parcel 2042281: 175,998 m² (17.6 ha, 43.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2042281.md - Parcel 2091147: 133,780 m² (13.38 ha, 33.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2091147.md - Parcel 2042374: 96,459 m² (9.65 ha, 23.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2042374.md - Parcel 2042379: 79,783 m² (7.98 ha, 19.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2042379.md - Parcel 2091141: 71,301 m² (7.13 ha, 17.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2091141.md - Parcel 2091140: 66,816 m² (6.68 ha, 16.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2091140.md - Parcel 5468491: 63,723 m² (6.37 ha, 15.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5468491.md - Parcel 2091130: 61,367 m² (6.14 ha, 15.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2091130.md - Parcel 2042376: 53,984 m² (5.4 ha, 13.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2042376.md - Parcel 2091135: 50,355 m² (5.04 ha, 12.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2091135.md - Parcel 2091129: 46,893 m² (4.69 ha, 11.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2091129.md - Parcel 2042375: 41,739 m² (4.17 ha, 10.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2042375.md - Parcel 2091132: 28,919 m² (2.89 ha, 7.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2091132.md - Parcel 2042380: 25,176 m² (2.52 ha, 6.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2042380.md - Parcel 2042370: 24,427 m² (2.44 ha, 6.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2042370.md - Parcel 2091142: 21,346 m² (2.13 ha, 5.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2091142.md - Parcel 2091138: 20,711 m² (2.07 ha, 5.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2091138.md - Parcel 2091133: 20,460 m² (2.05 ha, 5.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2091133.md - Parcel 2042378: 17,600 m² (1.76 ha, 4.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2042378.md - Parcel 2042381: 11,302 m² (1.13 ha, 2.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2042381.md - Parcel 2091150: 10,275 m² (1.03 ha, 2.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2091150.md - Parcel 2091143: 8,483 m² (0.85 ha, 2.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2091143.md - Parcel 2091136: 7,732 m² (0.77 ha, 1.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2091136.md - Parcel 2042384: 6,590 m² (0.66 ha, 1.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2042384.md - Parcel 2042383: 6,463 m² (0.65 ha, 1.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2042383.md - Parcel 2022031: 6,396 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2022031.md - Parcel 2091151: 6,391 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2091151.md - Parcel 2042382: 4,269 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2042382.md - Parcel 2042385: 4,043 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2042385.md - Parcel 2091149: 3,927 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2091149.md - Parcel 2091146: 3,218 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2091146.md - Parcel 2091153: 2,903 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2091153.md - Parcel 4624906: 2,711 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4624906.md - Parcel 2091144: 2,684 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2091144.md - Parcel 2091148: 2,629 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2091148.md - Parcel 2091145: 2,213 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2091145.md - Parcel 2042377: 2,138 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2042377.md - Parcel 2042371: 1,917 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2042371.md - Parcel 2091152: 1,916 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2091152.md - Parcel 6109264: 1,816 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6109264.md - Parcel 2042386: 1,621 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2042386.md - Parcel 2114342: 1,321 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2114342.md - Parcel 2091154: 1,260 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2091154.md - Parcel 5057420: 1,221 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5057420.md - Parcel 2091155: 1,104 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2091155.md - Parcel 2091156: 1,088 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2091156.md - Parcel 2042387: 1,071 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2042387.md - Parcel 4624899: 1,061 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4624899.md - Parcel 2042280: 993 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2042280.md - Parcel 2042282: 955 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2042282.md - Parcel 2091137: 930 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2091137.md - Parcel 2091139: 381 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2091139.md - Parcel 2374924: 115 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2374924.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Moyard in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 25 Aug 2025, Galway County Council 2561179: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to (1) construct new dwelling house (2) installation of a wastewater treatment system and associated polishing filter bed, as well as ancillary site works and site services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561179/0 - 14 May 2024, Galway County Council 2460547: Refused. Permission, 1 home. to: (1) construct new dwelling house, (2) installation of a wastewater treatment system and associated polishing filter bed, as well as all ancillary site works and site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 173.20 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460547/0 - 25 May 2021, Galway County Council 21886: Conditional. Permission. for the construction of a single story extension at St Thomas's Church, 6.6 sqm in area at the South West corner of the church where the tower abuts the nave to cater for a compostable toilet and sanitary facilities. This extension will have a mono-pitch roof of natural slates and rendered walls. This is a protected structure. Gross floor space of proposed works: 6.6 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 130 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/21886/0 - 23 Dec 2020, Galway County Council 202036: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a new dwelling house, effluent treatment system and polishing filter as well as all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 175.40 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/202036/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Moyard. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA022-055001: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA022-055001-. The following description is from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (www.buildingsofireland.ie/Surveys/Buildings/ last accessed 28 November 2017. Freestanding Board of First Fruits-style Church of Ireland Church, dated 1851, having three-bay south-west elevation, two-bay north-east elevation with gable-fronted porch having vestry addition to south-east side, and two-stage bell tower to north-west gable. Pitched slate roof to nave and replacement artificial slate to porch, with cast-iron rainwater goods, limestone and replacement concrete copings to gables and flat roof to tower concealed behind rendered limestone crenellated parapet. Flat concrete roof to vestry. Roughcast rendered walls with rendered plinths. Tower has tooled limestone string course, date plaque below string course to north-west face, tooled stone plat band below tooled stone cornice and parapet wall with stone coping and rounded stone finials to corners. Pointed window openings, windows to middle of long walls being higher than others, all with tooled limestone sills and small-pane windows. Window to lower stage of tower has tooled limestone block-and-start surround. This window, round-headed window to vestry, and those to middle of long walls are bipartite with Y-tracery, that to south-east gable is tripartite with rose window above middle light. Windows to nave have intersecting timber tracery to top panes. Pointed-arch timber louvered windows to all faces of tower at second stage. Pointed-arch entrances to north-east elevation of porch and tower having tooled limestone voussoirs, block-and-start surrounds with chamfered reveals, limestone steps to approach, and battened timber doors with timber overdoors. Square-headed door opening to south-west elevation of vestry. Graveyard to north, west and south of church. Rubble stone boundary walls with round rendered rubble stone piers having wrought-iron gates. This church, situated in a wooded area, retains most of its historic fabric. The windows have a simple design that is effective and attractive to the observer with attention being drawn especially to the south-east window with its timber tracery and rose window. The church was built with the support of two local landlords, Thomas Butler of Crocknaraw and Thomas Prior of Ross and the first rector was Rev. Thomas De Vere Coneys, a Professor of Irish in Trinity College, Dublin. An associated schoolhouse was also built to the west. Uploaded: 28 November 2017 - GA022-055002: Graveyard, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA022-055002-. 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. - GA022-056: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA022-056----. On W side of a track c. 40m NW of a grave site (GA022-057----). This well presently consists of a natural spring set in a recess in the roadside field bank. No offerings are visible and the well is now used for watering cattle in the summer. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010 - GA022-057: Burial, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA022-057----. Near the crest of a small hill in rough pastureland. Indicated on OS 6-inch maps at a right-angled corner of a field boundary. No visible surface trace survives. A holy well (GA022-056---- ) lies c. 40m to NW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010 - GA022-059: Field boundary, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA022-059----. In cutaway bog in an undulating area of rock and scrubland to N of the Owenabrickany River. A short length of pre-bog wall (L c. 6m), running N-S, which disappears into a turf bank at N end. Built of large limestone blocks. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - The Old School House, school, 1845–1855, Regional interest, registry number 30402212, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA®no=30402212. Detached two-storey Gothic Revival-style former parochial school, built c.1850, having five-bay first floor and six-bay ground floor. Now in use as private residence. Pitched replacement slate roof with slightly projecting rendered chimneystacks to rear and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls and rendered rubble plinth. Lancet window openings to front and gable elevations, having concrete sills and lattice windows to front and side elevations. Some recently inserted square-headed window openings to front and rear elevations. Pointed-arch door openings to ends of front elevation with battened timber doors and overlights. Outbuilding to south-west. Wooded driveway with rubble stone boundary walls. - Saint Thomas's Church (Ballynakill), church/chapel, 1850–1855, Regional interest, registry number 30402213, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA®no=30402213. Freestanding Board of First Fruits-style Church of Ireland Church, dated 1851, having three-bay south-west elevation, two-bay north-east elevation with gable-fronted porch having vestry addition to south-east side, and two-stage bell tower to north-west gable. Pitched slate roof to nave and replacement artificial slate to porch, with cast-iron rainwater goods, limestone and replacement concrete copings to gables and flat roof to tower concealed behind rendered limestone crenellated parapet. Flat concrete roof to vestry. Roughcast rendered walls with rendered plinths. Tower has tooled limestone string course, date plaque below string course to north-west face, tooled stone plat band below tooled stone cornice and parapet wall with stone coping and rounded stone finials to corners. Pointed window openings, windows to middle of long walls being higher than others, all with tooled limestone sills and small-pane windows. Window to lower stage of tower has tooled limestone block-and-start surround. This window, round-headed window to vestry, and those to middle of long walls are bipartite with Y-tracery, that to south-east gable is tripartite with rose window above middle light. Windows to nave have intersecting timber tracery to top panes. Pointed-arch timber louvered windows to all faces of tower at second stage. Pointed-arch entrances to north-east elevation of porch and tower having tooled limestone voussoirs, block-and-start surrounds with chamfered reveals, limestone steps to approach, and battened timber doors with timber overdoors. Square-headed door opening to south-west elevation of vestry. Graveyard to north, west and south of church. Rubble stone boundary walls with round rendered rubble stone piers having wrought-iron gates. - The Rectory, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1840–1860, Regional interest, registry number 30402214, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA®no=30402214. Detached two-storey former rectory, built c.1850, having cruciform plan with one-bay projections and three-bay main stem, latter presenting three gables to west, and recessed four-bay single-storey lean-to addition of 1940 to re-entrant corner of front elevation incorporating gable-fronted entrance. Further single-storey lean-to additions to south and west. Pitched slate roof to main block overhanging to gables, artifical slate elsewhere, with rendered chimneystacks, and cast-iron and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls and plinth. Square-headed window openings thoughout having tooled stone and concrete sills, internal timber panelled shutters, and timber sliding sash windows, mainly six-over-six pane except for one-over-one pane to front lean-to addition and two-over-two pane to aouth addition. Three-over-six pane and some replacement timber casements elsewhere. Round-headed door opening to main entrance having battened timber door and spoked timber fanlight. Square-headed door openings elsewhere with timber panelled, timber glazed with internal timber panelled shutters and battened timber doors. Attached farmyard to south comprising barn with camber-arched carriage entrance, flanked by lean-to roofed outbuildings, enclosed by rendered and rubble stone walls with square-headed archway to north side and camber-arch entrance to east. Terraced lawn to rear. Rubble stone boundary walls with wrought-iron gates to rear. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Moyard, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Moyard. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/moyard.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/moyard.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/moyard.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Moyard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Atticlogh: https://everytownland.com/galway/atticlogh.md - Cloonederowen: https://everytownland.com/galway/cloonederowen.md - Crocknaraw: https://everytownland.com/galway/crocknaraw.md - Glenbrickeen: https://everytownland.com/galway/glenbrickeen.md - Loughauna: https://everytownland.com/galway/loughauna.md - Roscrea: https://everytownland.com/galway/roscrea.md - Townaloughra: https://everytownland.com/galway/townaloughra.md - Ungwee: https://everytownland.com/galway/ungwee.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/moyard - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/moyard