Moylough

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moylough, from 229 m² to 190,862 m² (19.09 ha, 47.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Moylough 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Moylough 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.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Summerville Lough 001319

Recorded monuments

• GA045-029001 Castle - hall-house
  Description

  Within a rectangular enclosure (GA045-029002-). A rectangular 13th-C keep (Claffey 1983, 157-8), in fair condition, surviving to a height of three storeys. The SW wall has almost completely collapsed. The robbed-out doorway, near E corner of SE wall on 1st floor, is flanked by beam slots which supported a wooden stairs leading up to it. An intramural stairs in N corner connects 1st and 2nd floors. All the floors were wooden. Apart from large robbed-out windows on 1st floor, the remainder consist of rectangular slits or single lights with flat heads. A church (GA045-033001-) lay 110m to ESE. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 233; Waterman 1956, 73-6) 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 The following images have been uploaded: GA045-029001-_01.jpg View from S GA045-029001-_03.jpg View from S GA045-029001-_04.jpg SE wall GA045-029001-_05.jpg NE wall GA045-029001-_06.jpg Slit window, NE wall GA045-029001-_07.jpg NW wall GA045-029001-_08.jpg View of interior from SSW

• GA045-029002 Enclosure
  Description

  In undulating grassland near W limits of Moylough village. Very poorly preserved subrectangular earthwork (NE-SW 30.5m, NW-SW 15m) defined by a scarp, intervening fosse and outer bank, best preserved along NW and NE sides. No visible surface trace survives at SW and only the inner scarp survives along SE side. Within the interior are the remains of Moylough Castle (GA045-029001-). Claffey (1983, 57) suggests that both the castle and surrounding earthwork are contemporary. Some 30m to N and E are a series of rectangular earthworks enclosed by earthen banks; probably associated. 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

• GA045-029003 Earthwork
  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 Moylough.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Moylough · Maigh Locha

Area

275,912 m² (27.59 ha, 68.18 acres)

Civil parish

Moylough, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Mount Bellew, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Mount Bellew electoral division: 1,972 people in 701 households; 80% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowkeel, Creggauns, Laughil, Moylough More, Summerville

Placenames

Moylough 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.