# Moylough, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Moylough, barony of Tiaquin, Co. Galway; in Irish Maigh Locha.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 275,912 m² (27.59 ha, 68.18 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,612 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Moylough, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/moylough.md
- Barony: Tiaquin
- Electoral division: Mount Bellew, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/20543
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63376
- Centre: latitude 53.492506, longitude -8.581241 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moylough, from 229 m² to 190,862 m² (19.09 ha, 47.16 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 2087050: 190,862 m² (19.09 ha, 47.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2087050.md
- Parcel 4780408: 77,363 m² (7.74 ha, 19.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4780408.md
- Parcel 4458667: 4,065 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4458667.md
- Parcel 2087049: 3,158 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2087049.md
- Parcel 2087048: 234 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2087048.md
- Parcel 2038556: 229 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2038556.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

No planning application touches the townland of Moylough in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Summerville Lough, site code 001319

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- GA045-029001: Castle - hall-house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA045-029001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA045-029002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA045-029003-. 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.

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)

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moylough.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: About 1 in 10 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: 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, 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/moylough.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/moylough.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/moylough.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Moylough 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)

- Carrowkeel: https://everytownland.com/galway/carrowkeel-60945.md
- Creggauns: https://everytownland.com/galway/creggauns-61583.md
- Laughil: https://everytownland.com/galway/laughil-62943.md
- Moylough More: https://everytownland.com/galway/moylough-more.md
- Summerville: https://everytownland.com/galway/summerville.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.

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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/moylough
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/moylough