Moyode Demesne

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moyode Demesne, from 17 m² to 446,970 m² (44.7 ha, 110.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Moyode Demesne 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.

• 19 Jun 2026N/a

  for the proposed development includes the extension of the existing Esker Quarry permitted under Pl. Ref. 99/751 and extended under Pl. Ref: 04/417, ABP Reg. Ref. 07.210064. Permission is sought for an operational lifetime of 25 years. The proposed development consists of : Development of a lateral extension to the existing limestone quarry of an area measuring approximately 2.29ha for the extraction and processing of limestone. Relocation of existing wheel wash and weighbridge within the existing site and the provision of internal traffic management signage; Construction of surface water and stormwater infrastructure including stormwater drains, surface drainage channel, stormwater catchpit, infiltration trench and hydrocarbon bypass interceptor; Provision of 2 no. vehicle passing bays along the L7164, continued use of existing operational infrastructure including processing plant, workshop and on-site office buildings; continued use of the existing site entrance off the L7164; Implementation of site restoration; all ancillary site enabling, site development works including establishing a stockpiling area, site landscaping and site boundary treatments. The planning application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2661022

• 19 Jul 2024N/a

  to demolish an existing dwelling and construct a new dwelling with a new waster water treatment system and percolation area including all associated works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 339.80. Gross floor space of any demolition: 311 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24211

• 15 Jul 2024Conditional

  to construct an extension and alterations to an existing dwelling house and to construct a new wastewater treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works: 12.42 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460878

• 1 Apr 2022Conditional

  to: 1) extend and renovate his existing dwelling house including all associated works and services, 2) construct a domestic garage with carport. Gross floor space of proposed works: 39.15 sqm, 79 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22441

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 Moyode Demesne.

Recorded monuments

• GA096-139 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a gentle S-facing slope in pastureland. This roughly subcircular cashel (int. dims. c. 45m E-W; c. 40m N-S), in fair condition, is defined by a drystone wall (Wth at E 6.6m; int. H 1.1m). The gap (Wth 10m) noted by Cody (1989, 265-6, no. 89) at NE is now blocked up. Field-clearance rubble has been piled against the S half of the external wall-face. This rubble (Wth 4m) has been built up to the height of the cashel wall and faced to form a modern field wall. Other modern field walls abut the cashel at several points. The interior is planted with trees and a sheepfold is incorporated into the enclosing wall at E. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 27 February 2018

• GA096-140 Country house
  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.

• GA096-141 Castle - tower house
  Description

  In pastureland. This four-storey high rectangular tower house (10.35m E-W; 8.35m N-S) was in the possession of Walter Dolphin in 1574 (Neary 1901, 121). Built on a plinth, it is constructed of regularly coursed limestone. A gentle base-batter rises to 1st-floor level. On inspection in July 1983, access was gained through a pointed arch doorway, towards the S end of the E wall, which opened into a lobby with an overhead murder-hole. A doorway directly opposite led to the main ground-floor chamber, which was lit by three rectangular loops set into deep embrasures. The embrasure in the W wall had been broken through forming another entrance feature but when Cody (1989, 373) inspected the castle, this had been repaired. Wall presses were visible at the N end of the E wall and the S end of the W wall. Another doorway off the N side of the lobby led to an intramural flight of stairs from which the spiral staircase rose at 1st-floor level and originally continued to the top of the 3rd floor. The 1st and 2nd floors comprised a subsidiary chamber above the doorway with the main chamber to its W. There were vaults over both chambers between the 2nd/3rd floors. Joist holes, sockets and corbels indicated the positions of the lower 1st and 2nd wooden floors. Further wall presses were visible at the N and S ends of the W wall on the 1st and 3rd floors and also at the S end of the E wall on the 3rd floor. An intramural passage in the N wall, at 2nd-floor level, led to a garderobe in the W wall; its exit chute was visible externally towards the base of the W wall. Fireplaces were visible in the S wall on the 1st floor and in the E and W gable walls. Cody (ibid., 375) noted that both fireplaces in the gables had been inserted into blocked up rectangular windows. It was unclear how access was gained to the main chamber on the 2nd floor as there was no indication that it was accessed off the spiral stairs or from the subsidiary chamber. Cody (ibid., 374) suggested that it may have been accessed from an internal stairs or by a ladder from the chamber below. Cody (ibid., 375) further noted that on the 3rd floor the spiral stairs, which originally continued to the wall-walk, was subsequently blocked up in the past. A short linear stairs was then built against the N wall and it accessed the wall-walk through the cap house at its NE corner. The following inscriptions were noted on the springing stones of the arch of the doorway where the spiral stairs terminated in the E wall: on the N side – ‘M. Grady/A.D./1822’ and on the S side – ‘J. Doyle/A.D./1821’. Windows above the ground floor comprised rectangular slits, angle loops, single and double transom and mullioned ogee-headed windows. The spandrels of the ogee heads in the N and S walls on the 3rd floor were decorated: a carved human head and foliage were visible in the S one, while there appeared to be foliage on the N one. Since inspection, this tower house has been completely restored and renovated as a private residence. The following images have been uploaded: GA096-141----83.jpg View from SE GA096-141----86.jpg View from NE Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 1 August 2023

• GA096-142 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On a gentle S-facing slope in pastureland, c. 15m to the W of the Dooyertha River. This subrectangular children's burial ground (L 16.4m; Wth 12.3m) is defined by a drystone wall on its NW side but is otherwise unenclosed. Within it an irregular spread of small upright headstones mark graves. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 3 September 2019

• GA096-143 Burial ground
  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 Moyode Demesne.

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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Moyode Demesne · Diméin Mhaigh Fhód

Area

2,422,546 m² (242.25 ha, 598.62 acres)

Civil parish

Kilconierin, and its townlands

Barony

Athenry

Electoral division

Moyode, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Moyode electoral division: 297 people in 100 households; 96% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballywinna, Creggaturlough, Garracloon North, Kilconierin, Moyode, Rathgorgin

Placenames

Moyode Demesne 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.