Moyower

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moyower, from 534 m² to 179,335 m² (17.93 ha, 44.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Moyower 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.

• 9 Jun 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: (H) 116.60 sqm & (G) 60sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560732

• 14 Dec 2017Conditional

  to (a) Demolish existing cottage (b) construction of a replacement dwelling (c) construction of a domestic garage/store (d) decommission existing septic tank and install new treatment system with polishing filter bed (e) demolish existing outbuilding (f) and all associated external site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 313sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition 94.71sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171792

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 Moyower.

Recorded monuments

• GA108-204001 Burial mound
  Description

  On a gentle W-facing slope in grassland. A poorly preserved subcircular flat-topped earthen mound (base Wth 13.5m N-S; top 2.8m; max. H 1.7m). Hawthorn trees are growing on it at NE, SE and W. According to local information, unbaptised children were buried here (see GA108-204002-); the area underwent extensive field clearance and the mound was formerly surrounded by trees. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Updated by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 15 November 2019

• GA108-204002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  According to local information, the mound (GA108-204001-) was reused as a place to bury unbaptized children. No grave-markers are visible. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 January 2019

• GA108-205 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (41m NE-SW; 37m NW-SE) defined by a tree-lined bank and traces of an external fosse. A field bank cuts through the monument at NE and SE and no visible surface trace of the enclosing elements survives to the E of it. A band of vegetation indicates the line of the fosse from S to W and at NE. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 27 February 2018

• GA108-206 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the S end of a ridge in grassland. Very poorly preserved oval rath (51.5m N-S; 33.5m E-W) defined by a scarp. A silage pit has been dug into the interior at E. A rectangular hollow in the NW quadrant is the result of quarrying. A children’s burial ground (GA108-206001-) is associated. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 27 February 2018

• GA108-206001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Within a rath (GA108-206----). Named 'Children's Burial Ground' on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map; no visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 27 February 2018

Architectural heritage

• House, 1770–1775 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular house, dated 1773, having recent flat-roofed entrance porch to front (north) elevation. Pitched thatched roof with rendered chimneystacks, one towards centre, others to gable ends. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth render plinth course. Somewhat enlarged square-headed window openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows having render sills. Square-headed door opening with replacement uPVC door. Dressed limestone sill or door lintel to site with carved date. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding to east end, having corrugated-iron roof, rendered walls, and square-headed openings. Yard to front with recent metal gate and rendered boundary walls.

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

At the centre of the townland of Moyower, about 1 in 10 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

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

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.

No address of the register names Moyower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Moyower · Maigh Odhar

Area

1,278,722 m² (127.87 ha, 315.98 acres)

Civil parish

Meelick, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Meelick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

296 people lived in 100 households in the Meelick electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Camus, Derry, Glennavaddoge, Lisfinny, Lismafadda, Meelick, Prospect Demesne

Placenames

Moyower 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.