# Moyower, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Meelick, barony of Longford, Co. Galway; in Irish Maigh Odhar. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,278,722 m² (127.87 ha, 315.98 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,304 m² (0.73 ha, 1.8 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Meelick, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/meelick.md - Barony: Longford - Electoral division: Meelick, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/21166 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63382 - Centre: latitude 53.18673, longitude -8.120073 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moyower, from 534 m² to 179,335 m² (17.93 ha, 44.31 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1956558: 179,335 m² (17.93 ha, 44.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956558.md - Parcel 1994488: 144,908 m² (14.49 ha, 35.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1994488.md - Parcel 1994497: 116,048 m² (11.6 ha, 28.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1994497.md - Parcel 1956551: 111,272 m² (11.13 ha, 27.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956551.md - Parcel 1994498: 97,730 m² (9.77 ha, 24.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1994498.md - Parcel 1994499: 85,926 m² (8.59 ha, 21.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1994499.md - Parcel 1956553: 72,644 m² (7.26 ha, 17.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956553.md - Parcel 1994493: 70,695 m² (7.07 ha, 17.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1994493.md - Parcel 4952933: 59,943 m² (5.99 ha, 14.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4952933.md - Parcel 1956549: 53,431 m² (5.34 ha, 13.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956549.md - Parcel 1956557: 48,540 m² (4.85 ha, 11.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956557.md - Parcel 1994490: 46,467 m² (4.65 ha, 11.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1994490.md - Parcel 1994492: 45,554 m² (4.56 ha, 11.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1994492.md - Parcel 1994495: 29,885 m² (2.99 ha, 7.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1994495.md - Parcel 1956550: 28,349 m² (2.83 ha, 7.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956550.md - Parcel 1994491: 18,274 m² (1.83 ha, 4.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1994491.md - Parcel 1994487: 15,598 m² (1.56 ha, 3.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1994487.md - Parcel 4804922: 7,304 m² (0.73 ha, 1.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4804922.md - Parcel 1994486: 4,398 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1994486.md - Parcel 1994494: 4,341 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1994494.md - Parcel 5555626: 4,326 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5555626.md - Parcel 1956555: 3,997 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956555.md - Parcel 1956552: 3,311 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956552.md - Parcel 1956559: 3,268 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956559.md - Parcel 1956554: 3,230 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956554.md - Parcel 1956556: 3,047 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956556.md - Parcel 2873876: 3,008 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2873876.md - Parcel 1994496: 2,497 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1994496.md - Parcel 4952929: 2,382 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4952929.md - Parcel 4687412: 2,380 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4687412.md - Parcel 1994489: 2,216 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1994489.md - Parcel 4657986: 1,118 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4657986.md - Parcel 5998473: 1,097 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5998473.md - Parcel 5998403: 1,054 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5998403.md - Parcel 5252954: 534 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5252954.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 9 Jun 2025, Galway County Council 2560732: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560732/0 - 14 Dec 2017, Galway County Council 171792: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/171792/0 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 Moyower. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA108-204001: Burial mound, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA108-204001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA108-204002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA108-205----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA108-206----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA108-206001-. 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 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) - House, 1770–1775, Regional interest, registry number 30410817, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA®no=30410817. 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. ## 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 Moyower, 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: 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 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/moyower.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/moyower.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/moyower.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Moyower 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) - Camus: https://everytownland.com/galway/camus.md - Derry: https://everytownland.com/galway/derry-61758.md - Glennavaddoge: https://everytownland.com/galway/glennavaddoge-62195.md - Lisfinny: https://everytownland.com/galway/lisfinny.md - Lismafadda: https://everytownland.com/galway/lismafadda.md - Meelick: https://everytownland.com/galway/meelick-63271.md - Prospect Demesne: https://everytownland.com/galway/prospect-demesne.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/moyower - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/moyower