Moynsha
Townland in the civil parish of Duagh, barony of Clanmaurice, Co. Kerry; in Irish Maigh Inse
- Area
- 37.7 ha
- 93 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 2,169 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moynsha, from 735 m² to 116,011 m² (11.6 ha, 28.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Moynsha 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
29 Jul 2026N/a
Outline Permission to erect a dwelling house with all associated site works and services including mechanical aeration unit and soil polishing filter.
Outline permission · Kerry County Council, 2660711
19 Sept 2024Refused
retention permission to retain a standalone building to the rear of my existing dwelling partially used as a domestic shed incorporating home office and storage area, and partially used as a plant room in conjunction with my existing dwelling. I Also wish to apply for permission for alterations for changes to rear elevation, and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460706
6 Sept 2024N/a
Invalid -I Thomas O’ Brien wish to apply to Kerry County Council for retention permission for the construction of a standalone building to the rear of my existing dwelling partially used as a domestic shed incorporating home office and storage area, and partially used as a plant room in conjunction with my existing dwelling. I Also wish to apply for permission for alterations for changes to rear elevation, and all associated site works at Site 1 An Eacharas, Moynsha, Abbeyfeale, Co. Kerry.
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2460673
17 Apr 2024Conditional
I Thomas O’ Brien wish to apply to Kerry County Council for retention permission for front boundary walls as constructed also retention permission for the construction of a domestic shed incorporating home office and storage to the rear of my existing dwelling, and all associated site works at Site 1 An Eacharas, Moynsha, Abbeyfeale, Co. Kerry.
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460221
24 May 2021Conditional
(A) DEMOLISH EXISTING SHED AND (B) CONSTRUCT NEW SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21538
19 Feb 2019Conditional
(A) ERECT AN EXTENSION TO SIDE OF (WEST) DWELLING HOUSE (B) ERECT A DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ANCILLARY WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19149
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Moynsha.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moynsha.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3433 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Moynsha with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Moynsha · Maigh Inse
- Area
- 376,737 m² (37.67 ha, 93.09 acres)
- Civil parish
- Duagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmaurice
- Electoral division
- Moynsha, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Moynsha electoral division: 493 people in 183 households; 93% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymacjordan, Islandboy East, Knockbrack (Co. Limerick), Knocknasnaa (Co. Limerick), Port (Co. Limerick), Shanbally
- Placenames
- Moynsha 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.