Moyadd
Moyadd is a townland in the civil parish of Dysartgallen, barony of Cullenagh, Co. Laois. Its name in Irish is Maigh Fhada.
- Area
- 293.3 ha
- 725 acres
- Land parcels
- 40
- registered freehold, median 4,784 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moyadd, from 40 m² to 660,613 m² (66.06 ha, 163.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Moyadd 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
8 Sept 2026N/a
Extension of duration to pl ref 21/406
Extension of duration · Laois County Council, 2657
30 Aug 2026N/a
retain domestic use garage to the rear of dwelling
Retention · Laois County Council, 2660588
16 Sept 2025Refused
construct new dwelling house with waste water treatment unit and polishing filter ,shed, new site entrance and all associated works
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2560586
27 May 2025Conditional
construct a detached single-storey log cabin structure for use as a home office, gym, games room, storage, and all associated site works and services.
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560319
20 Dec 2024Conditional
construct Dwelling House, Garage, Site Entrance, Tertiary Treatment System & Infiltration/ Treatment Area and to include all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2460791
20 Mar 2024Conditional
Construct a dormer style dwelling house, entrance, garage, wastewater treatment system with infiltration percolation area & all associated site works
Permission consequent, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2460151
13 Jul 2022Conditional
construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank treatment system, percolation area, shared site entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 22424
24 May 2022N/a
construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank treatment system, percolation area, shared site entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 22322
15 Nov 2021Conditional
to construct a dormer style dwelling, entrance, garage, wastewater treatment system with infiltration percolation area; and all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21768
3 Jun 2021Conditional
construct new dwelling house and garage, new septic tank with percolation area, widening of existing site entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21406
3 Jun 2020Conditional
demolish existing dwelling house and permission to build a four bed dwelling house with a 2 bed granny flat attachment , new site entrance, new septic tank treatment system an all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20267
25 Oct 2019N/a
extend existing dwelling, new septic tank system and percolation area and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19592
26 Aug 2019N/a
extend existing dwelling, new septic tank system and percolation area and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19485
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Moyadd.
Recorded monuments
- LA031-001 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated in a low lying marshy area. A circular area (C c. 40m N-SE) defined by a bank from NW-NNW, and a scarp (H c. 0.4m) from NNW-E. An intervening fosse (Wth c. 3.5m) and outer bank (Wth c. 4.1m, int. H c. 0.35m, ext. H c. 0.25m) are visible from N-E. Possible entrance at E. Spoil, probably resulting from the construction of a nearby silage tank, has been piled in the SW quadrant of the interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moyadd.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Moyadd, about 1 in 20 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Moyadd.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Moyadd with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Moyadd · Maigh Fhada
- Area
- 2,933,413 m² (293.34 ha, 724.86 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dysartgallen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Cullenagh
- Electoral division
- Dysartgallen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 275 people lived in 91 households in the Dysartgallen electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghadreen, Aughatubbrid or Chatsworth (Co. Kilkenny), Coolglass, Knockbaun, Kylenabehy, Slatt Lower
- Placenames
- Moyadd 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.