Moig

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moig, from 178 m² to 293,020 m² (29.3 ha, 72.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Moig 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.

• 5 Aug 2022Conditional

  change of use of existing farm building to tourist accommodation and construction of an extension to that building, new wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 22860

• 31 Jan 2022Conditional

  existing cattle feed shed and underground slurry tank as constructed

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2294

• 11 Sept 2019Conditional

  a domestic garage at rear of existing house and connections to all existing services

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19905

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 Moig.

Recorded monuments

• LI019-087 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle N-facing slope. Site depicted as roughly rectangular hachured area (c. 15m N-S; c. 30m E-W) on 1923 OS 6-inch map has been levelled; no visible surface trace evident. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI019-088 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on steep NE-facing slope. Monument, depicted as roughly circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Most of surrounding field boundaries have also been removed creating a large open field. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI019-090 Mound
  Description

  In pasture, on the steep S-facing slope of a hill. The monument, which is depicted as an oval mound (c. 15m SW-NE; c. 10m NW-SE) on the 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. The only evident trace of the mound is the short arc of a scarped edge (H 1m; Wth 3.55m) running SE->SSE, which is truncated at its SSE end by a field boundary. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI019-091 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on N-facing hill slope. Oval area (33m N-S; 40m E-W) defined by scarped edge, with external fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.55m) SE->NW. Scarp (H 2.15m; Wth 11m), best preserved NE->SE, lowers at W (H 0.4m; Wth 6m). A slightly curved field boundary kinks around base of scarp NW->NE. Interior, under pasture, slopes down gently to E. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI019-093 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle NNE-facing slope. Site depicted on 1841 OS 6-inch map as circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m) has been levelled; no visible surface trace evident. According to landowner, enclosure levelled in 1952, was known locally as "the killeen" and used as a famine burial ground; a report (NMI top. files) noted 'cist with skeleton' as found during levelling (LI019-093001-). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI019-093001 Slab-lined burial
  Description

  Discovered in 1952 when enclosure (LI019-093----) was being levelled. Described as 'cist with skeleton … 130cm by 50cm and 40cm deep' (NMI). According to local information the enclosure was known locally as "the killeen" and used as a famine burial ground. An account of this monument has been published in: Cahill, M. & Sikora, M. (2011) Breaking ground, finding graves- reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006. vol. 2, 100-102. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 15 August 2012

• LI019-260 Standing stone
  Description

  In pasture, on a break in a N-facing slope. A limestone upright (H 1.18m; Wth 0.28m; T 0.21m), leaning slightly to the E, with its long axis aligned NNW-SSE. It is rectangular in profile and in section. The stone's corners have been rubbed smooth by cattle. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moig.

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 Moig, 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 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 Moig.

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.

• Moig, Shanagolden6 sales

Name

Moig · Maigh

Area

1,230,961 m² (123.1 ha, 304.18 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmoylan, and its townlands

Barony

Shanid

Electoral division

Shanid, the unit of the census

Census 2022

542 people lived in 208 households in the Shanid electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clashganniff, Dooncaha, Dunmoylan, Shanid Lower, Shanid Upper

Placenames

Moig 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.