Moig East
Moig East is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcornan, barony of Kenry, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Maigh Thoir.
- Area
- 47 ha
- 116 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 3,323 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moig East, from 2,012 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres) to 231,709 m² (23.17 ha, 57.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Moig East 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
19 May 2021Conditional
the construction of an attached garage and granny flat living accommodation, the installation of a new waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21674
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 Moig East.
Recorded monuments
- LI011-020 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, atop hill with panoramic views, particularly to N over Shannon estuary. Circular area (diam. c. 55m) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with intervening fosse (Wth 2.1m). Inner bank (int. H 0.75m; ext. H 2.35m) best preserved at WSW. Outer bank (int. H 1.05m; ext. H 1.1m) may be field boundary as it is similar in appearance (flat top and sheer sides) to field boundary which abuts it at NW. Entrance at SSW where low causeway joins gaps in inner (Wth 2.8m) and outer (Wth 2.3m) banks. Cattle break (Wth 2m) in inner bank at ESE. Fosse well preserved all around, though clogged with organic debris at SE. Flat interior is covered with brambles; low linear corrugations in SE quadrant are probably remains of cultivation ridges. 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 East.
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
- The EPA radon map did not answer.
- 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 Moig East.
- 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 Moig East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Moig East · Maigh Thoir
- Area
- 470,215 m² (47.02 ha, 116.19 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcornan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kenry
- Electoral division
- Castletown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 460 people lived in 174 households in the Castletown electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycahane, Graigues, Moig East Glebe, Moig West
- Placenames
- Moig East 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.