# Moig West, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilcornan, barony of Kenry, Co. Limerick; in Irish Maigh Thiar. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 878,906 m² (87.89 ha, 217.18 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,241 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilcornan, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/kilcornan.md - Barony: Kenry - Electoral division: Castletown, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32005 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121582 - Centre: latitude 52.638794, longitude -8.901282 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moig West, from 121 m² to 188,906 m² (18.89 ha, 46.68 acres); 30 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1623981: 188,906 m² (18.89 ha, 46.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1623981.md - Parcel 4923235: 139,910 m² (13.99 ha, 34.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4923235.md - Parcel 1589081: 133,981 m² (13.4 ha, 33.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1589081.md - Parcel 1601638: 73,580 m² (7.36 ha, 18.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1601638.md - Parcel 1643893: 34,817 m² (3.48 ha, 8.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1643893.md - Parcel 1643869: 33,851 m² (3.39 ha, 8.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1643869.md - Parcel 1615350: 33,144 m² (3.31 ha, 8.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1615350.md - Parcel 1640370: 32,512 m² (3.25 ha, 8.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1640370.md - Parcel 1623979: 29,928 m² (2.99 ha, 7.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1623979.md - Parcel 1643870: 28,979 m² (2.9 ha, 7.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1643870.md - Parcel 1623980: 23,961 m² (2.4 ha, 5.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1623980.md - Parcel 1623810: 22,893 m² (2.29 ha, 5.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1623810.md - Parcel 4865422: 16,194 m² (1.62 ha, 4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4865422.md - Parcel 1643999: 14,545 m² (1.45 ha, 3.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1643999.md - Parcel 1630953: 13,303 m² (1.33 ha, 3.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1630953.md - Parcel 1614544: 6,689 m² (0.67 ha, 1.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1614544.md - Parcel 1607665: 5,608 m² (0.56 ha, 1.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1607665.md - Parcel 1612360: 4,897 m² (0.49 ha, 1.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1612360.md - Parcel 1620191: 4,188 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1620191.md - Parcel 1613193: 3,468 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1613193.md - Parcel 1617418: 3,365 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1617418.md - Parcel 1620448: 3,358 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1620448.md - Parcel 1619946: 3,241 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1619946.md - Parcel 1597634: 2,647 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1597634.md - Parcel 1646260: 2,496 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1646260.md - Parcel 1616689: 2,337 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1616689.md - Parcel 1646508: 2,276 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1646508.md - Parcel 1613833: 1,511 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1613833.md - Parcel 1648218: 1,432 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1648218.md - Parcel 1613524: 1,385 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1613524.md - Parcel 4865984: 1,290 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4865984.md - Parcel 1622036: 1,137 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1622036.md - Parcel 4034495: 1,047 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4034495.md - Parcel 1665325: 963 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1665325.md - Parcel 1618493: 941 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1618493.md - Parcel 1620815: 713 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1620815.md - Parcel 3770929: 704 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3770929.md - Parcel 2431847: 584 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2431847.md - Parcel 1646814: 523 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1646814.md - Parcel 1665887: 485 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1665887.md - Parcel 1629654: 298 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1629654.md - Parcel 1589552: 274 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1589552.md - Parcel 1600521: 255 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1600521.md - Parcel 1617669: 199 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1617669.md - Parcel 3267671: 121 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3267671.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Moig West 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) 6 applications, newest first. - 10 Sept 2026, Limerick County Council 2661054: N/a. Permission, 1 home. construction of a single-storey dwelling house, garage, entrance, installation of a wastewater treatment system and associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661054/0 - 7 May 2026, Limerick County Council 2660514: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construction of a single-storey dwelling house, garage, entrance, installation of a wastewater treatment system and associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660514/0 - 1 Oct 2025, Limerick County Council 2560997: Conditional. Retention. the construction of: (1) extensions to dwelling house including a bedroom, porch and sun room. (2) a garage attached to dwelling house. (3) two sheds, and all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560997/0 - 20 Aug 2021, Limerick County Council 211184: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a new dwelling, garage, vehicular entrance, the installation of a wastewater treatment system and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/211184/0 - 15 Jan 2021, Limerick County Council 2129: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construction of a new dwelling house, garage, site entrance, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2129/0 - 31 May 2017, Limerick County Council 17495: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. a slate roof in replacement for a thatched roof and a bathroom extension to the rear of existing dwelling and all associated works. This is a protected structure ref. 587. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/17495/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Askeaton Fen Complex SAC, site code 002279, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002279 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Moig West. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - House, 1790–1810, Regional interest, registry number 21901111, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC®no=21901111. Detached three-bay one- and a half-storey lobby entry thatched house, built c. 1800. Half-hipped thatched roof with red brick chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings to all elevations having painted sills and two-over-two pane and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed opening to front (west) elevation having timber battened door with slate step. Rubble stone boundary wall to north of house. - School, 1820–1840, Regional interest, registry number 21901112, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC®no=21901112. Detached three-bay two-storey former school house, built c. 1830, having two-bay two-storey gabled block to rear (west) elevation with lean-to to west. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, cast-iron rainwater goods and rendered chimneystacks. Pitched slate roof to rear block having rendered coping. Rendered walls with render plinth course. Rubble stone wall exposed to lean-to. Square-headed openings throughout with tooled limestone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Central square-headed blind window opening to first floor, front elevation. Square-headed opening to front (east) elevation having gabled timber canopy above, windbreak and timber panelled door. Rubble stone boundary wall with pair of square-profile rubble stone piers flanking single-leaf metal gate. - House, 1790–1810, Regional interest, registry number 21901113, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC®no=21901113. Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1800, having gabled single-bay single-storey extension to rear (north) elevation. Pitched thatched roof with rendered and red brick chimneystacks. Pitched slate roof to extension. Rendered walls having render plinth course. Square-headed openings throughout having concrete sills, render surrounds and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed opening to rear with half-glazed timber battened panel. Square-headed opening to front with render surround and double-leaf timber panelled door. Outbuildings adjoining west elevation. - House, 1770–1790, Regional interest, registry number 21901114, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC®no=21901114. Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1780, now disused. Having lean-to and single-storey square-profile extensions to rear (west) elevation and central breakfront to front (east) elevation. Hipped slate roof with red brick chimneystacks, terracotta ridge tiles and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls, rubble stone visible in places. Round-headed recesses to ground level, south elevation, and square-headed niche having tooled limestone sill to first floor, central breakfront, east elevation. Square-headed openings with tooled limestone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Three-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor, north and south elevations, two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows having slate sills to first floor, west elevation. Round-headed opening to ground floor, west elevation, with timber framed window. Square-headed opening to west extension having timber framed window. Red brick voussoirs visible in places. Openings to either side of breakfront to east elevation blocked up, limestone sills visible. Square-headed opening to east elevation with red brick voussoirs and timber panelled door having decorative overlight. Square-headed opening to north elevation of lean-to, with timber battened door. Outbuildings to west and north of house, with rubble stone walls and mixed slate and corrugated-iron roofs. Outbuilding to north of house with segmental-arched and square-headed openings having stone voussoirs. Rubble stone boundary wall with limestone copings to east of house with pair of square-profile rendered piers having limestone caps, flanking single-leaf timber gate. ## 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 Moig West, about 1 in 5 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 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 West. - 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/limerick/moig-west.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/moig-west.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/moig-west.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Moig West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick: https://everytownland.com/limerick.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Castletown: https://everytownland.com/limerick/castletown-120622.md - Graigues: https://everytownland.com/limerick/graigues-121188.md - Milltown: https://everytownland.com/limerick/milltown-121548.md - Moig East: https://everytownland.com/limerick/moig-east.md - Moig East Glebe: https://everytownland.com/limerick/moig-east-glebe.md - Newtown: https://everytownland.com/limerick/newtown-121640.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/limerick/moig-west - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/moig-west