Moy
Moy is a townland in the civil parish of Laracor, barony of Moyfenrath Lower, Co. Meath. Its name in Irish is Maigh.
- Area
- 77.6 ha
- 192 acres
- Land parcels
- 39
- registered freehold, median 4,203 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moy, from 290 m² to 276,622 m² (27.66 ha, 68.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 70 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
31 Oct 2025Conditional
The development will consist of: 1. New Dwelling and detached garage. 2. New domestic entrance. 3. Wastewater Treatment tank with Percolation area. 4. Landscaping & all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2561174
31 Oct 2025Conditional
The development will consist of: 1. New Dwelling and detached garage. 2. New domestic entrance. 3. Wastewater Treatment tank with Percolation area. 4. Landscaping & all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2561175
15 Aug 2024Conditional
planning permission for the construction of a new single-storey dwelling, together with a new site entrance, effluent treatments system tank and percolation area, together with all associated site works and landscaping
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2460645
24 Nov 2023Conditional
the development will consist of the addition of a two-storey extension to the rear and side of an existing detached residential dwelling, elevational changes, internal layout reconfiguration, new on-site wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works.
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2360429
16 Mar 2023Conditional
(1) to construct a single storied dwellinghouse, (2) to install a proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area in accordance with EPA 2021 code of practice, (3) to provide a new vehicular entrance with access onto cul-de-sac laneway via existing driveway and entrance north west of the application site and (4) all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 23291
15 Sept 2021Conditional
two storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, entrance and driveway. The development also includes installation of a proprietary waste water treatment system and polishing filter together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 211813
22 Apr 2020Conditional
2 four bedroom 2 storey houses, with 2 Packaged wastewater treatment systems and polishing filters. Discharged to Ground water. Trench invert level (m): 0.60 treatment system and 2 no wells. New entrance for access and all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, TA200542
6 Mar 2020N/a
two four bedroom two storey houses, with 2 packaged wastewater treatment systems and polishing filters. Discharged to groundwater. Trench invert level (m) .60 treatment system and 2 no wells. New entrance for access and all associated site works.
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, RA200302
8 May 2019N/a
planning permission is sought for 2, four bedroom, 2 story houses, with 2 Packaged wastewater treatment systems and polishing filters. Discharged to: Ground water. Trench invert level(m): 0.60 treatment system and 2 no. wells. New shared entrance for access to site and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, TA190569
21 Dec 2018Conditional
existing 30 metre high telecommunications support structure with antennas, equipment container and associated equipment within a fenced compound and access track. The development forms part of Vodafone Ireland Ltd's existing GSM and 3G Broadband telecommunications network.
Retention · Meath County Council, TA181587
29 Aug 2018N/a
planning permission is sought for 2 four bedroom, 2 storey houses, with 2 Packaged wastewater treatment systems and polishing filters. Discharged to: Ground water, Trench invert level (m): 0.60 treatment system and 2 no. wells. Existing entrance for access and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, TA180988
10 Aug 2018N/a
planning permission is sought for 2 four bedroom, 2 storey houses, with 2 Packaged wastewater treatment systems and polishing filters. Discharged to: Ground water, Trench invert level (m): 0.60 treatment system and 2 no. wells. Existing entrance for access and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, TA180892
30 Jul 2018N/a
2 four bedroom, 2 storey houses, with Packaged wastewater treatment system and polishing filter. Discharged to: Ground water, Trench invert level (m): 0.60 treatment system and 2 no. wells. Existing entrance for access and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, TA180845
3 Jul 2018N/a
2 four bedroom 2 storey houses with treatment system and 2 no wells. Existing entrance for access and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, TA180729
8 Sept 2017Conditional
the development will consist of the demolition of existing stables and construction of a two storey structure that will be used for storage purposes, domestic garage, a home gym and home study/office to rear of existing dwelling
Permission · Meath County Council, TA171043
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 Moy.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Moy.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moy.
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 Moy, 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Moy.
- 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 Moy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Moy · Maigh
- Area
- 776,278 m² (77.63 ha, 191.82 acres)
- Civil parish
- Laracor, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moyfenrath Lower
- Electoral division
- Summerhill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,453 people lived in 504 households in the Summerhill electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Agher, Clondoogan, Isaacstown, Summerhill, Summerhill Demesne
- Placenames
- Moy 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.