Moyagher
Moyagher is a townland in the civil parish of Rathmore, barony of Lune, Co. Meath. Its name in Irish is Maigh Achair.
- Area
- 156.6 ha
- 387 acres
- Land parcels
- 38
- registered freehold, median 4,046 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moyagher, from 26 m² to 437,954 m² (43.8 ha, 108.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 · 54 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
30 Oct 2025Conditional
REF 21777 - The construction of a detached, two storey dwelling , detached domestic garage, a domestic entrance, a wastewater disposal system and all associated site works
Extension of duration, 1 home · Meath County Council, 25208
23 Apr 2021Conditional
the construction of a detached two storey dwelling, a detached domestic garage, a domestic entrance, a wastewater disposal system, and all associated site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 21777
15 Nov 2019Conditional
planning permission to construct a new agricultural entrance together with all associated site development works on site
Permission · Meath County Council, KA191527
8 Nov 2019Conditional
the construction of a two storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, wastewater disposal system, upgrade of existing agricultural entrance to a domestic site entrance, new agricultural site entrance, 1 no. hay barn, 1 no. slatted shed, 1 no. general agricultural shed, stables building and all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA191480
8 Dec 2017Conditional
construction of a single storey extension to rear of existing bungalow. To demolish existing detached domestic garage and to construct a new garden shed with associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, KA171420
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 Moyagher.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Moyagher.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moyagher.
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 Moyagher, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Moyagher.
- 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 Moyagher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Moyagher · Maigh Achair
- Area
- 1,565,746 m² (156.57 ha, 386.9 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Lune
- Electoral division
- Rathmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,095 people lived in 346 households in the Rathmore electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balrathboyne Glebe, Balruntagh, Fordstown, Mooneystown, Moyagher Lower, Newtown Girley, Rathmore
- Placenames
- Moyagher 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.