Moyagher Lower

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moyagher Lower, from 420 m² to 510,501 m² (51.05 ha, 126.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 60 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 9 Jul 2026N/a

  the Development consists of a Cattle Housing Unit with Underground Storage Tanks, Concrete Apron and all site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2660853

• 19 Jun 2026N/a

  the Development consists of a Cattle Housing Unit with Underground Storage Tanks, Concrete Apron and all site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2660769

• 9 May 2022Conditional

  the development will consist of laying of underground 33kV medium voltage electrical cables with associated ducting, 4 no. joint bays, with associated communication chambers and ancillary development within the Local public roads L6835, L6836, and L80021 for a distance of approximately 2,991 metres. Permission is sought for a period of 10 years. The underground cable is intended to connect the South Parcel, in Moyagher Lower townland, with the North Parcel, in Milltown townland, of Milltown Solar Farm, which was permitted by An Bord Pleanala following appeal pursuant to An Bord Pleanala Reference number PL17.311460 and Meath County Council Planning Reference number 21/396. A Strategic infrastructure Development Application for the associated 110kV Substation was also permitted by An Bord Pleanala in the North Parcel of the permitted solar farm pursuant to An Bord Pleanala Reference number VA17.310029. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the Application.

  Permission · Meath County Council, 22595

• 26 Mar 2021Conditional

  to construct a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, new entrance and install a sewage treatment system with percolation areas together with all associated site development works on site

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 21582

• 6 Nov 2020Refused

  planning permission to construct a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, new entrance and install a sewage treatment system with percolation areas together with all associated site development works on site

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA201645

• 6 Nov 2020Refused

  planning permission to construct a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, new entrance and install a sewage treatment system with percolation areas together with all associated site development works on site

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA201646

• 25 Sept 2020Conditional

  planning permission to take down existing farm building and construct a single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, upgrade existing entrance and install a sewage treatment system with percolation area together with all works ancillary to the overall development on site

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA201352

• 20 Dec 2019Conditional

  a private dwelling, detached domestic garage, new entrance from public road, wastewater treatment system, and all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, KA191759

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 Moyagher Lower.

Recorded monuments

• ME024-005 Church
  Description

  Located in a level landscape. This was probably a chapel-of-ease to Rathmore (ME024-017001-), c. 2.5km to the SSW. A church at Monechurch is listed in the ecclesiastical taxation (1302-06) of Pope Nicholas IV (Cal. doc. Ire. 5, 260). Ussher (1622) describes the church and chancel of Moyagher as ruinous (Erlington 1847-64, 1, lxxxix). According to Dopping’s Visitation (1682-5) St. Nicholas’ church at Moyagher had been a ruin since 1641 and the graveyard was not enclosed (Ellison 1973, 8). The church was described in 1985 as the grass covered foundations (int. dims c. 21m E W; c. 5.3m N S) of a church with doorways in the N and S walls towards the W end. The chancel may have been narrower and might have been added later. The church is now overgrown in a tended rectangular graveyard (dims c. 50m NW-SE; c. 40m NE-SW) defined by earthen banks with an outer stone wall or facing. The graveslab of Christopher Plunkett, dated 1630, is in the nave (Cogan 1862-70, 2, 261-2). The inscription has been read by B. E. F. Moore (c. 1975, 1, 2) following FitzGerald (1908-09) as: HIC JACET CHRISTOPHER PLUNKETT CUM SUA UXORE CATHERINA BEGG QUOND DE MOYAGHER GENEROS’ QUI ME FIERI FECIT ANO MDCXXX. ET OBIT 19 DIE IULI. The shaft of a cross (dims 0.22m x. 0.13m; H 0.85m) is across the road to the SE in Milltown townland, but it was not noted in 2014 because of overgrowth. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 16 December, 2014

• ME024-005001 Graveyard
  Description

  Located in a level landscape. The remains of St. Nicholas' church (ME025-005----) are within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 50m NW-SE; c. 40m NE-SW) defined by earthen banks with outer masonry walls or facings. The graveslab (ME025-005002-) is in the nave, and the cross (ME025-005003-) is across the road to the SE in Milltown townland but was not noted in 2014. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 19 June 2014 Amended: 24 June, 2014

• ME024-005002 Graveslab
  Description

  The graveslab of Christopher Plunkett, dated 1630, is in the nave of St. Nicholas's church (ME024-005----). The inscription has been read by B. E. F. Moore (c. 1975, 1, 2) following FitzGerald (1908-09) as: HIC JACET CHRISTOPHER PLUNKETT CUM SUA UXORE CATHERINA BEGG QUOND DE MOYAGHER GENEROS’ QUI ME FIERI FECIT ANO MDCXXX. ET OBIT 19 DIE IULI. It is described by FitzGerald (1908-09) as: In the nave of the church lies a large slab much sunk in the ground, bearing a Latin inscription to the memoires of Christopher Plunkett, of Moyagher (who died on the 19th July, 1630), and Katherine Begg, his wife. A plain cross, on steps, occupies the middle of the slab, while the spaces between the shaft and the inscriptions are taken up with emblems of our Lord’s passion and crucifixion. To the left of the shaft are a scourge and a cock, while to the right of it can be distinguished another scourge, a pincers, the thirty pieces of silver, the spear, and the ladder, all in relief. The only incised carvings on the slab are an IHS at eh the junction of the arms of the cross, and the sentence ‘orate pro muice (the meaning of the last word is unintelligible). The inscription is peculiarly divided between three sides: HIC IACET CHRISTOPHER PLV /NKETT CVM SVA VXORE CA / THERINEA BEGG / QVOND DE MOYA / GHER GENEROS’ QVI ME / FIERE FECIT ANO MDCXXX / DNI / ORATE PRO MVICE. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 5 September, 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Moyagher Lower.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.

No address of the register names Moyagher Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Moyagher Lower · Maigh Achair Íochtarach

Area

1,568,985 m² (156.9 ha, 387.7 acres)

Civil parish

Rathmore, and its townlands

Barony

Lune

Electoral division

Rathmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathmore electoral division: 1,095 people in 346 households; 90% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Allenstown Demesne, Athgaine Great, Balrathboyne Glebe, Balruntagh, Betaghstown, Milltown, Moyagher, Rodstown

Placenames

Moyagher Lower 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.