Moyleggan
Townland in the civil parish of Rathregan, barony of Ratoath, Co. Meath
- Area
- 62.9 ha
- 155 acres
- Land parcels
- 42
- registered freehold, median 1,582 m²
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moyleggan, from 12 m² to 94,536 m² (9.45 ha, 23.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 58 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
20 Sept 2024Refused
planning application for the construction of a new two storey detached dwelling including waste water treatment system and percolation area with access onto existing public road via existing entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2460765
9 Apr 2024Conditional
the construction of a single storey extension (c. 45.3m2), comprising kitchen, dining, and utility, to the side and rear of the existing dormer dwelling involving the removal of the existing rear extension. Permission is also sought for the erection of a single storey storage and work shed (c. 111.4m2), ancillary to the main dwelling along with all other associated site development works on their lands at Moyleggan, Batterstown, Co. Meath. Additionally, on these lands’ retention permission is sought for the existing single storey two car garage and store (c. 63.1m2), erected at the time of the construction of the main dwelling
Permission · Meath County Council, 2460239
10 Aug 2023Refused
permission to close off an existing agricultural entrance and permission to construct a new agricultural entrance onto the public road at a new location and permission to construct a new agricultural shed and all associated site development works
Permission · Meath County Council, 23792
4 Jan 2021Conditional
to construct loose shed with feeding passage and all associated site works. Permission for retention of slatted shed with loose area and feeding area. Demolition of milking parlour is also required at Moyleggan, Dunboyne, co Meath
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 217
3 Aug 2018Conditional
a storey and a half type extension to the rear and side of the existing dwelling, renovation of the existing dwelling including rearrangement of layouts, upgrade to existing septic tank to "Reilly Oakstown BAF" Sewage Treatment System, and a soil polishing filter, demolition of existing single storey extension and attached sheds, and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, RA180870
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 Moyleggan.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Moyleggan.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moyleggan.
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
- About 1 in 20 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2931 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Moyleggan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Moyleggan
- Area
- 628,713 m² (62.87 ha, 155.36 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathregan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ratoath
- Electoral division
- Dunshaughlin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dunshaughlin electoral division: 8,517 people in 2,904 households; 82% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cookstown, Quarryland, Rathbeggan, Rathregan, Vesingstown
- Placenames
- Moyleggan 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.