Moyclare
Townland in the civil parish of Wheery or Killagally, barony of Garrycastle, Co. Offaly; in Irish Maigh Cláir
- Area
- 289.8 ha
- 716 acres
- Land parcels
- 132
- registered freehold, median 8,064 m² (0.81 ha, 1.99 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
132 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moyclare, from 88 m² to 293,409 m² (29.34 ha, 72.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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
No zone of a development plan covers Moyclare in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
15 Oct 2021Refused
THE ERECTION OF A 36M HIGH LATTICE SUPPORT STRUCTURE CARRYING ANTENNAS AND DISHES TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED GROUND-BASED EQUIPMENT CONTAINERS ALL ENCLOSED IN SECURITY FENCING
Permission · Offaly County Council, 21643
7 Feb 2020Conditional
EXISTING ANTENNAS EQUIPMENT CONTAINER AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT ATTACHED TO THE EXISTING WATER TOWER
Retention · Offaly County Council, 2030
18 Apr 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF SLATTED SHED WITH LAYBACK AREA & ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 18171
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Moyclare Bog SAC 000581
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Moyclare Bog 000581
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Moyclare.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moyclare.
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 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 Moyclare.
- 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 Moyclare with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Moyclare · Maigh Cláir
- Area
- 2,897,833 m² (289.78 ha, 716.07 acres)
- Civil parish
- Wheery or Killagally, and its townlands
- Barony
- Garrycastle
- Electoral division
- Moyclare, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Moyclare electoral division: 628 people in 227 households; 92% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinloman, Ballyclare, Clonbonniff, Clonlyon Glebe, Creggan, Skehanagh
- Placenames
- Moyclare 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.