Moyne

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moyne, from 286 m² to 351,058 m² (35.11 ha, 86.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Moyne 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.

• 11 Mar 2026Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit and soil polishing filter, new well, new entrance onto public road and associate works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660173

• 20 Dec 2023Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling, garage, septic tank and percolation area, new well, new entrance onto public road and associate works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360518

• 19 Jul 2023Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, new well, new entrance onto public road, blocking up existing entrance onto public road and associate works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2360164

• 16 Jul 2020Conditional

  1) Retention for as constructed domestic gym. 2) Permission for extension to the side of existing dwelling. 3) Permission to upgrade existing septic tank and percolation area with an effluent disposal system to comply with current EPA requirements and associated works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 20680

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 Moyne.

Recorded monuments

• WI033-017 Church
  Description

  Situated on a steep W-facing slope. The OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1928, 52) suggest that the present church may be on the site of an earlier foundation, but there are no visible remains of any early features. The modern church is within a rectangular graveyard defined by a stone-faced bank (dims. 60m NW-SE; 48m NE-SW). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008

• WI033-017001 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on a steep W-facing slope. The OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1928, 52) suggest that the present church may be on the site of an earlier foundation, but there are no visible remains of any early features. The modern church is within a rectangular graveyard defined by a stone-faced bank (dims. 60m NW-SE; 48m NE-SW). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 17 September 2012

• WI033-017002 Church
  Description

  Situated on a steep W-facing slope. The OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1928, 52) suggest that the present church may be on the site of an earlier foundation, but there are no visible remains of any early features. The modern church is within a rectangular graveyard defined by a stone-faced bank (dims. 60m NW-SE; 48m NE-SW). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload/revision: 17 September 2012

Architectural heritage

• Saint John's Church (Moyne), church/chapel, 1810–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey Board of First Fruits Gothic style Church of Ireland church with two-stage tower, built in 1815. To the east end there is a shallow chancel projection and a small vestry projection. The walls are finished in unpainted lined render and unpainted roughcast, with granite dressings to the openings and granite string courses to the tower. The pitched roof is slated and has stone parapets whilst the roof of the tower is hidden by a crenellated parapet. The entrance is to the south face of the tower and consists of a timber tongue and groove double door set within a pointed arch-headed opening. The windows are also pointed arch-headed with Y-tracery timber frames. There are no windows on the north elevation of the nave. Cast-iron rainwater goods. The church is surrounded by a graveyard enclosed by a rubble wall with wrought-iron carriage gates.

• House, 1825–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1835, with one and a half-storey lean-to extension to south and two-storey lean-to to rear. The walls are finished in unpainted lined render with moulded quoins and prominent square brackets to the eaves. The hipped roof is slated and has rendered chimneystacks. The entrance consists of a replacement timber and glazed door, rectangular fanlight with geometric tracery and a projecting cornice-like entablature. There is another doorway (with a panelled and glazed door and four pane rectangular fanlight) to the north elevation. The window openings are flat-headed and largely filled with eight over eight, eight over twelve, and two over two timber sash frames. Cast-iron rainwater goods. The house is set with its north elevation hard onto the road, with a small private lane running alongside the front (west) elevation.

• The Old School, school, 1820–1825 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey school house, dated 1822. The walls are finished in replacement unpainted lined render whilst the hipped roof is slated and has replacement brick chimneystacks. To front there is a projecting gabled porch with slated roof, granite parapet, granite date stone, and an elliptical-headed open archway. Within the porch is the entrance, which consists of a replacement tongue and groove timber door and semi-circular fanlight with lattice panes, all encased by a moulded granite surround. The windows are flat-headed and have replacement bipartite timber sash frames. The school house is set on a rise back from the roadside and is accessed private a private lane.

• House, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Short terrace of three two and three-bay single-storey houses of c.1820, with split-level basements. The house to the north end projects and evidence provided by the stonework to the south suggests there may have been a similar projection to this end, with the terrace originally symmetrical. The walls are constructed in coursed rubble and all are lime-washed apart from the south (gabled) elevation which is in (bare) rubble and brick. The slated roof has pitched and hipped sections and brick chimneystacks. The entrances each consist of a timber tongue and groove door and the flat-headed windows have two over two timber sash frames. The terrace is set hard onto the roadside.

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

At the centre of the townland of Moyne, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Moyne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Moyne · An Mhaighean

Area

1,467,115 m² (146.71 ha, 362.53 acres)

Civil parish

Moyne, and its townlands

Barony

Ballinacor South

Electoral division

Ballinglen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

234 people lived in 81 households in the Ballinglen electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymaghroe, Rathcot, Rathmeague, Slievemweel, Slieveroe

Placenames

Moyne 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.