Moymore

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moymore, from 141 m² to 257,984 m² (25.8 ha, 63.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Moymore 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Moymore in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Moymore.

Recorded monuments

• CL035-046 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle N-facing slope, in gently undulating pasture, with reasonable views of the surrounding landscape. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A roughly oval area (27m NNE-SSW; 30m WNW-ESE) defined by an earthen and stone bank (int. H 0.65m; ext. H 0.4m; Wth at top 3m; overall Wth 6m) which is best preserved WNW-ESE. The bank is reduced in height and width ESE-SSE (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.35m; Wth at top 1m; overall Wth 2.9m) and is low in profile and very degraded SSE-WNW(int. H 0.05m; ext. H 0.25m; Wth at top 0.5m; overall Wth 2m). There are numerous large stones and smaller field clearance stones heaped on the bank intermittently. Thorn trees grow on the bank and around the perimeter of the interior. The interior is generally level with a slight tilt downslope to NE, having intermittent vegetation and loose field clearance stones within, as well as rock outcrop which is exposed in places. All adjoining field boundaries shown on the 1921 edition of the OS 6-inch map have been removed. The following images have been uploaded: CL035-046----_01.jpg General view of ringfort from SE. CL035-046----_02.jpg Cross-sectional view of bank at SE. Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 8 November 2017

• CL035-047 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  On a very gentle W-facing slope, in improved, gently undulating pasture with reasonable views of the surrounding low-lying landscape. The monument appears to exist as described by De Valera and Ó Nualláin (1961, 79, no. 104) and is depicted and named ‘Dermot & Grania’s Bed on OS historic mapping. The monument is marked by a distinct cluster of mature thorn trees and consists of the partially collapsed remains of a wedge tomb (4.8m NE-SW; 2.7m NW-SE) constructed of numerous orthostats some of which appear to be in situ and some which are slightly displaced due to potential collapse in antiquity, under the weight of the capstone. A perfectly upright, substantial orthostat (L 2.1m; T 0.4m; H 0.91m) forms the main portion of the SE side and a smaller, slightly NW-tilting orthostat (L 1.4m; min. T 0.3m; H 0.76m) forms the remainder of the SE side, having collapsed slightly inwards. The NW side is formed by two parallel, collapsed orthostats (inner stone L 0.68m; T 0.15m; H 0.17m; outer stone L 0.87m; T 0.16m; H 0.3m), which have fallen outwards. The remainder of the NW side is formed by a long orthostat (L 1.5m; T 0.2m; Wth 1.2m) which has collapsed inwards. A small orthostat (L 0.53m; T 0.17m; H 0.28m) is to the rear on this side, which has also fallen outwards slightly. A substantial capstone forms the roof over the main portion of the tomb, at the NE end. It does not have any weight bearing upon the largest of the orthostats on the SE-side, which may account for collapse of the two parallel orthostats on the opposite side to NW. The orthostats defining the NW (1.35m; T 0.35m; H 0.44m) and SE sides of the tomb at the SW end, have both collapsed inwards under the weight of a second capstone (L 1.5m; Wth 1.12m; T 0.35m). This second, smaller capstone partially rests upon the larger capstone, where they overlap. A third capstone-like megalith (L 1.5m; Wth 1.1m; T 0.3m) lies against the SW end of the tomb and appears to be ex situ, having once formed part of the monument. A second, potentially ex situ stone (L 1.05m; Wth 0.96m; T 0.23m) is adjacent to the tomb at NW. The monument was not seen at the NE end, due to a dense growth of briars. The following documents and images have been uploaded: CL035-047----_01.pdf Details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume I. County Clare. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1961) CL035-047----_01.jpg View of wedge tomb from SE. CL035-047----_02.jpg View of wedge tomb from SW. Revised by: Mary Tunney Date of revision: 8 November 2017

• CL035-048 Megalithic structure
  Description

  On low-lying, generally level ground, in pasture. Depicted on the 1840 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a small rectangular feature (c. 7.2m NE-SW; c. 5.3m NW-SE) which is named ‘Dermot & Grania’s Bed’ and named on later OS historic mapping as ‘Dermot & Grania’s Bed (site of)’. Westropp (1902-04, 115) describes this monument as ‘a small cist of four stones and a cover [which] has been removed since 1839’. A group of four orthostats (overall dims. c. 4m N-S; c. 6m E-W) no longer forming any above ground structure. The first stone (L 2m; Wth 1.25m; T 0.5m) to E, is a table-top stone and is partially covered in briars at the NE end. The second stone (L 1.2m; Wth 1m; T 0.25m) is abutting to W and is partially covered in briars at the NE end. A third stone (L 1.4m; Wth 1.1m; T 0.65m) is located c. 0.9m to W. A fourth stone (L 1.5m; Wth 1m; T 0.9m) is c. 1.3m to N and is completely obscured by ivy on its surface and further enclosed by briars and thorn trees. These stones all appear to be of a pocked limestone covered in moss. Rock outcrop is noted close to SE, W and NW of this stone group. A thicket of thorn trees with rock outcrop is located c. 20m to the S. The following images have been uploaded: CL035-048----_01.jpg From S. General view of monument. CL035-048----_02.jpg From SE. Stone 1 – largest visible stone. CL035-048----_03.jpg From WSW. Stone 3 – general view. Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 20 June 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 Moymore, about 1 in 20 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Moymore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Moymore · Maigh Mór

Area

1,232,795 m² (123.28 ha, 304.63 acres)

Civil parish

Tulla, and its townlands

Barony

Tulla Upper

Electoral division

Ballyblood, the unit of the census

Census 2022

154 people lived in 50 households in the Ballyblood electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caherloghan, Carrowroe, Cloonteen, Knockdrumleague, Lissofin, Milltown

Placenames

Moymore 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.