Moyglass

73 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moyglass, from 502 m² to 1,292,537 m² (129.25 ha, 319.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 46 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 Moyglass 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.

• 19 Dec 2025Conditional

  to demolish existing shed at north/east side of an existing dwellinghouse and the construction of a single storey extension to the dwellinghouse at the location of the demolished shed

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561901

• 9 Nov 2023Conditional

  for amendments to granted application ref. no. 22/1123. The demolition of a rear porch & the construction of a single storey side extension to an existing dwellinghouse & all associated site works, in addition the widening of the front gateway entrance, the application of external insulation on the existing house & revisions to all of the elevations. Gross floor space of proposed works: 31sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361337

• 21 Oct 2022Conditional

  for the demolition of a rear porch and the construction of a single storey side extension to an existing dwelling house and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works 31 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 221123

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168
• Natural Heritage Area: Slieve Aughty Bog NHA 001229

Recorded monuments

• GA125-136 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On a rise in undulating pastureland. This rectangular children's burial ground (19.5m N-S; 12m E-W) is defined by an overgrown bank from E to S and by a slight scarp at W. Within the interior a grave-markers, aligned E-W, are visible. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 3 September 2019

• GA125-138 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a N-facing slope in pastureland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 37m) defined by a bank and external fosse; only slight shallow traces of the latter are visible. The bank (Wth 1.9m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.2m) is overgrown with trees and is breached by a number of gaps. A field wall has been built against its outer face from NE through S to NW. The interior is level but had been cleared. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 27 February 2018

• GA125-139 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Moyglass, 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 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 Moyglass.

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 Moyglass with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Moyglass · Maigh Ghlas

Area

3,532,070 m² (353.21 ha, 872.79 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill (Loughrea Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Marblehill, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Acres, Alleendarra West, Commons West, Gorteenayanka, Laggoo, Loughatorick North, Marblehill, Slatefield, Toorleitra

Placenames

Moyglass 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.