Moycola

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moycola, from 758 m² to 161,960 m² (16.2 ha, 40.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Moycola 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.

• 27 Mar 2026Conditional

  for the construction of a dwellinghouse, domestic garage and proprietary effluent treatment plant

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660464

• 6 Nov 2025Refused

  for the construction of a dwellinghouse, domestic garage and proprietary effluent treatment plant

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561621

• 23 Aug 2024Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic shed, sewage treatment plant, percolation area, and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 223.00 sqm (house) & 55.00 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461103

• 3 May 2017Conditional

  to construct a garage. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 69.56 sqm.)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17616

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 Moycola.

Recorded monuments

• GA104-214 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In level pastureland. This poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 25.5m) is defined by a drystone wall (max. Wth 3.2m including slippage; H 0.7m). Some field-clearance material has been piled against the cashel wall. A NW-SE field wall runs immediately to its NE. Moycola Castle (GA104-215----) lies c. 110m to the SSW. (McCaffrey 1952, 243, no. 49) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 27 February 2018

• GA104-215 Castle - tower house
  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.

• GA104-216 House - indeterminate date
  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.

• GA105-170 Enclosure
  Description

  On a slight rise in undulating pastureland. This subrectangular enclosure (66.5m N-S; 50.6m E-W) is defined by a bank of earth and stone. Quarrying has encroached upon it at E. McCaffrey (1952, 260, no. 12) noted an external fosse on the W side; no visible surface trace of it survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 April 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Moycola, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Moycola · Maigh Chomhla

Area

647,971 m² (64.8 ha, 160.12 acres)

Civil parish

Killogilleen, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Kilconickny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

678 people lived in 217 households in the Kilconickny electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowclogh, Cartron, Cloghastookeen, Gortnabarnaboy, Knockroe, Srah

Placenames

Moycola 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.