Moat

48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moat, from 428 m² to 446,310 m² (44.63 ha, 110.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Moat 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.

• 8 Sept 2023Conditional

  for the construction of a fully serviced dwellinghouse & domestic garage

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23368

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 Moat.

Recorded monuments

• GA019-067 Moated site
  Description

  In a shallow valley in grassland, some 25m S of a stream. Well-preserved almost square moated site (E-W 27m, N-S 26m) defined by two banks and two fosse. The outer bank does not survive along N side, and the outer fosse is only visible along E and S sides. A deep channel on W side, possible on the site of a leat, links the outer fosse with the stream. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA019-068 Quarry
  Description

  In an area of rough grazing. No visible surface traces survive of a small hachured feature marked on the 1931 edition of the OS 6-inch map, and named 'Gravel Pit' on the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16). Probably of 19th/20th century date. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 24 September 2014

• GA019-072 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

• Post box, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron letter box, erected c.1905, bearing royal insignia of Edward VII, and door recast c.1930 with insignia of Irish Free State. Set into rendered road boundary wall.

• Moat House, farmyard complex, 1810–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farm complex to Moat House, built c.1825, on opposite side of road, comprising multiple-bay single-storey outbuildings, formerly housing cattle and sheep and farm machinery and carts. Hipped slate and corrugated-iron roofs where buildings are roofed, and random rubble limestone walls. Tooled limestone bellcote to gable end of ruined range. At rear of complex is brick chimney with square-plan tooled limestone base and limestone cap with unusual indented course of limestone.

• Moat House, house, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, having recessed entrance bay, lower four-bay two-storey block to rear and one-bay deep re-entrant block. Now derelict. Hipped slate roofs to the various blocks, with wide eaves having timber brackets to front block, and rendered chimneystacks behind front block and to middle of return block. Square-headed windows, ground floor openings boarded up and first floor openings having original six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with limestone sills, and damaged square-headed limestone doorcase with carved brakcets and cornice. Stands in own grounds.

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 Moat, 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 low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Moat · An Móta

Area

1,522,791 m² (152.28 ha, 376.29 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbegnet, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Creggs, the unit of the census

Census 2022

351 people lived in 139 households in the Creggs electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 23% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghalateeve, Funshin, Garraunmore, Gortnadeeve East, Gortnadeeve West, Keeloges East, Lenanmarla, Skehaghard

Placenames

Moat 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.