Moyles

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moyles, from 23 m² to 110,247 m² (11.02 ha, 27.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Moyles 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.

• 24 Jun 2021Conditional

  permission for development consisting of the demolition of an existing bungalow dwelling house and the construction of a new 2-storey dwelling house with a new domestic waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21375

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 Moyles.

Recorded monuments

• MO029-019 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated at the summit of a small NW-SE drumlin ridge. It is depicted as a small circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30m) on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’. No archaeological feature is visible at ground level in pasture, but the cropmark of a circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 30-35m) defined by a single fosse feature (Wth c. 2-4m) is visible on the OSI aerial images (1995) and on Google Earth (04/11/2010). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 29 August 2017

Architectural heritage

• Moyles House, presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey former parochial house, built c.1890, with recessed central three bays to front (south-west) elevation, having flat-roofed canted bay window to centre. Two-storey return to rear elevation, with recent single-storey extension to its rear elevation. Two-storey staircase return to rear elevation, and recent conservatory to south-east side elevation. Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, mixed replacement and cast-iron rainwater goods, and timber eaves with carved timber corbels. Carved timber brackets to eaves over recessed central bays. Pitched slate roof to single-storey extension. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls having render plinth course and with platband at first floor sill level. Moulded cornice to canted bay. Smooth rendered walls to rear elevation. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. One replacement uPVC window to ground floor of front elevation. Pointed-arch window opening to rear elevation, with paired pointed-arch timber-framed windows with Y-tracery and leaded stained-glass panel over. Round-headed window opening to staircase return having replacement uPVC window. Segmental-headed recessed porch to front elevation, with mosaic tiled floor and granite step, with bootscrape. Segmental-headed door opening within porch, comprising half-glazed timber panelled door, sidelights and overlight. Wrought-iron pedestrian gate flanked by fluted cast-iron columns to north-west corner of front elevation of house. Two-storey multiple-bay outbuilding to rear of house, having pitched slate roof, cast-iron rainwater goods, and rendered chimneystack, and rubble stone walls, render removed. Square-headed openings with timber-framed windows, timber louvres, and timber battened doors; elliptical-arched window opening to ground floor with timber-framed window. Rock-faced rusticated stone retaining walls with cut-stone coping, forming terrace to front of house, broken by flight of stone steps leading down to front garden. Site entrance to south-west of house has double-leaf wrought-iron gates flanked by square-plan rendered piers, in turn flanked by wrought-iron quadrant railings on rock-faced rusticated stone plinth. Rock-faced rusticated stone boundary walls.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2779 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Moyles with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Moyles · An Mhaoil

Area

495,358 m² (49.54 ha, 122.41 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmoyne, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Kiltybegs, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kiltybegs electoral division: 716 people in 228 households; 91% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drumnanaliv, Edenamo, Lannat, Mullaghunshinagh

Placenames

Moyles 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.