Moyne

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moyne, from 287 m² to 632,054 m² (63.21 ha, 156.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Moyne 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

  retain (1) the change of use of existing agricultural sheds to commercial storage and a staff area, (2) for the change of use of the existing adjacent yard area for access and service of the storage structures, (3) for existing entrance walls and gateway, (4) for an existing septic tank and percolation area. And Planning Permission for an upgrade to the existing septic tank and percolation are and associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2560873

• 10 Dec 2025Conditional

  retain an effluent treatment system and a partially constructed boiler house and planning permission is sought for a percolation area and to complete the partially constructed boiler house, to the side and rear of the existing terrace of four two-storey dwellings

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2560840

• 7 Jan 2025N/a

  construct a warehouse including a loading bay for the storage of refuse bins and parts for refuse bins, and retention permission is sought for the change of use of existing agricultural sheds to commercial storage of refuse bins and parts for refuse bins, and a staff area, and retention permission is sought for the change of use of the existing adjacent yard area for access and service of the storage structures

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560003

• 3 Dec 2021N/a

  single storey dwelling house, garage and septic tank and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21836

• 29 Jun 2020Conditional

  construct a single storey dwelling house, garage and septic tank and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 20321

• 11 May 2020N/a

  construct a single storey dwelling house, garage and septic tank

  Permission · Laois County Council, 20219

• 17 Jun 2019Conditional

  relocate and upgrade existing septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 19346

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 Moyne.

Recorded monuments

• LA029-032 Urn burial
  Description

  A quantity of human bones including fragments of a skull, parts of ribs and long bones, and sherds of an encrusted urn were discovered in 1952 in the grounds of Moyne House (PRIA 1973, 551). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA029-061 Bullaun stone
  Description

  To SE of Moyne House in large flat pasture field. A roughly oval-shaped earthfast limestone outcrop (dims. 2.1m E-W; 1.15m N-S; H 0.3m) containing two large basins and a third rudimentary one on N perimeter. The E basin (dims. 0.41m E-W; 0.34m N-S; D 0.23m) is oval-shaped, while the W basin (diam. 0.4m; D 0.21m) is almost perfectly circular. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

• Moyne House, house, 1720–1750 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house with dormer attic, c. 1730, with pedimented bay to centre having projecting porch to ground floor. Renovated and extended, c. 1880, comprising two-bay two-storey wings with dormer attic to left having box bay windows to ground floor.

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 Moyne, about 1 in 10 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 Moyne.

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 Moyne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Moyne · An Mhaighean

Area

1,163,587 m² (116.36 ha, 287.53 acres)

Civil parish

Durrow, and its townlands

Barony

Clarmallagh

Electoral division

Durrow, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,383 people lived in 501 households in the Durrow electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castleview, Coolnabehy, Dunmore, Killermogh, Knockanoran, Kylebeg, Swan

Placenames

Moyne 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.